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PRESIDENT LlNCOLf 



■'To Be Replaced in the Fgt, York 
Avenue Presbyterian < Aivoh, 



were h^i\ ;it the White House. ■ 

\tiUe lime Liac. Ill l.^y ayiiitz in the 
ho'ust. oa Tenth ^tr^'C Dr. G-aley traa 
with him, nnd «!t*-i- aca;» pie^tclio-l ..be 
frvnt-r;<!:sermoii, .iccfi^iip n;!''"^. tliereafter, 
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a series of seruioDS ou t!iR wav. 

Al-4ny are tlie leiiiiuisceiices connected 
with Mr Liiicoli.'a viaits to tiie New 
Yorlc AveiiuB GUurcii. Serer^l hereto- 
fore have been nurpcurded in print. 

KeinarivUi, uuoH fctie PreMideui's usual, 
liberal Sunday offerings .vhen the piata 
was passed, an elderly centl^ninn wlio 
officiaiediisacollec:oi- of »ucti suid to a 
reoresentatiTe of Ihe Post: 

'•One Suuday morinnK tliere was soma 
kind of extra colkctiou takt-n, sonw ap- 
nea! had been ini<d« front li.e pulpit for n 
ch-irity «ud as usunl I luuided i he plate 
into Mr. Lincoln's pew. Mrs. Lincoln, a.s 
was her cnsioin, com rib. i ted. and ih» 
Presiile It also placed a sum on tt:e plate. 
1 started to the next pev.- in front when a 
loiijc arm reached out and drew nie b,.ic!c, 
and tile President leansd over and whis- 
nered- l want to contribute more than 
ihaf'co;iie to the Wuif- House in the 
inoruing.' 1 obeyed the request, and re- 
ceived a cbecic upon which was written 
a goodly auiount. , „ , ,. , 

"I reraemeniher, also," he continued, 
"taking the pUt of i he church news over 
for inspection. Mrs. Lined i looiced it over 
and selected the pew whicu, stransjely 
enough, happenwd to be the oue Mr. Buc!.- 
ann.i had just vi^cace.i. Tue houuhI rental 
of the pew at that time w-<s $30." 

Said a izentlemau who occupied a pew 
near that of Mr. Lincoln: 

"I always laiieii wiieii I recall how, in 
th«J church at morning service, some who 
gat near him sou-htto fill tieir own pewt^ 
with the hope that tii^^y miiiht be invited 
into that of the Preside it. One p-rsou u> 
narticular I chU to iniiid now. He n>-v!- ■ 

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Ij se^iiied happy until his pew was filled, for 
1 Mr. Lincoln's ureat hospitality souL'ht him 
\\ out. He would wait out in the vetibule and 
1 direct the old colored sexton to fill his pew. 
I i'hen. just befora the gerviea began, he 
' would walk up the aisle in such an inno- 
' cent way until opposite Lincoln's pew. 
Tiien he'd pause. ;uid loolc around, as if lo 
; heg .sotnp ona to take pity on him, and. 
6' riiiiit there, the President would rise, 
|i reach out that loiiic arm, draw him up 
! and push him into the pew, almost seating 
i him, in bis own innocent Scui'lness — and jS 
! was innocence on Lincoln's part. H« 
i dii.n't suspect the ganu'. I can see it as 
j though it were yesterday^ yes, and ranny 
I others saw it too, and a Keuernl smile 
went round." 
Said yet another: 

"Bob InKei-oOil has, I believe, stated that 
!• Mr. Lincoln's views regarding the Ciliris- 
nan religion were identical with his own, 
and fhat he was a follower of Tom Pjiins's 
theories. Now, in the liirht of nil his ex- 
pressions to the contrary, in view of the 
fHCt that he sougiit a church where h« 
miirht hear the Gospel and not politics, in 
his great pleasure derived in the society of 
the Rev. Dr. Gnrley. are Ingersoirs state- 
ments borne out? 1 believe all thinking 
ipeople will disufjree with Ingersoll." 



WHERE LINCOLN DIED. 



i)er, 



The Historic House on Tenth Street 

^^.j. ^^ -..v- ii<»<.>-j. cn-v-cjiiyaiiics eacn pa- 



It is impossible to enumerate all the ar- 
ticles that are now contained in the three 
rooms of the 10th street house. The char- 
acter of some of the principal exhibits ha3|i,T 
been indicated, and when the house isljij, 
opened to the public it will be possible for 
all to judge of its merits. The location of 
the collection in this city adds another to 
the long list of attractions for -which the +« 
capital city Is famous. It is, however, a *■ 
public service of great value which the 
Memorial Association has performed in 
making it possible that the public should 
have access to a place which is so full of 
memories that are dear to the American 
people, and which the rising generation Is 
taught to cherish. 



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Suatclf^d'b.v Mr. iinotli I'rom in front of a 
Loc'oinoti ve. 

Yesterday's New York Evening Post pub- 
liahed the following as h<iviiiK been related by 
Mr. Booth: 

"In the summer of 1877 Mr. Booth was stand- 
ou a ruihoiid platform wnitiiig for ii train. He 
noticed a gentleman standing near bim, appar- 
ently with the Bamo object, nhd kuw thai In' 
Bcemed engrossed in his own meditations. 
Presently the gentleman stopped from the 
plntform to a track and began walking upon it, 
entirely oblivious of his surroundings. Just at 
this moment an engine v.hich had been getting 
water from a tank near at hand began backing 
up the track. Mr. Booth, turning around. 6.:w 
it only when it was within a few feet of his 
absent-minded companion. On the im- 
pulse of the moment, without attempting 
to rouse the man to a sense of his danger — 
there was not time for this — Mr. Booth 
stenped forward and, clutching him by the 
arm, lifted him almost bodily upon the plat- 
form. Ho near was the engine that it struck 
the man's heels as they left the track. The 
rescued gentleman was so overcome when ho 
realized his danger that he could only bow his 
thanks and give his hand to hia preserver. It 
happened that Mr. Ford, in whose theater at 
Washington President Lincolu was assassinated 
by Mr. Booth's brother, witnessed the scene de- 
Bcril)ed above. Stepping forward, he said ex- 
citedly: 'Mr. Booth, do you know who that 
man was?' 'No,' was the reply. 'It was,' said 
Mr. Ford, 'Robert Lincoln. President Lincoln's 
son.' Mr. Booth afterward said that this act of 
his gave him more satisfaction than could hr- 
represented in any other way. In relating this 
i Mr. Booth mentioned the fact that the only vote 
1 which he ever cast was for Mr. Lincoln when be 
iran for President the second time." 

Mr. John T. Ford says the above story is es- 
isentiallv correct, except that the occurrence 
was between March 1 and 3. 1876. and was pub- 
lujhed about ten years ago. It happened at 
Bowling Gieen, Ky., or at a station between 
that place and Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Ford bad 
been traveling through the south with a con>- 
pnnv, at the head of which was Mr. Booth, and 
it was at the close of Mr. Booth's engagement. 
Mr. Booth separated from the others near the 
Mammoth Cave and Mr. Ford returned with the 
company to Baltimore, stopping on the way at 
Cumberland, where the Academy of Music was 
opened, Mr. Frederick Warde playing the lead- 
ing roles. 



honor of Chicago, this desecration oi irresiuem; 
Lincoln's grave has roused one of its citizens. 
Charles L. Hammond has set the ball roUmg in 
the shape of a petition, which will be presentee, 
to this general assembly, requesting it to take 
Biioh measures as wiU result in the completion 
of repair and proper maintenance of the mon- 
ument-" 



Says tb« Elmira IN. Y.) StarTTa the Everirreen 
C', cnetery in Oswego there is a uravo with this 
epitaph on them irble memorial slab: "Charles 
Lewis; he voted for Linoiln." ''he stone is at 
the head of Cliarles Lewis' crave, a bootblack, 
who died several year3 aso- U-i wished that 
!>trttement placed on bis grare. as it w&a the 
proudest actof his life. 



m [lfJCOI.fi Ofi THE FIELD ^^^^t linculn told Them 



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in.ti^iiii. First verse reads thus: 'Ke- 
raetnber now thy Creacor in the 
days of thy yontb. 'while tl:e eril days 
come not, nor ilie years draw nigh, when 
thou 8!i«lt say I hav« no pleasur* in tbem.' 
Thf thirteentii: "LBtus heur the concinsion 
of tl'v whole matter, fear (?i>d ami li^ep his 
ton _(iV beiier» thnc yoa ckn liV« raofe"'^^"'^^ 
^oinfortfthly ill Waihini^toa or eUewhere 
n the Unire'l State* the remainder of 
f«ur lif^, perhaps more ko than yon ciin in 
Miy fors'ljiii country, nnil h«jict9 you may 
■;om© 10 tha conclusion thJit voii lia/e 
tiothing to do witii the ide* of sjoinir to a 
for<>iiin eon itrv This !•<— I snc'lc iii no 
nnkind sense — an extremely selfish view of 
thr CAS*. But you oiitflit to do .something 
to help those who are not so forcuunta ms 
yourselves. 

"Tht-ra is miich to encour«ee yoa. For 
Itbe sak? of your rac«» you should sacrifice 
8om»thinv of your present comfort for the 
purpose of boinjf as jtranrt in tiiat respect 
us the white people It i* ii cheering: 
ithoucbt throitghont life thitt somethioti 
iican Wt doH« to arnelioraie the conditioa of 
ijthose who have i)»;en ant)jeet Co the hard 
'us;(gen of th« world. Ivi toe Aniericnn 
revolationary war ?a(;rif5(;es wi're made by 
in«n eoKHged iu ir, hnt the*' \vere cheered 
by the future. Gen. Washington hitnnelf 
• ndnred greater Dhy«ica! hardships than 
Ic he had remained a British .subject, yet ui re- 
he was H happy man, because he w«.« etj- f she 
gaeed in bi-nefitinx his race, in doinn \r. 
KomethinK for the children of bis nei«h- 3und, 
bor.s, baviug none of his own." o tha 

Further on Mr. Ijincoln remarked thai e sev- 
one reason for wn'-villingiies^ to tjo to Li- f"'"'" 
berix, wlicre t.he coloreil people rrould be 
welcome, was tlint .some of them would 
rather remain within reach of the country 
of their siativRy. "I do not know," said 
he, "how much attachment you may have 
toward our race. It dotf!< not Rtrika me 
that yon haye the lireatest reason to love 
them. But »till yoa are attached to cbem 
at all events. 

"The place I am thinking; about havins; 
for a colony \* iu Central America. It is 
nearer ton* than Liberia— not much more 
than one-fonrth a« far as Liberia, and 
within seven days' rnn hy steatwer. Un- 
like Liberia, it i« a grcHt line of travel— it i it i.s ; 
i.» a highway. The country is a verves- kind 
cellent one for any people, and with great liiliiij,.'. 
natnrfll refiources and advantaeea, and ,u y it 
especially because of the similarity of a^ree 
climat* with that of your native country, 
thns beiug suited te your physical coodi- a new 
tion. rendei- 

"The pnrticnlar place I have in view is e.s as I 
to be a great highway from the Atlantic 
or Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, should ^ 
and this particular place has all tue ad- isinesSj 
vantages for a colony. On both sides lor/; 
""ire are harbors amon^; the finest in the 
«^o"''t. .Again, therid is evidence of very 
ric'a coal mines. A certain amount of 
coal is valnnbld in any country. Why I 
attach se much Imoortaiice to coal is. it 
will afford «n opportunity to the in- 
habitants for immediate employment 
till they eer. ready to settle pernna- 
nently in their homes. If you take 
colonist* where there is no eood landing, 
there is a bad show; and so where there is 
nothing to cultivate, and of nhich to 



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His Words to the Colored People 
Who Wanted to Emigrate. 



AS TO OENTEAL AMEEICA 



He Thoueht It "Would Be Better to Colonize 
There than Liberia and Gave His Rea- 
sons—The Attempt to Coiontzs Was Be- 
gun, but the Scheme Fell Through. 



The California emigration craze among 
nesrroes in .>*ome parts of the Southern 
Stales i.s reporte I to liave become a seri- 
ous matter in those districts wtiere the 
"eniiiKrjtiiou fever." as it is called, exists. 
The promoters of this new exodus are said 
to bt. conducting the scheme ia a manner 
similar to that ausige.sted by Prt'sident 
Lincoln when he was arranging for the 
colonization of negroes ui some country to 
the south of u.<«. 

Air. Lincoln's ai'gtnnent=« are adapted to 
the present situation, especially iu ;-egard 
to the necessity of hnviug something sub- 
stantial upon whicii to subsist and pre- 
vious assurance of immediate work and 
watjes, so thatthn coloui.iits would prosoor 
and be happv in their new-made hotnes. 
Pre<«id«nt Lincoln's speech to a deputa- 
tion of colored men, who, upoii bjs invi- 
tation, called upon hiin at the White 
House, is to tha point. H*- spoka to them 
kindly and gently, yet Dlnialy «nd frankly. 
Ha deprecated the coiidi, ions and eircum- 
stances which made sep.trMtion of the two 
races advisable and uei;e,ssary for the good 
nf nil— not only for the benefit of each of 
the races, but for tha good of mankind. 

Said he: '"Therf is an unwillingness on 
the p.irtof our people, haish as it may be,for 
you free colored people to remain with as. 
Why." he asked the-.n, "should the people 
Df your race be colon iz<;d. and whera? 
Why should they leave thin country ? Yen 
and we are different race.s. We have be- 
tween ns a broader diffc-rence than exists 
betwtfi^n ahnost any other two racfs. 
Whether it. is right or wror-z I need net 
discuss; but this physic.-i! difference is a 
Sfreni; disadvantage to us botb, as I think, 
"lour r-Ace suffer very gre.*tly, luxny of 
thPHi, bv living .imons; u-i, while ours 
suffer by yon r presenca. In a word, we 
suffer on each siU*. If this is admitted it 
^iffords a reason, at least, why we should 
he separatsd. I sunpo<n one of the pri:ici- 
i)al difDcultie* iu t.ne way of colon izitioa 
is that thf! free colored tMan cannot see 
rhnt hi« comfort would hv advanced by it. 



IITEREST li 



There Has Been a Revival 
During the Past Year. 

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Ittovemeiit to Purchase His Birthplace anrt 

' the Biiildiiij; in Which He Breiithert His 

Last— Good Work Done by the memorial j 

Association — Capt. OUlroyd's Curious 

Collection of Lincoln Belies. 



■^" . : ; 1 covrespond to the clining room in tfeeora.^^ 

sS i 5 J i U«^i4 I nuiy house, beiiij; in the rem- of the parloBJ 
ISUy LJa !Uir.Jl 'i jimi aittiug vooui. It is almost twice as louffl 

; as it is wide, and has th'rccwiiulows andJ 

thv<;e doors, oiii' of the latter opening foaj 
voranda. The ceiling is low and slantin?, 




i arounil the room, and, as coinp;mioii pieces, 
rhe artists oii^'ht to be hung out in the yard 
adjoinint^. Some of these sketches are posi^> 
" '"■ One in particular seem* 



tively ludicrous. \jnv m i>aiiiv-iii«'. ■"'-•■• 
been taken bv a kodak fiend, witl 

• -' '--n for h' 

->t over 



, to have been taKen dv a koluus. neuu. ^. i.... 

,1 alLtbe prominent men of. the nation lor hiS 

I •''-'■ ' •" "•■ c"'^-" -it over fl 



-Ra 1 1. ■< have become cla.ssir.'-waj, ouji«os' , %,--. 



tory, and the n.auie of rail spl'tVu.^'" 
more than a degree of college." " 
Collection Still Unfinished 






l«93. Ihey were extremely toi-tunMi« ui 

•ecuring Capt. O. H. Oldroyd. the old cnsto- I 

■lanof the Lincoln Home at Spi-inglii'ld to 

tether with his valuable Lincoln relics ' It 

Beeius that the Captain had made an a-rce- 

went with the State of Illinois, throueh a i 

committee of the Legislature, that mrefurn I - - „.u 

vL.^lf o^e'ng^ma'le life custodian of the i ^'ve the reader some idea of the great his- I 

homestead at Springfield at a moderate sal- torical vah.e of the collection. The Memo ^ 

M,, he was to give his vast and valuable ' ^"o Jiemo- >. 

coliecrion to the State free of charge at his 
death lhi.s agreement was carried out to 

A w*^^i'^-'^'^^'°" °f "^"^h parties until Gov 
Altgedcame into office, when ho remuli'- 
ated the arrangement about the time thit 
th« lfliZ^'\ l^'*' ^."archists. Thereupon 
the IMemonal As.sociation of the District of 

pass into tie irm.u .^e' ti,« af,.,, ,-,..;^i a '._*•_ r^r'^. "I'-uiuei of 



There is a multitude of other interesting vv-asm; 
things, but the mention of these few will 



rial As.sociation have also secured the chair as i 
in wnich Lincoln sat when he was shot o '^ 
big rod damask affair, wJiich is stained * ■- 
with JU3 life-blood. The bed upon which r 

he breathed his last, as well as the otber aKOv 
cfte^ furniture, have also been lo- ^^^-- 

To show the general interest that 1i,t-. 
been aro'i'!?d in the oo-^n'.rv iii re -aid 



„ „ii 1 1 ■■.. "..W..S.U11. j.uev will, 

nail probability, pass into the hands of 

■■He JNational Government thioiK^h the ef 

:ort3 which the Memorial Association are 

DOW making. 

Capt. OUUoj d's Collection. 

A few words re'garding Capt. Oldroyd 
himselt will, perhaps, be not out of ijlace 
]ust here. In his early davs he was a news 

H^ri'"fTf-''5^'"°.''*^'''^^^^-«"'^ "pent a gooci 
deal of his time m studying natural hislory 
and collecting snakes and insects. When 
tl;e name and fame of Lincoln reached the 
..c2*'^^■^^^.f^^ y,*'""" Ofdroyd led the pro- 
cession ot ''Abe's- admirers in the town. 
He helped to form a Wide Awake Club 



and began to collect any and eve- vt> in.; , Tl?'^ ""f"* ^'^^'^^i^^ ?^ 
that hMd anv rr.i.AL .M = f "'M\^„^y* ' "S public has been named 



that h.td any relation to his nolitical idol" 
oampaign badges, Lin.oln postage stamps 
^nd ."^ouvenirs, greenback currency and 
everything tnat had the remotest connec- 
tion ^ylth t le rail splitter were gri ;t got for 
his rehc mill, so that within the last thirty- 
three years he has collecied memorials aiid 
souvenirs of inestimable value 
^A half hoar's visit to tbe place of Lin- 
^Insdeath, in the midst of this remark- 
)ib e collection, will do more to inspire 
jsatnotisra and love for the man than a 
/noEth spent in studying his life and charac- 
ter. Here you are brought in contact witli 
Bouvenirs '.vcalling the most stirrin<r nn,! 
Nignihcant epi.sodc^ in his eventful career 
mere is everything to excite the liveliest 
interest as well .as extend the largest insti'ie' 
tion from the simple rail whirli l,e .snlit 
rcr^ihng the happy days of his youth, down 
to the playbill of Ford's Theatre oii the 
3ign>,ot his assas.sinatioii, likewise recall 
ing the JaHt happy moments of his life away 
tfrom otfice-seekers and with his wife and 
llrlends. I 

I Boom Where lilncoln Died. i 

I Tho room in which Lincoln died is at the ' 
lend of the hall on the first floor, and would ' 



the .Meu.orial Association, stated ■ to theJ.'fT? 
House < ommittee on Appiopriations that 
the Century Publishing Company has piS ^ 
sented the association with a mammoth ^' 
edition of the "Life of Lincoln," bv NicoUi 
ana Hay, and that the l\Iinister of the 
Argentine Eepublic is having prepared a {A/ 
hand.somely engrossc.i souvenir of 'unique ^ 
historical interest. When the new* of Mr 
Lincoln 8 death reached that republic i.fs 
congress was in session. An immediate 1 "J H 
adjournment was taken and the session was 
not resumed until after the funeral. AiniJSOP^ 
expres.-^ive resolution had been adopted an! '^^'^^ 
propria e to the occasion, and what is now «a7 l2 ^ 
one 01 the most fertile provinces of the re- 






^ ... , --- "-" Lincoln. Other 

nations have testified their regard in a sir 
i liar manner. In England an association 
has toon formed which includes the pros- ^ 
euc Secretary of Foreign Atlairs, Lord 
Ivosebery. ' ■""*" 

Town.s Named After Lincoln. 
Another interesting thing in connection 
which indicates the greatadmiration shown A ' / tW 
for the martyr President, is the number of ^^ ^^ 
thTbrV""'*^''' *? '''" United States) at 
Southern States that have hono-ed ^^ '"^ 



Lincoln in t^his way a;-rAlXma.Texas 
V^^^^f}^^"^^- The Northern States 

^n fact, bjth Indi;i'iiak"uri Vj 



arp Ar.;r, ;. \t Vr • -^V. ^^'^^"^°i''» states 

a le .ALi ne, NewHamp.shire, Mas.sachusetts r. ■ 

an (Sli;'"'-' V;'"'^'''" ^''^^^^» States ^V 
^^-.^r^'!"^",';l!J"'""•«'J»*^i^^:•=^. Kansas, :±'^ 



;an have two towns by Uio naincof 



and Nebraska. 

u;;;!;;in,a,idtLe-ia^,;;;'s;at,rL;^;^so'^^^^ 

immea alter him. California, Minneso a 

calel Lincoln Park." Mas.sachusetts has 
avilhigo called Lincoln Square Kansas 
and Penn.sylvania each a Li.co l.ivillo "u^^d 
the^latter State has also a Lincoln Univor 
^i*y- Francis Leox Chrisman. 




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MEMORIAL RECORD 






NATIOFS TRIBUTE 



ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 



THE ECHOES OP HIS FUNERAL KNELL VIBRATE THROUGH THE 
WORLD, AND THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM OF EVERY TONGUE AND 
IN EVERY CLIME ARE HIS MOURNERS." — Bancroft on Frest. Lincoln. 



COMPILED BY B. F. MORRIS. 



TOST OFFICE OEPT. 



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WASHINGTON, D. C: -^ 

W. H. & 0. H. MORRISON. 

1867. 



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INTRODUCTION. 



The scenes recorded in this memorial volume form the most wonderful and 
instructive chapter in human history. They vibrated mournfully through 
the sensibilities of every American heart, and through all the civilized and 
Christian nations of the world. It is, therefore, of the highest importance that 
their permanent record should possess the dignity and value of historic truth and 
accuracy. Such is this volume. 

In its preparation the design was to reproduce, in a condensed and connected 
form, from the public journals of Washington and of the cities through which 
the illustrioiis dead was conveyed to his burial place, the graphic pen-pictures 
painted by the accomplished reporters of the public prcfe. Those who may 
recognize their special part in the scenes of the solemn drama will feel a grate- 
ful pleasure that they have assisted to weave a perennial wreath to lay upon 
the tomb of the honored dead, which will live forever in fragrant freshness, 
to bless the memory and exalt the virtues of AsRArrAil Lincoln, the martyred 
President of the United States. 

The record of the official action of the National Government, civil and mili- 
tary, and the tributes of the States, civic bodies, and foreign nations, form an 
interesting part of the volume. 

The labor of the compiler has been performed with much care, and it is 
a gratification to him to insert the following from eminent gentlemen, intimate 
friends of the late President, who examined the advance sheets : 

" Your work is accurate and complete. You have given ^to the American 
people a souvenir which, I am sure, they will fondly cherish. Your beautiful 
TRIBUTE will no doubt be highly appreciated by the national authorities, and 
especially by the Secretary of War, under whose immediate direction the fune- 
ral honors were paid to the illustrious deceased, and by whom nothing was 
omitted that could add to the dignity and solemnity of the memorable pa- 
geant." Another adds: "I regard the record as valuable and interesting for 
present and future ages." One of the private secretaries of the late President, 
who examined its pages in the Executive Mansion, wrote: " I am glad that 
this compilation has been made, and doubt not the above commendations are 
well deserved." 

The compiler has been a resident at the capital of the nation for more than 
three years past, v/itnessed the public acts and scenes of President Lincoln's 
administration, had several interesting interviews with him, and mingled in 
the solemn ceremonies of his funeral. 

Washington, D. C, June, 1865. 



MEMORABLE DAYS AND EVENTS PRECEDING 
THE PRESIDENT'S DEATH. 



Abraham Lincoln closed and crowned his illustrious life by 
a martyr's death, on the morning of the 15th of April, 1865. 
Preceding the tragical scene in which he passed from the 
higliest seat of human power and grandeur to the grave, memo- 
rable events liad transpired in the history of the country. The 
national Government, after four years of stern and fearful con- 
flict, was triumphant over a gigantic rebellion, and the nation 
was in the midst of scenes of universal rejoicings, when the 
sudden and startling death of President Lincoln spread like 
appalling darkness over all the land. The nation was bowed 
into the profoundest grief, and tears, like showers of rain, were 
the symbols of its sorrow. The Republic loved him as its 
father, and honored and revered him as its preserver and 
saviour. 

His integrity, sagacity, unselfish patriotism, love of universal 
liberty, impartial justice, his honesty and fidelity, his magna- 
nimity and prudence, his moderation and sublime perseverance, 
his private virtues and eminent public services, his loft}^ courage 
and loftier faith in God and in the final triumph of right, and 
his wise and successful administration of the government, in 
the most critical and eventful period of its history, had secured 
to him the abiding confidence and affection of the American 
people. He was re-elected to the Presidency in November, 
1864, by a popular vote, and in the Electoral College by ma- 
jorities unprecedented in the political history of the country, 
since the days of Washington. No man imagined what a hold 

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he had upon the national heart until that election. The reve- 
lation of popular feeling was sublime and wonderful. It was 
a grand and spontaneous tribute to character, without a 
parallel in human history. 

HIS SECOND INAUGURATION 

Transpired on the Fourth of March, 1865. He stood on the 
eastern portico of the Capitol, and in the presence of many 
thousands of his fellow-citizens took the oath of office. At the 
request of Chief Justice Chase, who administered the oath, D. 
W. Middleton, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United 
States, handed an open Bible to the President, who laid both 
his hands upon it, and slowly and solemnly repeated the words 
of the oath, first pronounced by the Chief Justice, viz : " I, 
Abraham Lincoln, do solemnly swear that I ivill faithfully exe- 
cute the office of President of the United States, and ivill to the 
best of my ahility -preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution 
of the United States." " So help me God." 

The President then reverently pressed his lips upon the sacred 
pages, and handed the Bible back to Mr. Middleton, who , 
instantly marked the verses touched by the President's lips. 
On examination, he found them to be the 26th and 27th verses 
of the fifth chapter of Isaiah, commencing " And he will lift up an 
ensign to the nations," <fec. The chapter has a peculiar fitness 
to the times, and contains in many of its declarations a pro- 
phetic description and doom of the leaders of the great rebel- 
lion, who have, verily, "called evil good and good evil," and 
" put darkness for light, and light for darkness." 

The Bible thus opened and used for the inauguration was 
handed to the wife of the President, who will doubtless pre- 
serve it as a sacred family memorial of that most solemn and 
impressive scene. 

The morning of the day on which he was inaugurated was 
overcast with leaden clouds, and nature wore a sombre hue. 
But at the moment the President began to pronounce his ad- 
dress the clouds dispersed, and the sun came brightly out, as 
if to symbolize a peaceful and prosperous future to the Presi- 
dent and the Republic. 



In a calm and impressive manner he delivered his address, 
which was listened to with profound attention. It is his last 
official State paper addressed to his countrymen, and will now 
be read and admired with new interest by the American people 
and the christian nations of the earth. It is as follows : 

INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 

Fello'w-Countetmen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the 
presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was 
at first. Then, a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, 
Beemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during 
which public decb.rations have been constantly called forth on every point and 
phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the 
energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of 
our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as 
to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. 
With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. 

On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anx- 
iously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert 
it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted 
altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city 
seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide 
efi'ects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would 
make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war 
rather than let it perish. And the war came. 

One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed gene- 
rally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves 
constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest 
was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend 
this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, 
even by war ; while the government claimed no right to do more than to re- 
strict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war 
the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither an- 
ticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the con- 
flict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fun- 
damental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same 
God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that 
any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread 
from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not 
judged. The prayers of both could not be answered — that of neither has been 
answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world 
because of ofl'ences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that 
man by whom the offence cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery 
is one of tliose ofl'ences whicli, in the Providence of God, must needs come, but 
which, having continued through His appointed time. He now wills to remove, 



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and that He gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to 
those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those 
divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? 
Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war 
may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the 
wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil 
shall bo sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid 
by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still 
it must be said, " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous alto- 
gether." 

With malice toward none ; with charity for all ; with firmness in the right, 
as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in ; 
to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the bat- 
tle, and for his widow and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and 
cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations. 

This address made a deep impression on the hearts of the 
American people and of England. The British Standard 
speaks of it as " the most remarkable thing of the sort ever 
pronounced by any President of the United States, from the first 
day until now. Its Alpha and its Omega is Almighty God, the 
God of justice and the Father of mercies, who is working out 
the purposes of his love. It is invested witli a dignity and 
pathos which lift it high above everything of the kind, whether 
in tlie Old World or the New. The whole thing puts us in 
mind of the best men of the English commonwealth ; there is 
in fact much of the old propliet about it." 

Mr. Gladstone, the ablest and most eloquent of living Eng- 
lish statesmen, said that Mr. Lincoln's address on his inaugura- 
tion showed a moral elevation which commanded the respect of 
every right feeling man. " I am taken captive by so striking 
an utterance as this. I see in it the effect of sharp trial, when 
rightly borne, to raise men to a higher level of thought and 
feeling than they could otherwise reach. It is by cruel suffer- 
ing that nations are born to a better life ; and to individuals, 
of course, a like experience produces a like result." 

In this country two leading journals, one political and the 
other religious, spoke of the inaugural address as follows : 

It is such a speech to the world as a Christian statesman would gladly have 
bis last — earnest, humane, truly but not technically religious, filled with forgive- 
ness and good will. 



When generations have passed away, and the unhappy wounds of this war 
aie healed, and the whole nation is united on a basis of universal liberty, our 
posterity will read the dying words of the great Emancipator and leader of the 
people with new sympathy and reverence, thanking God that so honest and so 
pure a man, so true a friend of the oppressed, and so genuine a patriot, guided 
the nation in the time of its trial, and prepared the final triumph which he was 
never allowed to see. 

It is the most truthful, penitential, and Christian that a ruler ever addressed 
to his people. There is the clearest recognition of the divine will, the humblest 
prostration before his offended goodness, the amplest confession of the righteous- 
ness of his punishments, the largest beneficence to our malicious foes. 

That dying speech from the national throne will be read with wet eyes by 
our children's children. As the farewell address of Washington is still cherished 
by the nation, so will this pathetic confession of national sin and resolute purpose 
to labor for its extinction be admiringly perused by our latest generations. It 
lacks no element of perfection. So short that he that runs may read it ; so 
simple that the most childish can understand it; so statesmanlike in its enuncia- 
tion of principles that the rulers of the world can profitably study it; so 
religious that the most pious hearts can find in it holiest nutriment ; so philan- 
thropic that largest souls may grow larger in its inspiring air ; so clement that 
the hardest heart cannot but melt in its perusal — it is the consummate flower 
of Executive orations. 

In the evening of the inauguration day the President held 
the customary public reception. No President ever received a 
more popular and aifectionate tribute of respect than did 
President Lincoln on that night. Foreign ministers, members 
of the Cabinet, members of Congress, Governors of States, and 
vast multitudes of his fellow-citizens, including representatives 
from the race he had emancipated, were present to pay their 
congratulations. The scenes of the day and evening had a 
cheering influence upon him, and girded him anew for the great 
work before him. They were as borders of light to a dark 
and sudden night of sorrow to himself and the nation. 



VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT TO THE ARMY 

AND KICHMOND, AND HIS RETURN. 



During the last week of March, 1865, President Lincoln 
made a visit to the Potomac Army, then before Richmond. It 
was on the eve of those successful movements which resulted 
in the fall of Richmond and the surrender of the rebel arm}- 
under Lee. He held an important conference with Lieutenant 
General Grant, and Generals Sherman and Meade and other 
distinguished officers, and so hopeful was the military situa- 
tion that, on the 2d of April, he telegraphed to the Secretary 
of War that " all now looks highly favorable;^' and again, on 
the same day, " all seems ivell tvith us" On the evening of 
the 3d of April the President communicated to the War De- 
partment and the country that Petersburg and Richmond had 
fallen. 

On Monday, the 4th of April, he passed into the city of 
Richmond without any parade of triumph, attended only by a 
small guard, and received an enthusiastic welcome from the 
army and from a large portion of the citizens. While in Rich- 
mond he was waited upon by Judge Campbell, one of the lead- 
ers of the rebellion, and formerly a Judge of the Supreme Court 
of the United States, who said to the President : 

I had an interview with Jefferson Davis, Benjamin, and Breckinridge just he- 
fore they left, and said to them: " The military power of the Confederacy is 
bi-oken. Its independence is hopeless. It only remains for us to make the 
best terms we can. The trouble is, the President of the United States cannot 
enter into negotiations with you ; but he does recognize the States, and can 
confer with their regular authorities. Under the doctrine of State rights, so 

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universally held in the South, the troops from Virginia — the Confederate Gov- 
ernment being a fugitive — will recognize the right of the Virginia Legislature 
to control them." If you, Mr. Lincoln, will permit that body to convene, it 
will doubtless recall them from the field. 

Campbell's arguments for this course were many and specious. 
The President was actuated by his absorbing desire for peace 
to listen attentively; but he said : 

"Judge Campbell, let us have no misunderstanding. I will give you once 
more, in black and white, my only terms." 

And he immediately wrote the same propositions which Mr. 
Seward took from him to the Hampton Roads Conference : 

I. The territorial integrity of the Republic. 

IL No retraction of Executive or Congressional action on the subject of 
slavery. 

III. No armistice. 

To these he added a fourth condition, that if leading Con- 
federates still persisted in the war, now it had become so utterly 
hopeless, their property should be relentlessly confiscated. 

Campbell prayed for a modification of the third article, but 
the President was immovable. 

" "We will not negotiate with men as long as they are fighting against us. 
The last election established this as the deliberate determination of the coun- 
try." 

Remaining a day and night in Richmond, the President re- 
turned to City Point on Saturday, the 8th of April, and visited 
the hospitals, where he was received with joy and enthusiasm 
by the brave and invalid soldiers. On the evening of the same 
day he embarked for Washington, and arrived in excellent 
health and spirits, on the evening of the 9th of April. 

Among those significant things which often look like inspira- 
tions, that frequently attend the latter days of noted men, is 
an affecting fact, as is said, connected with the deceased Presi- 
dent. While on his recent trip to Richmond he amused him- 
self with reading Shakspeare, and often to the friends about 
him. It is a little strange that Mr. Lincoln, on one such occa- 
sion, should have twice read aloud and called the marked atten- 



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tion of those about him to the well-known lines which Macbeth, 
in his remorse, utters about the traitorously murdered Duncan : 

"Duncan is in his grave; 
After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well ; 
Treason has done its worst; nor steel, nor poison, 
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing 
Can touch him further." 

" The very day after his return from Richmond," says Secre- 
tary Stanton, " I passed with him some of the happiest moments 
of ray life; our hearts beat with exultation at the victories, 
because we believed they would bring the speedy return of an 
honorable peace, and the re-establishment of the authority of 
the Constitution and the laws over the whole United States." 

The five days preceding the President's death were memo- 
rable in the history of the nation. The successive, brilliant 
victories of the year in all parts of the country culminated in 
the fall of Richmond, and the surrender of the rebel army, 
with General Lee and officers, to Lieutenant General Grant. 
The joy of the people at these grand results was bound- 
less. In all the fulness and freshness of grateful, enthusiastic 
hearts, the people manifested their joy that the rebellion was 
at an end, and that peace and fraternal relations would soon 
be re-established among all the States. 

In commemoration of these great events, the cities, towns, 
and villages throughout the country were brilliantly illumin- 
ated, as symbols of the universal joy. Among the grandest of 
these scenes was the one at the Capital. Most of the private 
residences and all of the public buildings were beautifully illu- 
minated. Over the western portico of the magnificent Capitol 
was inscribed the motto, over which waved a beautiful banner, 
" This is the Lord's doing ; it is marvellous in our eyes f' and 
over the door of the State Department was read the following: 
" The Union saved by faith in the Constitution, faith in the 
people, and trust in God." 

After the President's return from Richmond a large assera 
blagc of citizens, desiring to congratulate him on these decisive 
and important results, met at the President's mansion on the 



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evening of the 11th of April, and from an upper window, now 
historic, he made the following 

ADDRESS : 

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. The evacua- 
tion of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent 
army, gave hope of a righteous and speedy peace, whose joyous expression 
cannot be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He from whom all bless- 
ings flow must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being 
prepared, and will be duly promulgated. Nor must those whose harder part 
gives us the cause of rejoicing be overlooked. Their honors must not be par- 
celled out with others. I myself was near the front, and had the high pleasure 
of transmitting much of the good news to you ; but no part of the honor, for 
plan or execution, is mine. To General Grant, his skilful officers, and brave 
men, all belongs. The gallant navy stood ready, but was not in reach to take 
active part. 

By these recent successes the reinauguration of the national authority — recon- 
struction — which has had a large share of thought from the first, is pressed 
much more closely upon our attention. It is fraught with great difficulty. 
Unlike the case of a war between independent nations, there is no authorized 
organ for us to treat with. No one man has authority to give up the rebellion 
for any other man. We simply must begin with, and mould from, disorganized 
and discordant elements. Nor is it a small additional embarrassment that we, 
the loyal people, differ among ourselves as to the mode, manner, and measure 
of reconstruction. 

As a general rule, I abstain from reading the reports of attacks upon myself, 
wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer. 
In spite of this precaution, however, it comes to my knowledge that I am much 
censured from some supposed agency in setting up and seeking to sustain the 
new State government of Louisiana. In this I have done just so much and no 
more than the public knows. 

In the annual message of December, 1863, and accompanying proclamation, 
I presented a plan of reconstruction, (as the phrase goes,) which I promised, if 
adopted by any State, should be acceptable to and sustained by the Executive 
Government of the nation. I distinctly stated that this was not the only plan 
which might possibly be acceptable; and I also distinctly protested that the 
Executive claimed no right to say when or whether members should be admitted 
to seats in Congress from such States. This plan was, in advance, submitted 
to the then Cabinet, and distinctly approved by every member of it. One of them 
suggested that I should then and in that connection apply the Emancipation 
Proclamation to the heretofore excepted parts of Virginia and Louisiana ; that 
I should drop the suggestion about apprenticeship for freed people, and that I 
should omit the protest against my own power in regard to the admission of 
members of Congress ; but even he approved every part and parcel of the plan 
which has since been employed or touched by the action of Louisiana. The 
new constitution of Louisiana, declaring emancipation for the whole State, 



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practically applies the proclamation to the part previously excepted. It does 
not adopt apprenticeship for freed people, and it is silent, as it could not well 
be otherwise, about the admission of members to Congress. So that, as it ap- 
plies to Louisiana, every member of the Cabinet fully approved the plan. The 
message went to Congress, and I received many commendations of the plan, 
written and verbal, and not a single objection to it from any professed Eman- 
cipationist came to my knowledge until after the news reached Washington that 
the people of Louisiana had begun to move in accordance with it. From about 
July, 1862, I had corresponded with different persons supposed to be interested, 
Becking a reconstruction of a State government for Louisiana. When the mes- 
sage of 1863, with the plan before mentioned, reached New Orleans, General 
Banks wrote me he was confident that the people, with his military co-opera- 
tion, would reconstruct, substantially, on that plan. I wrote him and some of 
them to try it. They tried it, and the result is known. 

Such only has been my agency in getting up the Louisiana government. As 
to sustaining it, my promise is out, as before stated. But, as bad promises are 
better broken than kept, I shall treat this as a bad promise, and break it when- 
ever I shall be convinced that keeping it is adverse to the public interest ; but 
I have not yet been so convinced. 

I have been shown a letter on this subject, supposed to be an able one, in 
which the writer expresses regret that my mind has not seemed to be definitely 
fixed on the question whether the seceded States, so called, are in the Union or 
out of it. It would, perhaps, add astonishment to his regret were he to learn, 
that since I have found professed Union men endeavoring to make that ques- 
tion, I have purposely forborne any public expression upon it. As appears to 
me, that question has not been, nor yet is, a practically material one, and that 
any discussion of it, while it thus remains practically immaterial, could have no 
effect other than a mischievous one of dividing our friends. As yet, whatever 
it may hereafter become, that question is bad as the basis of a controversy, and 
good for nothing at all — a merely pernicious abstraction. We all agree that 
the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with the 
Union ; and that the sole object of the government, civil and military, in regard 
to those States, is to again get them into that proper practical relation. I 
believe it is not only possible, but in fact easier to do this without deciding, or 
even considering, whether these States have ever been out of the Union, than 
with it. Finding themselves safely at home, it would be utterly immaterial 
whether they had ever been abroad. Let us all join in doing the acts necessary 
to restoring the proper practical relations between these States and the Union ; 
and each forever after innocently indulge his own opinion whether, in doing 
the acts, he brought the States from without into the Union, or only gave them 
proper assistance, they never having been out of it. 

The amount of constituency, so to speak, on which the new Louisiana govern- 
ment rests, would be more satisfactory to all if it contained fifty, thirty, or even 
twenty thousand, instead of only about twelve thousand, as it really does. It 
is also unsatisfactory to some, that the elective franchise is not given to the col- 
ored man. I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very in- 
telligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers. Still the question is 



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not wliethcr tho Louisiana government, as it stands, is quite all that is desirable. 
The question is, " Will it be wiser to take it as it is, and help to improve it, or 
reject and disperse it ? Can Louisiana be brought into proper practical relation 
with the Union sooner by sustaining or by discarding her new State govern- 
ment?" 

Some twelve thousand voters in the heretofore slave State of Louisiana have 
sworn allegiance to tho Union ; assumed to be the rightful political power of the 
State ; held elections ; organized a free government ; adopted a free State constitu- 
tion, giving the benefitof public schools equally to black and white, and empower- 
ing the Legislature to confer the elective franchise upon the colored man. Their 
Legislature has already voted to ratify the constitutional amendment, recently 
passed by Congress, abolishing slavery throughout the nation. These twelve 
thousand persons are thus fully committed to the Union, and to perpetual free- 
dom in the States — committed to the very things, and nearly all the things, 
the nation wants — and they ask the nation's recognition and its assistance to 
make good that committal. 

Now, if we reject and spurn them, we do our utmost to disorganize and dis- 
perse them. We in effect say to the white man, " You are worthless, or worse ; 
we will neither help you nor be helped by you." To the blacks we say, " This 
cup of liberty which these, your old masters, hold to your lips, we will dash 
from you, and leave you to the chances of gathering the spilled and scattered 
contents, in some vague and undefined when, where, and how." If this course, 
discouraging and paralyzing both white and black, has any tendency to bring 
Louisiana into proper practical relations with the Union, I have, so far, been 
unable to perceive it. 

If, on the contrary, we recognize and sustain the new government of Louisi- 
ana, the converse of all this is made true. We encourage the hearts and nerve 
the arms of the twelve thousand to adhere to their work, and argue for it. and 
proselyte for it, and fight for it, and feed it, and grow it, and ripen it to a com- 
plete success. The colored man, too, seeing all united for him, is inspired with 
vigilance, and energy, and daring, to the same end. Grant that he desires the 
elective franchise. Will he not attain it sooner by saving the akeady advanced 
steps toward it than by running backward over them ? Concede that the new 
government of Louisiana is only to what it should be as the egg to the fowl; 
we -shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. 

Again, if we reject Louisiana, we also reject our vote in favor of the pro- 
posed amendment to the national Constitution. To meet this proposition it 
has been argued that no more than three-fourths of those States which have 
not attempted secession are necessary to validly ratify tho amendment. I do 
not commit myself against this, further than to say that such a ratification 
would be questionable, and sure to bo persistently questioned ; while a ratifi- 
cation by three-fourths of all the States would be unquestioned and unques- 
tionable. 

I repeat the question : " Can Louisiana be brought into proper practical re- 
lation with the Union sooner by sustaining or by discarding her new State 
government?" What has been said of Louisiana will apply generally to other 
Btates. And yet .so great peculiarities pertain to each State; and such impor- 



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tant and sudden changes occur in the same State; and, withal, so now and un 
precedented is the whole case, that no exclusive and inflexible plan can safely 
be prescribed as to details and collaterals. Such exclusive and inflexible plan 
would surely become a new entanglement. Important principles may and must 
be inflexible. 

In the present situation, as the phrase goes, it may be my duty to make some 
new announcement to the people of the South. I am considering, and shall 
not fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper. 

The speech was applauded throughout by emphatic sen tenets 
and loud cheerino-. 



THE PRESIDENT'S LAST DAY ON EARTH. 



The following incidents of the last day of the President's 
life have now a touching interest : 

His son, Captain Lincoln, breakfasted with him on Friday 
morning, having just returned from the capitulation of Lee, and 
the President passed a happy hour listening to the details of 
that event. While at breakfast he learned that Speaker Colfax 
was in the house, and sent word that he wished to see him im- 
mediately in the reception room. He conversed with Mr. 
Colfax nearly an hour about his future policy as to the rebel- 
lion, which he was about to submit to the Cabinet. 

Afterward he had an interview with Mr. Hale, Minister to 
Spain, and several Senators and Representatives. 

At the meeting of the Cabinet, General Grant was present, 
and, in one of the most satisfactory and important Cabinet 
meetings held since his first inauguration, the future policy of 
the Administration was harmoniously and unanimously agreed 
on. When the members of the Cabinet separated, Secretary 
Stanton said he felt that the Government was stronger than at 
any previous period since the rebellion commenced. In the 
afternoon Mr. Lincoln had a long and pleasant interview with 
Governor Oglesby, Senator Yates, and other leading citizens 
of his State. 

In the evening Mr. Colfax called again, at his request, and 
Mr. Ashmun, of Massachusetts, who presided over the Chicago 
Convention of 1860, was present. To them he spoke of his 
visit to Richmond ; and when they stated that there was much 
uneasiness at the North while he was at the rebel capital, for 

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fear eome traitor might shoot him, he replied, jocularly, that 
" he ivould have been alarmed himself if any other person had 
heen President arid gone there ; but he, himself, did not feel in 
any danger whatever. ^^ 

Conversing on a matter of business with Mr. Ashmun, he 
made a remark at which he saw Mr. Ashmun was surprised, 
and immediately, with his well-known kindness of heart, said, 
" You did not understand me, Ashmun ; I did not mean what 
you inferred, and will take it all back, and apologize for it." 

He afterwards gave Mr. Ashmun a card to admit himself and 
friend early the next morning, to converse further about the 
matter — the last writing of his life ! 

Turning to Mr. Colfax, he said, " You are going with Mrs. 
Lincoln and me to the theatre, I hope ;" but Mr. Colfax had 
other engagements, expecting to leave the city the next morn- 
ing. He then said to Mr. Colfax, " Senator Sumner has the 
gavel of the Confederate Congress, which he got at Richmond, 
to hand to the Secretary of War ; but I insisted then that he 
must give it to you ; and you tell him for me to hand it over." 

Mr. Ashmun alluded to the gavel, which he still had, which 
he used at the Chicago Convention. The President and Mrs. 
Lincoln, who was also in the parlor, then rose to go to the thea- 
tre. It was half an hour after the time they had intended to 
start, and they spoke about waiting half an hour longer. The 
President went with reluctance, as General Grant, who had 
been advertised as well as himself to be present at the theatre, 
had gone north, and he did not wish the people to be disap- 
pointed. 

At the door he stopped and said, " Colfax, do not forget to 
tell the people in the mining regions, as you pass through them, 
what I told you this morning about their development when 
peace comes ; and I will telegraph you at San Francisco." He 
shook hands with both gentlemen, with a pleasant good-bye, 
and left the Executive mansion, never to return to it alive. 

MR. Lincoln's last autograph. 

At eight o'clock on Friday night, Hon. George Ashmun 
called upon the President, and the latter, who was just starting 



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for the theatre, gave Mr. Ashmun a card, upon which was 
written the following words : 

Allow Mr. Ashmun and friend to come in at 9 o'clock A. M. to-morrow. 

A. LINCOLN. 
Apeil 14, 1865. 

His last public act was to call his Cabinet together, at 
which Secretary Stanton reports that the subject of the state 
of the country and the prospect of a speedy peace were dis- 
cussed. The President was cheerful and hopeful, and spoke 
very kindly of General Lee and otliers of the Confederacy, and 
of the establishment of government in Virginia. 



THREATS OF ASSASSINATION. 



After Mr. Lincoln's election in 1861, private and public 
threats were made in different States of the South that he 
should not be permitted to take his seat as President. In Bal- 
timore a plot was discovered to assassinate him as he came 
through on his way to Washington to be inaugurated. He ar- 
rived in safety at the capital on the 23d of February, 1861, 
and on the 4th of March was inaugurated the sixteenth Presi 
dent of the United States. 

On the day before his inauguration, Lieutenant General 
Scott wrote to Mr. Seward as follows : "He hoped in a day or 
two the new President will have happily passed all personal 
danger, and find himself installed an honored successor of the 
great Washington." The day of the inauguration, military 
precautions were taken to prevent and suppress all attempts at 
violence, and the President was safely and constitutionally in- 
ducted into his office. 

The following statement is from Mr. Richardson, on tiie 
southern threats of assassination. He was a correspondent of 
a leading paper, and was a prisoner in the South for eigliteen 
months : 

On the day of Mr. Lincoln's first inauguration, I travelled in a crowded rail- 
way car in Mississippi and Louisiana. While the train was stopping and con- 
versation could bo heard through the carriage, some one alluded to the event. 
Another passenger replied : " I hope to God he will be killed before he takes the 
oath." A third said: "I have wagered a new hat that neither he nor Hamlin 
will ever live to be inaugurated." Nearly all present belonged to the educated, 
wealthy, slaveholding class — the class which originated and conducted the war. 
Several expressed approval of these remarks ; not one uttered a word of dissent. 

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I was in the cotton States for weeks after this, and the subject was freq^uently 
alluded to in my presence. I heard but one man condemn the proposed assas- 
sination, and he was a Unionist. Again and again leading journals, which 
were called reputable, asked, " Is there no Brutus to rid the world of this 
tyrant?" Rewards were openly proposed for the President's head. If Mr. 
Lincoln had then been murdered in Baltimore, every thorough secession journal 
in the South would have expressed its approval, directly or indirectly. Of 
course, I do not believe that the masses, or all secessionists, would have desired 
such a stain upon the American name; but even then, as afterward, when they 
murdered our captured soldiers, and starved, froze, and shot our prisoners, the 
men who led and controlled the rebels appeared deaf to humanity and to 
decency. Charity would fain hold them insane ; but there was too much 
method in their madness. 

In the month of March, 1864, a correspondent of the same 
journal, who had been at Richmond, says that " a plan had 
been submitted to the Rebel War Department by Colonel 
Margrave, who had been for a considerable time an emissary 
in the North, to kidnap President Lincoln and carry him to 
Riclimond, or if it should be found impossible to escape with 
him to the rebel lines, to assassinate him. One hundred and 
fifty picked men were to go secretly North, and take quarters 
in Washington, Georgetown, Baltimore, and Alexandria, so as 
to be able to communicate daily with each other ; and upon a 
Jay fixed by their leader, were to assemble in Washington for 
the purpose of making tlie seizure. The President, it was 
claimed, could be easily seized at a quiet hour at the White 
House, or in going to or returning from church. The Secre- 
tary of Y/ar thought this scheme might succeed, but he doubted 
whether such a proceeding would be of a military character, 
and JRstiliuble under the laws of war. He promised, however, 
to consult President Davis and Mr. Benjamin." 

In the summer of 1862, "a club or society of wealthy per- 
sons of Richmond was formed for the purpose of raising a fund 
for this purpose. Circulars were sent to trust-worthy citizens 
of every other city and town in the Confederacy inviting co- 
operation in the grand undertaking, and an immense sum of 
money was raised. It was proposed, when all was ready, to 
obtain a furlough for Moseby and make him leader of the en- 
terprise." 

Mr. Carpenter, the artist wlio painted the Proclamation of 



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Freedom, says tliat several days subsequent to its publication 
he asked Mr. Lincoln if he had seen the above statement. He 
said he had not, nor even heard of it. I then, at his request, 
gave him the details. We were walking together at the time, 
and I remember distinctly the conversation. After I had con- 
cluded, he smiled incredulously, and said : " Well, even if true, 
I do not see what the rebels would gain by either killing or 
getting possession of me. I am but a single individual, and it 
would not lielp their cause or make the least difference in the 
progress of the war. E very thing would go right on just the same. 
Soon after I was nominated at Chicago," he continued, " I be- 
gan to receive letters threatening my life. The first one or 
two made me uncomfortable, but I came at length to look for 
a regular installment of this kind of correspondence in every 
week's mail, and up to inauguration day I was in the constant 
receipt of such letters, and it is no uncommon thing even to re- 
ceive them now ; but they have ceased to give me any appre- 
hension." I expressed some surprise at this, but he replied in 
bis peculiar way, " There is nothing like getting used to 
things." Alas ! that the nation should to-day be sitting under 
the shadow of the great crime — tlie consummation of those very 
threats — which he had come to regard so lightly. 

Roger A. Pryor, a member from Virginia in the Thirty-Sixth 
Congress, and for some time editor of the Daihj Union in 
Washington city, said shortly before Mr. Lincoln's election in 
1860, that, "The first anti-slavery President luill he assassin- 
ated; and if no other hand can be found to perform that duty. 
I will be the Brutus that will plant a dagger in his heart." 

In December, 1864, a citizen of Alabama advertised in the 
Southern papers that, "If the citizens of the Southern Con- 
federacy will furnish ine (him) with the cash, or good securities, 
for the sum of one million dollars, I (he) will cause the lives of 
Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, and Andrew Johnson 
to be taken bv the first of March next." — 1865. 

Colonel R. W. Thompson, of Torre Haute, Indiana, an old 
friend of Mr. Lincoln, feeling a great concern for his safety, on 
the 11th of last March wrote to John D. Defrees, Superin- 



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tendent of Public Printing at Washington, wliom lie knew to 
be on intimate terms with the President, as follows : 

For God's sake impress Mr. Lincoln v/ith the idea that he must be careful of 
himself and watchful. There are ten thousand ways to kill him, and there are 
thousands malicious enough to do it. A hired domestic could do it; and how fre- 
quently does history show that this mode of getting rid of a man has been 
practiced. 

Only a few days before the President went to Richmond, Mr. 
Defrees read him the letter of Colonel Thompson, and addei! 
his own apprehensions of danger from exposure. The Presi- 
dent replied that he thought his friends too apprehensive — that 
he had no feelings of the sort. 

One day last summer, in conversation with Mr. Defrees, who 
had cautioned him against exposing himself to the assassin by 
his going to and returning from the Soldiers' Home, he re- 
marked that he had received many anonymous letters threaten- 
ing his life, and that he had preserved them. He then walked 
to his private cabinet and took down a bundle of such letters. 
While he held them in his hand Mr. Seward came in, and, after 
understanding the subject of conversation, remarked that he 
too had received many such letters for years, and especially 
from the South, while a member of the Senate. 

The possibility that he might be assassinated Mr. Lincoln 
had thought of, though he was not timid, and it did not give 
him a moment's uneasiness. A member of the Cabinet said 
one day to him, " Mr. Lincoln, you are not sufficiently careful 
of yourself. There are bad men in Washington ; did it ever 
occur to you that there are rebels among us who are bad enough 
to attempt your life ? " Mr. Lincoln stepped to the desk and 
drew from a pigeon-hole a package of letters. " There," said 
he, " every one of these contain a threat to assassinate me. I 
might be nervous if I was to dwell upon the subject, but I have 
come to the conclusion that there are opportunities to kill me 
every day of my life if there are persons disposed to do it. It 
is not possible to avoid exposure to such a state, and I shall 
not trouble myself about it." 

A week before his death, General Van Allen, of New York. 



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wrote to the President to ask liiin not to expose his life unneces- 
sarily, as he had done at Richmond, and assuring him of the 
earnest desire of all his countrymen to close the war he had so 
successfully conducted. After acknowledging the receipt of 
the letter, the President replied, April 14th, the day of his 
death, and said : 

I intend to adopt the advice of my friends and use due precaution. * * * I 
thank you for the assurance you gave me that I shall be supported by conser- 
vative men like yourself, in the efforts I may make to restore the Union, so as to 
tiake it, to use your language, a Union of hearts and hands as well as of States. 
Yours, truly, 

A. LINCOLN. 
To General Van Allen. 



THE ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT, 

THE PRESIDENTS DYING SCENE. 



On Friday night, the fourteenth of April, 1865, President 
Lincoln was assassinated, under the most atrocious and appal- 
ling circumstances. The day that shrouded the nation in 
mourning was commemorative of the most significant celebra- 
tion of the century. The flag of the nation had been stricken 
down by traitors from the battlements of Fort Sumter on the 
14th of April, 18G1 ; and on the same day of the month, 18(35. 
that same flag, under the direction of the Government, and 
with military and religious ceremonies and rejoicings, was 
again unfurled over the fort, as the emblem of the restored 
sovereignty of the nation. 

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was invited by the President 
and Secretary of War to deliver an oration on the occasion. 
This duty he performed, and at the close of his address he re- 
ferred to the President in these words : 

From this pulpit of broken stones we speak forth our earnest greeting to all 
our land. 

We offer to the President of the United States our solemn congratulations 
that God has sustained his life and health under the unparalleled burdens and 
sufferings of four bloody years, and permitted him to behold this auspicious 
consummation of that national unity for which he has waited with so much 
patience and fortitude, and for which he has labored with such disinterested 
wisdom. 

These words of greeting had scarcely passed beyond the ^ 
limits of the memorable spot where they were uttered ere the 

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venge for the SoutJi" is added, a white face " covered with a 
night of hair," lighted by two black, shining eyes, is seen be- 
tween the President's box and the stage ; a moment passes ; it 
drops. A form crouches as it falls, then rises in histrionic at- 
titude, in its hand a knife, whose newly polished surface reflects 
the numerous gas jets. Three seconds — nay, two — and it is 
gone. 

Still as the hush that follows a prayer in the chaml)er of the 
dying, the audience sit spell-bound, it may have been, for two 
seconds ; a tall man jumps upon the stage, and he too disap- 
peared, while a voice in the audience at last utters the name 
of the assassin — " John Wilkes Booth." 

Booth, after his visit behind the scenes, having left tlie back 
door open, rapidly went to the front of the theatre, ascended 
into the dress circle, passed by the only open door into the box, 
advanced to the front of it, and leaning over, with the elbow of 
his right arm out of the box, his left hand on the balustrade, 
fired a pistol at the President. This pistol, a Derringer, was 
evidently loaded with two (perhaps with more than two) balls, 
of diameter less than that of the pistol barrel. One of these 
balls struck the President below the left ear, and two inches 
behind it. The other did not hit him, but went through the 
locked and unused door of the box, scattering splinters outside 
(not inside) the box. Having fired, Booth dropped the pistol 
and drew a long knife, sharpened like the sword of a Roman 
gladiator, a regular stylus in form, but rounded, not angled, to 
a point. He vaulted over the balustrade of the box, his left 
hand supporting his weight, and breaking his fall by its hold 
on it. The distance from that balustrade to the floor of the 
theatre is exactly twelve feet and eight inches. The exclama- 
tion, " Sic semper tyrannis," was uttered as he vaulted out of 
the box, and as he recovered his feet on alighting, he said some- 
thing of which we could only gather four words, " Revenge for 
the South." He then in a stilted, stagey, yet rapid stride, his 
white face turned toward the awe-stricken audience, gained the 
first stage entrance, pushed aside Miss Laura Keene, there 
awaiting her cue to enter upon the scene, and with the glitter- 
ing stylus still in his band, pushed on by the prompter's desk, 
turned to the right, and by none of the audience was again 



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seen. Fifteen seconds will cover the time between tlie explo- 
sion of the pistol and Booth's disappearance. Tlio distance he 
had to <xo across the stage was exactly thirty-nine feet. After 
turning to the i-ight and leaving the prompter's desk behind 
him, he was in a sort of alley-way or lane, formed by the ends 
of the scenery and the wall of the theatre. This aHoy-way is 
only twenty-five feet long fi-om the first entrance, a;id at the 
end of it stands the open back door at which the horse awaited 
the man whose chivalry could induce him to murder, l)ut could 
never summon courage to fight in the ranks of liis brother 
rebels. T!ie whole distance, therefore, from the foot of the- 
box, where lay the bleeding sacrifice of his hate, to the horse 
on which ho was to flee, was only sixty-four feet. That time 
was afforded him to pass over this short distance, by the stupor 
into which surpi-ise and horror had thrown the audience, cannot 
be wondered at. The knife he held, it is claimed, secured him 
from " let or stop " by a scene-shifter, wdio strove by passing 
through the entrances to intercept him. As he passed out, he 
met the leader of the orchestra, William Withers, Jr., and 
made two cuts at him, spoiling his coat, but not at all injuring 
his person. To mount his horse, and run from the scene of his 
crime, was easy ; but what horse will ever enable him to out- 
strip the memory of that deed ? Out lie rode into the night ; 
but what night will he ever find dark enough to hide from the 
eyes of his soul the gaze of stony horror fixed upon him by the 
forest of white faces he glared upon as he crossed that stage ? 

But one attempt was nuidc to pursue the flying cov/ard. 
Joseph B. Stewart, Esq., a well-known counsellor of our city, 
jumped upon the stage, and did not lose sight of him till he 
mounted and rode ofl" ; but this ho succeeded in doing ere !Mr. 
Stewart could reach him. Unfortunately, Mr. Stewart was not 
armed. 

Tiie audience were not at all alarmed by the report of the 
pistol in the box. It was su[)posed by most to be i)art of the 
business of the piece ; and it was not till the marble face and 
gleaming dagger were seen descending from the box ihat a sus- 
picion of the truth flashed upon them. When Boo-th was named 
as the man, some few cries of " Hang him !" were raised ; but 
though the audience left their feet, they seemed bereft not only 

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of all power of action, but even all power of thought. A 
vacant, doubting look was stamped upon each face ; and it was 
not till Miss Harris called to Miss Keene for some water, and 
a few gentlemen had ascended the stage, that the mind of the 
audience seemed to take in understandingly the deed, and 
all the horror of the deed they had witnessed. They swayed 
back and forth, indignation and menace succeeding to irresolu- 
tion, till the amphitheatre, like the gates of Eden, seemed 
"with fiery faces thronged." All spoke, but no one said any- 
thing. Exclamation followed exclamation, till at last Miss 
Keene stepped forth, and waving her arm, besought them to 
be calm and retain their seats. At last, on repeated requests 
to leave the theatre, made by several gentlemen, the audience 
rolled, rather than walked out, leaving the theatre, in which 
they had witnessed a tragedy unequalled in atrocity or magni- 
tude of consequences since the murder of the first Ceesar. 

While Mr. Stewart was pursuing the assassin and the audi- 
ence were striving to recover their senses, Mr. Lincoln lay 
bleeding up stairs. There is but one word that can describe 
the state of those in the box with him — paralysis. Miss Harris 
recovered first, and called to Miss Keene for some water ; a 
gentleman, aided by the former, climbed into the box. A gen- 
tleman at last brought a pitcher of water. Several others 
also ascended into the box, as the house was being emptied. 

At last medical aid arrived ; the throbbing crowd outside 
was forced back, the street was picketed, and one hour later 
the doctors had the suifering form transferred to the house of 
Mr. Peterson, opposite the theatre. 

The President was soon surrounded by all the members of 
his Cabinet, except Mr. Seward, who was then lying in bed, 
scarce better than the chief who had so valued his counsels, so 
trusted his sagacity. But, alas! while the minister heard in 
this world that the President was murdered, the President 
never knew on earth that the life of his friend was threatened 
and attacked with his own. 

Besides the members of the Cabinet, Mrs. Lincoln, Miss Har- 
ris, Major Rathbone, and the leading medical men of the army 
now in Washington, and several eminent doctors, Mrs. Senator 
©ixon was sent for by Mrs. Lincoln, and remained with her 



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through the bitter liours of the soleiuD night. Mrs. and Miss 
Kinney were also present, offering those consolations with 
which one human heart so vainly yearns to lighten the burden 
of sorrow piled upon another. 

Mrs. Lincoln was under great excitement and agony, wring- 
ing her hands, and exclaiming, " Why did he not shoot me in- 
stead of my husband? I have tried to be so careful of him, 
fearing something would happen, and his life seemed to be 
more precious now than ever. I must go with him ;" and other 
expressions of like character. She was constantly going back 
and forth to the bedside of the President, exclaiming in great 
agony, " How can it be so ?" The scene was heartrending, 
and it is impossible to portray it in its living light. It beggars 
description, and can better be imagined than described. Cap- 
tain Robert Lincoln bore himself with great firmness, and 
constantly endeavored to assuage the grief of his mother by 
telling her to put her trust in God and all would be well. Oc- 
casionally, being entirely overcome, he would retire into the 
hall and give vent to most heartrending lamentations. He 
would recover himself and return to his mother, and with re- 
markable self possession try to cheer her broken spirits and 
lighten her load of sorrow. His conduct was a most remark- 
able exhibition of calmness. About a quarter of an hour be- 
fore the President died his breathing became very difficult, and 
in many instances seemed to have entirely ceased, so that the 
surgeons who were holding his pulse supposed him to be dead. 
He would again rally and breathe with so great difficulty as to 
be heard almost in every part of the house. Mrs. Lincoln took 
her last leave of him about twenty minutes before he ex- 
pired, and was sitting in the adjoining room when it was an- 
nounced to her that he was dead. When tlie announcement 
was made, she exclaimed, '' Oh, why did you not tell me he was 
dying ?" 

It being ascertained that life was extinct, the Rev. Dr. Gurley 
knelt at the bedside and offered an impressive prayer, which 
was responded to by all present. Dr. Gurley then proceeded 
to the front parlor, where Mrs. Lincoln, Captain Robert Lin- 
coln, Mr. John Hay, the private secretary, and others, were 



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wjritinjr, wlierc lie again offered prayer for the consolation ol 
the family. 

The surgeons and tlie members of the Cabinet, Senator 
Sumner, Captain Robert Lincoln, General Todd, Mr. Field, 
and Mr. Andrews, were standing at his bedside when he 
breathed his last. Senator Sumner, General Todd, Robert 
Lincoln, and Rufus Andrews stood leaning over the headboard 
of the bed watching every motion of the beating breast of 
the dying President. Robert Lincoln was resting himself upon 
the arm of Senator Sumner. The members of the Cabinet 
were standing by the side of the bed — Secretary Stanton at 
the left of Mr. Andrews, Mr. Andrews near Mr. Lincoln's 
head. Next to him was Mr. Dennison, and the others arranged 
along at his left, and the surgeons were sitting upon the side 
and foot of the bed, holding the President's hands, and with 
their watches observing the slow declension of the pulse, and 
watching the ebbing out of the vital spirit. Such was the sol- 
emn stillness for the space of five minutes that the ticking of 
the watches could be heard in the room. At twenty-two min- 
utes past seven A. M. his muscles relaxed and the spirit of 
Abraham Lincoln fled from its earthly tabernacle " to that 
bourne from which no traveller returns." The countenance of 
the President was beaming with that characteristic smile which 
only those who have seen him in his happiest moments can ap- 
preciate ; and, except the blackness of his eyes, his face ap- 
peared perfectly natural. He died without a struggle, and 
without even a perceptible motion of a limb. Calmly and si- 
lently the great and good man passed away. The morning was 
calm, and the rain was dropping gently upon the roof of the 
humble apartment where they laid him down to die. Guards 
had been stationed to keep the people from the house, and no 
noise could be heard in the streets save the footsteps of the 
gentry passing to and fro, as he guarded all that remained of 
Abraham Lincoln. The body servant of the President entered 
the room just before he died, and as the breath left the body of 
Mr. Lincoln this servant manifested the deepest sorrow. All 
present felt the awful solemnity of the occasion, and no man 
could have witnessed the touching scenes, without melting to 



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tears. Mr. Stanton, wliose coolness and self-possession were 
remarkable, could not keep back the silent monitors of the 
inward sorrow which rolled out from his eyes upon his cheeks. 
Mrs. Lincoln remained but a short time, ^vhcn she was assisted 
into her carriage, and with her son Robert and other friends 
she was driven to the house where but hrst evening she left for 
the last time with lier honored husband, wlio never again was 
to enter that liome alive. 

The agony of that night, what man can measure, what judg- 
ment short of the Infinite estimate ! 

Within, a wife by the bedside of a dying, murdered husband. 
The statesmen of a nation just recovering from an unparalleled 
convulsion, losing the leader that steered them through it. 
Without, a people wailing over the loss of a heart and brain 
that felt and throbbed for them alone, and the awed operator 
spreading woe and consternation over a land that has been 
mourning its dead for four long years of bitter strife. From 
the Rocky ^[ountains, away across the great prairies, a people 
replacing the jubilates of the day before with a night of univer- 
sal requiem ! 

From the very first the case was hopeless. The pulse, which 
at eleven was reported 41, at half-past one was up to 86, and 
at six failing, and at twenty-two minutes past seven he was 

DEAD ! 

Around him when he died were Secretaries Stanton, Wells, 
Usher; Attorney General Speed ; Postmaster General Dennison; 
M. B. Field, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ; Judge Otto, 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior ; General Ilalleck, General 
Meigs, Senator Sumner; F. R. Andrews, of New York ; Gene- 
ral Todd, of Dacotah ; John Hay, (Private Secretary,) Gover- 
nor Oglesby, of Illinois ; General Farnsworth, Mrs. and Miss 
Kenny, Miss Harris, Captain Robert Lincoln, son of the Presi- 
dent, and Drs. E. W. Abbott, R. K. Stone, C. D. Gatch, Neal, 
Hall, and Leiberman. Secretary McCullough remained with 
him until about 5 o'clock, and Chief Justice Chase, after several 
hours attendance during the night, returned again early in the 
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT S DEATH BY THE SECRETARY 

OF WAR. 

Washington, D. C, April 15, 1865—1.30 A. M. 
Major General Dix, New York: 

This evening, about 9.30 P. M., at Ford's Theatre, the President, while sitting 
in his private box with Mrs. Lincoln, Miss Harris, and Major Rathbone, was 
shot by an assassin, who suddenly entered the box and approached behind the 
President. The assassin then leaped upon the stage, brandishing a large dag- 
ger or knife, and made his escape in the rear of the theatre. 

The pistol ball entered the back of the head of the President and penetrated 
nearly through the head. The wound is mortal. The President has been insen- 
sible ever since it was inflicted, and is now dying. 

About the same time an assassin, either the same or another, entered Mr. 
Seward's house, and under pretence of having a prescription, was shown to the 
Secretary's sick chamber. The Secretary was in bed, a nurse and Miss Seward 
with him. 

The assassin immediately rushed to the bed and inflicted two or three stabs 
on the throat and two on the face. It is hoped the wounds may not be mortal. 
My apprehension is that they will prove fatal. 

The noise alarmed Mr. Frederick Seward, who was in an adjoining room, 
and hastened to the door of his father's room, where he met the assassin, who 
inflicted upon him one or more dangerous wounds. 

The recovery of Frederick Seward is doubtful. It is not probable that the 
President will live through the night. 

General Grant and wife were advertised to be at the theatre this evening, but 
started to Burlington at 6 P. M. 

At a Cabinet meeting, at which General Grant was present, to-day, the sub- 
ject of the state of the country, and the prospects of a speedy peace, &c., were 
discussed. 

The President was very cheerful and hopeful, and spoke very kindly of Lee 
and other ofiicers of the rebel army, and the establishment of the Government 
in Virginia. 

All the members of the Cabinet, except Mr. Seward, are now with Mr. Lin- 
coln. 

I have seen Mr. Seward. He and Frederick Seward are both unconscious. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 

Secretary of War. 

War Department, 
Washington, D. C, April 15, 1865—3 A. M. 
Major General Dix, New York: 

The President still breathes, but is quite insensible, as he has been ever since 
he was shot. Pie evidently did not see the person who shot him, but was look- 
ing on the stage as he was approached behind. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 

Secretary of War. 



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War Detartment, 
Washington, April 15—4.10 A. M- 
To Major General Dix : 

The President continues insensible and is siuhing. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 

Secretary of War. 

War Department, Washington, April 15. 
Major General Dix: 
Abraham Lincoln died this morning at twenty-two minutes after 7 o'clock. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 
Secretary of War. 

The following minutes, taken by Dr. Abbott, show the con- 
dition of the President throughout the uight : 

11 o'clock — Pulse 41. 

11.5 — 45, and growing weaker. 

11.10—45. 

11.15—42. 

11.20—45. Respiration 27 to 29. 

11.25—42. 

11.32—48, and full. 

11.40—45. 

11.45 — 45. Respiration 22. 

12—48. Respiration 22. 

12.15 — 48. Respiration 21. Echmos both eyes. 

12.30—54. 

12.32— GO. 

12.35—66. 

12.40—69. Right eye much swollen, and echemosea. 

12.45—70. Respiration 27. 

12.55 — 80. Struggling motion of arms. 

1 o'clock — 86. Respiration 30. 

1.30 — 95. Appearing easier. 

1.45 — 86. Very quiet. Respiration irregular. Mrs. Lincoln present. 

2.10 — Mrs. Lincoln retired with Robert Lincoln to an adjoining room. 

2.30 — President very quiet. Pulse 54. Respiration 28. 

2.52—48. Respiration 30. 

3 o'clock — Visited again by Mrs. Lincoln. 

3.25 — Respiration 24, and regular. 

3.35 — Prayer by Rev. Dr. Gurley. 

4 — Pi,espiration 26, and regular. 

4.15 — Pulse 60. Respiration 25. 

5.50 — Respiration 28; regular. Sleeping. 

6 — Pulse failing. Respiration 28. 

6.30 — Still failing, and labored breathing. 

7 — Symptoms of immediate dissolution. 

7.22— Death. 



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Shortly after 9 o'clock Saturday morning tlie remains were 
placed in a temporary coffin, under the direction of Mr. Frank 
Sands, and removed to the White House, six young men of the 
quartermaster's department cari-ying the body to the house. 

An escort of cavalry, (Union Light Guard,) under the com- 
mand of Lieutenant Jamison, accompanied the ren)ains, which 
were followed l)y Generals Augur, commanding Department of 
Washington ; Rucker, depot quartermaster ; Colonel Pelouze, 
of the War Department ; Captain Finley Anderson, A. A. G., 
Hancock's corps ; Captain D. G. Thomas, clothing depot ; 
Captains J. H. Crowell and C. Baker. 

The solemn procession moved slowly up lOtli street to G, 
and thence to the White House, a large crowd present along 
the route standing uncovered. Lnmediately on the guard 
being removed, a rush was made toward the house occupied 
during the night by the President, remaining about the entrance 
for nome time. 

The house to which the President was carried from the 
theatre is No. 453 Tenth street, between E and F streets. The 
house is a plain three-story brick, built in 1849. 

The room in which he breathed his last is on the first story, 
at the end of a hall from which rises a stairway. The room 
is covered with a paper of a brown hue, figured with white. 
In the room are a table and a bureau covered with crotchet, 
besides eight chairs. The room measures fifteen feet by nine, 
and is carpeted with Brussels. The bed on which he lay was a low 
walnut four-poster. The sheeting and blankets used the night 
before had been removed, and nothing remained but two cotton 
mattresses and two pillows. They were all stained with his 
blood. 

The walls were hung with one photograph taken from some 
lithograph of Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, an engraved copy of 
Herring's Village Blacksmith, and two smaller ones of " The 
Stable" and "Barn-yard," from the same artist. The house 
is built of material too frail to induce the hope that it will long 
stand as a memento of the great man who died in it, being 
buiU rather on the tenement style. 



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THE AUTOPSY. 



Suinenn General Bariie?, assi>;tc(l by Doctors Stone, (the late 
Presideiit'ri family physician.) Curtis, Woodward, Crane, Tafft, 
and olhor eminent medical men, made an autopsy, in the pres- 
ence of President Johnson, Gcnei-al Augur, and General Rucker. 
The external appearance of the face of the President presented 
a deep black stain around both eyes. The fatal wound was on 
tlie left side of the head, behind, in a line with and three inches 
from the left ear. The course of the ball was obliquely for- 
ward toward the riglit eye, crossing the brain in an oblique 
manner, and lodging a few inches behind that eye. In the 
track of the wound were found fragments of bone which had 
been driven forward by the ball, which was imbedded in the 
anterior lobe of the left hemisphere of the brain. The orbit 
plates of both eyes were the seat of comminuted fracture, and 
the eyes were filled with extravasated blood. The serious 
injury of the orbit plates was due to the contrc-coup — the result 
of the intense shock of so large a projectile fired so closely to 
the head. The ball was evidently a Derringer, hand-cast, and 
from which the neck had been clipped. A shaving of lead had 
been removed from the ball in its passage througli the bones 
of the skull, and was found in the orifice of the wound. The 
first fragment of bone was found two and a half inches within 
the brain ; the second and larger fragment about four inches 
from the orifice of the wound. The ball lay still further in 
advance. The wound was about one-lialf inch iu diameter. 
The autoj)sy fully confirmed tlic opinion of the surgeons on the 
night of the assassination, that the wound was mortal. 

THE BODY EMBALMED. 

Doctors Brown and Alexander were sent for to embalm the 
body of President Lincoln. The embalming process was per- 
foi-med l)y Mr. Harry P. Cattcll, an employee of the above- 
mentioned firm, wdio also embalmed little Willie Lincoln, son 
of the President, in February, 18G2. The body was embalmed 
in the late President's own bed-room, in the west wing of the 



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Executive Mansion, fronting on Pennsylvania avenue. Among 
those in attendance during the process were Vice President 
Johnson, General Augur, General Rucker, and the attending 
physicians of the lamented deceased. 

TESTIMONY IN REGARD TO THE ASSASSINATION — ACCOUNTS BY 
EYE-WITNESSES. 

The following affidavits have a most important bearing on 
the tragedy. As they were drawn up with great care, and are* 
in the form of legal evidence, they will be read with interest : 

Affidavit of Major Rathhone. 

DiSTBicT OF Columbia, ] ^ 
City of Washington, J ^ 

Henry R. Rathbone, Brevet Major in the army of the United States, being 
duly sworn, says, that on the 14th day of April instant, at about twenty min- 
utes past eight o'clock in the evening, he, with Miss Clara H. Harris, left his 
residence, at the corner of Fifteenth and H streets, and joined the President 
and Mrs. Lincoln, and went with them, in their carriage, to Ford's Theatre, in 
Tenth street : the box assigned to the President is in the second tier, on the 
right-hand side of the audience, and was occupied by the President and Mrs. 
Lincoln, Miss Harris, and the deponent, and by no other person; the box is 
entered by passing from the front of the building, in the rear of the dress circle, 
to a small entry or passage way, about eight feet in length and four feet in 
width ; this passage way is entered by a door, which opens on the inner side; 
the door is so placed as to make an acute angle between it and the wall behind 
it on the inner side ; at the inner end of this passage way is another door, stand- 
ing squarely across, and opening into the box ; this latter door was closed ; the 
party entered the box through the door at the end of the passage way ; the box 
is so constructed that it may be divided into two by a movable partition, one 
of the doors described opening into each ; the front of the bos is about ten or 
twelve feet in length, and in the centre of the railing is a small pillar, overhung 
with a curtain ; the depth of the box from front to rear is about nine feet ; the 
elevation of the box above the stage, including the railing, is about ten or 
twelve feet. 

When the party entered the box, a cushioned arm-chair was standing at the 
end of the box furthest from the stage and nearest the audience. This was 
also the nearest point to the door by which the box is entered. The President 
seated himself in this chair, and except that he once left the chair for the pur- 
pose of putting on his overcoat, remained so seated until he was shot. Mrs. 
Lincoln was seated in a chair between the President and the pillar in the 
centre, above described. At the opposite end of the box — that nearest the end 



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of the stage — were two chairs. In one of these, standing in the corner, Miss 
Harris was seated. At her left hand, and along the wall running from that end 
of the box to the rear, stood a small sofa. At the end of this sola, next to Miss 
Harris, this deponent was seated. The distance between this deponent and the 
President, as they were sitting, was about seven or eight feet, and the distance 
between this deponent and the door was about the same. The distance between 
the President, as he sat, and the door, was about four or five feet. The door, 
according to the recollection of this deponent, was not closed during the eve- 
ning. When the second scene of the third act was being performed, and while 
this deponent was intently observing the proceedings upon the stage, with his 
back toward the door, he hoard the discharge of a pistol behind him, and look- 
ing around, saw, through the smoke, a man between the door and the President. 
At the same time deponent heard him shout some word which deponent thinks 
was " Freedom ! " This deponent instantly sprang toward him and seized him ; 
he wrested himself from his grasp and made a violent thrust at the breast c' 
deponent with a large knife. Deponent parried the blow by striking it up, and 
received a wound several inches deep in his left arm, between the elbow and 
the shoulder. The orifice of the wound is about an inch and a half in length, 
and extends upwards towards the shoulder several inches. The man rushed to 
the front of the box, and deponent endeavored to seize him again, but only 
caught his clothes as he was leaping over the railing of the box. The clothes, 
as deponent believes, were torn in this attempt to seize him. As ho went over 
upon the stage, deponent cried out with a loud voice, " Stop that man !" De- 
ponent then turned to the President ; his position was not changed ; his head 
was slightly bent forward, and his eyes were closed. Deponent saw that he was 
unconscious, and supposing him mortally wounded, rushed to the door for the 
purpose of calling medical aid. On reaching the outer door of the passageway 
as above described, deponent found it barred by a. heavy piece of plank, one end 
of which was secured in the wall, and the other resting against the door. It 
had been so securely fastened that it required considerable force to remove it. 
This wedge or bar was about four feet from the floor. Persons upon the outside 
were beating against the door for the purpose of entering. Deponent removed 
the bar, and the door was opened. Several persons who represented themselves 
to be surgeons were allowed to enter. Deponent saw there Colonel Crawford, 
and requested him to prevent other persons from entering the box. Deponent 
then returned to the box, and found the surgeons examining the President's 
person. They had not yet discovered the wound. As soon as it was discovered 
it was determined to remove him from the theatre. He was carried out, and 
this deponent then proceeded to assist Mrs. Lincoln, who was intensely excited, 
to leave the theatre. On reaching the head of the stairs, deponent requested 
Major Potter to aid him in assisting Mrs. Lincoln across the street to the house 
to which the President was being conveyed. The wound which deponent had 
received had been bleeding very profusely, and on reaching the house, feeling 
very faint from the loss of blood, he seated himself in the hall, and soon after 
fainted away, and was laid upon the floor. Upon the return of consciousness, 
deponent was taken in a carriage to his residence. 

In the review of the transaction, it is the confident belief of this deponent 



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that tlae time which elapsed between the discharge of the pistol and the time 
when the assassin leaped from the box did not exceed thirty seconds. Neither 
Mrs. Lincoln nor Miss Harris had left their seats. 

H. R. RATHBONE. 

Subscribed and sworn before me this 17th day of April, 1865. 

^ A. B. OLIN, 

Justice Supreme Court, D. C. 

Affidavit of Miss Harris. 

District of Columbia, ) 
City of Waahington, \ 

Clara H. Harris, being duly sworn, says that she has read the foregoing affi- 
davit of Major Rathboue, and knows the contents thereof; that she was present 
at Ford's Theatre with the President and Mrs. Lincoln and Major Rathbone on 
the evening of the 14th of April instant; that at the time she heard the dis- 
charge of the pistol she was attentively engaged in observing what was trans- 
piring upon the stage, and looking round she saw Major Rathbone spring from 
his seat and advance to the opposite side of the box; that she saw him engaged 
as if in a struggle with another man, but the smoke with which he was envel- 
oped prevented this deponent from seeing distinctly the other man ; that the 
first time she saw him distinctly was when he leaped from the box upon the 
stage; that she then heard Major Rathbone cry out "Stop that man !" and this 
deponent then immediately repeated the cry, " Stop that man ! Won't somebody 
stop that m-an?" A moment after, some one from the stage asked, " What is 
it?" or " What is the matter?" and deponent replied, " The President is shot." 
Very soon after, two persons, one wearing the uniform of a naval surgeon, and 
the other that of a soldier of the Veteran Reserve Corps, came upon the stage, 
and the deponent assisted them in climbing up to the box. 

And this deponent further says that the facts stated in the foregoing affidavit, 
so far as the same came to the knowledge or notice of this deponent, are accu- 
rately stated therein. 

CLARA H. HARRIS. 

Subscribed and sworn before me this 17th day of April, 1865. 

A. B. OLIN, 
Chief Justice Suvreme Court, D. C. 



JOHN WILKES BOOTH THE ASSASSIN OF THE 
PRESIDENT. 



At 3 o'clock Saturday morning, April 15th, while the Presi- 
dent was passing through his dying moments, the Secretary of 
War telegraphed to Major General Dix, of New York, that 
"investigation strongly indicates J. Wilkes Booth as the 
assassin of the President. Chief Justice Cartter is engaged in 
taking the evidence. Every attempt has been made to prevent 
the escape of the murderer. His horse has been found on the 
road near Washington." On the same morning the Secretary 
of War again telegraphed to General Dix : 

It is now ascertained with reasonable certainty that two assassins were 
engaged in the horrible crime ; J. Wilkes Booth being the one that shot the 
President, and the other, a companion of his, whose name is not known, but 
whose description is so clear that he can hardly escape. It appears from a letter 
found in Booth's trunk that the murder was planned before the 4th of March, 
but fell through then because the accomplice backed out until " Richmond 
could be heard from." It would seem that they had for several days been seek- 
ing their chance, but for some unknown reason it was not carried into effect 
until last night. 

The following statement confirmed the fact that the atrocious 
deed was committed by Booth : 

STATEMENT OF Mli. FERGUSON. 

Mr James P. Ferguson went to the theatre with a lady on Friday night foi 
the express purpose of seeing General Grant, who was announced to be present. 
Mr. Ferguson saw the Presidential party enter the box, but of course did not 
Bee the Lieutenant General. He, however, continued to watch tlie box, think- 

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ing that the General might intend to slip quietly in, in order to avoid the de- 
monstrations that would attend his recognition. 

When the second scene of the third act of the play was reached, ^Ir. 
Ferguson saw (and recognized) John Wilkes Booth making his way along the 
dress circle to the President's box. Of this box Mr. Ferguson had an excellent 
view, being seated in the dress circle just opposite to it, next to the private 
boxes on the other side of the circle. This seat he had purposely chosen to af- 
ford his companion a good view of the Lieutenant General, and, for the reasons 
already stated, was narrowly watching the entrance to it. 

Mr. Ferguson watched for his appearance in the box, desiring to see who in 
that party the actor could be on such intimate terms with, as to feel warranted 
in taking such a liberty. Whether Booth shut the door of the little corridor 
or left it open behind him, Mr. Ferguson fears to state positively ; but from 
what he observed of the door, and for reasons hereafter to be stated, believes 
he did shut it. The shot was the next thing Mr. F. remembers. He saw the 
smoke, then perceived Booth standing upright with both hands raised, but at 
that moment saw no weapon or anything else in either. Booth then sprang to 
the front of the box, laid his left hand on the railing in front, was checked %n 
instant, evidently by his coat or pants being caught in something, or held back 
by somebody. (It was by Jilajor E.athbone.) 

Mr. Ferguson and Booth had met in the afternoon and conversed, and were 
well acquainted with each other, so that the former immediately recognized 
him. Booth stopped two steps from the door, took off his hat, and, holding it 
in his left hand, leaned against the wall behind him. In this attitude he re- 
mained for half a minute ; then, adds Mr. Ferguson, he stepped down one step, 
put his hand on the door of the little corridor leading to the box, bent his knee 
against it, the door opened and Booth entered, and was for the time hidden 
from Mr. Ferguson's sight. 

A post in front obstructed the view of Mr. Ferguson, but Booth soon changed 
his position, and again was clearly seen by him. He now had a knife in his 
right hand, which he also laid upon the railing, as he already had his left, and 
vaulted out. As his legs passed between the folds of the flags decorating the 
box, his spur, which he wore on the right heel, caught the drapery and brought 
it down, tearing a strip with it. When he let go the railing he still clutched 
the shining knife. He crouched as he fell, falling on one knee, and putting 
forth both hands to help himself to recover an erect position, which he did 
with the rapidity and easy agility of an athlete. 

Having recovered his equilibrium. Booth strode across the stage to the first 
entrance, passing behind the actor on the stage, (Hawk.) When he reached the 
other side of the stage, just ere he became invisible by passing into the entrance, 
he looked up, and Mr. Ferguson says he heard him say, " I have done it," and 
then lost sight of him. 

Mr. Ferguson visited the theatre yesterday, and, with Miss Harris, the ladv 
who was in the box with tlie President, her father, Judge Olin, of the Criminal 
Court, and Judge Cartter, examined tlie box. 

The puzzling hole in the unused door of the box was closely scrutinized by 
the light of a candle, and was found to possess indubitable marks of having 



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been whittled with a knife. The hall extracted from the head of the President 
is of mucli larger diameter than t!ie hole. The edges of the hole show tho 
marks of a knife-blade very clearly. 

When the shot had been fired, Mi?s Harris rose to her feet to call for water 
for Mr. Lincoln, and distinctly noticed a bar of wood placed across the door of 
the little corridor, one end resting against the wall, into which it was partially 
let by a cut, or rather an indentation, scooped in the wall. The other end was 
braced against tho opposite part of the door-frame. This bar, as the door opens 
inward, would effectuallj' delay, if not wholly prevent, all ingress into the bos 
from the dress circle, and would also detain the egress of any one in the box. 

Miss Harris also recollects that a pocket knife, with one blade open, lay on 
the balustrade of the box when she and the other three members of the Presi- 
dential party entered it. 

Mr. Ferguson, as soon after the assassination as he could get out of the theatre, 
proceeded to the office of the Superintendent of Police, and narrated to him 
what we have here detailed, from his first sight of Booth to his final disappear- 
ance, informing the Superintendent who the murderer was. !Mr. Ferguson then 
proceeded to Mr. Peterson's house, where the President lay, and requested ad- 
mittance, to make known to the high authorities there assembled tho name of 
the assassin, and repeat his testimonj'. He was admitted, and stated these facts 
then to General Augur and Judge Cartter. 

The crime of Booth, unparalleled in history for its atrocious- 
ncss and results, had been Ions' and dclihoratel}' premeditated. 
He declared, a year and a half before he committed the assas- 
sination, that '■ the man wlio killed Abraliam Lincoln would 
occupy a hi!:rher niche of fame than George Washinirton :" and 
on another occasion said to a theatrical friend, " What a glo- 
rious opportunity there is for a man to immortalize himself b^ 
killing Lincoln.'" 

The government took the most prompt and thorough meas- 
ures for the aiiprchension of tlie assassin and his accomplices. 
Secretary Stanton, who deserves tiie thaidcs of the nation and 
of the civilized world for his immediate, eCQcient, and success- 
ful exposure of the jdot to assassinate President Lincoln, and 
for the arrest of Bootli and all his accomplices, issued the fol- 
lowing proclamation : 

GOVERNMENT REWARD FOR TIIE APPREHENSION OF THE 
ASSASSINS. 

AVar Department, 
Washington, April 20, 1865. 
The murderer of our late beloved President is still at large. Fifty thousand 
dollars reward will be ]iaid Ijy this Department for his apprehension, in addi- 
tion to any rev.-ard olTered liy municipal authorities or State Executives. 



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Twenty-five thousand dollars reward will be paid for the apprehension of 
G. A. Atzerott, sometimes called " Port Tobacco," one of Booth's accomplices. 
Twenty-five thousand dollars reward will be paid for the apprehension of Da- 
vid C. Harold, another of Booth's accomplices. A liberal reward will be paid 
for any information that shall conduce to the arrest of either of the above- 
named criminals or their accomplices. All persons harboring or secreting the 
said persons, or either of them, or aiding or assisting their concealment oi 
escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and the 
attempted assassination of the Secretary of State, and shall be subject to trial 
before a military commission and the punishment of death. 

Let the stain of innocent blood be removed from the land by the arrest and 
punishment of the murderers. 

All good citizens are exhorted to aid public justice on this occasion. Every 
man should consider his own conscience charged with this solemn duty, and 
rest neither night nor day until it bo accomplished. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 
Secretary of War 

THE CAPTURE AND DEATH OF THE ASSASSIN. 

The announcement of the capture and death of the assassin 
of the President was made by the Secretary of War, as fol- 
lows : 

War Department, 
WAsniNCTON, D. C, April 27, 1865. 
Major General Dix, New York: 

J. Wilkes Booth and Herold were chased from the swamp in St. Mary's 
county, ilaryland, and pursued yesterday morning to Garrett's farm, near Port 
Royal, on the Pi.appahannock, by Colonel Baker's force. The barn in which 
they took refuge was fired. Booth, in making his escape, was shot through the 
head and killed, lingering about three hours, and Herold taken alive. 
Booth's body and Herold are now here. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 

Secretary of War. 

The barn in which he and his associate had secreted them- 
selves was surrounded by tlie pursuing party — a company of 
twenty-eight cavalrymen of the 10th New York regiment, under 
Lieutenant Dougherty. Booth was commanded to come out of 
the barn and surrender, but with a bold defiance he replied, " / 
icill never surrender ; I icill never he taJ:e7i alive. If you want 
me you must take me. Who do you take me for? " 

Finding he would not surrender, the barn was fired, in order 
to force him out, at B o'clock on Wednesday morning, the 26th 
of April. He sprang towards the door of the barn, when 



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Sergeant Boslon CorbotL fircil at liim tlirouirli a crevice and 
inflicted a iiiorlal wound. The ball struck him in the Jicad, 
just below the right ear, a'.;d passing- tlirougli came out al)Out 
an inch above the left ear. After he was wounded, the Sergeant 
went into the barn and said to Booth, " Where arc you wound- 
ed?" His e3'eballs glaring with a peculiar brillianc}^ he re- 
plied, " 7/i tlie head; you have finished me." lie was then 
carried out of the barn into the open air, where he died in 
four hours. 

He was asked during the hours of his agony if he had any- 
thing to say; he replied, " I die for my country. Tell mother," 
he repeated, " I died for my ccnmfryj' He asked to see his 
hands, and, as he gazed upon the helpless dead members, he ex- 
claimed, " Useless, iiseless ;" and at another moment of his 
agony he cried, "Blood, hlood." He said several times during 
his dying hours, " Kill me, kill me," to end his excruciating 
pains. He did not deny his crime. 

His mind, during those agonizing hours, was clear and undis- 
turbed, save from the shock of the wound and pain ; l)ut the 
brain was uninjured. *' It was," says high medical authority, 
"a living, active mind, with a helpless, paralyzed body, with 
the most excruciating, agonizing pain that a human body can 
be subject to. From the moment the ball struck him he was 
dead and helpless, with a mind clear, in intense suffering; a 
living witness of his own just punishment for his atrocious 
deed. Was there not the avenging hand of God upon him from 
the moment he exclaimed, upon the stage of Ford's theatre, 
'The South avenged?' Could the end of such a life be more 
painful, more dreadful, more appalling ? Was there not in it 
all the hand of an overruling Providence ? " 

The body was brought to the navy-yard, and after its legal 
identification, was, by the order of the Secretary of War, 
secretly buried, with a blanket for its winding sheet, and a 
coarse box for its coffin, in a spot of which but few mortals 
will ever know. 

EXTENT OF THE CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE THE PRESIDE T. 

The assassination plot to murder President Lincoln reached 

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far beyond Booth and liis immediate accomplices. The Secre- 
tary of War announced officially this fact, as follows : 

War Department, 
Washington, April 24, 1865. 
Major General Dix, ITew Yorh : 

This department has information that the President's murder was organ- 
ized in Canada and approved in Kichmond. 

One of the assassins, now in prison, who attempted to kill ]\Ir. Seward, is be- 
lieved to be one of the St. Albans raiders. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 

Secretary of War. 

Ten days subsequent to this official announcement, evidence 
had become so accumulative and satisfactory that President 
Johnson issued the following : 

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA : 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas it appears from evidence in the Bureau of Military Justice that the 
atrocious murder of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted 
assassination of the Honorable William 11. Seward, Secretary of Sate, were 
incited, concerted, and procured by and between Jefferson Davis, late of 
Eichmond, Virginia, and Jacob Thompson, Clement C. Clay, Beverly Tucker, 
George N. Saunders, William C. Cleary, and other rebels and traitors against 
the Government of the United States, harbored in Canada : 

Now, therefore, to the end that justice may bo done, I, Andrew Johnson, 
President of the United States, do offer and promise for the arrest of said per- 
sons, or either of them, within the limits of the United States, so that they can 
•be brought to trial, the following rewards: 

One Hundred Thousand Dollars for the arrest of Jefferson Davis. 

Twenty-five thousand Dollars for the arrest of Clement C. Clay. 

Twenty-five Thousand Dollars for the arrest of Jacob Thompson, late of 
Mississippi. 

Twenty-five Thousand Dollars for the arrest of George N. Saunders. 

Twenty-five Thousand Dollars for the arrest of Beverly Tucker. 

Ten Thousand Dollars for the arrest of William C. Cleary, late clerk of Cle- 
ment C. Clay. 

The Provost Marshal General of the United States is directed to cause a de- 
scription of said persons, with notice of the above rewards, to be published. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of 
the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this second day of May, in the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the independ- 
L''^- ^--l ence of the United States of America the eighty-fifth. 

ANDREW JOHNSON. 
By the President : ' 

W. IIuNTEE, Acting Secretary of State. 



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Thus it appears that the assassin of President Lincoln and 
the would-be murderer of Secretary Seward have developed a 
well-laid and deliberately matured plan of assassination and 
infamous murder and arson unparalleled in the annals of 
crime. Many unsuspected and unsuspecting parties are in- 
volved, and the evidence is complete to show that it was 
neither the frealc of a madman nor an act of individual hate, 
but a scheme concocted by leaders of the rebellion, and relied 
upon by them in the hour of their most desperate need as one 
of the means of success in their great treasonable enterprise. 

The plot of assassination included not only President Lincoln, 
but William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Vice President 
Andrew Johnson, Lieutenant General U. S. Grant, and other 
high ofBcers of the government. The hope was to throw the 
Government into anarchy and give the last desperate chance 
for the great rebellion to succeed. The providence of God and 
the stable nature of our institutions defeated this diabolical 
conspiracy, except in the case of our honored and beloved Pres- 
ident and the severe wounds inflicted upon the distinguished 
Secretary of State. 

The guilt of this atrocious conspiracy is greatly increased by 
the merciful character of President Lincoln and his " charity 
for all," even to the most criminal leaders of the rebellion. 
Among his last official acts was his signature and seal to a 
permit to Jacob Thompson, a former Secretary of the Interior 
under President Buchanan, to leave the country for Europe. 

MILITARY COMMISSION FOR THE TRIAL OP THE ACCOMPLICES 

OP BOOTH. 

The Commission met on the 9th of May, 1865, in Washing- 
ton city, and consisted of the following officers and civilians : 
Major General David Hunter, U. S. V. ; Major General Lew. 
Wallace, U. S. V.; Brevet Major General August V. Kautz, 
U. S. V. ; Brigadier General Alvin P. Howe, U. S. V.; Brig- 
adier General Robert S. Foster, U. S. V. ; Brevet Brigadier 
General James A. Ekin, U. S. V. ; Brigadier General T. M. 
Harris, U. S. V. ; Brevet Colonel C. H. Tompkins, U. S. A. : 
Brigadier General Joseph Holt, Judge Advocate and Recorder; 



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and Jolm A.Bing'liam and Brevet Colonel Burnett as Assistant 

Judge Advocates. Tlie objects and authority of the Commis- 

f«on are found in the following order by the President of the 

United States : 

Executive Chamber, 
"Washington City, May 1, 1865. 

Whereas the Attorney General of the United States hath given his opinion : 

" That the persons implicated in the murder of the late President, Abraham 
Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of the Honorable William H. Seward, 
Secretary of State, and in an alleged conspiracy to assassinate other officers of 
the Federal Government at Washington city, and their aiders and abettors, 
are subject to the jurisdiction of and legally triable before a military commis- 
sion:" 

It is ordered: 1st. That the Assistant Adjutant General detail nine com- 
petent military officers to serve as a commission for the trial of said parties, 
and that the Judge Advocate General proceed to prefer charges against said 
parties for their alleged offences, and bring them to trial before said military 
commission; that said trial or trials be conducted by the said Judge Advocate 
General, and, as recorder thereof, in person, aided by such assistant or special 
judge advocates as he may designate; and that said trials be conducted with 
all diligence consistent with the ends of justice ; the said commission to sit with- 
out regard to hours. 

2d. That Brevet Major General Hartranft be assigned to duty as special 
provost marshal general for the purposes of said trial and attendance upon said 
commission and the execution of its mandates. 

3d. That the said commission establish such order or rules of proceeding as 
may avoid unnecessary delay and conduce to the ends of public justice. 

ANDREW JOHNSON. 

Adjutant General's Office, 

Washington, D. C., May 6, 1865. 
Official copy. 

W. A. Nichols, 

Assistant Adjutant General. 

The following are the names of the prisoners arraigned as 
accomplices in the assassination of the President, viz : David 
E. Herold, Lewis Payne, Michael O'Laughlin, Samuel E. Mudd, 
Samuel B. Arnold, George A. Atzerott, and Mary E. S'lrrf^tt, 
all of whom plead not guilty. 



INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON. 



The distressing event that has transferred the Vice President 
of the United States into the Chief Magistracy of the country 
makes it a matter of interest to know what provisions exist 
in the case of the death of both the President and Vice Presi- 
dent at the same time. The sixth section of the second article 
of the Constitution contains all that is said in that instrument 
on the subject, and is as follows : 

In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resigna- 
tion, or inability to discharge the duties of said office, the same shall devolve 
on the Vice President. And the Congress may by law provide for the case of 
removal, death, resignation, or inability of the President and Vice President, 
declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act 
accordingly until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected. 

Pursuant of this constitutional provision, in an act of Con- 
gress approved March 1st, 1792, it was provided as follows : 

Section 9. And be it further enacted, That in case of removal, death, resig- 
nation, or inability, both of the President and Vice President of the United 
States, the President of the Senate pro tempore, and in case there shall be no 
President of the Senate, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives, for 
the time being, shall act as President of the United States until the disability 
be removed, or a President shall be elected. 

Two previous instances had occurred in the history of the 
government in which the death of the Presidents devolved the 
duties of the office on the Vice Presidents, The first was tliat 
of President William Henry Harrison, who died on the 7th of 
April, 1841, and was succeeded by Vice President John Tyler, 
who became one of the influential leaders in tlic great i-cbellion. 

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The other was the death of President Zachary Taylor, whc 
died on the 9tli of July, 1849, and was succeeded by Vice Presi- 
dent Millard Fillmore. 

After the death of President Lincoln, early on Saturday 
morning, the 15th of April, 1865, Attorney General Speed 
waited upon Hon. Andrew Johnson, Vice President of the 
United States, and officially informed liim of the sudden and 
unexpected decease of President Lincoln, and stated that an 
early hour might be appointed for the inauguration of his suc- 
cessor. The following communication was handed to him : 

"Washington City, D. C, April 15, 1865. 

Sir: Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, was shot by an as- 
sassin last evening, at Ford's Theatre, in this city, and died at the hour of 22 
minutes after 7 o'clock. 

About the same time at which the President was shot, an assassin entered the 
sick chamber of Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State, and stabbed him in 
several places m the throat, neck, and face, severely if not mortally wounding 
him. Other members of the Secretary's family were dangerou^M wounded by 
the assassin while making his escape. By the death of Present Lincoln, 
the oiSce of President has devolved, under the Constitution, upon you. The 
emergency of the Government demands that you should immediately qualify 
according to the requirements of the Constitution, and enter upon the duties of 
President of the United States. If you will please make known your pleasure, 
Buch arrangements as you deem proper will be made. 

Your obedient servants, 

HUGH Mcculloch, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 
EDWIN M. STANTON, 
Secretary of War. 
GIDEON WELLES, 

Secretary of the Navy. 
WM. DENNISON, 
* Postmaster General. 

J. P. USHER, 

Secretary of the Interior, 
JAMES SPEED, 

Attorney General. 
To Andrew Johnson, 

Vice President of the United States. 

Mr. Johnson requested that the ceremony should take place 
at his rooms at the Kirkwood House, in Washington city, at 
ten o'clock in the mornino;. Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Chief Jus- 



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tice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was notified of 
the fact, and desired to be in attendance to administer the oath 
of office. At the above-named hour the followinj^ gentlemen 
assembled in the Vice President's room to participate in the 
ceremony : Hon. Salmon P. Chase ; Hon. Hugh McCulIoch, 
Secretary of the Treasury ; Mr. Attorney General Speed; F. P. 
Blair, Sr. ; Hon, Montgomery Blair ; Senators Foot, of Ver- 
mont ; Ramsey, of Minnesota ; Yates, of Hlinois ; Stewart, of 
Nevada ; Hale, of New Hampshire ; and General Farnsworth, 
of Illinois. 

After the presentation of the above letter, the Chief Justice, 
Salmon P. Chase, administered the following oath to Mr. John- 
son : 

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of 
the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and 
defend the Constitution of the United States. 

After receiving the oath, and being declared President of the 
United States, Mr. Johnson remarked : 

Gentlemen : I must be permitted to say that I have been almost over- 
whelmed by the announcement of the sad event which has so recently occurred. 
I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which 
have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. As to an indication of any policy 
which may be pursued by me in the administration of the Government, I 
have to say that that must be left for development as the administration pro- 
gresses. The message or declaration must be made by the acts as they transpire. 
The only assurance that I can now give of the future is reference to the past. 
The course which I have taken in the past, in connection with this rebellion, 
must be regarded as a guarantee of the future. My past public life, which has 
been long and laborious, has been founded, as I in good conscience believe, upon 
a great principle of right which lies at the basis of all things. The best ener- 
gies of my life have been spent in endeavoring to establish and perpetuate the 
principles of free government, and I believe that the Government, in passing 
through its present perils^ will settle down upon principles consonant with 
popular rights more permanent and enduring than heretofore. I must be per- 
mitted to say, if I understand the feelings of my own heart, that I have long 
labored to ameliorate and elevate the condition of the great mass of the Ameri- 
can people. Toil, and an honest advocacy of the great principles of free gov- 
ernment, have been my lot. Duties have been mine ; consequences are God's. 
This has been the foundation of my political creed, and I feel that in the end 
the Government will triumph, and that these great principles will be perma- 
nently established. In conclusion, gentlemen, let me .say that I want your 



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encouragement and countenance. I shall ask and rely upon you and others in 
carrying the Government through its present perils. I feel, in making this 
request, that it will be heartily responded to by you, and all other patriots 
and lovers of the rights and interests of a free people. 

At the conclusion of the above remarks, the President re- 
ceived the kind wishes of the friends by whom he was sur- 
rounded, and a few minutes were devoted to conversation. All 
were deeply impressed with the solemnity of the occasion, and 
tlie recent sad occurrence that caused the necessity for the 
speedy inauguration of the President was gravely discussed. 
Mr. Johnson was in fine health, and had an earnest sense of the 
important trust that had been confided to him. 

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE INSTALLATION OF PRESIDENT 

JOHNSON. 

War Department, 

"Washington, Ajml 15 — 3 P. M, 
Major General Dix, New York: 

Official notice of the death of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, was 
given by the heads of departments this morning to Andrew Johnson, Vice 
President, upon whom the Constitution devolved the office of President. Mr. 
Johnson, upon receiving this notice, appeared before the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, 
Chief Justice of the United States, and took the oath of office as President of 
the United States, and assumed its duties and functions. At 12 o'clock the 
President met the heads of Departments in Cabinet meeting at the Treasury 
building, and among other business, the following was transacted : 

First. The arrangements for the funeral of the late President were referred to 
the several Secretaries, as far as relates to their respective departments. 

Second. William Hunter, Esq., was appointed Acting Secretary of State 
during the disability of Mr. Seward and his son, Frederick Seward, the Assist- 
ant Secretary. 

Third. The President formally announced that he desired to retain the present 
Secretaries of Departments of his Cabinet, and they would go on and discharge 
their respective duties in the same manner as before the deplorable event that 
had changed the head of the government. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 

Secretary of War. 

War Department, 
Washington, April 16, 1865. 
Lieutena,nt General U. S. Grant, 

U. S. Army, Comdg Armies of the United States, Washington, D. (J.: 
General: You will please announce by general order to the armies of the 
United States that on Saturday, the 15th day of April, 1865, by reason of the 



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Jeath of Abraham Lincoln, the office of President of the United States devolved 
upon Andrew Johnson, Vice President, who, on the same day, took the official 
oath prescribed for the President, and entered upon the duties of that office. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 

Secretary of War. 

War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, April 16, 1865. 
General Orders No. 67. 

It is hereby announced to the armies of the United States that on Saturday, 
the 15th day of April, 1865, by reason of the death of Abraham Lincoln, the 
office of President of the United States devolved upon Andrew Johnson, Vice 
President, who, on the same day, took the official oath prescribed for the Presi- 
dent, and entered upon the duties of that office. 
By command of Lieutenant General Grant: 

W. A. NICHOLS, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 

John A. Stewart, Esq., New York .- 

My Dear Sir: You will perceive that the new administration is inaugurated, 
and the wheels of government are not stopped for a moment. My hope is, and 
my belief is, that this great national calamity will teach to the world a lesson 
which will be of the most beneficial character to our republican form of govern- 
ment ; that it will show that the assassination of our Chief Magistrate does not 
affect in the slightest degree the permanence of our institutions, or the regular 
administration of the laws ; that an event which would have shaken any other 
country to the centre, does not even stagger for a moment a government like 
ours. 

Very truly yours, 

H. McCULLOCH. 



MEETING OF SENATORS AND MEMBERS OF THE 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 



At a meeting of members of the Senate and House of Rep- 
resentatives, convened at the Capitol, on Monday, April 17, 
1865, at noon, Hon. Lafayette S. Foster, of Connecticut, Presi- 
dent pro tern, of the Senate, was called to the chair, and Hon. 
Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, chosen as Secretary. 

Senator Foot, of Vermont, stated the object of the meeting 
to be to make arrangements relative to the funeral of the de- 
ceased President of the United States. 

On motion of Senator Sumner, of Massachusetts, a committee 
of five members from each House was ordered to report at 4 
P. M. to-day, what action it is fitting for this meeting to take. 
The chairman appointed Senators Sumner, of Massachusetts; 
Harris, of New York ; Johnson, of Maryland ; Ramsey, of 
Minnesota; and Conness, of California; and Representatives 
Washburne, of Illinois ; Smith, of Kentucky ; Schenck, of Ohio ; 
Pike, of Maine ; and Coffroth, of Pennsylvania ; and, on mo- 
tion of Representative Schenck, the chairman and secretary 
were added to the committee, and the meeting adjourned till 
4 P.. M. 

4 P. M., ^ijril 17, 1865. — The meeting convened pursuant to 
adjournment. Mr. Sumner, from the committee heretofore ap- 
pointed, reported that they had selected as pall-bearers, on the 
part of the Senate, Mr. Foster, of Connecticut ; Mr. Morgan, 
of New York ; Mr. Johnson, of Maryland ; Mr. Yates, of Il- 
linois ; Mr. Wade, of Ohio ; and Mr. Conness, of California. 
On the part of the House : Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts ; Mr. 

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CofFrotli, of Pennsylvania ; Mr. Smith, of Kentucky ; Mr. Col- 
fax, of Iiidiiuia; Mr. Worthington, of Nevada, and Mr. Wash- 
burne, of Illinois. 

They also recommended the appointment of one member of 
Congress from each State and Territory to act as a Congres- 
sional Committee, to accompany the remains of the late Presi- 
dent to Illinois, and present the following names as such com- 
mittee, the cliairman of this meeting to have the authority of 
appointing hereafter from the States and Territories not repre- 
sented to-day, from which members may be present by the day 
of the funeral. 

The conunittee also recommended the following as the Con- 
■gressional Committee to accompany the remains of the late 
President: Maine, Mr. Pike; Minnesota, Mr. Ramsey; New 
Hampshire, Mr. E. H. Rollins ; Oregon, Mr. Williams ; Ver- 
mont, Mr. Foot ; Kansas, Mr. S. Clarke; Massachusetts, Mr. 
Sumner ; West Virginia, Mr. Whaley ; Rhode Island, Mr, 
Anthony; Nevada, Mr. Nye; Connecticut, Mr. Dixon; New 
York, Mr. Harris ; New Jersey, Mr. Newell ; Pennsylvania. 
Mr. Cowan ; Nebraska, Mr. Hitchcock ; Colorado, Mr, Brad- 
ford,; Maryland, Mr, Phelps ; Dakotah, Mr. Todd ; Ohio, Mr. 
Schenck ; Kentucky, Mr. Smith ; Idaho, Mr. Wallace ; Indiana, 
Mr. Julian ; Illinois, the delegation ; Michigan, Mr. Chandler; 
Iowa, Mr. Harlan ; California, Mr. Shannon. 

They also recommend the adoption of the following resolu- 
tion : 

Resolved, That the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives, with their necessary assistants, be requested to attend the committee ac- 
companying the remains of the late President, and make all the necessary 
arrangements. 

All of which was concurred in unanimously. 
Mr. Sumner, of the same committee, also reported the follow- 
ing, which was unanimously agreed to : 

The members of the Senate and House of Representatives now assembled in 
Washington, humbly confessing their dependence upon Almighty God, who 
rules all that is done for human good, make haste at this informal meeting to 
express the emotions with which they have been filled by the appalling tragedy 



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which haf deprived the nation of its head, and covered the land with mourn- 
ing, and, in further declaration of their sentiments, unanimously 

Besolve, 1. That in testimony of veneration and affection for the illus- 
trious dead, who has been permitted, under Providence, to do so much for his 
country and for liberty, they will unite in the funeral services, and by an ap- 
propriate committee will accompany the remains to the burial in the State from 
which he was taken for the national service. 

2. That in the life of Abraham Lincoln, who, by the benignant favor of 
Republican institutions, rose from humble beginnings to heights of power and 
fame, they recognize an example of purity, simplicity, and virtue which should 
be a lesson to mankind ; while in his death they recognize a martyr, whose 
memory will become more precious as man learns to prize those principles of 
constitutional order, and those rights — civil, political, and humane — for which 
he was made a sacrifice. 

3. That they invite the President of the United States, by solemn proclama- 
tion, to recommend to the people of the United States to assemble, on a day to 
be appointed by him, publicly to testify their grief, and to dwell on the good 
which has been done on earth by him whom we now mourn. 

4. That a copy of these resolutions be communicated to the President of the 
United States, and also that a copy be communicated to the afflicted widow of 
the late President, as an expression of sympathy in her greatest bereavement. 

And the meeting adjourned. 

L. S. FOSTER, Chairman. 
Schuyler Colfax, Secretary. 



MEETING OF CLERGYMEN-THEIR VISIT TO 
T'RESIDENT JOHNSON. 



The Ministers of the different religious denominations in the 
District of Columbia convened in the First Baptist Church, on 
Thirteenth street, at 9 o'clock, A. M., April 17, 1865, in pur- 
suance of a call of six of their number, which had been pub- 
lished in the daily papers, as follows : 

To Clergymen of all Religious Denominations in the District of Columbia. 

Beloved Bketheen : You are each and all respectfully requested to meet 
in the First Baptist Church, on 13th street, Rev. Dr. Gillette, at 9 o'clock, 
Monday morning, the 17th inst., to consider and take such action as may seem 
wise and proper with reference to the sore bereavement our country has 
suffered in the sudden decease of _our beloved Chief Magistrate, Abraham 
Lincoln. 

P. D. GURLEY, 
Pastor of New York Ave. Presbyterian Church. 
A. D. GILLETTE, 

Pastor of First Baptist Church. 
CHAS. H. HALL, 

Rector of Epiphany Parish. 
W. AL D. RYAN, 
Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church. 
J. G. BUTLER, 

Pastor Lutheran Church. 
WM. H. CHANNING, 

Pastor of Unitarian Church. 

The meeting having been called to order, the Rev. J. G. 
Buller, Pastor of the Lutheran Church, nominated, and, on his 

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motion, tlie Rev. P. D. Gnrloy, D. D., Pastor of the New York 
Avenue Presbyterian Clmrcli, was unanimously called to the 
Chair. After a few impressive rcmorks, lie opened the meet- 
ing by a solemn invocation of the Divine blessing. 

On motion, the Rev. C. H. Hall, D. D., was elected Secre- 
tary. 

It was then 

Eesolved, That a Committee of one member from each of the religious de 
nominations be appointed to draft and present to the meeting an appropriate 
Preamble and Resolutions, upon the subject for which the Clergy were convened. 

On motion 

Resolved, That the Chairman of the Committee be first appointed. 

Whereupon, on nomination, the Rev. Dr. Hall was elected 
Chairman of tlie Committee. 

On nominations by several members, the following ministers 
were chosen as the Committee : Rev. W. B. Edwards, D. D., 
of the Methodist Church ; Rev. A. D. Gillette, D. D,, of the 
Baptist Church; Rev. Septimus Tustin, D. D., of the Presby- 
terian Church, 0. S. ; Rev. J. N. Coombs, of the Presbyterian 
Church, N. S. ; Rev. Wm. F. Butler, of the African Methodist 
Episcopal Zion Church ; Rev. Daniel Bowers, Methodist Pro- 
testant Church ; Rev. J. Geo. Butler, of the Lutheran Church ; 
Rev. Wm. H. Channing, D. D., of the Unitarian Church ; Rev. 
Jabez Fox, of the New Jerusalem Church. 

While tlie Committee wore in session, in the Pastor's study, 
the meeting engaged in religious exercises. 

The Committee returned, and, by their Chairman, reported 
the following Preamble and Resolutions : 

The life of the Chief Magistrate of the Nation has been taken by tho hand 
of an assassin, without one circumstance to relieve the barbarity of the deed, 
or save it from the universal execration of the civilized world ; in the hour of 
his respite, after unusual toils in the holiest labors of his high position; the 
efforts to re-establish peace and quietness in this distracted country ; to extend 
to all offenders against the Constitution and Laws the largest amnesty ; to hold 
out the most generous terms of reconciliation and concord, and to limit, as far 
as possible by human agencies, the sufferings and miseries of this once happy 



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and united people — a murder so remorseless and iniquitous, that pity for the 
misguided criminal is lost in detestation and abhorrence of his crime. 

The sick room of the distinguished Statesman who co-operated with the 
President in all his plans for a restoration of this Union upon a sound and per- 
manent basis, whose helpless condition at the time would have disarmed the 
rage of all ordinary malice, has been invaded by an atrocious murderer, whose 
fell thirst for blood would stop at no amount of violence, and the very excess 
of whose evil passions alone caused his brutal hand to strike wide of his mark ; 
and a peaceful home has been filled in a few short moments with a burden of 
sorrow and anguish too dreadful to contemplate with common control of 
reason. 

A tragedy has been accomplished in each case' which fills the land with 
mourning, draws again the gloomy pall over the signs of our national re- 
joicing, leads us to ask in trembling anxiety, Lord I how long? and pol- 
lutes our city with blood which cries from the ground and enters into the ears 
of the Lord of Hosts. Had the victim in either case been an ordinary man 
there would be reason enough for our expression of righteous indignation . 
but when the lives of the chief men of the Nation have been assaulted witb. 
intentions so vile and iniquitous, of whose limit we can only form wild con- 
lectures, we are called upon to speak out and unite in expressing the senti- 
ments of all civilized, not to say Christian men : therefore, 

Resolved, That, in our belief, the crime of murder, when committed 
against the person of the Chief Magistrate of a great nation, invades the 
person of God's anointed, and defies the sovereignty of the Almighty, whose 
servant he is ; has received the severest condemnation of the sacred writersi, 
and masses in one black epitome the sum of all the crimes against the 
whole people, thus reached in destroying their head — chosen once, and again 
in this instance, by the votes of a free nation — and leaves all ordinary blood- 
guiltiness lagging far behind it. The apostle teaches us, that "the Powers 
that he are ordained of Ood." The President of the United States and the Sec- 
retary of State are such ordained Powers, whose persons and lives until now 
have ever been held sacred and inviolable by all men, good and evil. We ex 
press more in sorrow than in anger our instinctive detestation of the crime 
and profound grief that the history of this free people and this once peaceful 
city has been stained by a page which exceeds in horror the attempted oj- 
successful murders of rulers in any nation of past or modern times. " Ven- 
geance bdongeth unto the Lord!'' but righteous judgment according to law is 
committed by Him to men. May He show His power in arresting the criminals 
in these assassinations, and purifying our land from the pollution of their guilt! 

Resolved, That the Chief Magistrate of this nation, as a man and as our 
Ruler, deserved the sincere respect of all good and loyal citizens for his hon- 
esty and integrity of purpose, manifested in his unremitted endeavors to carry 
the nation through its unexampled trials and perils ; in his unfeigned, hearty 
zeal for the rights of all men and races committed to his trust by Almighty God 
and by the votes of his countrymen ; for his mercy and leniency to all misguided 
and erring citizens ; for his humble walk and conversation in his high office ; 
for his unabated zeal in tempering the horrors of civil war with the condona 
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cions of executive clemency, and for his resolute maintenance of the majesty of 
the law, witli the largest possible charity consistent with its sacred promptings. 
The erring and the guilty have lost a friendly heart, to which they could 
always appeal in their hour of anguish and despair. The country has lost a 
bead, which it trusted with generous impulse from its experience of his honesty 
and ability. We mourn a man who will henceforth be enshrined in the grateful 
memories of millions, as second to none of his predecessors in patriotism and 
philanthropy. 

Ee&olved, That it becomes us, in this troubled hour, to recall our faith in the 
sovereign Providence of Almighty God in guiding the destiny of this great 
nation. He has scourged us bitterly for our sins — in this sad calamity, most 
bitterly. We bow to His divine allotment, and confessing the sins which have 
deserved punishment, pray with one heart, that He, as He alone can do it, may 
bring light out of darkness, and good out of evil, and make the manifold forms 
of human suffering now darkening our land effectual to work out in us and our 
fellow-citizens a true conversion and amendment of life ; that among us, fruits 
meet for repentance may be abundantly brought forth, and that the glory of 
His grace may be made known among all nations, now and to future genera- 
tions. 

Hesolvcd, That as residents of the Capital, we record and proclaim our com- 
mon judgment of reverence and esteem for the late Chief Magistrate, as a citizen 
among us, known to all men for his virtues, kind to all and easy to be entreated, 
ready of access to the humblest of his neighbors, affable and unassuming in his 
address, and bearing his high office in the nation with an evident desire to use 
it for the good of all parties — even the unthankful and the unworthy. If his 
political enemies charge him with errors of the head, we shall search here in vain 
for those who will indict him for errors of the heart; or if there were any such, 
they were those that leaned to clemency and pity. Few men could have passed 
through his trials during this civil war with so sincere and universal respect 
and affection from his fellow-citizens. Few would have wrung the hearts of all 
who knew him by such an untimely fate ! 

fiesolved, That we respectfully offer to the distinguished Statesman whose as- 
sassination was intended as the companion act and complement of this great 
crime, our deep sympathy, and the assurance of our prayers for his recovery, 
and that of the son who so bravely cast himself in the path of the destroyer ; 
and for his family, that God would vouchsafe them the comforting strength 
which they need, and sustain them in this hour of their grief and anxiety. 

Resolved, That we present to the widow and family of the late President of 
the United States our assurance of sympathy in their loss — our prayers for 
them, that the Father of us all would take them into His keeping, and heal the 
wounds which human affection can only deplore, but may not reach. 

Ee&olved, That, as Ministers of religion of this District, we commend to the 
congregations under our charge the devout consideration of the dreadful calam- 
ity which has befallen us and them ; that we also commend to their prayers the 
afflicted families which have been called to mourn. 

Resolved, That as a mark of respect, we wear the usual badge of mourning 
upon the left arm forfsixty days, and that we attend theiuneral services in a body. 



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Resolved, That -whilst, with a depth of sorrow which we have no words ade- 
quately to express, we deplore the fall of our late Chief Magistrate, we never- 
theless rest in the sincere hope that in the acknowledged ability, unyielding in 
tegrity, and thoroughly tried patriotism of his successor, our afflicted and sor- 
rowing countrymen will find a happy guaranty that the interests of the Republic 
will buffer no detriment by his accession to the Executive chair. 

Hesolvcd, That we, as a body representing the several religious denominations 
of Christians in the District, will lose no time in waiting upon our Chief ]\Iagis- 
trate, Andrew Johnson, and tendering to him our warmest sympathies, our 
affectionate confidence, and our most earnest support, with the pledge of our 
constant prayers that his administration may be happy and prosperous, and 
that it may speedily secure the highest aspirations of our afflicted and bleeding 
country by the restoration of unity, peace, and universal freedom. 

Resolved, That in view of the weighty responsibility thus so suddenly de- 
volved upon him, we commend to the devout prayers of all Christian people the 
President of the United States and all others in authority, that God would so 
replenish them with the grace of His Holy Spirit, that they may always incline 
to His will and walk in His ways ; that He would endue them pilenteously with 
heavenly gifts, grant them in health and prosperity long to live, and finally, 
after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity, through Jesus Christ our 
Lord. 

. C. H. HALL, Chairman. 
A. D. GILLETTE, Secretary. 
J. GEO. BUTLER, 
W. B. EDWARDS, 
J. N. COOMBS, 
W. H. CHANNING, 
DAN'L BOWERS, 
WM. F. BUTLER, 
JABEZ FOX, 
SEPTIMUS TUSTIN, 

Committee. 
C.B.Mackee, Presbyter; Alfred ITolmead, Grace Church; C. Lepley, Lutheran: 
W. II. D. Ryan, Foundry M. E. Church ; T. B. McFalls, Assembly's Presbyte- 
rian Church ; T. R. Howlett, Calvary Baptist Church ; J. H. C. Bonte, Christ 
Church, (Episcopal,) Georgetown; J. H. M. Lemon, Union Chapel; W. Y, 
Brown, Presbyterian, U. S. A.; J. T. Ward, Ninth Street M. P. Church- R. H, 
Ball, Ninth Street M. P. Church; Geo. V. Leech, Waugh M. E. Church; Job 
W. Lambeth, Fletcher M. E. Church; W. B. Evans, Presbyterian, (N. S.); H. 
N. Sipes, East Washington M. E. Church ; Ulysses Ward, Ninth Street M. P. 
Church ; Jas. Mitchell, Minister of the M. E. Church ; W. S. Fort, Minister of the 
M. E. Church ; M. J. Gonsalvus, Chaplain, U. S. A. : Sam'l M. Shute, Professor, 
Columbian College; Mayberry Goheen, Minister of McKendree Chapel; W. B. 
Matchett, Baptist; Oliver Cox, Potomac Mission; Jacob Henn, German Evan- 
gelical Missionary ; Wm. H. Campbell, Presbyterian ; 0. P. Pitcher, Mission- 
ary, Y. M.C. As.sociation ; J. N. Davis, Pastor Gorsuch M. E. Churcli; J. East- 
Inun Brown, Episcojiai, Georgetown; P. Hall Sweet, M. P. Church; Joha 



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Chester, Presbytcrion ; E. R. Gurley, Secretary of the Colonization Society; 
Ed. C. Merrick, Local Elder M. E. Church; J. M. Muse, City Missionary; B. 
B. Emory, M. E. Church; J. L. Playghe, M. E. Church; M. A. Turner, M. E. 
Church; B. H. Nadal, M. E. Church; Jos. B. Stitt, M. E. Church; B. Newton 
Brown, M. E. Church; W. B. Edwards, M. E. Church ; W. W. Winchester, Con- 
gregationalist ; W. T. Johnson, Second Baptist Church; "Wm. F. Butler, John 
Wesley Church ; Jno. Lanahan, Presiding Elder, Virginia District; James Peck, 
Pastor Asbury M. E. Church; E. H. Gray, Pastor of E Street Baptist Church ; 
John A. Williams, Galbraith Chapel ; William Henry Channing, Unitarian ; 
J. B. Jones, Assistant Pastor, Congress Street Methodist Protestant Church, 
Georgetown, D. C. ; C. W. Walker, Chaplain First Regiment N. H. H. A. ; J. 
N. Coombs, Pastor of Western Presbyterian Church ; Dan'l Bowers, Pastor of 
Congress Street Methodist Protestant Church, Georgetown, D. C. ; John Dickin- 
son, M. E. Church ; C. W. Pritchett, Methodist Church ; Sam'l D. Finckel, G 
E. Church; J. R. Davenport, officiating at St. John's Church; E. M. Buerger 
German Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church ; G. W. Samson, President Co 
lumbian College ; C. C. Meador, Pastor of Island Baptist Church ; Daniel H 
Parrish, Pastor First Cong. Meth. Church ; T. N. Haskell, Presbyterian Church 
R. J. Keeling, Trinity Parish; W. A. Harris, Episcopal; C. R. V. Romondt 
Reformed Dutch Church ; L. S. Russell, St. John's, Georgetown, D. C. ; B. F 
Morris, Congregationalist. 

On motion of Rev. Mr. Evans, it was 

Resolved, That a Committee of six be appointed to wait upon the President 
of the United States, and inform him of the desire of this meeting to pay him 
a visit, and to ascertain at what hour it will be convenient for him to re- 
ceive us. 

The Committee of six was appointed by the Chairman, as 
follows : Rev. W. B. Evans, (chairman,) Rev. Drs. Tustin and 
Channing, and Rev. Messrs. Howlett, Brown, (Meth.,) and 
Holmead. 

Resolved, That the Preamble and Resolutions of the Committee, as amended, 
be adopted and signed by those ministers who are present. 

Resolved, That the ministers of the District who are absent from this meet- 
ing are invited to unite with us in signing these Resolutions. 

On motion of Rev. J. Lanahan, 

Resolved, That the Chairman and Secretary of this meeting be and thc-y are 
hereby appointed a Committee to communicate to the family of the late Presi- 
dent, and also to the Secretary of State, the proceedings of this meeting. 

The Committee of six returned, and reported by their chair- 
man, Rev. Mr. Evans, that they had been favored with an inter 



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view with the President, and that it was his desire to see the 
members of this body at once, at his room in the Treasury 
Building ; whereupon, on motion, it was resolved to adjourn, 
after appropriate devotions, to visit the President of the United 
States. 

After tlie members of the Convention had been severally 
introduced to the President, the Rev. Dr. Gurley, their Chair- 
man, addressed him as follows : 

Mr. President : The persons now standing around you are Ministers of the 
Gospel of different religious denominations, residing in the District of Columbia. 
We have been in session in one of our Churches for several hours to-day, con- 
sidering what utterance we ought to make, and what testimony we ought to 
bear, touching the sore and sudden bereavement which has come upon the 
Nation. Our meeting was large, solemn, and tearful ; our proceedings were 
delightfully harmonious ; and we unanimously and cordially adopted certain 
resolutions pertaining to our late lamented Chief Magistrate, and to you hia 
successor in office, which the Secretary of our meeting will now read in youi 
hearing. 

Here the foregoing Resolutions were read by the Rev. Dr. 
Hall, and when the reading was finished, Dr. Gurley resumed 
his address, and said : 

After the reading of these resolutions, I hardly need to add anything to what 
I have already said. These resolutions, Mr. President, convey to you our feel- 
ings, the feelings of our very heart. As we carried your predecessor daily in 
the arms of our faith to God, so will we carry you to Him also, and pray for 
you without ceasing, that the same hand which guided him so wisely and so 
well, may guide you in like manner. As you enter upon the grave and respon- 
sible duties of the position you have so unexpectedly been called to fill, and as 
vou continue in those duties, we shall remember you in our closets; we shall 
^member you before our family altars; we shall remember you in our social 
meetings for prayer and praise; we shall remember you in our sanctuaries, and 
in the presence of our congregations, upon each returning Sabbath, and the 
burden of our united petitions on your behalf will be, that the God of our 
fathers, and our God, will give you that wisdom "which is first pure, then 
peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without 
partiality, and without hypocrisy." May that wisdom be your guide from the 
beginning to the end of your term of office, and, under its guidance, may your 
administration redound to the advancement of the cause of truth and justice, 
of law and order, of liberty and good government, of pure and undefiled re- 
ligion, and may the day soon come, and you live to see it, when the nation shall 
emerge from its trials with augmented purity and vigor, and be re-established 



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upon a foundation that never can be moved — the foundation of liberty and 
rightfrDusness, of unity and peace. 

After a pause, and in perfect silence of the interested group 
of nearly sixty ministers of all denominations, the President, 
evidently oppressed by his emotions, began somewhat slowly, 
in a low voice, which grew earnest as he proceeded, and reached 
every heart, nearly as follows : 

Gentlemen : I feel overwhelmed by this occasion, and utterly incompetent 
to the task before me, of making a suitable reply to you : and it may be that 
silence and the deep feelings of my own heart are the best answer I can give 
you. I thank you for this visit and this expression of your sentiments. I feel 
deeply solemn in view of this whole scene, and in listening to the eloquent 
words which have been spoken and read to me. I feel overwhelmed by thoughts 
of the position in which I am so suddenly placed and the duties which have de- 
volved upon me. But amid all this natural feeling, the assurance which you have 
been pleased to give me, that I shall have the countenance, the assistance, and the 
prayers of such a body as this, is most gratifying to my heart. It is possible, it is 
natural that you should desire to know something of the future administration 
of affairs, and I can only say to you, as I have said to others, that my course 
in the past must be my guaranty of what I hope to do in the future. I call 
upon you to take notice that I have entered upon my office with no manifesto — • 
no proclamation, with no propositions of changes or new policy of my own. In 
entering on the performance of duties so important and responsible as those be- 
fore me, I can only say to you, that the course of events must decide, as they 
arise, what shall be the measures best adapted to promote the good of the 
country. My whole life has been based on the profound belief, in which I have 
never wavered, that there is a great principle of right, which lies at the basis 
of all things. I have always trusted to that principle as the certain support of 
all who abide by it — the great principle of right, and justice, and truth. I shall 
trust to it, and guide the administration of public affairs in conformity to it. 
I should feel anxious for the future, but that I have an abiding confidence in 
the strength of that principle, and in Him who founded it. 1 thank you for 
the assurance which you have been pleased to offer me. I have heard the fer- 
vent words which you have uttered and read to me of your love for the great 
man who is gone, and I feel them all ; your opinions of his mercy and clemency, 
and I respond to them heartily. The true point which is to be made by us is, 
■where these must stop, when they shall be conformed to the rules of right and 
justice. It is the great question of the hour, and I shall try to administer the 
government in such a manner that it shall deal out to all, with impartial hand, 
that which the merits of each demand. In my opinion the time has come 
when you and I must understand and must teach that treason is a crime, and 
not a mere difference of political opinions. I have listened with emotion to 
the language in which you have expressed so clearly your abhorrence of the 
crime which has deprived the nation of its Chief Magistrate and filled the land 



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with mourning. You have characterized it justly, but it may not be too much 
to say it is diabolical — for in fact this deed was devihsh. We mourn together 
to-day over the calamity that has fallen upon the country. I feel that our be- 
loved country will pass through the troubles of the present. I say again that 
I put my trust in the great principle which underlies all our institutions, and 
believe that we shall come out of this struggle to a better and higher life. The 
government has not accomplished its mission — but under the benignant smiles 
of the Almighty it will yet fulfil it. The country will triumph in the end, and 
these great principles will be firmly established. 

Again I cordially thank you for your presence on this occasion, and for the 
expression of your sympathies in this hour of the nation's peril. I trust that 
in confidence in the great principles of which I have spoken, and with your 
countenance and prayers, I shall be enabled to succeed in restoring peace and 
concord to this now distracted and unhappy country. 

The individuals present responded to certain portions of his 
remarks with a fervent amen, and at their conclusion again 
approached, and with each a word of encouragement and bless- 
ing took leave of the President, who seemed greatly cheered 
by the promised aid of the representatives of the religious 
bodies of the community, in the arduous labors to which he had 
been so suddenly and sadly called. 

P. D. GURLEY, Chairman. 

Chas. H. Hall, Secretary, 

A delegation of colored pastors, members of the National 
Theological Institute for colored ministers, waited upon Presi- 
dent Johnson, a few days after President Lincoln's death, and 
were introduced by Rev. B. Turny, D. D., one of their number, 
who said : 

In behalf of these brethren, and of others who are not present, allow me, sir, 
to present you with a copy of the following resolutions adopted by them, 
expressive of their grief at the death of the late President, and their gratitude at 
the emancipation wrought in connection with his administration ; containing 
also a reference to his expression of devout regard for the sacred scriptures as 
the book of God and the revelation of a Saviour, and a declaration of their spirit 
of loyalty and fidelity and devotion to the government with reference to the 
future : 

Resolved, That the sudden and mysterious death by the hand of an assassin 
of the great and good man, Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United 
States, whom we had learned to revere and love as a benefactor, a friend, and a 
father, has pierced our hearts with the most poignant grief. 

Eesolocd, That we express our liveliest gratitude that God has permitted us 
in Ilis Providence to witness the events relating to the emancipation and eleva- 



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tion of the colored people of this country, which in our own grateful remem- 
brance, as well as in the history of the nation and of the world, will ever bo 
inseparable from the name and acts of Abraham Lincoln. 

Resolved, That of the memorable sayings of our lamented President, none is 
remembered by us with greater interest than the words addressed by him a few 
months before his death to a delegation of colored men, who had presented him 
with a Bible, in which he affectionately commended the sacred volume to our 
regard as the book of God, and the revelation to man of a " Saviour," and of 
" all things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter; " and we deem 
it suitable that we improve the mysterious event by which he has been taken 
from us, by earnestly entreating the colored people of our land and all others 
to take this holy book as their guide, to seek to conform their hearts and lives 
to its heavenly teachings, and to receive, in humble faith and submission and 
obedience, the Saviour whom it reveals, recognizing that in this alone they can 
secure the highest of all possible blessings. 

Resolved, That we extend to the bereaved family of him whom we mourn our 
heartfelt condolence, praying that the widow's God and the Father of the 
fatherless will be to them the source of all consolation and of all blessing. 

Resolved, That, as it is with devout thankfulness that we record the unwaver- 
ing fidelity of the colored people to the national government during the des- 
perate struggle which has been made for its overthrow, we express the fervent 
hope that, actuated by the same spirit, they may ever continue to be its stead- 
fast and zealous friends and supporters. 

Resolved, That we will give to President Johnson the support of our prayers, 
and within our several spheres of action our earnest efforts in the work of 
establishing throughout the land the principles of liberty and peace, justice 
and equality of right, and of promoting the various purposes of a wise and 
good and righteous government. 

President Johnson thanked them for their manifestations of 
respect and regard, and said, in conclusion of his reply to them, 
" I hope God will continue to conduct us till the great end shall 
be accomplished, and the work reach its great consummation. 



THE PRESIDENT'S REMAINS IN STATE. 



An unparalleled throng manifested their homage and affection 
for the late President, whose remains lay in state in the East 
Room of the Presidential Mansion. Although some eight 
hours were allowed for visitors to pass and gaze upon the fa- 
miliar features of the dead, thousands were subjected to painful 
disappointment. Death had fastened into his frozen face all the 
character and idiosyncrasy of life. He had not changed one 
line of his grave, grotesque countenance, nor smoothed out a 
feature. The hue was rather bloodless and leaden ; but he was 
always sallow. The dark eyebrows seemed abruptly arched. 
The mouth was shut, like that of one who had put his foot down 
firm, and so were the eyes, which looked as calm as slumber. 
The collar was short and turned over the stiff elastic cravat, and 
whatever energy or humor or tender gravity marked the living 
face it hardened into its pulseless outline. No corpse in the 
world was better prepared according to appearances. The 
white satin around it reflected sufficient light upon the face to 
show that death was really there ; but there were sweet roses 
and early magnolias, and the balmiest of lilies strewn around, 
as if the flowers had begun to bloom even upon his coffin. 

The body lay upon a catafalque in the centre of the room, 
which presented a sepulchral appearance. The irregularly and 
gracefully arched canopy of this structure, in its greatest 
height, was eleven feet, and was supported by four posts, some 
seven feet in height, and over which the roof or canopy projected 
at each end about one foot. Under this canopy, and upon a spa- 
cious dais or platform, eleven feet long, four feet wide, and three 

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feet Ligli, rested the coifiu. Exteudiug entirely around this dais 
was another platform, about two feet wide and eight inches high, 
and serving as a step upon which to stand in viewing the corpse. 
The distance l^etween the posts supporting the canopy was six- 
teen feet in its length and ten feet in its width. The coffin laid 
with the head to the north and the feet to the south, and was six 
feet six inches in length, and one foot and a half across the 
shoulders. It was of mahogany, and lined with lead, covered 
with superb black broadcloth, and with four massive silver 
handles upon each side. In the spaces between the handles were 
ornamental figures, formed with silver cord, resembling the leaf 
of the shamrock, and in the centre of each a large silver star, and 
there was a silver star upon each end of the coffin. There was a 
heavy bullion fringe extending entirely around the edge of the 
upper part of the coffin, and pendant bullion tassels upon silver 
cords fell gracefully from the fringe before the apex of each 
figure containing the star. A row of silver-headed tacks, 
some two inches from the edge, extended the whole length of the 
cover on each side. The large silver plate was in the centre of 
a shield formed with silver tacks, on which is the inscription • 

ABRAILIM LINCOLN, 

Sixteenth Peesidext of the United States. 

Born July 12, 1809. 

Died April 15, 1865. 

This was encircled by a shield formed of silver tacks. The 
whole was really beautiful, and finished with exceedingly good 
taste and fine workmanship. The face-lid was hung with fine 
silver hinges in the form of stars. The inside of the lid was 
raised or cushioned with white satin, and the centre piece 
ornamented with black and white silk braid, fastened with stars 
at the corners. The pillow and the lower surface of the coffin 
were covered with white silk ; the sides and upper surface with 
plaited satin The corpse was dressed in the black suit in wliich 
the President was first inaugurated. The turned-down collar 
and the black cravat were adjusted precisely as they were wont 
to be seen in his life-time. The face and features looked quite 



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natural, and much credit was due to the enibalnier, Dr. Charles 
D. Bro^vn, 

The canopy of the catafalque was covered on the upper side 
"with black alpaca, and on the inner side with white fluted satin. 
The black alpaca drapery of the canopy was festooned with six- 
teen rosettes. The heavy alpaca curtains of the catafalque, fall- 
ing from the canopy to the floor, were looped back to the corner 
supports with bands of crape. The dais upon which the coffin 
rested was covered with rich black cloth. The lower surround- 
ing step, or platform, was covered with black muslin. A magni- 
ficent wreath of intertwined laurel and cedar, decorated with 
camelias, entirely encircled the coffin, resting upon the dais. A 
smaller wreath, composed of cedar and laurel, with interwoven 
flowers, laid at the head of the coffin. Upon the foot of the 
coffin was deposited a large, gracefully-formed anchor, exqui- 
sitely composed of sweet and beautiful flowers, wrought with 
evergreens. 

The East Room was draped with a taste that left nothing to 
be desired. The chandeliers at each end of the room were en- 
tirely covered with black alpaca, and all the pilasters were 
covered from ceiling to floor with the same material. Tlie eight 
grand mirrors were entirely covered, the frames with alpaca and 
the glass with white barege. The usual superb drapery and 
decorations of the windows were entirely covered, from cornice 
to the carpet, with black barege. The drapery of the spacious 
doors, opening into the grand entrance hall, closed for the oc- 
casion, was similar to that of the windows. The mantel-pieces 
supporting the mirrors were heavily draped with alpaca depend- 
ing to the floor. 

The immense concourse that thronged to this mournful and 
affecting scene entered the eastern gate, passed under the 
portico in the grand hall, thence through the Green Room into 
the East Room, approaching the foot of the coffin, and there, 
dividing into two columns, stepped upon the lower platform, 
passed along on either side, caught a passing view of the feat- 
ures of him they had so loved and revered, and then passed out 
through the northern door of the East Room, and from the 
entry through the window upon a temporary staircase and stag- 
ing, and into the avenue through the western gateway. The 



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entire pavement was densely packed with a thronging mass 
during the entire day, the column extending nearly the whole 
time from the Presidential Mansion to the southern front of the 
Treasury building, a distance of more than half a mile. This 
column was composed of persons of all ages and every rank of 
life ; and the scene in the East Room, as these moving men, 
women, and children sobbed and wept aloud in their hasty pas- 
sage through the room, was affecting beyond the power of words 
to portray. The war-worn soldiers and officers were especially 
mournful in their bearing. 

There were so many thousands unable to see the corpse 
that it was determined to place the remains in state in the 
Rotunda of the Capitol for a few days prior to their con- 
veyance to Springfield, Illinois, and a catafalque similar to that 
in the East Room was constructed for that purpose. 

The following officers representing the army and navy were 
charged with the superintendence of the remains while lying in 
state : On the part of the army : Gen. Hitchcock, Gen. Easton, 
Capt. Penrose, Capt. Van Lear, and Lieut. Col. W. Sinclair. 
On the part of the navy : Commander E. Stone, of the monitor 
Montauk ; Lieut. McNair, Lieut. A. B. Young, and Lieut. N. 
H. Farquhar. 



FUNERAL SERVICES AT THE PRESIDENT'S 

HOUSE. 



Sad and solemn was the scene which the East Room presented, 
and yet suggestive of hope and confidence. A dead Chief 
Magistrate, who had fallen in the culmination of his wishes and 
exertions to restore to peace and joy a bleeding country ; a 
living successor, who succeeded to high place for the administra- 
tion of Government and the enforcement of the obligations of 
law, surrounded by venerable Senators, an illustrious Council, 
and the Executive Head of each State of which the loyal 
Union is composed. Treason may destroy a President, but 
constitutional Government and Liberty still live. 

All that remained of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of 
these United States, lay on the grand and gloomy catafalque, 
which was relieved, however, by choice flowers with which a 
kind Providence blesses the world. Around, the apartment 
was made sepulchral by the habiliments of woe. The specta- 
tors of the sorrowful scone were not merely the representatives 
of our people in Congress and of the States ; the Executive 
successor and the Cabinet Ministers ; the Chief Justice of the 
United States and his associates on the bench of that venerated 
tribunal ; the chieftains who protect our homes by service on 
the field and ocean ; the clergy, a host of pious men, who ad- 
minister at the altar for our spiritual well-being on earth, and 
to guard us to the realms of bliss beyond sublunary things ; 
multitudes in various positions in the civil affairs of State, and 
distinguished citizens from private life, but an imposing array 

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3 f ambassadors, witli their less elevated aifoc/ie's, with gorgeous 
decorations, whose imperial masters had sent them to cultivate 
peaceful relations with this Western Republic. The scene, 
melancholy, yet grand and imposing, touched the tenderest sen- 
sibilities, as the eye glanced over the circle of afflicted relations 
and dear friends whose sorrows created and met with so deep 
a sympathy. A son, attaining a noble manhood, affectionately 
grieved a loving father lost ; Secretaries, whose relations had 
been intimate, a part of his household, mourned the deprivation 
of a friend ; and all, of whatever degree, sorrowed for a Chief 
who had entwined himself with the throbbing heart of a great 
Republic. 

The East Room, the same in which Harrison and Taylor lay 
in state, was far more artistically prepared for the coming 
ceremonies. The plates of its four large mirrors were covered 
with white crape, while their frames were hidden by the falling 
folds of a black drapery, similar to that which covered the 
blood-red damascene and white lace curtains of the windows. 
The Venetian shutters being partly closed, the rich red of the 
walls stained the partially admitted light, already toned down 
by the heavy masses of black, and tlirough the dark shadows 
of the catafalque the light seemed to struggle in dim religious 
rays, that stole rather than leaped back from the silver orna- 
ments of the coflBn and the shrouded surfaces of the polished 
mirrors. 

"What added greatly to the awing effect of the room, was a 
series of seats or steps which were covered with black, and 
partitioned off, as it were, with thin white lines, descending from 
the northern, eastern, and southern sides of the room, to about 
five feet of the base of the black temple of death placed in the 
centre of the room. Along the western side of these were 
placed fifteen chairs, covered with black, and ranged along the 
wall for the use of the members of the Press. 

The series of seats or steps partitioned off by lines of white 
were reserved for the various groups expected, by a card being 
laid on each, with writing, stating the use for which it was in- 
tended. 

The northwestern corner was reserved for the pall bearers ; 



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next, to the eastward, was tlie partition ticketed for the New 
York delegation ; next came tliat of the Army and Navy, then 
that of tlie Judiciary, and behind these, officers of the Sanitary 
and Christian Commissions ; next were stationed Governors 
of A^arions States and Territories, Heads of Bureaus, Assistant 
Secretaries, then the Diplomatic Corps, beside which were the 
President and Cabinet, and alongside of these stood the Sena- 
tors, beyond which were members of the House of Representa- 
tives, clergymen from all parts of the United States, and the 
city authorities. 

The first to enter the room were the ministers of religion, 
among which were clergymen of all denominations, and from 
every State in the Union. 

The New York delegation next entered. It was composed 
of Simeon Draper, General Strong, Moses Taylor, Jas. Brown, 
John Jacob Astor, Samuel Sloane, "William E. Dodge, Moses 
H. Grinnell, Jonathan Sturges, Charles P. Daley, Edwards 
Pierpont, William M. Evarts, Denning Duer, Charles H. Rus- 
sell, and S. Blatchford. 

The following gentlemen appeared as a special delegation 
from the New York Chamber of Commerce : Carl H. Waller, 
William Barton, F. S. Winston, William Borden, James M. 
Green, Alderman Norton, Councillor Cost, Councillor Brady, 
Hon. A. M. Bradford, William Vermilye, Hiram Walbridge, 
William Orton, Alderman Bryce, Councillor Lent, Councillor 
Peterson, Thomas Levey, and General Strong. 

Among the Governors of States were, in the allotted par- 
tition, Fenton, New York ; Oglesby, Hlinois ; Stone, Iowa ; 
Parker, New Jersey; Andrew, Massachusetts; Brough, Ohio; 
Buckingham, Connecticut ; Pierpoint, Virginia. 

There were many Senators present. Among them were 
Senators Foster, Ramsey, Harris, Chandler, Cowan, Sumner, 
McDougal, Saulsbury, Wade, Johnson, Creswell, Williams, 
Norton, Stewart, Nye, Conness, and Collamer. 

Among the members of the lower House were Speaker Colfax 
and many others. 

Beside President Johnson stood the Hon. Preston King and 
ex-Vice President Hamlin. 



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The nieinbers and executive ofiBcers of the United States 
Sanitary Commission attended the ceremonies at the Executive 
Mansion in a body. 

All these various groups were nearly placed in their appointed 
sections when the Cabinet and the Chief Justice of the United 
States entered witli the new President. As the various Secre- 
taries filed in, all eyes were turned upon them, and when the 
last had entered, a slight but perceptible stir ran through the 
audience, showing that the very absence of him who had been 
selected as the fellow victim of the dead man in tlie room 
brought him the more vividly back to the memory of those 
present ; and as the courtly Corps Diplomatique entered and 
looked at the assembly, one could see that they felt there was 
nothing wanting but himself alone. 

Lieutenant General Grant sat about five feet from the base 
of the catafalque ; near him were Admirals Farragut and Golds- 
borough, and at the other end of the room was Major General 
Hitchcock. 

Mrs. Lincoln did not enter the East Room, being too ill from 
prostration and an incipient fever, brought on by the awful 
excitement and sorrow to which she had been subjected. 

The two sons of Mr. Lincoln, Master Thaddeus and Captain 
Robert Lincoln, both attended ; but it was easy to see that it 
required all the resolution tlie latter could summon to master 
the grief that agitated him. 

All the representatives of foreign governments, ambassadors, 
secretaries, and attach(^s, were present, in full court costume, 
and their high-collared and heavy-gilt coats, their vests deco- 
rated with various orders, rendered them a glittering group 
in an assemblage dressed in sombre black. 

There were in all about six hundred persons in the room. 
Of these six hundred hardly fifty but were known as leading 
men of the country, either in commerce, laws, ethics, literature, 
statesmanship, or in practical generalship on sanguinary fields. 
Diplomacy, arts, arms, science, all of to-day, all of living in- 
terest, a part of the breathing, throbbing age, were there ; and 
as these men stood up, and the ambassadors leaned forth to 



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scan the scene, no eye that dropped upon the stilled face in the 
coffin but was moistened. 

Amid such a scene the Rev. Dr. C. H. Hall, Rector of the 
Church of the Epiphany, arose and read the following portions 
of the Episcopal service for the burial of the dead : 

Lord, let me know my end, and the number of my days ; that I may be cer- 
tified how long I have to live. 

Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long, and mine age is even 
as nothing in respect of thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. 

For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain ; he 
heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. 

And now. Lord, what is my hope ? Truly my hope is even in thee. 

Deliver me from all my offences ; and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish. 

When thou with rebuke dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to 
consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment ; every man is there- 
fore but vanity. 

Hear my prayer, Lord, and with thine ears consider my calling ; hold not 
thy peace at my tears ; 

For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 

spare me a little, that I may recover my strength, before I go hence, and 
be no more seen. 

Lord, thou hast been our refuge, from one generation to another. 

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world 
were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end. 

Thou turnest man to destruction ; again thou sayest. Come again, ye children 
of men. 

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, seeing that it is past 
as a watch in the night. 

As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep, and fade away sud- 
denly like the grass. 

In the morning it is green, and groweth up ; but in the evening it is cut 
down, dried up, and withered. 

For we consume away in thy displeasure; and are afraid at thy wrathful 
indignation. 

Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy 
countenance. 

For when thou art angry all our days are gone; we bring our years to an 
end as it were a tale that is told. 

The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be bo 
strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labot 
and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away and we are gone. 

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost ; 

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end 
Amen. 

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Then followed the Lesson, taken out of the fifteenth chapter 
of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians : 

Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that 
slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the 
dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every 
man in his own order: Christ the first fruits ; afterward they that are Christ's, 
at his coming. Then corneth the end, when he shall have delivered the king- 
dom to God, even the Father ; when he shall have put down all rule, and all 
authority, and power. For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under 
his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all 
things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is 
manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him. And when 
all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject 
unto Him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. Else what 
shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why 
are they then baptized for the dead? and why stand we in jeopardy every 
hour? I protest by your rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I 
die daily. If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, 
what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink, for to- 
morrow we die. Be not deceived ; evil communications corrupt good manners. 
Awake to righteousness, and sin not ; for some have not the knowledge of God. 
I speak this to your shame. But some man will say, How are the dead raised 
up ? and with what body do they come ? Thou fool ! that which thou sowest 
is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest 
■not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some 
-other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every 
seed his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh ; but there is one kind of flesli 
•of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There 
are, also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestial ; but the glory of the celestial is 
one, and the glory of the terrestial is another. There is one glory of the sun, 
and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars ; for one star 
differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. 
It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: it is sown in dishonor; it 
is raised in glory ; it is sown in weakness ; it is raised in power : it is sown a 
natural body ; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there 
is a spiritual body. And so it is written. The first man Adam was made a 
living soul ; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit, that was 
not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which 
is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy ; the second man is the Lord 
from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they that are earthy : and as is the 
heavenly such are they also .that are heavenly. And as we have borne the 
image of the earthy, we shall .also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this 
I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God ; neither 
doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery: we shall 
not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an 
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incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on in- 
corruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corrupti- 
ble shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immor- 
tality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written. Death is swal- 
lowed up in victory. death, where is thy sting? grave, where is thy 
victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the Law. But 
thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, immoveable, always abounding 
in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain 
in the Lord. 

Man, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of 
misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a 
shadow, and never continueth in one stay. 

In the midst of life we are in death ; of whom may we seek for succor, but of 
thee, Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased? 

Yet, Lord God, most holy, Lord most mighty, holy and most merciful 
Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death. 

Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts ; shut not thy merciful ears to 
our prayer; but spare us. Lord, most holy, God most mighty, holy and 
merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last 
hour, for any pains of death, to fall from thee. 

Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, after 
the reading of the Scripture lessons, offered the following 
prayer : 

Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, as with smitten and suffering hearts 
we come into Thy presence, we pray in the name of our blessed Redeemer, 
that thou wouldst pour upon us Thy Holy Spirit, that all our thoughts and acts 
may be acceptable in thy sight. We adore Thee for all Thy glorious perfec- 
tions. We praise Thee fo^r the revelation which Thou has given us in Thy 
works and in Thy Word. By Thee all worlds exist. All things live through 
Thee. Thou raisest up kingdoms and empires and castest them down. By 
Thee kings reign and princes decree righteousness. In Thy hand are the issues 
of life and death. We confess before Thee the magnitude of our sins and trans- 
gressions, both as individuals and as a nation. We implore Thy mercy for the 
sake of our Redeemer, Forgive us all our iniquities ; if it please Thee remove 
Thy chastening hand from us, and, though we be unworthy, turn away from us 
Thine anger, and let the light of Thy countenance again shine upon us. 

At this solemn hour, as we mourn for the death of our President, who was 
stricken down by the hand of an assassin, grant us also the grace to bow in 
submission to Thy holy will. May we recognize Thy hand high above all hu- 
itian agencies, and Thy power as controlling all events, so that the wrath of 
man shall praise Thee, and that the remainder of wrath Thou wilt restrain. 
Humbled under the sufferings we have endured and the great afflictions through 
which we have passed, may we not be called upon to offer other sacrifices. May 
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let no violent hand fall upon any of them. Mourning as we do for the 
mighty dead by whose remains we stand, we would yet lift our hearts unto 
Thee in grateful acknowledgment for Thy kindness in giving us so great and 
noble a commander. Thou art glorified in good men, and we praise Thee that 
Thou didst give him unto us so pure, so honest, so sincere, and so transparent 
in character. "We praise Thee for that kind, affectionate heart which always 
swelled with feelings of enlarged benevolence. We bless Thee for what Thou 
didst enable him to do ; that Thou didst give him wisdom to select for his ad- 
visers and for his oflScers, military and naval, those men through whom our 
country has been carried through an unprecedented conflict. 

We bless Thee for the success which has attended all their efforts, and victories 
which have crowned our armies ; and that Thou didst spare Thy servant until 
he could behold the dawning of that glorious morning of peace and prosperity 
which is about to shine upon our land ; that he was enabled to go up as Thy 
servant of old upon Mount Pisgah, and catch a glimpse of the promised land. 
Though his lips are silent and his arm is powerless, we thank Thee that Thou 
didst strengthen him to speak words that cheer the hearts of the suffering and 
the oppressed, and to write that declaration of emancipation which has given 
him an immortal reward ; that though the hand of the assassin has struck him 
to the ground, it could not destroy the work which he has done, nor forge again 
the chains which he has broken. And while we mourn that he has passed 
away, we are grateful that his work was so fully accomplished, and that the 
acts which he has performed will forever remain. 

We implore Thy blessing upon his bereaved family, Thou husband of the 
widow. Bless her who, broken-hearted and sorrowing, feels oppressed with un- 
utterable anguish. Cheer the loneliness of the pathway which lies before her, 
and grant to her such consolations of Thy spirit and such hopes, through the 
resurrection, that she shall feel that " Earth hath no sorrows which Heaven 
cannot heal." 

Let Thy blessing rest upon his sons ; pour upon them the spirit of wisdom ; be 
Thou the guide of their youth ; prepare them for usefulness in society, for happi- 
ness in all their relations. May the remembrance of their father's counsels, and 
their father's noble acts, ever stimulate them to glorious deeds, and at last may 
they be heirs of everlasting life. 

Command Thy rich blessings to descend upon the successor of our lamented 
President. Grant unto him wisdom, energy, and firmness for the responsible 
duties to which he has been called ; and may he, his cabinet officers, and gene- 
rals who shall lead his armies, and the brave soldiers in the field, be so guided 
by Thy counsels that they shall speedily complete the great work which he had 
80 successfully carried forward. 

Let Thy blessing rest upon our country. Grant unto us all a fixed and strong 
determination never to cease our efforts until our glorious Union shall be fully 
re-established. 

Around the remains of our beloved President may we covenant together by 
every possible means to give ourselves to our country's service until 'every ves- 
tige of this rebellion shall have been wiped out, and until slavery, its cause, 
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Preserve us, we pray Thee, from all complications with foreign nations. Give 
us hearts to act justly towards all nations, and grant unto them hearts to act 
lustly towards us, that universal peace and happiness may fill our earth. We 
rejoice, then, in this inflicting dispensation Thou hast given, as additional evi- 
dence of the strength of our nation. We bless Thee that no tumult has arisen, 
and in peace and harmony our Government moves onward ; and that Thou hast 
shown that our Republican Government is the strongest upon the face of the 
earth. In this solemn presence may we feel that we, too, are immortal ! May 
the sense of our responsibility to God rest upon us ; may we repent of every 
ein ; and may we consecrate anew unto Thee all the time and all the talents 
which Thou hast given us ; and may we so fulfil our allotted duties that finally 
we may have a resting place with the good, and wise, and great who now sur- 
round that glorious throne ! Hear us while we unite in praying with Thy 
Church in all lands and in all ages, even as Thou hast taught us, saying : 

Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom 
come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily 
bread. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not 
into temptation, but deliver us from evil : for thine is the kingdom, the power, 
and the glory, forever. Amen. 

Rev. Dr. Gurley delivered the following 

FUNERAL address: 

As we stand here to-day, mourners around this coffin and around the lifeless 
remains of our beloved Chief Magistrate, we recognize and we adore the sov- 
ereignty of God. His throne is in the heavens, and His kingdom ruleth over 
all. He hath done, and he hath permitted to be done, whatsoever He pleased. 
"Clouds and darkness are round about Him; righteousness and judgment are 
the habitations of His throne." His way is in the sea, and His path in the 
great waters; and his footsteps are not known. " Canst thou by searching find 
out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection ? It is as high as 
heaven ; what canst thou do ? Deeper than hell ; what canst thou know ? The 
measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. If He cut 
off and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder Him? For He know- 
eth vain men; Heseeth wickedness also ; will He not then consider it?" We 
bow before His infinite majesty. We bow, we weep, we worship. 

" Where reason fails, with all her powers, 
There faith prevails, and love adores." 

It was a cruel, cruel hand, the dark hand of the assassin, which smote our 
honored, wise, and noble President, and filled the land with sorrow. But above 
and beyond that hand there is another which we must see and acknowledge. 
It is t.ho chastening hand of a wise and a faithful Father. He gives us the bit- 
ter c'"v And the cup that our Father has given us, shall we not drink it? 

" God of the just. Thou gavest ns the cup : 
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"Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth." 0, how these blessed words have 
cheered , and strengthened, and sustained us through all these long and weary 
years of civil strife, while our friends and brothers on so many ensanguined 
fields were falling and dying for the cause of liberty and union ! Let them 
cheer, and strengthen, and sustain us to-day. True, this new sorrow and chas- 
tening has come in such an hour and in such a way as we thought not, and it 
bears the impress of a rod that is very heavy, and of a mystery that is very 
deep. That such a life should be sacrificed, at such a time, by such a foul and 
diabolical agency ; that the man at the head of the nation, whom the people 
bad learned to trust with a confiding and loving confidence, and upon whom 
more than upon any other were centered, under God, our best hope for the true 
and speedy pacification of the country, the restoration of the Union, and the 
return of harmony and love ; that he should be taken from us, and taken just 
aa the prospect of peace was brightly opening upon our torn and bleeding 
country, and just as he was beginning to be animated and gladdened with the 
hope of ere long enjoying, with the people, the blessed fruit and reward of his 
and their toil, and care, and patience, and self-sacrificing devotion to the inter- 
eats of liberty and the Union — 0, it is a mysterious and most afflicting visita- 
tion. But it is our Father in heaven, the God of our fathers, and our God, who 
permits us to be so suddenly and sorely smitten ; and we know that His judg- 
ments are right, and that in faithfulness He has afflicted us. In the midst of 
our rejoicings we needed this stroke, this dealing, this discipline ; and there- 
fore He has sent it. Let us remember, our affliction has not come forth of the 
dust, and our trouble has not sprung out of the ground. Through and beyond 
all second causes let us look, and see the sovereign permissive agency of the 
great First Cause. It is His prerogative to bring light out of darkness and good 
out of evil. Surely the wrath of man shall praise Him, and the remainder of 
wrath He will restrain. In the light of a clearer day we may yet see that the 
wrath which planned and perpetrated the death of the President was overruled 
by Him whose judgments are unsearchable, and His ways past finding out, for 
the highest welfare of all those interests which are so dear to the Christian pa- 
triot and philanthropist, and for which a loyal people have made such an un- 
exampled sacrifice of treasure and of blood. Let us not be faithless, but 
believing. 

" Blind unbelief ia prone to err, 
And scan Ilia work in Tain; 
God is Ills own interpreter, 
And lie will make it plain." 

We will wait for His interpretation, and we will wait in faith, nothing doubt- 
ing. He who has led us so well, and defended and prospered ua so wonderfully, 
during the last four years of toil, and struggle, and sorrow, wili not forsake us 
now. He may chasten, but He will not destroy. He may purify ua more and 
more in the furnace of trial, but He will not consume us. No, no! He has 
chosen us, as He did His people of old, in the furnace of affliction, and K- has 
said of us as He said of them, " This people have I formed for myself. Ujj 
shall show forth my praise." Let our principal anxiety now be tb / ia 



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uew sorrow may be a sanctified sorrow ; that it may lead us to deeper repent- 
ance, to a more humbling sense of our dependence upon God, and to the more 
unreserved consecration of ourselves and all that we have to the cause of .rath 
and justice, of law and order, of liberty and good government, of pure and 
undefiled religion. Then, though weeping may endure for a night, joy will 
come in the morning. Blessed be God ! despite of this great, and sudden, and 
temporary darkness, the morning has begun to dawn — the morning of a bright 
and glorious day, such as our country has never seen. That day will come 
and not tarry, and the death of a hundred Presidents and their Cabinets can 
never, never prevent it. While we are thus hopeful, however, let us also be 
humble. The occasion calls us to prayerful and tearful humiliation. It de- 
mands of us that we live low, very low, before Him who has smitten us for our 
fiins. Oh, that all our Rulers and all our people may bow in the dust to-day 
beneath the chastening hand of God ! and may their voices go up to Him as 
one voice, and their hearts go up to Him as one heart, pleading with Him for 
mercj', for grace to sanctify our great and sore bereavement, and for wisdom to 
guide us in this our time of need. Such a united cry and pleading Vvill not be 
in vain. It will enter into the ear and- heart of Him who sits upon the throne, 
and He will say to us, as to His ancient Israel, " In a little wrath I hid my 
face from thee for a moment ; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy 
upon thee, saith the Lord, thy Redeemer." 

I have said that the people confided in the late lamented President with a 
full and a loving confidence. Probably no man since the days of Washington 
was ever so deeply and firmly embedded and enshrined in the very hearts of 
the people as Abraham Lincoln. Nor was it a mistaken confidence and love. 
He deserved it — deserved it well — deserved it all. He merited it by his char- 
acter, by his acts, and by the whole tenor, and tone, and spirit of his life. Ha 
was simple and sincere, plain and honest, truthful and just, benevolent and 
kind. His perceptions were quick and clear, his judgment was calm and 
accurate, and his purposes were good and pure beyond a question. Alwaj's and 
everywhere he aimed and endeavored to he right and to do right. His integrity 
was thorough, all-pervading, all-controlling, and incorruptible. It was the 
same in every place and relation, in the consideration and the control of mat- 
ters great or smaii, the same firm and steady principle of power and beauty 
that shed a clear and crowning lustre upon all his other excellences of mind 
and heart, and recommended him to his fellow-citizens as the man, who, in a 
time of unexampled peril, when the very life of the nation was at stake, should 
be chosen to occupy, in the country and for the country, its highest post of 
power and responsibility. How wisely and well, how purely and faithfully, 
how firmly and steadily, how justly and successfully he did occupy that post 
and meet its grave demands in circumstances of surpassing trial and difficulty, 
is known to you all, known to the country and the world. He comprehended 
from the first the perils to which treason had exposed the freest and best Gov- 
ernment on the earth, the vast interests of liberty and humanity that were to 
be saved or lost forever in the urgent impending conflict ; he rose to the dignity 
and momentousness of the occasion, saw liis duty as the Chief Magistrate of a 
great and imperilled people, and he determined to do his duty, and his whole 



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duty, seeking the guidance and leaning upon the arm of Him of whom it i3 
written, "He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might he 
increaseth strength." Yes; he leaned upon His arm. He recognized and re- 
ceived the truth that "the kingdom is the Lord's, and He is the governor 
among the nations." He remembered that " God is in history," and he felt 
that nowhere had His hand and His mercy been so marvellously conspi«uou8 as 
in the history of this nation. He hoped and he prayed that that same hand 
would continue to guide us, and that same mercy continue to abound to us in 
the time of our greatest need. I speak what I know, and testify what I have 
often heard him say, when I affirm that that guidance and mercy were the 
prop on which he humbly and habitually leaned ; they were the best hope he 
Had for himself and for his country. Hence, when he was leaving his home in 
Illinois, and coming to this city to take his seat in the executive chair of a dis- 
turbed and troubled nation, he said to the old and tried friends who gathered 
tearfully around him and bade him farewell, " I leave you with this request : 
Tpray for me." They did pray for him ; and millions of others prayed for 
him ; nor did they pray in vain. Their prayer was heard, and the answer 
appears in all his subsequent history ; it shines forth with a heavenly radiance 
in the whole course and tenor of his administration, from its commencement 
to its close. 

God raised him up for a great and glorious mission, furnished him for his work, 
and aided him in its accomplishment. Nor was it merely by strength of mind 
and honesty of heart, and purity and pertinacity of purpose, that He furnished 
him ; in addition to these things He gave him a calm and abiding confidence in 
the overruling providence of God, and in the ultimate triumph of truth and 
righteousness through the power and blessing of God. This confidence 
strengthened him in all his hours of anxiety and toil, and inspired him with 
calm and cheering hope when others were inclining to despondency and gloom. 
Kever shall I forget the emphasis and the deep emotion with which he said, in 
this very room, to a company of clergymen and others, who called to pay him 
their respects in the darkest days of our civil conflict: "Gentlemen, my hope of 
success in this great and terrible struggle rests on that immutable foundation, 
the justice and goodness of God. And when events are very threatening, and 
prospects very dark, I still hope that in some way which man cannot see all 
will be well in the end, because our cause is just, and God is on our side." Such 
was his sublime and holy faith, and it was an anchor to his soul, both sure and 
steadfast. It made hira firm and strong. It emboldened him in the pathway 
of duty, however rugged and perilous it might be. It made him valiant for 
the right; for the cause of God and humanity; and it held him in steady, 
patient, and unswerving adherence to a policy of administration which he 
thought, and which all now think, both God and humanity required him to 
adopt. We admired and loved him on many accounts — for strong and various 
reasons ; we admired his childlike simplicity, his freedom from guile and deceit, 
his staunch and sterling integrity, his kind and forgiving temper, his industry 
and patience, his persistent, self-sacrificing devotion to all the duties of his 
eminent position, from the least to the greatest; his readiness to hear and con- 
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charity toward those who questioned the correctness of his opinions and the 
wisdom of his policy ; his wonderful skill in reconciling dififerences among the 
friends of the Union, leading them away from abstractions, and inducing them 
to work together and harmoniously for the common weal ; his true and enlarged 
philanthropy that knew no distinction of color and race, but regarded all men 
as brethren, and endowed alike by their Creator "with certain inalienable 
rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; " his inflexi- 
ble purpose, that what freedom had gained in our terrible civil strife should 
never be lost, and that the end of the war should be the end of slavery, and, 
as a consequence, of rebellion; his readiness to spend and be spent for the 
attainment of such a triumph — a triumph the blessed fruits of which shall be 
as wide-spreading as the earth, and as enduring as the sun. All these things 
commanded and fixed our admiration, and the admiration of the world, and 
stamped upon his character and life the unmistakable impress of greatness. 

But more sublime than any or all of these, more holy and influential, more 
beautiful and strong and sustaining, was his abiding confidence in God, and in 
the final triumph of truth and righteousness through Him and for His sake. 
This was his noblest virtue, his grandest principle, the secret alike of his strength, 
his patience, and his success. And this, it seems to me, after being near him 
steadily, and with him often, for more than four years, is the principle by which 
more than by any other "he, being dead, yet speaketh." Yes; by his steady, 
enduring confidence in God, and in the complete ultimate success of the cause 
of God, which is the cause of humanity, more than in any other way, does he 
now speak to us and to the nation he loved and served so well. By this he 
speaks to his successor in ofiice, and charges him to have faith in God. By this 
he speaks to the members of his cabinet, the men with whom he counseled so 
often and was associated so long, and he charges them to have faith in God. 
By this he speaks to all who occupy positions of influence and authority in these 
Bad and troublous times, and he charges them all to have faith in God. By 
this he speaks to this great people as they sit in sackcloth to-day, and weep for 
him with a bitter wailing, and refuse to be comforted, and he charges them to 
have faith in God. And by this he will speak through the ages and to all 
rulers and peoples in every land, and his message to them will be, " Cling to 
liberty and right; battle for them, bleed for them, die for them if need be; 
and have confidence in God." Oh that the voice of this testimony may sink 
down into our hearts to-day and every day, and into the heart of the nation, 
and exert its appropriate influence upon our feelings, our faith, our patience, 
and our devotion to the cause now dearer to us than ever before, because con- 
secrated by the blood of its most conspicuous defender, its wisest and most 
fondly- trusted friend, lie is dead ; but tlie God iij whom he trusted lives, and 
He can guide and strengthen his successor, as He guided and strengthened him. 
He is dead; but the memory of his virtues, of his wise and patriotic counsels 
hnd labors, of his calm and steady faith in God, lives, is precious, and will be 
a power for good in the country quite down to the end of time. He is dead ; 
but the cause he so ardently loved, so ably, [latiently, faithfully represented 
and defended — not for bimself only, not for us only, but for all people in all 
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and will Burvive it. The light of its brightening prospects flashes cheeringly 
to-day athwart the gloom occasioned by his death, and the language of God's 
united providences is telling us that, though the friends of liberty die, liberty 
itself is immortal. There is no assassin strong enough, and no weapon deadly 
enough, to quench its inextinguishable life, or arrest its onward march to the 
conquest and empire of the world. This is our confidence, and this is our con- 
solation, as we weep and mourn to-day. Though our beloved President i's 
slain, our beloved country is saved. And so we sing of mercy as well as of 
judgment. Tears of gratitude mingle with those of sorrow. While there is 
darkness there is also the dawning of a brighter, happier day iipon our stricken 
and weary land. God be praised that our fallen chief lived long enough to 
see the day dawn and the day-star of joy and peace arise upon the nation. 
He saw it, and he was glad. Alas, alas ! he only saw the dawn. When the 
sun has risen, full-orbed and glorious, and a happy reunited people are rejoic- 
ing in its light, it will shine upon his grave. But that grave will be a precious 
and a consecrated spot. The friends of liberty and of the Union will repair 
to it in years and ages to come, to pronounce the memory of its occupant 
blessed, and, gathering from his very ashes, and from the rehearsal of his deeds 
and virtues, fresh incentives to patriotism, they will there renew their vows 
of fidelity to their country and their God. 

And now I know not that I can more appropriately conclude this discourse, 
which is but a sincere and simple utterance of the heart, than by addressing to 
our departed President, with some slight modification, the language which 
Tacitus, in his life of Agricola, addresses to his venerable and departed father- 
in-law : "With you we may now congratulate; you are blessed, not only 
because your life was a career of glory, but because you were released, when, 
j'our country safe, it was happiness to die. We have lost a parent, and, in our 
distress, it is now an addition to our heartfelt sorrow that we had it not in our 
power to commune with you on the bed of languishing, and receive your la<t 
embrace. Your dying words would have been ever dear to us; your commands 
we should have treasured up, and graved them on our hearts. This sad comfort 
we have lost, and the wound for that reason pierces deeper. From the world 
of spirits behold your disconsolate family and people; exalt our minds from 
fond regret and unavailing grief to the contemplation of your virtues. Those 
we must not lament ; it were impiety to sully them with a tear. To cherisli 
their memory, to embalm them with our praises, and, so far as we can, to emu- 
late your bright example, will be the truest mark of our respect, the best 
tribute we can offer. Your wife will thus preserve the memory of the best of 
husbands, and thus your children will prove their filial piety. By dwelling 
constantly on your words and actions, they will have an illustrious character 
before their eyes, and not content with the bare image of your mortal framo, 
they will have what is more valuable — the form and features of your mind. 
Busts and statues, like their originals, are frail and perishable. The soul is 
formed of finer elements, and its inward form is not to be ex[>ress(jd i>y the 
hand of an artist with unconscious matter — our manners and our moraU in;iy 
in some degree trace the resemblance. All of you that gained our luv and 
raised our admiration still subsists, and will ever subsist, preserved in iho minds 



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of men, the register of ages, and the records of fame. Others, who hava 
figured on the stage of life and were the worthies of a former day, will sink, 
for want of a faithful historian, into the common lot of oblivion, inglorious 
and unremembered; hut you, our lamented friend and head, delineated with 
truth, and fairly consigned to posterity, will survive yourself, and triumph over 
the injuries of time." 

When the speaker closed, Dr. Grey, the chaplain of the 
United States Senate, offered the following 

CLOSING PRAYER : 

Lord God of Hosts, behold a nation prostrate before Thy throne, clothed 
in sackcloth, who stand around all that now remains of our illustrious and be- 
loved chief. We thank Thee that Thou hast given to us such a patriot, and to 
the country such a ruler, and to the world such a noble specimen of manhood. 
We bless Thee that Thou hast raised him to the highest position of trust and 
power in the nation ; and that Thou hast spared him so long to guide and di- 
rect the affairs of the Government in its hour of peril and conflict. We trusted 
it would be he who should deliver Israel ; that he would have been retained to 
us while the nation was passing through its baptism of blood ; but in an evil 
hour, in an unexpected moment, when joy and rejoicing filled our souls, and 
was thrilling the heart of the nation, he fell. God, give grace to sustain us 
under this dark and mysterious providence ! Help us to look up unto Thee and 
say. Not our will, but Thine, God, be done. We commend to Thy merciful 
regard and tender compassion the afflicted family of the deceased. Thou seest 
how their hearts are stricken with sorrow and wrung with agony. help 
them, as they are now passing through the dark valley and shadow of death, 
to fear no evil, but to lean upon Thy rod and staff for support. help them 
to cast their burden upon the Great Burden-bearer, and find relief. Help them 
to look beyond human agencies and human means, and recognize Thy hand, 
God, in this providence, and say. It is the Lord, let Him do what seemeth good 
in His sight ; and as they proceed slowly and sadly on their way with the re- 
mains of a husband and father, to consign them to their last resting place, may 
they look beyond the grave to the morning of Resurrection, when that which 
they now sow in weakness shall be raised in strength ; what they now sow a 
mortal body shall be raised a spiritual body ; that they now sow in corruption 
Bhall be raised in incorruption, and shall be fashioned like unto Christ's most 
glorious body, God of the bereaved, comfort and sustain this mourning 
family. Bless the new Chief Magistrate. Let the mantle of his predecessor fall 
upon him. Bless the Secretary of State and his family. God, if possible ac- 
cording to Thy will, spare their lives, that they may render still important ser- 
vice to the country. Bless all the members of the Cabinet. Endow them with 
wisdom from above. Bless the commanders of our army and navy, and all the 
brave defenders of the country, and give them continued success. Bless the 



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ambassadors from foreign courts, and give us peace with the nations of the 
earth. God, let treason, that has deluged our land with blood, and devastated 
our country, and bereaved our homes, and filled them with widows and or- 
phans, and has at length culminated in the assassination of the nation's chosen 
ruler — God of justice, and avenger of the nation's wrong, let the work of trea- 
son cease, and let the guilty author of this horrible crime be arrested and 
brought to justice. hear the cry, and the prayer, and the tears now rising 
from a nation's crushed and smitten heart, and deliver us from the power of all 
our enemies, and send speedy neice unto all our borders, through Jesus Christ, 
our Lord. Amen. 



FUNERAL PROCESSION FROM THE PRESIDEN- 
TIAL MANSION TO THE CAPITOL. 



A scene so solemn, imposing, and impressive, as that whicli 
the national metropolis presented, and upon which myriad eyes 
of saddened faces were gazing, was never witnessed, under cir- 
cumstances so appalling, in any portion of our beloved coun- 
try. Around was the capital city, clad in the habiliments of 
mourning ; above, the cloudless sky, so bright, so tranquil, 
so cheerful, as if Heaven had, on that solemn occasion, 
specially invited us, by the striking contrast, to turn our 
thoughts from the darkness and the miseries of this life to the 
light and the joy that shine with endless lustre beyond it. The 
mournful strains of the funeral dirge, borne on the gentle 
zephyrs of that summer-like day, touched a responsive chord in 
every human heart of the countless thousands that, with solemn 
demeanor and measured step, followed to their temporary rest- 
ing place in the Nation's Capitol the cold, inanimate form of 
one who, living, was the honored Chief Magistrate of the 
American people, and, dead, will ever be endeared in their 
fondest memories. Never did a generous and grateful people 
pay, in anguish and tears, a tribute more sincere or merited to 
a kind, humane, and patriotic chieftain ; never were the dark 
and bloody deeds of crime brought out in relief so bold, and 
in horror and detestation so universal, as in the sublime and im- 
posing honors that day tendered to the corpse of Abraham Lin- 
coln. Such a scene was the epoch of a lifetime. Strong men 
were deeply affected ; gentle women wept ; children were awe- 

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stricken ; none -will ever forget it. Memory had consecrated 
it on her brightest tablet ; and it will ever be thought, spoken, 
and written of as the sublime homage of a sorrowing nation at 
the shrine of the martyred Patriot. 

The hearse arrived shortly before the conclusion of the ser- 
vices in the White House. The hearse was a splendid piece of 
mechanism, and built expressly for the occasion. The lower 
base of the hearse was fourteen feet long and seven feet wide, 
and eight feet from the ground. The upper base, upon which 
the cofQn rested, was eleven feet long, and was five feet below 
the top of the canopy. Tlie canopy was surmounted by a gilt 
eagle, covered with crape. The whole hearse was covered 
with cloth, velvet, crape, and alpaca. The seat was covered 
with hammer-cloth, and on each side was a splendid black lamp. 
The hearse was fifteen feet high, and the coffin was so placed 
as to afford a full view to all spectators. It was drawn by six 
gray horses. 

A detailed detachment of the veteran reserve corps entered 
the room, and, the coffin having been closed, conveyed it from 
the catafalque to the funeral car awaiting it at the main en- 
trance to the mansion. As soon as it was placed upon the car, 
the gentlemen in the East Room passed out in their appointed 
order, fell into their assigned places, and the funeral cortege 
passed on in the broad sunlight to Pennsylvania avenue. 

At three o'clock the crowd was as densely packed as pos- 
sible throughout the entire length of the procession, from the 
Presidential Mansion to the Capitol, a distance of a mile. 
Every roof, window, doorway, balcony, and step, as well as the 
pavements and the portion of the street between the curbs, 
upon which the eager spectators could not be prevented from 
somewhat infringing, was overwhelmingly crowded. The 
spectacle was grand beyond description, and the demonstrations 
of the people, as the funeral cortege passed, were most touch- 
ing. The colored people formed a large portion of the crowd, 
and tlieir tearful eyes and sorrowful countenances, as the hearse 
which contained the remains of their friend and liberator 
passed, only expressed the mourning of the nation over the 
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TIic number in the procession could not have been less than 
forty thousand, and sixty thousand more were spectators of the 
solemn pageant. 

ORDER OF THE PROCESSION. 

Funeral escort in column of march. 
The following was in the main the order of procession: 

Tenth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, Major George Bowers commanding, 
followed by the drum corps of the regiment. 

The 9th Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel 
R. E. Johnson, followed by the band of the regiment playing a dirge. 

Colonel George W. Gile was in command of the brigade, whose flags were 
draped in mourning. The men marched with reversed arms and muffled drums. 

Battalion of Marines, commanded by Major Graham ; the companies in charge 
of Lieutenants A. B. Young, J. M. T. Young, Miller, Reed, and Bigelow. 

The Marine Band, composed of thirty-five pieces, and a drum corps, consist- 
ing of twenty-two pieces, under the conductorship of Professor Scala, their 
leader. This band played the funeral march, composed by Brevet Major Gen- 
eral J. G. Barnard, wliich was dedicated to the occasion. 

A detachment of artillery from Camp Barry, consisting of eight brass pieces 
draped in mourning. Sections A and F, 1st United States Artillery, were com- 
manded by Captain Norris; first section, battery A, 4th Artillery, was com- 
manded by Lieutenant King ; and first sections of batteries C and E were com- 
manded by Lieutenant Smith, the whole being under the command of Brigadier 
General Hall. 

Sixteenth New York Cavalry; two battalions of the 16th Illinois Cavalry; 
and one battalion of the ISth Illinois Cavalry, under the command of Colonel 
M. B. Sweitzer. 

Band of the 16th New York Cavalry. 

Commander of escort, Major General Augur, and Staff 

General Hardee and Staff. 

General Gamble and Staff. 

Dismounted officers of the Marine Corps, Navy, and Army, nearly three hun- 
dred in number. 

Mounted officers of Marine Corps, Navy, and Army, in very large numbers. 

Amongst the officers of the Navy in the line of procession were Rear Admirals 
vJoldsborough, Porter, Davis, and Smith; Commodores Montgomery and Har- 
wood; and Captains Clissen, Cooper, Brissell, Taylor, Wyman, and Stone. 

Among the military officers were Brigadier General James B. Fry, Provost 
Marshal General of the United States, and many others. 

Several hundred paroled officers of the army, who came specially from An- 
napolis to take part in the ceremonies. They were the only officers without side 
arms, which they could not use until exchanged. 



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Medical stalT of the army, consisting of officers connected with the Medical 
Department and surgeons on duty in hospitals, Ac, in and about Washington. 

Paymasters of the United States Army, under the command of Brevet Briga- 
dier General B. W. Brice, Paymaster General. 

Civic Procession. 

Marshal Ward H. Lamon, supported by his aids. 

The clergy in attendance : The Rev. P. D. Gurley, D. D. ; Rev. Charles H. 
Hall, D. D.; Rev. Bishop Simpson, D. D. ; and Rev. E. H. Gray, D. D. 

Surgeon General Barnes, of the United States army, and Dr. Stone, physi- 
cians of the deceased. 

Pall Bearers. 

On the part of the Senate: Mr. Foster, of Connecticut; Mr. Morgan, of New 
York ; Mr. Johnson, of Maryland ; Mr. Yates, of Illinois ; Mr. Wade, of Ohio ; 
Mr. Conness, of California. On the part of the House : Mr. Dawes, of Massa- 
chusetts ; Mr. Coffroth, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Smith, of Kentucky; Mr. Col- 
fax, of Indiana; Mr. Worthington, of Nevada; Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, 
On the part of the Army : Lieutenant General U. S. Grant ; Major General H. 
W. Halleck ; Brevet Brigadier General Nichols. On the part of the Navy ■ 
Vice Admiral Farragut ; Rear Admiral Shubrick ; Colonel Jacob Zeilen, Ma- 
rine Corps. Civilians: 0. H. Browning; George Ashmun ; Thomas Corwin ; 
Simon Cameron. 

The HEARSE, drawn by six gray horses, each of which was led by a groom. 

The horse of deceased, led by two grooms, caparisoned.. 

The family of the deceased, relatives, private secretaries, and friends. 

Delegations of the States of Illinois and Kentucky, as mourners. 

The President of the United States, accompanied by Hon. Preston King. 

Members of the Cabinet. 

The Diplomatic Corps, in full Court dress. 

Ex- Vice President Hamlin. 

Chief Justice S. P. Chase, and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of 
the United States. 

The Senate of the United States, with their officers — John W. Forney, Esq., 
Secretary ; William Hickey, Esq., Chief Clerk ; George T. Brown, Esq., Ser- 
geant-at-Arms ; and Isaac Bassett, Esq., Assistant Sergeant- at- Arms. 

Members of the late and the next House of Representatives, with the officeri 
of the last House — Hon, Edward McPherson, Clerk ; Hon. N. G. Ordway, Ser- 
geant-at-Arms ; and Ira Goodenow, Doorkeeper, 

Governors of the several States and Territories, a very full attendance. 

Members of the several State and Territorial Legislatures. 

Chief Justice Casey, and Associate Judges of the Court of Claims. 

The Federal Judiciary, and the Judiciary of the several States and Territories. 

Assistant Secretaries of the several Departments. 

Professor Henry, and the other officers of the Smithsonian Institution. 

Members and officers of the Sanitary and Christian Commissions. 



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The Judges of the several Courts, and Membera of the Bar of the city of 
Washington. 

Band. 

Washington Commandery of Knights Templar, S. P. Bell, M^shal, preceded 
by the Bana of the Campbell Hospital, carrying the banners of their Ordor. 

The Councils and other members of the Corporation of the City of Baltimore. 

Members of the Corporation of Alexandria. 

Members of the Councils of the City of New York. 

The Select and Common Councils of the city of Philadelphia. Also, delega- 
tions from the civic authorities of Boston, and Brooklyn, New York. 

Committee of the Union League, of Philadelphia, headed by Horace Binney, 
Jr., Esq., and Morton ^McMichael, Esq. 

Members of the Christian Commission of the city of Philadelphia. 
• Band. 

The Perseverance Hose Company, of the city of Philadelphia, of which 
President Lincoln was an honorary member, in black suits, with badges on 
their hats designating their organization. They were headed by their Presi- 
dent, John G. Butler, Esq., chief coiner of the United States Mint, and Chief 
Dickson, of the Washington Fire Department. The company numbered eighty 
men. 

The Corporate Authorities of Washington and Georgetown, headed by ]\Iayorg 
of five cities — Washington, Georgetown, Alexandria, Baltimore, and Boston. 

Ministers of the various religious denominations, white and colored. 

Delegations from the various States in the following order: 

Massachusetts, about seventy-five in number, besides the band, which they 
brought from Boston. The State flag which they bore was draped in mourn- 
ing. Maj. Gen. B. F. Butler, in citizen's dress, occupied a position in this por- 
tion of the line ; Marshal, Gardiner Tufts. New Hampshire, numbering about 
twenty men; Marshal, Matthew G. Emery. 

Ohio had 80 men in line, under the marshalship of H. M. Slade, Esq. 

New York numbered 300. 

New Jersey was represented by one hundred of her sons, and led by Mr. 
Prevost, acting marshal. 

California, Oregon, and Nevada united, and had one hundred representatives 
of the far West, under the marshalship of Mr. Wray. 

Maine was led by Mr. S. P. Brown, and turned out a very large and respecta- 
ble crowd. 

Band. 

The heads and chiefs of Bureaus of the Treasury Department, under the 
marshalship of Mr. A. E. Edwards, assisted by Capt. Jones and Col. Willett, 
preceded by the Band of the Treasury Regiment. They carried with them tlie 
flag torn by Booth, as he leaped to the stage of Ford's Theatre on the night vi 
the assassination. 

The Journeymen Bookbinders and Printers of the Government establishment, 
marshalled by Mr. George W. Francis. 

The War Department employees turned out in largo force, and were mar- 
bhalled by Mr. Potts. 
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The Pension Office had one hundred employees in line, marshalled by Com- 
missioner Barrett, and Mr. Pearson, chief clerk. 

The clerk? and employees of the Post Office Department were marshalled by 
Dr. McDonali and Maj. Scott. 

The clerks of the Ordnance Office. 

The clerks of the Agricultural Bureau. 

Quartermaster's Band. 

Major General M. C. Meigs, and the following heads of divisions of the 
Quartermaster's Department: 

Col. G. V. Rutherford, Col. B. C. Card, Col. S. L. Brown, Col. A. J. Perry, 
Col. John D. Wise, Col. J. D. Bingham, and Col. L. B. Parsons. 

A brigade, composed of the employees of the Quartermaster's Department. 

Office battalion Quartermaster's regiment. Major Wagner commanding. 

First regiment Quartermaster's Volunteers, Col. C. H. Tompkins command- 
ing. 

Second Regiment, Col. J. M. Moore commanding. 

Brig. Gen. Pcucker commanded the brigade, and Brig. Gen. J. A. Ekin and 
Col. J. J. Dana were the marshals. 

Clerks in the Quartermaster's Department, in citizens' dress. 

Eight survivors of the war of 1812, viz: Chapman Lee, Fielder R. Dorsett, 
Smith Minor, Thomas Foster, R.M. Harrison, Isaac Burch, Joseph P. Wolf, and 
Captain John Moore. 

The clerks and employees of the Baltimore Custom House and Post Office, 
marshalled by Dr. E. C. Gaskill, one hundred and eighty in number, accompanied 
by the fine band of the 8th Regiment, United States Infantry, which is stationed 
in Baltimore. 

Society of the Brotherhood of the Union, Capitol Circle, No. 1, located at the 
Navy-Yard; Thomas H. Robinson, Marshal. 

Band. 

The Fenian Brotherhood, Marshal P. H. Donegan, State Centre, D. C. They 
numbered some three hundred men, about one hundred and fifty being from 
Georgetown ; their flag was draped in mourning. 

A detachment of the guard stationed at Seminary Hospital, Georgetown, 
marshalled by Sergeant Conway. 

Band. 

About a thousand employees of the United States Military Railroad, under 
the command of General McCuUum, many of them from Alexandria. 

The National Republican Association of the Seventh Ward, marshalled by 
Captain McConnell and F. A. Boswell. 

A delegation of citizens of Alexandria, headed by the band attached to Gen- 
eral Slough's headquarters. 

A wagon, containing a large banner, on both sides of which was inscribed 
" Alexandria mourns the national loss." 

iFiremen of Alexandria : Friendship and Sun Fire Companies. 

€ivic societies of Alexandria : Andrew Jackson Lodge A. Y. M. A delegation 
from the Christian Commission of Alexandria. 

Two German Glee Clubs. 



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The Mount Vernon Asoui^lition. 

The Potomac Hose Company, of Georgetown ; Samuel R. Swain, Marshal. 

About four hundred convalescents from the Lincoln Hospital, preceded by 
their band. 

Workingmen and mechanics of the Mount Clair Works, Baltimore, to the 
number of seven hundred, were marshalled by William H. Shepley. 

Convalescents from Finley Hospital to the number of nearly three hundred, 
under charge of Steward Hill. 

The harness-makers, saddlers, and other operatives employed at the Arsenal, 
under the marshalship of William H. Godren. 

The pupils of Gonzaga College, to the number of two hundred and fifty, were 
under the charge of Father Wiget, with whom were a number of Catholic 
clergymen and teachers. 

Band. 

Union Leagues of East Baltimore, Washington, Georgetown, and New York, 
marshalled by James D. McKean. 

German Societies and citizens : Relief Association of Washington, mounted ; 
Relief Association, on foot; Turners of Washington ; Washington Sangerbund; 
Germania Lodge, No. 1, Order of Odd Fellows ; Franklin Lodge of Independ- 
ent Brothers, No. 1 ; and the Swiss Association ; Marshal — Colonel Joseph Ger- 
hardt, assisted by Messrs. Charles Walter, F. Stosch, M. Rosenburg, F. Martin, 
Andrew Lutz, and Franz Buehler. The delegation was headed by Lebnartz's 
Baltimore band. 

The Sons of Temperance were well represented. The Grand Division was 
preceded by the band of Carver Hospital, and was marshalled by G. W. P., 
F. M. Bradley ; Divisions No. 1 and 10, Good Samaritan and Meridian, mar- 
shalled by P. W. Summy ; Excelsior Division, No. 6, Federal City Division, No. 
2, and Equal Division, No. 3, marshalled by S. C. Spurgeon and S. S. Bond, and 
preceded by a band; Aurora Division, No. 9, (Finley Hospital,) marshalled by 
H. D. Maynard ; Lincoln Division, marshalled by M. F. Kelley ; Mount Pleas- 
ant Division, Sergeant 0. G. Lane, Marshal. Cliffburne Division; J. M. Roney, 
Marshal ; Mount Vernon and McKee Divisions, Alexandria; T. D. Dolan, Mar- 
shal ; Everett Division, No. 25, (Camp Barry;) W. H. Perkins, Marshal. 

The Columbia Typographical Society mustered one hundred and forty men, 
and was marshalled by Mr. L. F. Clements. 

The Hebrew Congregation, one hundred and twenty-five men, marshalled by 
B. Kaufmac. 

A delegation of two or three hundred Italians, under the marshalship of ex- 
Lieutenant Maggi, formerly of the 39th New York regiment. They carried the 
national flag of Italy and the flag of the United States. 

Convalescents from Emory Hospital, under the charge of Hospital Steward 
W. C. Branhill. 

Colored people to the number of several thousand, among whom were the 
following: 

The Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, headed 
by the Right Reverend Bishops Payne and Wayman. 

Clergj' of the various denominations. 



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G. U. 0. 0. Nazarites, Marshal Noah Butler. 

Delegation of the First Colored Christian Commission, of Baltimore. 

D. A. Payne Lodge of Good Samaritans. 

The G. U. 0. 0. Fellows, preceded by the Grand Council. 

Blue Lodge of Ancient York Masons. 

Masonic Grand Lodge of the United States and Canada. 

Colored citizens of Baltimore ; George A. Hacket, Chief Marshal. 

Washington United Benevolent Association, who carried with them a banner 
bearing the inscription, " We mourn our loss." 

Band. 

Colored men of Washington Sons of Levi. 

Eastern Star Lodge, No. 1,028, I. 0. 0. F. 

John F. Cook Lodge, No. 1,185. 

Union Friendship Lodge, No. 891. 

Potomac Union Lodge, of Georgetown, No. 892. 

Olive Lodge, No. 967, A. Y. M. 

The Catholic Benevolent Association, carrying a banner bearing the motto. 
" In God we trust." 

Harmony Lodge of Odd-Fellows. 

Union Grand Lodge of Maryland. 

A colored regiment from the front arrived at precisely two 
o'clock, and not being able to proceed any further than the 
corner of Seventh street, halted in front of the Metropolitan 
Hotel, wheeled about, and became by that manoeuvre the very 
head and front of the procession. They appeared to be under 
the very best discipline, and displayed admirable skill in their 
various exercises. 

When the procession reached the corner of Fifteenth street 
and Pennsylvania avenue, one of the horses attached to the 
President's carriage became unmanageable, and the President, 
with the Hon. Preston King, alighted and took seats in another 
carriage. 

The procession surpassed in sentiment, populousness, and 
sincere good feeling, anything of the kind we have had in 
America. It was several miles long, and in all its elements 
was full and tasteful. The scene on the avenue will always be 
remembered as the only occasion on which that great thorough- 
fare was a real adornment to the seat of Government. In the 
tree-tops, on the house-tops, at all the windows, the silent and 
affected crowds clustered beneath half-masted banners and 
waving crape, to reverentially uncover as the dark vehicle, 



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bearing its rich silver-mounted coffin, swept along ; mottoes of 
respect and homage were on many edifices. The entire width 
of the avenue was swept from curb to curb l)y the dee[) lines. 

Tlie grand and beautiful funeral march, performed for the 
first time by the United States ^larine Band, in the obsequies 
of our deceased and beloved Chief Magistrate, was composed 
and dedicated to the occasion by Brevet Major General J. G. 
Barnard. 

Some four hundred and fifty paroled officers, of every grade 
and arm of the service, arrived from Camp Parole, Annapolis. 
They were under the command of Brigadier General Ciiamber- 
lin, and having met in front of the Executive Mansion at noon, 
joined in the funeral procession. 

A joint committee of the Aldermen and Common Council of 
New York arrived in Washington, and stopped at the Seaton 
House. They were received by a committee of the Common 
Council of the District, and formed in procession with the 
Common Council of Washington. Alderman Brice was chair- 
man of the committee, and Owen Cavenaugh, secretary. The 
badge worn l)y tlie committee was handsomely draped, the 
device being the coat of arms of the city, having engraved 
thereon the respective names of the members of the body. 
The badge was about two inches in circumference, and remark- 
ably neat and appropriate in its appearance. The members of 
this company constituted a fine-looking body of men. 

The Philadelphia City Councils, the Committee of the Union 
League Club of New York city, and the committee of mer- 
chants and citizens of New York, appeared in the funeral pro- 
cession. 

When the procession started, minute guns were fired from 
batteries stationed near St. John's Church, City Hall, and on 
East Capitol street. The bells of all the churches and of the 
fire engine houses also continually tolled. 

The sight from the Capitol probably presented the most im- 
posing view of the procession that could be attained at any 
point. Those who were privileged to entrance in the Capitol 
were universal in tlicir declarations tliat it was the grandest and 
most iifiposing demonstration they had ever seen. It appeared 
10 us like a grand panorama, in which the figures were stat- 



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uesque, and gradually presented to the view. The crowd was 
too immense to bring within tlie scope and comprehension of 
ordinary vision, even with the aid of a glass. 

As it approached the Capitol, every arrangement practicable 
to secure order and resist the pressure of the crowd was made. 
The vacant space on the east front of the Capitol was com- 
pletely cleared. A cordon of infantry, and a line of cavalry, 
including many ofi&cers of high rank, as well as the many pa- 
roled officers mentioned elsewhere, formed an effectual barrier 
to the crowd, and with the aid of the police, well ordered by 
Superintendent Richards, kept the space which had been cleared 
wholly unobstructed. 

There was also placed in front of the old portico and steps 
of the Capitol, iu the centre, a stand, upon which the coffin 
might be placed when removed from the funeral car, the latter 
being too high to be reached from the ground. The steps and 
the entrance were also cleared of all persons save the members 
of the Capitol, under the excellent direction of Captain New- 
man, who lined each side of the steps, and who, having had 
charge of the entire building, had excluded therefrom all per- 
sons but a few representatives of the press, who had duly 
authorized passes. 

On entering the Rotunda, the grand paintings and statues, 
which represent the discovery of America and of the Missis- 
sippi, the settlement of the country, the foundation of the Gov- 
ernment, the struggles of the colonists with the Indians, the 
Revolutionary War, &c., of the most important historic interest 
draped with mourning, struck the eye. 

Among those draped were : The Discovery of the Missis 
sippi by De Soto, 1541 ; The Baptism of Pocahontas, Jamestown. 
Ya., 1613; The Landing of Columbus, October, 1492; Em- 
barkation of the Pilgrims from Delf haven, in Holland, July 21, 
1620; The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 ; The 
Surrender of General Burgoyne, Saratoga, N". Y., October, 
1777 ; The Surrender of Cornwallis, Yorktown, Ya., October, 
1781 ; and General Washington Resigning his Commission to 
Congress, at Annapolis, Maryland, December 23, 1783. 

The Rotunda was otlierwise neatly draped. The most notice- 
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the decorations was the absence of all drapery upon the statue 
of Washington, save a black sash, draping the bust after the 
style of military mourning. 

At half-past three o'clock Hon. B. B. French, Superintend- 
ent of the Public Buildings, accompanied by James 0. Clephane, 
one of the civic marshals, entered the rotunda, followed by the 
clergy, and the physicians who were in attendance upon the 
late President's last hours. They took their several positions 
at the head of the catafalque, and twelve sergeants of the Vet- 
eran Reserve Corps, each from a different company, then en- 
tered, bearing tiie coffin, which they deposited upon the cata- 
falque. Lieutenant General Grant, Major General Halleck, 
Assistant Adjutant General Nichols, Admirals Farragut, Golds- 
borough, and Stringham entered next, and after them the new 
President and the Cabinet, followed in turn by the remaining 
pall-bearers. 

The pall-bearers arranged themselves in a circle around the 
catafalque. Generals Grant and Halleck, and the Admirals, 
the President, and the Cabinet, took positions at the foot of 
the coffin, some ten feet from it — the two Secretaries standing 
on the left side, in front of the pall-bearers. A few prominent 
gentlemen, among whom were the Hon. Simon Cameron, Gen- 
erals Hunter and Meigs, also entered the rotunda and approached 
the coffin, after which the services were proceeded with by Dr. 
Gurley, as follows : 

BURIAL SERVICE. 

It is appointed unto men once to die. The dust returns to the earth as it 
was, and the spirit to God who gave it. All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of 
man as the flower of grass ; the grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth 
away. We know that we must die and go the house appointed for all living. 
For what is our life ? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and 
then vanisheth away. Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye 
think not the Son of Man cometh. Let us pray. 

Lord, so teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto 
wisdom. Wean us from this transitory world. Turn away our eyes from be- 
holding vanity. Lift up our afi"ections to the things which are above, where 
Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. There may our treasure be, and there 
may our hearts be also. Wash us in the blood of Christ ; clothe us in the 
-ighteousness of Christ; renew and sanctify us by his word and spirit; lead 
Qs in the paths of piety for his name's sake. Gently, Lord, oh, gently lead us 



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through all the duties, and changes, and trials of our earthly pilgrimage. Dis- 
pose us to pass the time of our sojourning here in fear, denying ungodliness 
and worldly lusts, and living soberly, righteously, and godly in this present 
world; and when we come to die, may we be gathered to our fathers having 
the testimony of a good conscience ; in the communion of the Christian church; 
in the confidence of a certain faith ; in the comfort of a reasonable, religious, 
and holy hope ; in favor with Thee, our God ; and in perfect charity with the 
world ; all which we ask through Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord and Redeemer. 
Amen. 

Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God, in his wise providence, to take 
out of this clay tabernacle the soul that inhabited it, we commit its decaying 
■ remains to their kindred element, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; 
looking for the general resurrection through our Lord Jesus Christ, at whose 
coming to judge the world earth and sea shall give up their dead, and the cor- 
ruptible bodies of them that sleep in Him shall be fashioned like unto his 
glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all 
things unto himself. Wherefore, let us comfort one another with these words. 

And now may the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord 
Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting 
covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you 
that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, the Resurrection 
and the Life, our Redeemer and our Hope, to whose care we now commit these 
precious remains, and to whose name be glory forever and ever. Amen. 

The late President's body-guard and a company of the Vet- 
■ eran Reserve Corps then formed a cordon around the coffin. 
The building was cleared, by order of Secretary Stanton, and 
the body-guard of the President and a guard of honor com- 
posed of several officers remained in charge, with the Capitol 
police, under charge of Captain Newman, to remain there all 
night. 
^ The guard of honor, whicli had been on duty all day, was 
relieved by Brigadier General James A. Ekin, and Major D. C. 
"Welsh and Captain Joseph T. Powers, of his staff; and Briga- 
dier General James A. Hall, and Captain B. H. Nevin, Jr., 
and Lieutenant Terrence Riley, of his staff. Up to the hour of 
9, crowds continued to come in, and at that time the doors 
were closed. 

The above guard of honor stayed with the remains during 
the night, and at 6 o'clock in the morning Hon. E. M. Stanton, 
Secretary of War ; PTon. J. P. Usher, Secretary of the In- 
terior ; Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy ; Hon. 
William Donnison, Postmaster General ; Hon. J. J. Speed, At- 



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torney General ; Lieutenant General Grant, and a portion of 
his staff; j\Iajor General Meigs, Rev. Dr. Gurley, and several 
.Senators, the Illinois delegation, and a number of otfieers of 
the army, arrived at the Capitol, and took a last look at the 
face of the deceased. The coffin was then prepared for re- 
moval, and twelve orderly sergeants were called in to carry it 
to tlie liearse. Rev. Dr. Gurley, before the removal of the re- 
mains, made the following prayer:.' 

Lord, TIiou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the 
mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the 
world, even from everlasting to everlasting Thou art God. Thou turnest man 
to destruction, and sayest, return, ye children of men. We acknowledge Thy 
hand in the great and sudden affliction that has befallen us as a nation, and we 
pray that in all these hours and scenes of sorrow through which we are passing 
we may have the guidance of Thy counsel and the consolations of Thy Spirit. 
We commit to Thy care and keeping this sleeping dust of our fallen Chief 
Magistrate, and pray Thee to watch over it as it passes from our view and is 
borne to its final resting place in the soil of that State which was his abiding 
and chosen home. And grant, we beseech Thee, that, as the people in different 
cities and sections of the land shall gather around this coffin and look upon the 
fading remains of the man they loved so well, their love for the cause in which 
he fell maj' kindle into a brighter, intenser flame, and, while their tears are 
falling, may they renew their vows of eternal fidelity to the cause of justice, 
liberty, and truth. So may this great bereavement redound to Thy glory and 
to the highest welfare of our stricken and bleeding country : and all we ask is 
in the name and for the sake of Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord and Iledeemer. 
Amen. 

The remains were then removed by a detachment of the 
Quartermaster General's Volunteers, detailed by Brigadier 
General Rucker ; and escorted to the depot by the companies 
of Captains Cromee, Bush, Ilildebrand, and Dillon, of the 12th 
Veteran Reserve Corps, the whole under the command of Lieu- 
tenant Colonel Bell. The remains were followed by Lieutenant 
General Grant, General JMeigs, General Hardee, the members 
of tlie Cabinet — Messrs. Stanton, Welles, McCulloch, Denni- 
son, and Usher — and Assistant Secretary Fields, and other dis- 
tinguished personages. 

At the depot was President Jolinson, Hon. W. T. Dole, Gen- 
eral Barnard, General Rucker, General Townsend, General 
Howe, and others. 

The remains of the kite President and of his son were placed 
in the car appointed to receive tliem. None were admitted in 



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the ciirs except those who had tickets authorizing them to go 
with tlie remains, Senators and Members of Congress, military 
officers, and passengers. 

A few minutes before eight o'clock, Capt. Robert Lincoln, 
son of the President, accompanied by two relatives, arrived 
and took his seat in tlie cars. 

Messrs. Nicolay and Hay, the late President's private secre- 
taries, arrived a few moments later and also took their places. 

Twenty-one first sergeants, of the 7th, 10th, 9th, 12th, 14th, 
18th, and 24:th Veteran Reserve Corps, accompanied the re- 
mains as a guard. 

The train started at precisely 8 o'clock, and a few moments 
before that time Rev. Dr. Gurley, standing upon the platform, 
made the following prayer : 

O Lord our God, strengthen us under the pressure of this great national sor- 
sow as Thou only canst strengthen the weak, and comfort us as Thou only 
, canst comfort the sorrowing, and sanctify us as Thou only canst sanctify a 
people when they are passing through the fiery furnace of trial. May Thy 
grace abound to us according to our need, and in the end may the af&iction that 
now fills our hearts with sadness and our eyes with tears work for us a far 
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. 

And now may the God of Peace that brought again from the dead our Lord 
Jesus, that Great Sliepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting 
covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in 
you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, the Resur- 
rection and the Life, our Redeemer and our Hope, our fathers' God and our God, 
in whose care we now leave these precious remains, to whose blessing we re- 
newedly commit our bereaved and beloved country, and to whose name be 
glory forever and ever. Amen. 

As the train moved slowly from the depot the bells of the 
engines tolled, and all persons standing by, in token of respect 
and reverence, uncovered their heads, and stood thus until the 
train had passed out of the depot. 

SPECIAL ORDER REGULATING THE TRANSPORTATION OP THE RE- 
MAINS OF THE LATE PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, FROM 
WASHINGTON CITY TO SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. 

War Depautmext, 
Washington City, Ajml IS, 1SG5. 
Ordered : 

First. That tlie following report, and the arrangements therein specified, be 
approved and confitrned, and that the transportation of the remains of the late 
President, Abraham Lincoln, from Washington to his former home, ;>t i^prirjj 



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field, the capital of Illinois, be conducted in accordance with the said report 
and the arrangements therein specified. 

Second. That for the purpose of said transportation, the railroads over which 
said transportation is made be declared military roads, subject to the orders of 
the War Department, and that the railroad and locomotives, cars, and engines 
engaged in said transportation be subject to the military control of Brigadier 
General McCuUum, superintendent of military railroad transportation; and 
all persons are required to conform to the rules, regulations, orders, and direc- 
tions he may give or prescribe for the transportation aforesaid ; and all persons 
disobeying said orders shall be deemed to have violated the military orders oi 
the War Department, and shall be dealt with accordingly. 

Third. That no person shall be allowed to be transported upon the cars con- 
Btituting the funeral train, save those who are specially authorized by the order 
of the War Department. The funeral train will not exceed nine cars, including 
baggage car, and the hearse car, which will proceed over the whole route 
from Washington to Springfield, Illinois. 

Fourth. At the various points on the route, where the remains are to be taken 
from the hearse car by State or municipal authorities, to receive public honors, 
according to the aforesaid programme, the said authorities will make such ar- 
rangements as may be fitting and appropriate to the occasion, under the direc- 
tion of the military commander of the division, department, or district, but the 
remains will continue always under the special charge of the officers and es- 
cort assigned by this Department. 

By order of the Secretary of War : 

E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 

War Department, 
Washington City, April 18, 1865. 
His Excellency Governor Brough and John W. Garrett, Esq., are requested 
to act as a committee of arrangement of transportation of the remains of the 
late President, Abraham Lincoln, from Washington to their final resting place. 
They are authorized to arrange the time-tables with the respective railroad 
companies, and do and regulate all things for safe and appropriate transporta- 
tion. They will cause notice of this appointment, and their acceptance, to be 
published for public information. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 

Secretary of War. 

Washinqtok City, D. C, April 18, 1865. 
Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War : 

Sir: Under your commission of this date we have the honor to report: 
1. A committee of the citizens of the State of Illinois, appointed for the pur- 
pose of attending to the removal of the remains of the late President to their 
State, has furnished us with the following route for the remains and escort, 
being, wifh the exception of two points, the route traversed by Mr. Lincoln 
from Springfield to Washington: Washington to Baltimore, thence to Harris- 



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tiurg, Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Indian- 
apolis, Chicago, to Springfield. 

2. Over this route, under the counsels of the committee, we have prepared 
the following time card, in all cases for special trains ; 

TIME CARD. 

Leave Washington, 8 A. M., Friday, 21st inst. Arrive at Baltimore, 10 A. 
M., same day. 

Leave Baltimore, 3 P. M., Friday, 21st. Arrive at Harrisburg, 8.20 P. M., 
eame day. 

Leave Farrisburg, 12 M., Saturday, 22d. Arrive at Philadelphia, 6.30 P. 
M., same day. 

Leave Philadelphia, 4 A. M., Monday, 24th. Arrive at New York, 10 A. 
M., same day. 

Leave New York, 4 P. M., Tuesday, 25th. Arrive at Albany, 11 P. M., same 
day. 

Leave Albany, 4 P. M., Wednesday, 26th. Arrive at Buffalo, 7 A. M., 
Thursday, 27th. 

Leave Buffalo, 10.10 P. M., Thursday 27th. Arrive at Cleveland, 7 A. M., 
Friday, 2Sth. 

Leave Cleveland, 12 midnight, Friday, 28th. Arrive at Columbus, 7.30 A. 
M., Saturday, 29th. 

Leave Columbus, 8 P. M., Saturday, 29th. Arrive at Indianapolis, 7 A. M., 
Sunday, 30th. 

Leave Indianapolis, 12 midnight, Sunday, 30th. Arrive at Chicago, 11 A. 
M., Monday, May 1. 

Leave Chicago, 9.30 P. M., Tuesday, May 2. Arrive at Springfield, 8 A. M., 
Wednesday, May 3. 

The route from Columbus to Indianapolis is via the Columbus and Indian- 
apolis Central railway, and from Indianapolis to Chicago, via Lafayette and 
Michigan City. 

3. As to the running of these special trains, which, in order to guard as far 
as practicable against accidents and detentions, we have reduced to about 
twenty miles per hour, we suggest the following regulations : 

1. That time of departure and arrival be observed as closely as possible. 

2. That material detentions at way points be guarded against as much as 
practicable, so as not to increase the speed of trains. 

3. That a pilot engine be kept ten minutes in advance of the train. 

4. That the special train, in all cases, have the right of road ; and that all 
other trains be kept out of its way. 

5. That the several railroad companies provide a sufficient number of couches 
for the comfortable accommodation of the escort, and a special car for the re- 
mains; and that all these, together with the engines, be appropriately draped 
in mourning. 

6. That where the running time of any train extends beyond, or commences 
at midnight, not less than two sleeping cars be added, and a greater number if 
the road can command them, sufficient for the accommodation of the escort. 

7. That two officers of the United States Military Pvailway service be detailed 
by you, and despatched at once over the route, to confer with the several rail- 



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way officers, and make all necessary preparations for carrying out these 
arrangements promptly and satisfactorily. 

8. That this programme and these regulations, if approved, be confirmed 
by an order of the War Department. 
Respectfully submitted. 

JOHN BROUGH, 
JOHN W. GARRETT, 

Coimnittee. 

THE GUARD OF HONOR. 

The following is a list of the gentlemen and those constitut 
ing the guard of honor which accompanied the remains of the 
lamented President : 

Judge David Davis, Judge of the United States Supreme Court; N. W. Ed- 
wards, General J. B. S. Todd, Charles Alexander Smith. 

Guard of honor : Brigadier General E. D. Townsend, Brevet Brigadier General 
James A. Ekin, Brigadier General A. D. Eaton, Brevet Major General J. G. 
Barnard, Brigadier General G. D. Ramsey, Brigadier General A. P. Howe, 
Brigadier General D. C. McCullum, Major General David Hunter, Brigadier 
General J. C. Caldwell, Rear Admiral C. H. Davis, United States Navy ; Cap- 
tain William R. Taylor, United States Navy; Major T. H. Field, United States 
Marine Corps. 

The following gentlemen accompanied the train in an official 
capacity : 

Captain Charles Penrose, Quartermaster and Commissary of Subsistence for 
the entire party ; Dr. Charles B. Brown, Embalmer ; Frank T. Sands, Under- 
taker. 

The following members of the Senate and House of Repre- 
sentatives were specially invited to accompany the remains to 
Springfield : 

Messrs. Pike of Maine, Rollins of New Hampshire, Baxter of Vermont, 
Hooper of Massachusetts, Dexter of Connecticut, Anthony of Rhode Island, 
Harris of New York, Cowan of Pennsylvania, Schenck of Ohio, Smith of Ken- 
tucky, Julian of Indiana, Ramsay of Minnesota, T. W. Terry of Michigan, 
Harlan of Iowa, Yates of Illinois, Washburne of Illinois, Farnsworth of Il- 
linois, Arnold of Illinois, Shannon of California, Williams of Oregon, Clarke 
of Kansas, Whaley of West Virginia, Nye of Nevada, Hitchcock of Nebraska, 
Bradfora of Colorado, Wallace of Idaho, Newell of New Jersey, Phelps of 
Maryland: George T. Brown, Scrgeant-at-Arms of the Senate; and N. G. Ord- 
way, Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives. 



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The following are the names of the delegates from Illinois 
appointed to accompany the remains to their last resting place : 

Governor Richard J. Oglesby; General Ishara N. Ha^ie, Adjutant General 
Illinois; Colonel James H. Bowen, A. D. C. ; Colonel M. H. Hanna, A. D. C. ; 
Colonel D. B. James, A. D. C; Major S. Waite, A. D. C; Colonel D. L. Phillips, 
United States Marshal of the Southern District of Illinois, A. D. C. ; Hon. 
Jesse K. Dubois, Hon J. T. Stuart, Colonel John Williams, Dr. S. H. Melvin, 
Hon. S. M. Cullom, General John A. McClernand, Hon. Lyman Trumbull, Hon. 
Thomas A. Haine, Hon. John Wentworth, Hon. S. S. Hayes, Colonel E.. M. 
Hough, Hon. S. W. Fuller, Captain J. B. Turner, Hon. J. Lawson, Hon. C. L. 
Woodman, Hon. G. W. Gage, G. H. Roberts, Esq., J. Connisky, Esq., Hon. L. 
Talcott, Hon. J. S. Fredenburg, Hon. Thomas J. Dennis, Lieutenant Governor 
William Bross, and Hon. Francis E. Sherman, Mayor of Chicago. 

Governors of States: Governor Morton of Indiana, Governor Brough of Ohio, 
Governor Stone of Iowa, together with their aides. 

Mayor Wallach, of Washington ; Mr. Garnett, President of the Baltimore and 
Ohio Railroad; Colonel Lamon, United States Marshal; Mr. S. A. Gobright, of 
the Associated Press ; U. H. Painter, of the Philadelphia Inquirer; Mr. Page, 
of the New York Tribune; and Dr. Adonis, of the Chicago Tribune, were also 
of the company. 

The Secretary of War sent official notes to those who were 
appointed guards of honor to accompany the remains, and to 
distinguished civilians, of which the following is a copy : 

[Free transportation.] 

War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 

Washington, April 22, 1865. 
■ Brevet Brigadier General James A. Ekin is invited to accompany the re- 
mains of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, from the city of Washington 
to Springfield, Illinois. 

By order of the Secretary of War : 

W. A. NICHOLS, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 



OFFICIAL ORDERS CONCERNING THE PRESI- 
DENT'S DEATH. 



War Department, 
Adjutant General's Office, April 16, 1865. 
General Orders No. 66. 

The following order of the Secretary of War announces to the armies of the 
United States the untimely and lamentable death of the illustrious Abraham 
Lincoln, late President of the United States : 

War Department, 
Washington City, April 16, 1865. 

The distressing duty has devolved upon the Secretary of War to announce 
to the armies of the United States that, at 22 minutes after seven o'clock, on 
the morning of Saturday, the 15th day of April, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, 
President of the United States, died of a mortal wound inflicted upon him by 
an assassin. 

The armies of the United States will share with their fellow-citizens the feel- 
ing of grief and horror inspired by this most atrocious murder of their great 
and beloved President and Commander-in-Chief, and with profound sorrow 
will mourn his death as a national calamity. 

The headquarters of every department, post, station, fort, and arsenal will 
be draped in mourning for thirty days, and appropriate funeral honors will be 
paid by every army, and in every department, and at every military post, and 
at the Military Academy at West Point, to the memory of the late illustrious 
Chief Magistrate of the nation and Commander-in-Chief of its armies. 

Lieutenant General Grant will give the necessary instructions for carrying 
this order into effect. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 

Secretary of War. 

On the day after the receipt of this order at the headquarters of every mili- 
tary division, department, army post, station, fort, and arsenal, and at the Mil- 
itary Academy at West Point, the troops and Cadets will be paraded at 10 

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A. M., and the order read to them, after which all labors and operations for the 
day will cease and be suspended, as far as practicable in a state of war. 
The national flag will be displayed at half-stafT. 

At dawn of day thirteen guns will be fired, and afterwards at intervals of 
thirty minutes between the rising and setting sun a single gun, and at the 
close of day a national salute of thirty-six guns. 

The officers of the armies of the United States will wear the badge of mourn- 
ing on the left arm and on their swords, and the colors of their commands and 
regiments will be put in mourning for the period of six months. 
By command of Lieutenant General Grant: 

W. A. NICHOLS, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 

Navy Department, 

Washington, April 15, 1865. 

The Department announces, with profound sorrow, to the officers and men of 
the Navy and Marine Corps, the death of Abraham Lincoln, the late President 
of the United States. Stricken down by the hands of an assassin, on the even- 
ing of the 14th instant, when surrounded by his family and friends, he 
lingered a few hours after receiving the fatal bullet, and died at seven o'clock 
and twenty-two minutes this morning. A grateful people had given their will- 
ing confidence to the patriot and statesman, under whose wise and successful 
administration the nation was just emerging from the civil strife which for four 
years has afflicted the land, when this terrible calamity fell upon the country. 
To him our gratitude was justly due, for to him, under God, more than to any 
other person, are we indebted for the successful vindication of the integrity oi 
the Union and the maintenance of the power of the Republic. 

The officers of the Navy and of the Marine Corps will, as a manifestation 
of their respect for the exalted character, eminent position, and inestimable; 
public services of the late President, and as an indication of their sense of the 
calamity which the country has sustained, wear the usual badge of mourning 
for six months. The Department further directs that upon the day following 
the receipt of this order, the commandants of squadrons, navy yards, and sta- 
tions will direct the ensign of every vessel in their several commands to be 
hoisted at half-mast, and a gun to be fired every half hour, beginning at sun- 
rise and ending at sunset. The flags of the several navy yards and Marine 
barracks will also be hoisted at half-mast. 

GIDEON WELLES, 
Secretary of the Navy. 

Department op State, 

Washington, April 17, 1865. 
The undersigned is directed to announce that the funeral ceremonies of the 
late lamented Chief Magistrate will take place at the Executive Mansion, in 
this city, at 12 o'clock M., on Wednesday, the 19th instant. 

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meet in their respective places of worship at that hour, for the purpose of sol- 
emnizing the occasion with appropriate ceremonies. 

W. HUNTER, 
Acting Secretary of State. 

Navy Department, April 17, 1865, 
By order of the President of the United States, the Navy Department will 
be closed on Wednesday next, the day of the funeral solemnities of the late 
President of the United States. 

Labor will also be suspended on that day at each of the navy yards and 
navy stations, and upon all the vessels of the United States. 

The flags of all vessels, and at all navy yards and stations, and marine bar- 
racks, will be kept at half-mast during the day, and at 12 o'clock, meridian, 
twenty-one minute guns will be fired by the senior officer of each squadron 
and the commandants of each of the navy yards and stations. 

GIDEON WELLES, 
Secretary of the Navy. 

Navy Depaetment, April 17, 1865. 
Vice Admiral D. G. Farragut and Rear Admiral William B. Shubrick have 
been designated to make the necessary arrangements on the part of the Navy 
and Marine corps, for attending, on Wednesday next, the funeral of the late 
President of the United States. 

GIDEON WELLES, 
Secretary of the Navy. 

Navy Department, 

Washington, April 17, 1865. 
Officers of the Navy and Marine corps will assemble at the Navy Depart- 
ment, in uniform, at 10 o'clock A. M., on Wednesday next, for the purpose of 
attending the funeral of the late President. 

GIDEON WELLES, 
Secretary of the Navy. 

Treasury Department, April 17, 1865. 

The Secretary of the Treasury, with profound sorrow, announces to the 
revenue marine the death of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United 
States. He died in this city on the morning of the 15th instant, at twenty-two 
minutes past seven o'clock. 

The officers of the revenue marine will, as a manifestation of their respect 
for the exalted character and eminent public services of the illustrious dead, 
and of their sense of the calamity the country has sustained by this afflicting 
dispensation of Providence, wear crape on the left arm and upon the hilt of the 
sword for six months. 

It is further directed that funeral honors be paid on board all revenue vessels 
in commission, by firing thirty-six minute guns, commencing at meridian on the 
day after the receipt of this order, and by wearing their flags at half-mast. 

HUGH Mcculloch, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 
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Post Office Depaetmes^t, 

Washington, April 17, 1865. 
To Depute/ Postmasters : 

Business in all the post offices of the United States will be suspended and the 
offices closed from 11 A. il. to 3 P. M. on Wednesday, the 19th instant, during 
the funeral solemnities of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States. 

W. DENNISON, 

Postmaster GeneraL 

DEPAETMEIfT OF StATE, 

Washington, April 17, 1865. 
It is hereby ordered that in honor to the memory of our late illustrious Chiel 
Magistrate, all officers and others subject to the orders of the Secretary of State 
•wear crape upon the left arm for the period of six months. 

W. HUNTER, 
Acting Secretary of State. 

Department of the Inteeioe, 
Washington, April 18, 1865. 
It is hereby ordered that, in honor of the memory of the late Chief Magis- 
trate of the nation, the officers and employees of this Department wear crape 
ou the left arm for the period of six months. 

I. P. USHER, 
Secretary of the Interior, 

GENERAL MEADE's ORDERS. 

Headquartees Aemy op the Potomac, 
April 16, 1865. 
General Order No. 15. 

The Major General commanding announces to the army that official intelli- 
gence has been received of the death, by assassination, of the President of the 
United States. 

The President died at twenty-two minutes past seven on the morning of the 
the 15th inst. 

To this army, this announcement will be received with profound sorrow, and 
deep horror and indignation. The President, by the active interest he ever 
took in the welfare of this army, and by his presence in frequent visits, espe- 
cially during the recent operations, had particularly endeared himself to both 
officers and soldiers, all of whom regarded him as a generous friend. An 
honest man, a noble patriot, and sagacious statesman has fallen ! No greater 
loss at this particular moment could have befallen our country. Whilst we 
bow with submission to the unfathomable and inscrutable decrees of Divine 
• Providence, let us earnestly pray that God in His mercy wiU so order that this 
terrible calamity shall not interfere with the prosperity and happiness of our 
Ijgloved country. 

GEO. G. MEADE, 
Major General Commanding. 



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Headquaetees Abut op the Potomac, 

April 17. 
Oeneral Order No. 13. 

In obedience to General Order No. 69, current series, from the War Depart- 
ment, the flags at all the camps and stations in this army will be kept at half- 
mast during Wednesday next, the day appointed for the funeral of the late 
President of the United States, and all labor will be suspended for the day 
throughout the limits of this command. The commanding officers of the vari- 
ous corps are charged with the execution of this order at the camps and de- 
tached stations under their respective orders. Twenty-one minute guns will 
be fired under the direction of the Chief of Artillery at twelve o'clock M., on 
the day mentioned. 

By command of Major General Meade: 

G. D. RUGGLES, A. A. G. 

GENERAL SHERMAN's ORDER ANNOUNCING THE PRESIDENT'S 

DEATH. 

Headouartees Militaet Div. op the Mississippi, 

In the Field, Raleigh, April 17, 1865. 
Special Field Order No. 50. 

The General commanding announces with pain and sorrow that on the even- 
ing of the 14th inst., at the theatre, in Washington city, his Excellency the 
President of the United States, Mr. Lincoln, was assassinated by one who 
uttered the State motto of Virginia. At the same time the Secretary of State, 
Mr. Seward, while suffering from a broken arm, was also stabbed by another 
murderer, in his own house, but still survives, and his son was wounded, sup- 
posed fatally. 

It is believed by persons capable of judging, that other high officers were 
designed to share the same fate. Thus it seems that our enemy, despairing of 
meeting us in manly warfare, begins to resort to the assassin's tools. Your 
General does not wish you to infer that this is universal, for he knows that the 
great mass of the Confederate army would scorn to sanction such acts; but be 
believes it the legitimate consequence of rebellion against rightful authority. 
We have met every phase which this war has assumed, and must now be pre- 
pared for it in its last and worst shape, that of assassins and guerillas; but 
woe unto the people who seek to expend their wild passions in such a manner, 
for there is but one dread result. 

By order of Major General W. T. Sherman : 

L. M. DAYTON, 
Major and Assistant Adjutant Oeneral. 

A letter from General Sherman's army describes the feeling 
as follows : 

Officers met and passed in silence, scarcely daring to break the dreadful se- 
cret to each other. Universal gloom settled like a pal) over the place. Sad 
faces were everywhere ; all hearts were heavy ; all i/iinds appalled by the 



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dreadful news of this triple murder. At Gen. Schofield's headquarters, I have 
seen officers and men in tears, as if mourning for the loss of a father or beloved 
friend. A sorrow like that which fell upon Egypt, when the angel of death 
smote the first-born, broods over all minds. Others, with clenched fists and 
firm-set teeth, were calling for vengeance upon the whole race of traitors, from 
Jeff. Davis down. A people who could conceive of such transcendent wicked- 
ness, and every one who can apologize for or excuse it, they say ought to be 
blotted from the face of the earth. 

The whole current of feeling in the army has been changed by this crowning 
act of villainy — this final, fiendish stab at the nation's life. 

The officers and soldiers everywhere speak in terms of the highest admiratior. 
of the great and good man who has fallen. He seems to have been spared by 
a kind Providence to witness the fruit of his long and wearisome labors for the ' 
salvation of his country, and then has mingled his blood with the thousands 
who have fallen in the struggle, in a manner to show to the world, as no other 
event could teach, the fiendish spirit which has animated these enemies of lib- 
erty, of the country, and of mankind. I hear nothing but words of the most 
affectionate eulogy of the departed President, and earnest prayers ascend from 
many thousand hearts that God should disappoint the assassins, and yet spare 
the precious lives of Mr. Seward and his son. 

OBSEQUIES IN THE ARMY. 

General 3Ieade/s Headquarters. 

Headquarters Army of the Potomac, 

April 17, 1865. 
The announcement of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward and 
his son was received throughout this army with the utmost sorrow. Every man 
seemed to think it the greatest calamity that could have possibly happened just 
at this time. Should the assassins be found, and turned over to the army to be 
dealt with, their punishment would be swift and sure, and such as to strike 
terror into the heart of every sympathizer with treason in the United States. 
The citizens living in the country here express their deep regret at the occur- 
rence, and think it the worst thing that could possibly have happened for the 
Southern people just at this juncture. 

The Sixth Corps. 

Headquarters Sixth Army Corps, 

BiJRKESVILLE JUNCTION, April 19, 1865. 
The death of the President still monopolizes a large share of the thought of 
this army. It is the one all-absorbing subject of conversation. The man had 
so thoroughly endeared himself to both officers and men, and all seem to feel 
that they have lost a dear personal friend. Every day I hear fresh instances 
of his goodness related — incidents which go to prove that amidst the weighty 
cares of his high station, he always found time to attend to the numerous letters 
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them what had become of their husband, son, or brother, who enlisted months 
or years ago as a private soldier in the great army of the Union, and of whom 
they had received no tidings since his regiment marched off down South. 
Scores of these documents, bearing the President's well-known autograph, have 
found their way to the headquarters of the comjiany in which the person so 
anxiously inquired for had enlisted. Sometimes the glad tidings, "He is alive 
and well," went North; and at others the company commander penned the 
sorrowful words, " He was killed in battle." This thoughtfulness and true 
goodness of heart had made the President peculiarly beloved by the soldiers, 
and words are but feeble exponents of the sorrow and rage excited among them 
by the news of his tragical death. 

To-day being the time for Mr. Lincoln's funeral to take place. General Meade 
issued a general order in relation to the matter, and by Ihe time this despatch 
will leave the minute guns will be booming out the soldiers' requiem for their 
late and beloved President. The flags of the Army of the Potomac will be 
floating at half-mast, and through the pine woods, in whose depths the troops 
»re encamped, solemn dirges will sound their mournful refrains. 

General Hancock's Appeal to the Colored People. 

Headquarters Middle Military Division, 

Washington, D. C, April 24, 1865. 
To the Colored People of the District of Columbia and of Maryland, of Alex- 
andria and the Border Counties of Virginia : 

Your President has been murdered! He has fallen by the assassin, and with- 
out a moment's warning, simply and solely because he was your friend and the 
friend of our country. Had he been unfaithful to you and to the great cause 
of human freedom he might have lived. The pistol from which he met his 
death, though held by Booth, was fired by the hands of treason and slavery. 
Think of this, and remember how long and how anxiously this good man 
labored to break your chains and to make you happy. I now appeal to you, 
by every consideration which can move loyal and grateful hearts, to aid in dis- 
covering and arresting his murderer. Concealed by traitors, he is believed to be 
lurking somewhere within the limits of the District of Columbia, or the States 
of Maryland or Virginia. Go forth, then, and watch, and listen, and inquire, 
and search, and pray, by day and by night, until you shall have succeeded in 
dragging this monstrous and bloody criminal from his hiding place. You can 
do much ; even the humblest and feeblest among you, by patience and unwearied 
vigilance, may render the most important assistance. Large rewards have been 
offered by the government, and by municipal authorities, and they will be paid 
for the apprehension of the murderer, or for any information which will aid in 
his arrest. But I feel that you need no such stimulus as this. You will hunt 
down this cowardl}' assassin of your best friend as you would tlie murderer of 
your own failier. Do this, and God, whose servant has been slain, and the 
country wLicii has given you iVeedom, will bless you for this noble act of duty. 
Al! inibrtiuition which will had to llie arrest of Booth, or Suratt, or Herold, 
tliouid he communicated lo tliese headquarters, or to General Holt, Judge Ad- 



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vocate General, at Washington, or, if immediate action is required, then to the 
nearest military authorities. 

All officers and soldiers in this command, and all loyal people, are enjoined 
to increased vigilance. 

W. S. HANCOCK, 
Major General U. S. Volunteers, Com'dg Middle Military Division. 

THE GENERAL COURT-MARTIAL. 

The General Court-Martial sitting at 183 G street, of which 
Brigadier General Briggs is President, in view of the national 
bereavement, adjourned, and draped the court building, and 
each member assumed the usual badge of mourning. 

The Judge Advocate, Major Burnham, U. S. A., made the 
following appropriate and feeling remarks preparatory to the 
motion to adjourn : 

Mr. President : It becomes my painful duty to announce to the court the 
death of the Chief Magistrate of this nation. While yet in the fullness of life 
and strength, and after having attained the almost complete accomplishment ot 
the great purposes of his administration, his invaluable life has been brought, 
to an untimely end — stricken down by the hand of an assassin. As citizens, 
as soldiers, we mourn the death of our President, of our Commander-in-Chief, 
feeling that to the cause which he, more than any other man, represented, we 
had devoted our best energies through years of perilous strife ; and that in his 
fall, this great nation, of which he, though but one man, formed so important a 
part, has met with a calamity, the extent of which, in this first hour of blind- 
ing sorrow, no eye can adequately measure, no heart can fully appreciate. 

For the four years now past, death in various forms — murderous assault and 
midnight assassination — has threatened a life so precious to the interests ot 
mankind ; but still a watchful Providence guarded his footsteps and spared 
him to the nation. 

His re-election, triumphantly sustaining him and the great principles of a 
free and permanent republican government, which he represented, had taken 
place without disturbance; he had been again inaugurated with the peaceful 
simplicity characteristic of our institutions ; he had once more proceeded to the 
discharge of the high duties devolving upon him in his great office ; and now, 
just as our victorious arms have been crowned with triumph, before the rejoic- 
ings of the nation have died into silence, with its detonating ordnance still 
ringing in our ears, its blazing bonfires, the splendor of its illuminations, the 
waving of its myriad banners still dazzling our eyes, and welcoming to the na- 
tional heart the tidings that peace again hovered over us, and that the land 
which had been drenched in fraternal blood should again return to the arts of 
peace — in this hour of triumph, in the moment of exultant joy, the hand ot 
death has stricken our leader. 



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Aa a uation we can do naught but mourn ; our hearts must bow in reverence 
befere God, and penitence for the sins, whether our own or those of our fellows, 
which have brought upon u? this untimely and dreadful affliction. The great 
cause of philanthropy throughout the world has lost its most powerful, most 
persistent, and most practical champion ; humanity its ablest advocate, its most 
untiring friend. A great man has passed from earth ; his life has been given 
back to Him from whom he received it ; and the universal voice of this nation 
in its sorrow, reviewing that life and its labors, says, " Well done." 

AJl words fail me to express or even indicate one thousandth part of the 
emotions which rise in our breasts and struggle for utterance at this time. In 
Buch an hour we feel the poverty of language to body forth the fulness of our 
hearts. 

But though conscious that a great crime has been perpetrated ; that treason 
has culminated in its most fearful and most horrid act, adding parricide to its 
black catalogue of crimes, we cannot but feel, while mourning our beloved 
Chief Magistrate, that still the Government, over which he so ably presided, 
stands as firmly as ever ; that the principles which he so earnestly sustained 
still remain for our guidance, still live in our hearts ; and while upon his bier 
we drop tears of sorrow over his untimely fate, we will not forget that we yet 
owe a duty to our country, in discharging which we shall honor the memory 
and fulfil the purposes of the dead, and preserve the lives and perpetuate tha 
liberties of the living, restoring to this distracted land that unity, peace, and 
good-will which he so ably and earnestly sought, and for which he laid down 
his life. 

ACTION OF THE DIPLOMATIC BODY. 

The various members of the Diplomatic body were presented 
to the Acting Secretary of State. As the Dean of tliat body, 
Baron Von Gerolt, the Russian Minister, addressed the Presi- 
dent as follows : 

Me. Pbesident : The representatives of foreign nations have assembled here 
to express to your Excellency their feelings at the deplorable events of which 
they have been witnesses — to say how sincerely they share the national mourn- 
ing for the cruel fate of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, and how deeply 
they sympathize with the Government and people of the United States in their 
great affliction. With equal sincerity we tender to you, Mr. President, our 
best wishes for the welfare and prosperity of the United States, and for your 
personal health and happiness. May we be allowed, also, Mr. President, to 
give utterance on this occasion to our sincerest hopes for an early re-establish- 
ment of peace in this great country, and for the maintenance of the friendly 
relations between the Government of the United States and the Governments 
which we represent. 



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SWISS DELEGATION. 

A delegation, composed of the Swiss residents of Washing- 
ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, waited on Presi- 
dent Johnson, to express their gratification at our recent victo- 
ries and sympathy in the late national calamity. 

The Swiss Consul General, Mr. Hitz, resident of Washing- 
ton, after an introduction to the President by the Acting Secre- 
tary of State, Mr. Hunter, expressed the sentiments of the 
delegation in the following address : 

Mb. Pkesident : Your Excellency, no doubt, will readily appreciate wliy it 
is that the citizens of Switzerland, residing in the United States, were unable 
to remain passive spectators of the important events and tragic occurrencea 
they have witnessed transpire during the past month. 

They now desire me to express to you publicly the intenser feelings of sym- 
pathy which have been engendered in their hearts. 

Like all loyal Americans, my countrymen rejoice over the recent brilliant 
Euccesses of your arms, successes which, having been planned with marked 
ability, in a few days gave the death-stroke to the most formidable and unjusti- 
fiable rebellion which history bears record of. Our joy, like yours, has been 
marred by horror at the odiousness of a crime unheard of in the annals of re- 
publics. Well can it be said, that in the death of the late lamented President, 
Abraham Lincoln, your country was robbed of a dear father, and thus added 
.mother, and the most precious, to the long list of sacrifices which it has been 
called upon to make during the late troublous times. But the Swiss, as repub- 
licans, are proud to bear witness to the fact that the great Republic of the 
United States, owing to the wisdom of her institutions and to the energy of her 
people, shows at the present moment to the world her ability to pass unscathed 
through the severest calamities, to overcome the most manifold trials, and defy 
as well the openly-planned attacks of anarchy as also the secret conspiracies of 
assassins. A profound and general mourning extends over the land, but devoid 
cf those political convulsions which would infallibly follow such events in 
many other countries. The whole nation is afflicted, but remains unmoved 
and vigilant. The law inflexible, yet scarcely ceased not an instant to reign 
supreme, and the great work which is being performed continues uninterrupted. 
May your Republic always overcome, in like manner, such other trials as God, 
in His inscrutable providence, may yet have in store for you. 

May the noble victim whom we all mourn, the greatest of this struggle, also 
be its last, and may his venerable tomb become the seal to the restoration of the 
Union on a more solid basis than ever before. 

The time is near, and we can already hail with joy the national greatness 
which shall succeed all your trials, so fruitful in results. 



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The faith in the final triumph of right and justice, faith in the right of lib- 
erty and republican institutions, will everywhere be strengthened. 

We cannot terminate without asking your Excellency to accept also the ex- 
pression of our entire confidence in your ability so to administer your govern- 
ment as to fulfil its important mission, at home as well as abroad. Your past 
public life, already re-affirmed by the wisdom of your acts as Chief Magistrate, 
is a sure guaranty that the task which so unexpectedly devolved upon you has 
fallen into good hands. 

President Johnson, replying, said: 

Mr. Consul Genebal Hitz: I thank you for the sympathy which you have 
expressed, on behalf of your countrymen, for our recent bereavement, and for 
your congratulations upon the success of our arms. We can have no distrust 
of the heartiness of these feelings. Switzerland herself has had her trials, and 
has been called on to endure sacrifices. She has, however, triumphed over all, 
and her heroism, patience, and self-denial have had, and will continue to have, 
the effect of strengthening similar qualities in the people of other countries. 

The new French Minister, the Marquis de Montholon, on 
presenting liis credentials to the President, expressed the sym- 
pathy of the French government as follows : 

Mb. Peesident: I am happy to bring hither, on a solemn occasion, the loyal 
and frank expressions of the wishes the Emperor, my august sovereign, forms 
for the complete restoration of peace and of concord on the continent of Amer- 
ica. The whole of the French people, partaking in the same thought, will 
always view with satisfaction the consolidation of the majesty and greatness 
of the United States. 

Animated with these sentiments of deep feeling for the American Union, 
their imperial Majesties, as well as all France, share equally in the grief ia 
which the most atrocious of crimes has just plunged the Government and people 
of the United States. 

President Johnson, in closing his reply, said 

I offer you my hearty thanks for the sympathy you express, on behalf ol 
their imperial Majesties, for the recent tragical events in this metropolis. 



TRIBUTES OF THE STATES. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

Washington, D. C, April 18, 1865. 

Pursuant to a published call, the citizens of New nampshire 
resident at the national capital, met at the State Agcnc}' rooms. 
on Seventh street, for the purpose of making arrangements to 
attend the funeral of our late President. The meeting, upon 
being called to order, proceeded to organize, with the choice of 
the following officers : Hon, E. A. Rollins, chairman ; J. A. 
Prescott, secretary. 

Mr, Rollins, on taking the chair, addressed the meeting at 
considerable length, setting forth the praiseworthiness of its 
object, and in behalf of those present, and the old Granite 
State, paid a high and eulogistic tribute of respect to the 
memory of our lamented Chief Magistrate. 

Hon, N, G, Ordway, in some brief remarks, spoke very feel- 
ingly of the occasion that had called the sons of New Hamp- 
shire together, and pleasingly alluded to the great and good 
character of the one whose last earthly honors were about to 
transpire. 

On motion of Mr. Morgan, a committee of three were ap- 
pointed to draft resolutions, consisting of F. H. Morgan, J. C, 
Tasker, and Major W. H. H. Allen. The following report was 
adopted : 

Resolved, That the unparalleled atrocity of the crimes which have turned 
days set aside in so many places for national rejoicing into days of national 
mourning well-nigh strikes us dumb. We are lifted above the capacities of 
common sneech by emotions born of such a terrible and unlooked-for calamity. 

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2. That the death of President Lincoln comes to each one of us with all the 
bitterness of a personal bereavement. Our love has grounded itself upon the 
beautiful symmetry of his character, and our confidence justified itself in the 
glorious record of his deeds, which have been an epistle known and read of all 
men. 

3. That we thank God that this martyr of liberty was permitted to catch a 
glimpse of the promised land ; that in answer to his labors and his prayers, he 
heard at last the hallelujahs of grateful freedmen. We thank Him that "the 
good which a man does lives after him," and that the weapon of the assassin 
which let out the life-blood of this exalted patriot could not unhinge our 
memory from his deeds in the past nor his fame from the future. We rejoice 
thart his life, though so shortened in years, was so well rounded for time, and 
that those attributes which most ennoble humanity, born in this man and 
fostered by circumstances, were permitted to so ripen and strengthen and be 
brought to bear upon his race, that he shall in all coming time be pointed at 
by the educators of youth as a patriot statesman, whose virtues lifted him above 
the reach of calumny or reproach. 

4. That we approach with solemn awe the circle in which our lamented Pres- 
ident was wont to rest himself from the cares and troubles of state. If there is 
an exultation in public woe, there is a sacredness in private grief. Though he 
was so much to us, miserable comforters must we be to those who knew him 
amidst the beautiful amenities of home life. In our weakness we entrust his 
stricken wife and children to the solace which has given strength to the widow 
and fatherless since the widow and the fatherless have dwelt upon the earth. 

5. That the abomination of slavery has culminated in the murder of the 
nation's benefactor. We are not to look calmly upon the spilling of our best 
blood. Trust in God's justice and providence does not teach supineness when 
murderers go at large. Instinct louder than law calls for the punishment of the 
perpetrators of this foul crime, and sainted blood cries from the ground that 
every vestige of the poison which has festered into this horrible wound shall 
be cleansed from the nation. Let every one who partaketh of the accursed 
thing be put out of the camp. Let mercy temper justice, but let not justice de- 
generate into weakness. Let murderers and traitors take murderers' and 
traitors' rewards, and let the expression of public sentiment be so cogent that 
submission to order and right shall become a necessity where it may not be a 
virtue. Our country cannot die. Thrice purified shall she come out from these 
troublous times ; and may we so conduct as to have ourselves written up»n this 
page of her history as a people not unconscious of her capacity and her destiny. 

6. That gratitade for God's goodness in so wonderfully preserving Secre- 
tary Seward and his family has ameliorated in no small degree our national 
calamity. A great man has been saved when a great man was most needed. 

7. That to Andrew Johnson, so suddenly called to the presidency so cruelly 
vacated, in behalf of ourselves and our State, we pledge our unwavering faith 
and support. His own ability, years ago, carried him to prominence among 
great men. Long experience has matured his judgment, and his patriotism, put 
to the severest tests, glows brighter by the trial. We accept him as the ap- 
pointed of God — our nation's leader and deliverer. 



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8. That, as expressive of our sorrow at the death of President Lincoln, we 
wear the usual badge of mourning upon our left arm for the period of thirty 
days. 

J. A. PRESCOTT, Secretary. 

MASSACHUSETTS. 

The citizens of Massachusetts met on Monday, the 18th of 
April, at the Massachusetts State Ao:ency, to take action in 
reference to tlie death and burial of President Lincoln. 

Colonel Tufts called the meeting to order. Judge M. S. 
Stone presided, and I. S. Brown acted as secretary. The 
meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. N. M. Gaylord. On 
motion. Major Benjamin Perley Poor, I. E. Farbank, and 
Guilford White were appointed to prepare suitable resolutions. 
The meeting was addressed by Hon. H. S. Dawes, Hon. D. W. 
Gooch, members of Congress, General Benjamin F. Butler, 
Hon. John Prince, and Rev. N. M. Gaylord. 

Resolutions were reported by Major Poor, and adopted, as 
follows : 

Whereas it has pleased Almighty God, in His mysterious yet wise providence, 
to take out of this world the soul of our deceased Chief Magistrate, Abraham 
Lincoln, it becomes us men of Massachusetts, residents or sojourners at the 
national capital, to publicly express our sorrow at the loss of one who has 
been foremost in perfecting these United States of America as a free and 
independent nation : 

Resolved, That we regard Abraham Lincoln as a noble type of the American 
citizen. His private life has ever been characterized by purity, integrity, 
wisdom, moderation, genial manners ; while his public career has been marked 
by a love of liberty, sterling patriotism, persuasive eloquence, eagerness to 
exercise mercy, perfect integrity, and a desire to perform what he believed to 
be his duty towards the citizens of every State and Territory, no matter 
whether they were loyal or rebellious, white or black. Knowing his duties, he 
fulfilled them ; knowing his prerogatives, he exercised them ; strong in the 
consciousness of rectitude, and only asking the support of the people, to 
whom he appealed rather than to the politicians, he manfully performed what 
he believed to be his duty to his family, to his friends, to his country, to the 
human race, and to his God. 

Resolved, That in Andrew Johnson we feel that the deceased President has a 
successor, whose simplicity of character, singleness of purpose, and moral 
courage, will enable him to carry out the work so gloriously commenced. We 
feel confident that our beloved Commonwealth, which has ever been ready to 
strengthen and to sustain the deceased, will give President Johnson a cordial, 



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earnest, and hearty support, endorsing his noble sentiment, that " since kind- 
ness has been repaid by assassination, treason is a crime to be punished with 
justice." 

Eesclved, That we tender an expression of our heart-felt sympathy to the 
bereaved family of the deceased, who can best appreciate his good and noble 
qualities of heart, and who can be comforted by their recollections of his pri- 
vate virtues and of his public services. A nation mourns with them. 

Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be transmitted to the family of the 
deceased, to the President of the United States, and the Governor of Massachu- 
setts, as a memorial of the heart-felt sorrow with which the sons of the Bay 
State in Washington have learned the death of Abraham Lincoln. 

Governor Andrew, on the 17tli of April, sent a message to 
the Massachusetts Legislature, then in session, of which the 
following is an extract : 

Standing, as we do, by the open grave of Abraham Lincoln, we seem to have 
taken now a new departure in our history. The cannon which fulminated the 
thunders of rebellion against the walls of Fort Sumter were the signal guns of 
a revolution which — turned back upon itself by the glorious uprising of a free 
people — has advanced, on its swelling tide, the Cause which the rebellion was 
intended to destroy. Thus far the moral defeat of treason has been exemplary 
and overwhelming. The vigor and persistency of the people, their energy in 
the greatest exigencies of a nation, while the tremendous and dreadful behests 
of war summoned them to duty, have been fully vindicated. 

We had outlived the weary period of delays and military discouragement; 
through many disappointments, and out of many disasters, we had risen to the 
loftiest and sunniest heights of assured, decisive, and overwhelming victory in 
the field of arms. Four years, to a single day, had intervened while this work 
of the American people was going on, when upon the anniversary of the attack 
on Sumter, the flag of the Union, borne back with pomp and pageant, was 
restored with becoming ceremony to its citadel, by the same hands which had 
been compelled by superior force to strike it in surrender. Abraham Lincoln 
had been spared and sustained through all these weary months and years to 
witness the majestic triumphs, the conquering marches of our resistless ar- 
mies, to hear the last wail of disloyal discontent in the loyal States, to receive 
the united congratulations of the acclaiming millions of his countrymen, to 
reap a sweeter and richer reward of deliverance and victory than had ever 
been enioycd by any ruler of the sons of men. His career closed at a moment 
when its dramatic unity was complete, and when his departure from life on 
earth was the apotheosis, and the translation by which, defended against all 
the shocks and mishaps of time, he passed on to immortality. Without dis- 
paragement of his loftiness and fulness, and without detracting from the meas- 
ure of his glory, may we not recognize in his career a direction supreme above 
the devices or conceptions of man, and, seeing how a Divine hand has led us 
through these paths of trial, yield confidingly to its guidance in all future 
years. 



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CONNECTICUT. 



At a meeting of the citizens of Connecticut, held at the rooms 
of Governor Buckingham, in Willards' Hotel, city of Wash- 
ington, April 17, 1865, Governor Buckingham was called upon 
to preside, and W. A. Benedict was chosen secretary. 

Governor Buckingham stated that the object of the meeting 
was to give some fitting form of expression to the feelings of 
the citizens of Connecticut, in view of the great calamity which 
has spread its pall of darkness over the nation in the death of 
its honored head, and to make arrangements for participating 
in the approaching funeral ceremonies. 

Suggestions were made by Hon. James Dixon and others. 

The following committees were appointed : On resolutions 
expressive of the feelings of the meeting, Hon. Lafayette S. 
Foster, Hon. James Dixon, and H. H. Starkweather ; on ar- 
rangements for participating in the funeral ceremonies, Hon. 
James Dixon, W. A. Thompson, Col. H. H. Osgood, J. A. 
Wheelock, and Colonel J. H. Almy. 

On motion of Senator Dixon, the name of Governor Buck- 
ingham was added as chairman of this committee. 

After further suggestions from gentlemen present, the meet- 
ing adjourned to meet at the same place to-morrow afternoon 
at two o'clock. 

April 18, 1865, the meeting met, pursuant to adjournment, 
when the Hon. James Dixon presented the following resolu- 
tions ; which were unanimously adopted : 

Resolved, That, sharing with the people of Connecticut the unutterable sor- 
row which saddens every household and wrings every patriotic heart with a 
Bonse of personal bereavement, in the death of the late lamented President of 
the United States, we unite with them in expressing our profound grief, and 
mingle our lamentations with theirs under the crushing blow which has struck 
our nation from the summit of universal gratitude and joy into the utmost 
depths of affliction and mourning. 

Resolved, That we mourn the loss of the Preserver of the Union, raised 
up by the hand of the Almighty to lead our nation through the perils of the 
great rebellion ; that in him we recognize the guiding intellect, the conscientious 
purpose, the unfailing judgment, the resolute will, the unselfish heart whicli 
were needed to constitute the loader of the nation in its hour of deepest peril ; 
and that his humanity, his confiding trust in God, his devoted love of his coun- 



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try and of the human race, his entire consecration to the spirit of universal 
liberty, have placed him among the foremost of the great benefactors of man- 
kind, who have blessed the world and shed honor upon the human character. 

Resolved, That while we mourn the unspeakable loss which our nation has 
suffered, we devoutly offer to the Great Ruler of the universe our reverent and 
earnest thanks that He permitted our departed and lamented President 
to live and rule over our imperilled country until, under his wise and firm con- 
trol, aided by the Almighty hand, he was permitted to see the rebel hosts de- 
feated and surrendered, their capital and their seaports restored to the authority 
of the nation, their military power overthrown, their wicked leaders driven 
from their seats of power, the great cause of the rebellion — human slavery — 
abolished and destroyed, and liberty and equal rights for all made the basis of 
our national existence. 

Resolved, That we tender to the President of the United States, the Honora- 
ble Andrew Johnson, the assurance of our earnest and unqualified support in 
the performance of the arduous and responsible duties now devolved upon him, 
and that we invoke for him the same conscientious purpose, the same resolute 
will, and the same Divine inspiration and support by which his great predeces- 
sor was sustained and upheld by the Almighty hand. 

Resolved, That we acknowledge with gratitude the providential interposition 
by which our beloved and honored Secretary of State — the confidential friend 
and adviser of Abraham Lincoln — has been protected and preserved from the 
dangers and violence to which he has been exposed ; that we offer to him our 
deepest sympathy, and unite in the prayers of the nation for his speedy and 
perfect restoration to health, and for the safety and preservation of his family. 

Resolved, That we will, as representatives of our State, attend the funeral 
services of our lam.-?nted President in a body, and wear the usual badge ol 
mourning for sixty days. 

Resolved, That we tender to the family of the deceased President the assur- 
ance of our deep and heartfelt sympathy in the great afliction to which God 
has called them, and that we humbly and devoutly supplicate for them the 
blessing and support of their Heavenly Father. 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the family of 
the late President, to the Honorable Secretary of State, and to the President 
of the United States, and that they be published in the public press of Con - 
necticut. 

The reading of the above resolutions was followed by remarks 
from Hon. James F. Babcock, Senator Dixon, Governor Buck 
ingham, Hon. H. D. Sperrv, H. H. Starkweather, A. H. Bv 
ington, W. A. Thompson, A. F. "Williams, and others, appro 
ciative of the character and worth of the late President, au: 
of the irreparable loss the nation has sustained by his death 
expressive of hearty sympathy for the stricken family, and 
for the afflicted family of the Secretary of State ; expressive 



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also of tlie fullest confidence in the integrity, ability, and pa- 
triotic devotion to the interest-s of his country of the Honorable 
Andrew Johnson, now President of the United States. 

Governor Buckingham spoke as follows : 

In all my intercourse with the late President, I have found him calm, self- 
possessed, discerning, honest in intention, and conscientious in action. I did 
not regard him as perfect. I have found no perfection on earth; but I am firm 
in the belief that no man would have been found so well adapted tO' the crisis 
in our national affairs, no one who could so wisely and successfully have dis- 
charged the duties of the executive office through a season unparalleled in the 
history of nations. 

In the stroke that has smitten him down when he seemed more than ever 
to be needed I recognize the hand of God. 

It is a bitter cup we have had presented to our lips. It is a grievous burden 
we are called upon to bear. But in our sorrow we must not forget that the 
providence brings with it lessons of the deepest import. 

It is well for us to study these lessons. God is just. It has sometimes ap- 
peared to me that there was a growing disposition to show too much clemjency 
to the traitors who have plotted the ruin of this glorious republic. I have 
feared there might be danger of degrading magnanimity into the robbery of 
justice. Perhaps God would teach us by the terrible blow He has inflicted as 
one of its lessons that we must be just, and punish according to its full desert 
the treason that has culminated in such an act of atrocity. We may have 
needed just such teaching to reveal to us the full enormity of the crime that 
has been perpetrated against our government. And now that we have been 
taught, our way is plain — let us show mercy to whom mercy is due, and execute 
justice upon those whose crimes are too great to be forgiven. To the deluded 
masses of the South, mercy is due — to the leaders in the great rebellion, no 
mercy can be shown. 

In the future of this nation I have confidence. Under the guiding hand of 
the Almighty Ruler of nations we shall fulfil our destiny. I have confidence 
also in him so unexpectedly called upon to assume the responsibilities of the 
executive office. I believe Andrew Johnson fully realizes the responsibilities 
now devolved upon him. I have confidence in his honesty of purpose, his 
ability as a statesman, and his earnest devotion to the interests of the country. 
I shall be much mistaken if he does not prove himself equal to the great 
emergency. He shall have my cordial and hearty support. 

NEW YORK. 

A numerously-attended meeting of the citizens of New York 
was held on the 17th April, at the New York State Agency. 

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Judi^e J. N". Granger presided. The following preamble and 
resolutions, offered by Colonel Goodrich, were passed : 



Whereas his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United 
States, died on the morning of the 15th of April, from wounds received at the 
hands of an assassin ; and upon the same evening the Hon. William H. Seward, 
Secretary of State, was assassinated in his bed, and his two sons perhaps mor- 
tally wounded; therefore 

Resolved, That in the death of our beloved President our whole country has 
lost its best and dearest friend ; that his life is the brightest page of our nation's 
glory, his death the saddest of our nation's sorrows ; that we prayerfully ask 
Him who ruleth all the people of the earth in His providence to work out His 
purpose in this appalling calamity that has gone so near to the hearts of the 
American people, and to decree and hasten that end which our lamented Presi- 
dent so nearly consummated, and to which he died a martyr — namely, Christian 
liberty and American Union, 

Resolved, That we tender to the bereaved wife and children of him who has 
been so suddenly stricken down our warmest sympathies and condolence ; that 
we offer also to the highly-esteemed Secretary of State, and each member of his 
family, our earnest hopes for their recovery to health and usefulness in the high 
places which they have so long and honorably filled. 

Resolved, That we give our earnest assurance to his Excellency Andrew 
Johnson, President of the United States, that we will bring to his administra- 
tion the same hearty adherence and support as we have always borne to that 
of his predecessor. 

Resolved, That we wear the usual badge of mourning for the period of sixty 
days, and that we attend the funeral of our deceased President in a body. 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the family of 
the late President, to the Secretary of State, and to his Excellency Andrew 
Johnson. 



In a proclamation appointing a day of prayer and humilia- 
tion, on account of the President's death, Governor Fenton 
said: 

The fearful tragedy at Washington has converted an occasion of rejoicing 
over national victory into one of national mourning. It is fitting, therefore, 
that the 20th day of Apr^l, heretofore set apart as a day of thanksgiving, should 
now be dedicated to services appropriate to a season of national bereavement. 

Bowing reverently to the providence of God, let us assemble in our places of 
worship on that day, to acknowledge our dependence on Him who has brought 
endden darkness on the land in the very hour of its restoration to Union, peace, 
and liberty. 



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NEW JERSEY. 



At a meeting of the citizens of New Jersey, held at the 
rooms of Col. RaflFerty, Military State Agent, on Monday even- 
ing, the 17th of April, Hon. Edward Satter was appointed 
chairman, and Dr. A. P. Parton, secretary. Messrs. J. F. 
Burr and Isaac Hacker reported the following resolutions : 

Whereas, in view of the dreadful calamity which has suddenly deprived the 
nation of its beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, while devoutly recognizing 
the hand of God, we bow in sorrow before His inscrutable dispensation : 

Resolved, That in his death the country has lost a true, just, and wise man; 
one possessing the loftiest patriotism and self-sacrificing devotion to the cause 
of human freedom, " with malice toward none, but charity for all." By calm 
and temperate judgment and intrepid devotion to duty he has carried our 
Union through the most horrible conflict with treason that the world has ever 
witnessed. The time had arrived when all men were about to proclaim him 
the saviour of his country, when the hand of a cowardly fiend robbed earth and 
gave to heaven his sanctified spirit. 

Resolved, That to his family and immediate friends we extend our deepest 
sympathy, and we can well measure the depth of their sorrow by ours. 

Resolved, That, appreciating the services of Wm. H. Seward, as Secretary of 
State, with the highest regard for his wisdom and integrity, we pray that God 
may be pleased to spare his life; and we cordially sympathize with his family, 
and trust to rejoice with them by the speedy recovery of father and son. 

Resolved, That with the fullest confidence in the honesty and patriotism of 
Andrew Johnson, who suddenly has been called upon to assume the duties of 
Chief Magistrate, we pledge our cordial and fullest support in all efforts to com- 
plete the work of his immortal predecessor. 

Resolved, That we wear insignia of mourning, bearing the coat of arms of 
our State, for the period of sixty days. 

PENNSYLVANIA. 

A large meeting of citizens of Pennsylvania, then in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, was held on Monday evening, April 17th, 
in the Hall of the Union League, for the purpose of giving ex- 
pression to their feelings upon the national bereavement that 
has befallen the country, in the death of Abraham Lincoln, late 
President of the United States. 

The meeting organized by appointing the Hon. Joseph Ca- 
sey, Chief Justice of the Court of Claims, president, and A. L. 
Hennershotz, Esq., secretary. After an appropriate prayer by 



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the Rev. W. A. Cook, and an eloquent, impressive address by 
the presiding officer, on motion, Brigadier General James A. 
Ekin, Hon. John Covode, Hon. John Joseph Lewis, Hon. Ed 
ward McPherson, Rev. W. A. Cook, John M. Sullivan, Esq., 
Hon. J. E. Brady, Major D. L. Eaton, and S. W. Pearson, Esq. 
were appointed a committee to prepare and report resolutions 
expressive of the sense of the meeting. The committee retired, 
and after a brief interval — during which the meeting was ad- 
dressed by Mr. Joseph J. Chase — reported, through their chair- 
man. Gen. Ekin, the following preamble and resolutions ; which 
were unanimously adopted : 

Wtereas, by the cov/ardly act of an assassin, our honored Chief Magistrate, 
Abraham Lincoln, was suddenly stricken down at a time when the auspicious 
results of his great and patriotic labors gave full assurance of the speedy down- 
fall of the rebellion, and of the immediate restoration of the national authority 
throughout the entire Union ; and whereas, by this appalling national calamity, 
our beloved country has lost its first citizen, and our glorious Union its chief 
defender, while a whole nation is bowed down in grief unutterable ; and 
whereas, by his wise statesmanship, by his unfaltering devotion to the great 
cause of human liberty, by his ardent affection for the Union of the States, by 
the purity of his motives, and the kindness of his heart, President Lincoln 
commanded the respect, the love, and the admiration of the loyal people of 
America to a degree unequalled since the days of the illustrious Washington ; 
and whereas we, citizens of Pennsylvania, and residents of the National Me- 
tropolis, are desirous to attest the profound sorrow which fills our hearts in the 
contemplation of this great public bereavement : therefore, be it 

Resolved, That in the death of his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President 
of the United States, the nation mourns the loss of a wise statesman, a true pa- 
triot, and an honest man ; that his honored name will forever live in the affec- 
tions of loyal Pennsylvanians, as well as those of the whole loyal American 
people ; that none will shine brighter or purer in the annals of a nation which 
he successfully guided through the furious storms of a causeless and wicked re- 
bellion ; that in him we saw personified and illustrated the noble principles 
■which have made Pennsylvania great and powerful ; great, because her corner- 
stone was laid in equity and justice toward all men ; powerful, because labor 
has ever been her wealth, and through all her borders the laborer is held 
worthy of his hire. 

Besolved, That in this most terrible calamity we see but another illustration 
of the diabolical spirit of American slavery ; and in the sacrifice of him, our 
beloved friend, but the latest victim of that malignant hate which has made 
our land a house of mourning, swallowed up our substance, changed many fair 
fields into a wilderness, and written upon the pages of our history a bloody 
and painful, record of war and desolation without parallel in the book of time. 
Eesolved, That we tender to the family of the distinguished deceased our 



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sincere condolence in this tlieir hour of inexpressible anguish, invoking for 
them the kind and merciful dispensations of a beueficeat Providence. 

Hesoloed, That we vpill attend in a body the funeral of the lamented deceased. 

Itesolved, That our warmest sympathies are hereby tendered to the distin- 
guished citizens of our sister State of New York, the Hon. William H. Seward, 
Secretary of State, and also to his respected son, the Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
Assistant Secretary, in the great suffering which has befallen them, through the 
foul spirit of the assassin ; and we fervently express the hope that they may 
soon be restored to their country and their friends. 

Eesolved, That we have an abiding confidence in the wisdom, patriotism, and 
firmness of President Andrew Johnson, and we promise to him the cordial sup- 
port of the loyal people of Pennsj-lvania in carrying out, to full completion, 
the noble work now so nearly finished — the re-establishment of the national 
authority in every State of the American Union; that his determination to visit 
with condign punishment the guilty authors and leaders of the rebellion meets 
with our unqualified approbation, and we promise to stand by the new President 
with the same devotion we extended to his illustrious predecessor. 

Resolved, That a certified copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions be 
forwarded to the respected widow of the late President of the United States, to 
President Johnson, and to the Hon. Secretary of State. 

Resolved, That we will wear the usual badge of mourning for sixty days. 

OHIO. 

A meeting of Ohio citizens, in Washington city, was held at 
the office of J. C. Wetmore, Esq., on Monday evening, the 17th 
of April, 1865, at which Hon. R. C. Schenck was called to the 
chair, and Mr. Wetmore chosen secretary. After touching and 
appropriate remarks by the chairman, a committee, consisting 
of Hon. A. M. Gangewer ; Hon. E. Jordan, Solicitor of the 
Treasury ; Hon. A. G. Riddle, Rev. B. F. Morris, Hon. Wm. 
Helraick, Hon. R. W. Tuyler, and Rev. J. H. Bonte, was ap- 
pointed to prepare a series of resolutions. The following were 
presented and unanimously adopted : 

Resolved, That, in common with the loyal people of tae entire country, we 
mourn the loss of the President of the P>-epublic, Abraham Lincoln. Wise, 
patriotic, and good, he was honored, trusted, and loved to a degree seldom if 
ever surpassed ; the friend of the people, the protector of the oppressed, and the 
saviour of his country, all will unite to weep his fall. Called to act the first 
part in the grandest drama of time, and having acted it so nobly, his fame will 
grow brighter as advancing ages shall set in bolder relief his illustrious virtues. 
Falling at the post of duty, a martyr to his love of country and of right, and 
to his hatred of treason and oppression, his death will secure the great objects 



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to which his life was devoted — the unity and peace of his country, and the 
freedom and happiness of all his countrymen. 

Eesolved, That we tender our most heartfelt condolence to the stricken 
family of the illustrious deceased. 

Besolved, That, in the assassination of the President, we perceive an appal- 
ling exhibition of the brutalizing and relentless spirit engendered by slavery 
and a fresh proof that there can be no safety to the country until that spirit 
shall be completely crushed; an end which, in our opinion, can only be attained 
by the entire extinction of slavery itself, and the adequate punishment of 
those who, at its bidding, have committed deliberate treason, and plunged the 
nation into war. 

Resolved, That, far from being disheartened by the dreadful calamity which 
has befallen the nation, we are but aroused by it to a sterner resolve that our 
Government shall be sustained, that order shall be preserved, that the Union 
shall be maintained, that all its enemies shall be subdued and punished, and 
that the peace, prosperity, and happiness of the nation shall be secured. 

Resolved, That, to secure these ends, with entire confidence in the wisdom, 
integrity, and patriotism of Andrew Johnson, we pledge to him our earnest 
and unreserved support of his administration : sprung, like his great predeces- 
sor, from the midst of the people, we are sure that the interests of the people 
will be safe in his hands. 

J. M. McGrew and H. M. Slade were appointed marshals. 

Governor Brough, in bis proclamation for a day of prayer 
and humiliation, in view of the aiBiction of Divine Providence 
upon the nation, recommends the day to be observed "as a Sab- 
bath of the nation ; that all our people unite, not only in 
humiliation before the Lord, and contemplation of the services 
and virtues of the great and good man who has been taken 
away from us, but in earnest prayer that Almighty God will 
sanctify this great aflSiction to us as a nation and a people ; that 
in His wise providence He will rule all these things for our 
good, and that He will strengthen and guide our present rulers, 
and endow them with wisdom to conduct the nation to peace 
and unity again." 

INDIANA. 

At a meeting of the citizens of Indiana, temporarily resident 
in Washington, and others visiting the capital of the nation, 
Hon. John P. Usher was chosen chairman, and D. P. Hollo- 
way, secretary. 

The chairman briefly announced the object of the meeting, 



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and most feelingly alluded to the life and character of our late 
Chief Magistrate. 

Hon. AY. T. Otto offered the following resolutions, which 
were unanimously adopted: 

Whereas Abraham Lincoln was especially dear to the people of Indiana, 
■where he spent the greater part of his boyish and youthful days, and where the 
remains of his honored mother rest, it is deemed fit that we, the citizens of In- 
diana now in Washington, shall in some appropriate form contribute our offer- 
ing of veneration to his memory; therefore, 

Resolved, That we regard the death of the late President of the United States 
as one of the severest chastisements which has been inflicted upon our country. 
In this calamity we recognize the hand of the Great Chastiser, and reverently, 
but with hearts full of sorrow, submit to His infallible and righteous decrees. 

Resolved, That the exalted public and private character of the late President, 
his freedom from selfish ambition, his fear of God, his love of country, his devo- 
tion to the duties of the high trusts confided to him in this arduous crisis, the 
patience, forecast, unsurpassed wisdom, and magnanimity which he evinced in 
the discharge of them, will cause his memory to be cherished with love and 
reverence by all loyal Americans until the end of time. 

Resolved, That the chairman of this meeting be requested to transmit a copy 
of the foregoing resolutions to the bereaved family of the late President, with 
the assurance of the profound sympathy of the people of Indiana, in the recent 
afflictive dispensation of Providence. 

The following request to the citizens of Indiana was issued 
by Governor Morton: 

State or Indiana, Executive Department, 
Indianapolis, April 15, 1865. 
To the Citizens of Indiana: 

The mournful intelligence has been received that the President, Abraham 
Lincoln, died this morning, from a wound inflicted by the hands of an assassin 
last night. A great and good man has fallen, and the country has lost its 
beloved and patriotic Chief Magistrate, in the hour of her greatest need. I 
therefore request the citizens of Indianapolis, in testimony of their profound 
sorrow, to close their places of business and assemble in the State House Square 
at 12 o'clock, noon, to-day, to give expression to their sentiments over this great 
national calamity. 

J. P. MORTON, 
Oovernor of Indiana, 

ILLINOIS. 

The citizens of Illinois met 17th April at the National Ho- 
tel, for the further consideration of arrangements appertain- 
ing to the funeral of the President of the United States. 



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Governor Yates, chairman, stated that it would be in order 
for the several committees to report, if prepared to do so. 

General Isham N. Haynie, from the committee upon resolu- 
tions, submitted the following preamble and resolutions for 
consideration, which were adopted by the meeting : 

Whereas the nation has been called by the mysterious decree of an over- 
ruling Providence to mourn the loss of the first magistrate of the republic, at 
a period when the best and brightest hopes of the people were centred upon 
him, and at the moment when his long and faithful services had culminated in 
complete triumph ; and whereas we, the citizens of Illinois, his former friends 
and neighbors, present in the city of Washington, profoundly impressed with 
this irreparable loss to us, to the State of Illinois, to the nation, and to the 
world, desire to render just tribute to his great qualities and services ; there- 
fore. 

Resolved, That we deplore, with inexpressible sorrow and anguish, this great 
calamity, which has, at the same moment, robbed us of the kindest and truest 
friend, our great State of its greatest citizen, the republic of its beloved and hon- 
ored Chief Magistrate, the world of one of the ablest advocates of humanity 
and brightest ornaments of the age — to whose memory, virtues, and great qual- 
ities eulogy can never do more than justice. 

Resolved, That we tender to the family of the deceased President our sympa- 
thy and kindest condolence in this their hour of greatest sorrow and deepest 
gloom ; and while we fully realize that all must bow in humble submission to 
this overwhelming dispensation, yet we trust that they (like the great nation 
that delights to honor the memory of the illustrious dead) may find consolation 
in the realization that this great sacrifice will more sacredly consecrate the 
cause to which he was devoted, securing to his name imperishable renown, to 
his countrymen perpetual liberty, and to his country perpetual unity. 

Resolved, That our thanks are due, and are hereby heartily tendered, to the 
Federal authorities for their cordial co-operation and concurrence with the citi- 
zens of Illinois in securing to that State the remains of the citizen she delighted 
to honor and the President she gave to the nation; and that we will receive as 
a sacred trust all that is left of the iilustrious dead, to be deposited among the 
people who first learned to love him because they knew him to be great in 
goodness and good in greatness. 

Resolved, That we unite in tendering to the Honorable William H. Seward 
our heartfelt sympathy for his affliction, and profound thankfulness to God for 
his escape from the assassin's knife, and we trust he may speedily be restored 
to health an<l the discharge of his higli duties to the republic. 

Resolved, That copies of these resolutions and the proceedings of this meet- 
ing be made and delivered to i\Irs. Lincoln, and the public press of the city, 
and their publication requested. 

Resolved, by the citizens of Illinois here assembled, That we deem it proper 
and just to the Slate of Illinois that the remains of Abraham Lincohi, late 
President of the United States, now deceased, shall be interred at the capital 



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ol the State so long his residence; and that the committee appointed by this 
meeting to wait upon his family and relatives be respectfully requested to pre- 
sent this resolution to them, and request their concurrence therein. 

Upon motion of Hon. 0. H. Browning, it was 

Resolved, That in addition to the usual mourning badge of crape worn upon 
the arm, the citizens of Illinois adopt full mourning by wearing crape upon 
their hats for the term of sixty days. 

KENTUCKY. 

The citizens of Kentucky in Washington assembled at Wil- 
lards' Hotel, April 16, 1865, and organized by appointing the 
Hon. Green Clay Smith, president, and James Miller, Esq., 
secretary. 

On motion, it was voted to appoint a committee of five on 
resolutions. 

The Rev. Dr. Robert McMurdy, Col. A. H. Markland, Col. 
C. D. Penuebaker, Captain J. P. Martin, and Dr. N. S. Moore 
were appointed said committee. 

The Rev. Dr. McMurdy, chairman of the committee, reported 
the following resolutions ; which were unanimously adopted : 

Resolved, That, in common with the whole country, we deplore the calamity 
which has deprived the nation of its eminently wise, kind, and judicious head. 
As Kentuckians we feel deeply the loss to our citizens of one who, born on their 
soil, acquainted with their people, sympathizing with the embarrassments, an- 
noyances, and sufferings of the loyal community, was eminently fitted to tem- 
per severity with mercy ; and while administering the laws so as to secure their 
supremacy, yet could win the erring as a kind and patient father. No com- 
monwealth will so sadly feel this af&ictive dispensation as that of Kentucky. 

Resolved, That we heartily condole with Mrs. Lincoln, and her household, in 
their affliction and grief, assuring the esteemed wife of our late honored Presi- 
dent (like him, a native of Kentucky) of our sympathy, and that of every loyal 
Kentuckian. We pray that she may be endued with patience in her distress, 
and with resignation to God's blessed will, and be comforted with a sense of 
his goodness ; and feeling that, as he gave his mind and heart to his country, 
so also shall his very life be given up, if thereby liberty and union may be pre- 
served, and these blessings handed down to posterity, his name being chief in 
the patriotic martyrology of our country. 

IOWA. 

At a meeting of the citizens of Iowa, in the public parlor of 
the National Hotel, on the 15th April, for expression of their 



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sorrow in view of the death of the Chief Magistrate of the na 
tion, Governor Stone presided, and a committee, appointed tc 
prepare resolutions expressive of the sense of tlie meeting, re- 
ported the following, which were unanimously adopted : 

Whereas in this hour of national grief, while the country mourns the loss of 
her honored and loved Chief Magistrate, it becomes us, citizens of the State of 
Iowa, to express our sorrow at this sad and irreparable calamity : therefore, 

Resolved, That as a tribute to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, and as a fit- 
ting expression of the sense of this meeting, the following proclamation of his 
excellency the Governor of Iowa, meeting with our unqualified endorsemeL \ 
and approval, be embodied in these resolutions : 

Washington City, April 15, 1865, 
To the People of Iowa : 

The Federal city is shrouded in mourning. In the midst of joy and triumph 
the nation is suddenly called to deplore the loss of its greatest and truest friend, 
foully murdered by a traitor hand. Stricken down in the fulness of life, and 
when strongest in the hearts of the people, Abraham Lincoln, President of the 
United States, an honest man, an excellent patriot, the friend of the poor and 
the oppressed, the deliverer of his country, has been gathered to a martyr's grave. 

That the people of Iowa who admired and loved the fallen patriot, and so 
nobly sustained the holy cause he represented, may appropriately testify their 
sorrow over this national calamity, I invite them to assemble in their respective 
places of worship on Thursday, the 2Tth day of April, at 10 o'clock A. M., for 
humiliation and prayer to Almighty God. And I request that travel within 
the State and all other secular employment be totally suspended on that day, 
and that all public offices be draped in mourning for the period of thirty days. 

W. M. STONE, 

Oovernor. 

Resolved, That while a nation mourns the death of its Chief Executive, the 
oppressed their deliverer, and the friends of humanity everywhere their advocate, 
yet his family mourns a husband and a father, and to them in this hour of deep 
affliction we tender our heartfelt sympathies and condolence. 

Resolved, That we extend to the Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State 
our earnest sympathies, and our hopes that he and the members of his family 
may speedily be restored to health and usefulness. 

Resolved, That in the patriotism, wisdom, and integrity of his Excellency, 
Andrew Johnson, who has so suddenly and unexpectedly been called to admin- 
ister the affairs of the nation, we have implicit confidence, and we pledge 
him our earnest and unswerving support. 

WISCONSIN. 

> 

At an informal meeting of the citizens of the State of Wis- 
consin, in Washington city, held Tuesday evening, April 18, at 



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the rooms of the Wisconsin State Agency, for the purpose of 
expressing their profound sorrow for the national calamity that 
has befallen us as a people in the death of our lamented Chief 
Magistrate, Abraham Lincoln, the assemblage was called to 
order by the Hon. Bradford Rixford. Brigadier General E. S. 
Bragg was nominated chairman, and S. Cadwallader appointed 
secretary. 

At the request of the Chairman, Hon. A. W. Randall stated 
the object of the meeting to be the expression of individual, 
State, and national grief in the loss of its late President, and 
proceeded to pay a handsome and -well-deserved tribute to his 
memory as a man and a statesman. It became us to bow sub- 
missively to the decrees of an all-wise providence, and to 
believe that the nation's apparent loss was its real and substan- 
tial gain. He concluded by moving that a committee of seven, 
■with Hon. 0. H. Waldo, of Milwaukie, as chairman, be ap- 
pointed to draft resolutions expressing the sense of the meeting ; 
■which was adopted. 

The Chair then named the following gentlemen the commit- 
tee : Hon. 0. H. Waldo, of Milwaukie, chairman ; Ex-Gov. 
A. W. Randall, Hon. Bradford Rixford, Hon. Alex. T. Gray, 
Captain R. H. Chandler, Colonel R. M. Murphy, and Hon. 
William H. Watson. 

After a short absence, the committee reported the following 
resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : 

Resolved, That as we bow beneath the weight of the sudden and appalling 
affliction that hath fallen upon the nation, in the death, at the hand of the 
assassin, of our honored and beloved President, we would, at the same time, 
recognize in this chastisement the inscrutable and all-wise providence of the 
Heavenly Father, who doth not willingly afBict. 

Resolved, That while we cannot refrain from mourning over that which, to 
us, seems our irreparable loss, we will not forget to render thanks to God — th^ 
great Giver — that in the hour of the nation's extremest need He gave us, in 
the person of Abraham Lincoln, a leader and chief endowed v/ith such gentle 
and noble gifts ; with such prudence and practical wisdom; such fidelity, and 
such earnest, patriotic devotion, coujiled with such simple, transparent sincerity; 
such high sense of justice and truth, and such steadfastness and courage, coupled 
with duch gentleness, forbearance, and mercy to all; a man never cast down or 
dismayed in the hour of threatened disaster and defeat, and never exultant or 
boastful in the hour of victory ; a man who, assuming the reins of government 
at his first inauguration at a period of deepest gloom, when traitors were trium- 



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phant, and there was present no visible hand to help, yet stood firm and yielded 
no whit of the nation's honor or the nation's right; and who, at his second 
inauguration, after four years of dreadful struggle, and in view of the moment 
of final and glorious triumph, indulged in no boast, but in the presence of the 
throng of assembled freemen was content to utter the gentle and heartfelt 
appeal, " With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the 
right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are 
in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the 
battle, and for his widow and orphan; to do all which may achieve and cherish 
a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations;" for such a man 
at such a time we thank God. 

Resolved, That we sincerely condole with the bereaved wife and children of 
the deceased President, and we fervently trust and pray that He — the all- 
wise — who hath first blest them with, and hath now bereft them of so gentle 
and noble a husband and father, will heal their wounds, and guide and shield 
them through many years of peace and happiness, in the shadow of the great 
and beloved name of the earthly protector whom they have lost. 

Resolved, That we are not unmindful of the weight of the burden of respon- 
sibility and care so suddenly cast upon him who succeeds to the high trust until 
now held by the deceased President; and while we grieve at our present bereave- 
ment we cannot but regard it as a new proof of the Divine favor, that he who 
BO unexpectedly enters upon the duties of that trust has given such ground of 
confidence in his fidelity, ability, and patriotism, and that we are so fully 
assured that he will receive the cordial, earnest, and undivided support of all 
good men and of all patriots. 

KANSAS. 

At a meeting of the citizens of Kansas in Washington city, 
held at the rooms of the Hon. Sidney Clarke, April 17, 1865, 
Hon. Sidney Clarke was chosen chairman, and H. C. Fields, 
Esq., secretary. 

The following was adopted as expressing the sentiments of 
the meeting : 

An appalling national calamity has occurred. The country is overwhelmed 
with profound grief. The first citizen of the Republic, its constitutional and 
beloved Chief ]\Iagistrate, has been assassinated by the spirit of the slavehold- 
ers' rebellion. Abraham Lincoln was the friend of Union and liberty when 
slavery first developed its treason on the soil of Kansas. He has been doubly 
true in the great crisis of the nation, and he died for the Union, for liberty, for 
mankind. 

We, the citizens of Kansas, now in Washington, representing the united 
voice of our State, mourn his irreparable loss, and bow in reverential submis- 
sion to this inscrutable providence of Almighty God. 

We pledge anew our devotion to the country and to freedom, and will never 



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cease our efforts till the conspirators against the national life are visited with 
that condign punishment which justice demands. 



MISSOURI. 



At a meetinG: of loyal Missourians held to express their sen- 
timents on the death of President Lincoln, Edmund Flagg was 
called to the chair, and H. Jones appointed secretary. 

A. W. Scharit, G. W. McKean, and E. W. Wallace, as a 
committee for that purpose, reported the following resolutions, 
which were unanimously adopted : 

Resolved, That with all good and loyal men of this nation, and friends of 
freedom throughout the world, we would join in sorrow and lamentations at 
the, to us, untimely death of our beloved Chief Magistrate, Abraham Lincoln, 
and tender to his bereaved family our most sincere sympathy and condolence. 

Resolved, That in token of our profound respect we will wear the usual badge 
of mourning for sixty days, and attend the public obsequies with the respective 
departments with which we are attached, or in company with such other organ- 
izations as we may severally deem most proper. 

Resolved, That in the wisdom and patriotism of Andrew Johnson, who has 
by an inscrutable Providence been called to guide and govern this nation at 
the present crisis, we have entire confidence, and accept his record in the past 
as an assurance for the future, and we cordially tender him our earnest support. 

MEETING OP CITIZENS FROM THE PACIFIC COAST. 

The citizens from the Pacific coast met at Senator Nye's 
room, at Willards' Hotel, on the 18th of April, at eleven o'clock 

A. M. 

On motion of Senator Nye, Senator McDougall was called 
to the chair, and A. G. Henry appointed secretary. 

Senator Williams, of Oregon ; Senator Stewart, of Nevada ; 
A. G. Henry, of Washington Territory ; Hon. Thompson Camp- 
bell, of California ; and the Hon. Wm. H. Wallace, of Idaho 
Territory, were appointed a committee to report resolutions 
expressive of the sense of the meeting. On motion, the Chair- 
man was added to the committee. After retiring for a few 
moments, they returned and reported the following, by their 
chairman. Senator Williams, which were unanimously adopted : 

Resolved, That words are too feeble to express our horror and indignation at 
the unparalleled and atrocious crimes committed in this city, on the 14th inst., 



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by the murderous assault upon the Secretary of State, and the assassination of 
the Chief Magistrate of the nation. 

Resolved, That while wa mourn the untimely loss of President Lincoln, we 
also rejoice and thank God for the recent great and decisive victories of our na- 
tional arms, and hope and trust that these victories will be so used and im- 
proved that the infernal spirit that has characterized the present slaveholders' 
rebellion — a spirit that results in the starvation of prisoners of war in loath- 
some dungeons ; that seeks the indiscriminate slaughter of men, women, and 
children by arson ; that has imbrued its hands in the blood of an aged 
and venerated citizen and officer of the Republic while prostrate and helpless 
on a bed of sickness ; that has murdered the head of the nation, by shooting 
him in the most brutal and cowardly manner in the back ; that this fiendish 
spirit may be effectually and forever crushed, and a proper respect for labor, 
law, and justice be restored to the country. 

Hesolved, That when we see acts of magnanimity and mercy requited by 
deeds of blood and violence, we are forcibly reminded of the value of that stern 
and inflexible justice which prompted a Roman father to condemn hia own son 
to death for violating the laws of his country. 

Hesolved, That President Lincoln, by his private virtues, his unsullied pa- 
triotism, his wise and successful statesmanship, has enshrined his memory in the 
hearts of the American people, and that his name will be deservedly inscribed 
upon the highest pinnacle of our country's fame, within the very halo of glory 
that surrounds the name of Washington. 

Resolved, That confiding in the patriotism and capacity of President John- 
son, we pledge " our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honors" to sustain his 
administration to the entire and perfect completion of that work which has been 
consecrated by the labors and blood of Abraham Lincoln and the other mar- 
tyred dead of this war. 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be presented to the bereaved and 
afflicted family of our late lamented President, to whom we tender our heartfelt 
sympathies, and commend them to the kind offices of the nation, and the pro- 
tecting care of the God of the widow and the fatherless. 



iN CALIFORNIA. 



San Feaitcisco, 

Thursday, April 20, 1865. 

The funeral services in honor of the late President in this city yesterday were 
the grandest ever witnessed on the Pacific coast. The procession, three miles 
long, contained 15,000 people. Business was entirely suspended. Every house 
was draped with emblems of mourning. The utmost quiet and decorum pre- 
vailed. 

The obsequies were observed in every town in the State, and in the princpal 
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IN DENVER, COLORADO. 

Denver, Wednesday, April 19, 1865. 

Since the death, of President Lincoln all business in the city has been sus- 
pended. Public buildings, stores, and private residences are all draped in ap- 
propriate emblems of mourning. 

The funeral ceremonies to-day were attended by a larger concourse of people 
that ever before assembled here. The military and civil officers of the Govern- 
ment and Territory, together with all the religious orders, were fully recre- 
Beutdd. 



TRIBUTES OF THE COURTS AND CIVIC 
BODIES. 



THE UNITED STATES COURT OP CLAIMS. 

The death of President Lincoln was announced on the 15th 
of May, by Mr. Weed, the Assistant Solicitor, in the following 
terms : 

Mat it please your honors : Since this court adjourned in March last, and 
ordered a recess until the present time, an event has occurred which has clad 
the whole land in mourning, and to-day we weep at the tomb of him upon 
whom the people had a second time constitutionally conferred the highest office 
in their gift. To-day, all that was earthly of Abraham Lincoln, aftei uaving 
been borne nearly across the continent, followed by the nation in sadness and 
grief, is to be committed to its final resting-place in that State whose idol he 
was, and who gave him to the nation, that Union, in that divine purpose and 
spirit in which it came to us from our fathers, might be saved. It is meet that, 
when the nation is in mourning, the busy pursuits of men be laid aside. Even 
justice may wait another day. When a great sorrow smites a man, the world 
goes on in the old way, heedless of his pain; but to-day the nation is smitten, 
and there is mourning everywhere. Not only here, but reaching across the 
continent, you find everywhere its fitting emblems, speaking more eloquently 
than words of the deep personal and public grief of a whole people. What 
can I say of this great and good man ? He has no need of eulogy, for his deeda 
will speak of his wisdom, his purity, and his greatness, long after those who 
loved him so well shall speak of him to-day. 

I chanced to be standing beside our lamented President when he made his 
farewell speech to his old friends and neighbors who had gathered to speak 
some kindly words of confidence and hope to him, upon his departure from 
among them to assume the duties of the office to which he had been summoned 
by the people. Speaking with unusual impressiveness, he said: " To-day I leava 
you; for how long I know not. I go to assume responsibilities greater than 
ever Washington knew, and unless the same Almighty arm that guided and 
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protected him shall sustain and direct me, I must fail ! " We all know 'witb 
what sublime faith and reverent trust he held fast to Him whose guidance ha 
had invoked, and bravely he bore us in perfect triumph through three dark and 
terrible years of desolation and war, out in the calm sunlight of returning 
peace. We know when he was reviled and traduced he reviled not again, but 
quietly trusted in God. In the old Egyptian State, when a ruler died, procla- 
mation was made, and if he had done any wrong thing, and it could be proven 
against him, he was denied the honorable burial. I would trust Abraham Lin- 
coln to that test to-day. I would defy any man, living or dead, to prove that 
he committed any sin. I may say of him what the world will say of him, that 
. he was a pure and good man, and that neither in his public nor private life did 
he knowingly do any wrong. 

As a lawyer Mr. Lincoln was entitled to no medium place. He brtught to 
the labors of that profession but little of the culture of the schools ; he brought 
rather that acuteness of intellect, that earnestness, that power of comprehend- 
ing great principles, and of stating them logically and briefly, which seemed a 
part of his nature. In his argument of legal questions he was always concise 
and clear in his statements, using no useless or unmeaning words. He went 
directly to the question involved, and brought to its discussion the same practical 
common sense for which, as President, he became so distinguished. As an 
advocate he possessed characteristics which at once placed him at the head oi 
the profession in his own State. How eloquent he was, only those who have 
listened io his appeals in behalf of the oppressed can tell. His was the elo- 
quence which comes from earnestness, from sincerity, and from an honesty oi 
purpose. No man in Illinois was more a favorite with the bar than he ; none 
mourn his loss with deeper grief than those who knew him intimately and 
■well in their every-day association with him, and the earnest labors of his 
profession. 

To-day a grateful but mournful people will lay him tenderly in the bosom 
of his adopted State, remembering that he was faithless to no trust, false to no 
principle ; and future generations will say of him, that he was unselfish and 
pure even as Washington was. What need they say more than that ? 

As a fitting indicatiou of our sense of the great loss the country has sustained, 
I therefore move that this court adjourn until the first Monday in October 
next. 

Chief Justice Casey responded as follows : 

The death of our honored and beloved Chief Magistrate, by the hands of trea- 
eon and violence, has profoundly afi"ected and stirred the minds and feelings oJ 
all loyal persons in this country, and of Christian people throughout the world. 
No man ever more fully possessed the hearts and affections of this natioo. 
Sprung from the ranks of the people, he thoroughly understood and sympa- 
thized with them, and they accorded him not only their fullest confidence, but 
their warmest love. 

Looking back over the vicissitudes and perils of the past four years, every 
patriotic heart is filled with gratitude to the Giver of all geod, for having 



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raised up and placed in power so great and good a man as Abraham Lincoln, 
at such a crisis. A man so pure and unselfish in his purposes, so sagacious 
and wise in his plans, so firm and determined in the right, so lofty in his pa- 
triotism, so kind and forgiving in his temper, so generous and magnanimous 
in his disposition, so entirely devoted to the cause of the Union and the inter- 
ests of freedom. He lived long enough to see, as the fruits of his great labors, 
and of his unfaltering faith in God's providence and the triumph of the right, 
the most wicked and gigantic rebellion the world ever saw effectually crushed, 
and the bright dawn of an effulgent future for the country and institutions he 
served so faithfully and loved so well, and the complete enfranchisement of 
a degraded and enslaved race. 

In the accomplishment of such great objects, the measure of his fame, as a 
great and enlightened Christian statesman, was full and complete ; and it 
needed but to invest his memory with the sacredness of martyrdom to enshrine 
him in the hearts of all good men, everywhere, in all coming time. 

That one so good and great should have belonged to and illustrated by his 
talents and adorned by his high virtues the profession to which we belong is 
matter of just pride to every lawyer and judicial functionary in the nation, 
and is a high tribute to the profession which can produce and foster such high 
moral and intellectual excellence. 

We direct these proceedings to be entered upon our minutes, and, as a fur- 
ther mark of our profound respect for his memory, and unaffected sorrow for 
his death, this court will now adjourn. 

Ordered, That the court be adjourned to Tuesday, the second day of October 
next, at 12 o'clock, M. 

EXPRESSIONS OP SORROW BY THE LEVY COURT OP THE COUNTY 
OP WASHINGTON. 

Levy Couet op Washikgton County, 

April 17, 1865. 

At a meeting of this court, held this day, the following reso- 
lutions were adopted : 

On behalf of the people of the District of Columbia, outside of the cities of 
Washington and Georgetown, this court mingles with the wailing voice of the 
nation its expression of profound sorrow for the death, by the hand of an as- 
sassin, of the President of the United States, whose wisdom and moderation 
have won the admiration of the civilized world; whose humanity, Christian 
meekness, entire reliance upon the Great Ruler of the Universe ; whose ardent 
love of his country and unwearied labor in the public service, have enshrined 
nim in the hearts of the American people, and whose successful pilotage of the 
nation through scenes and difficulties the most trying has made him illustrious. 

While we mourn the loss of the " Preserver of the Union," wo thank God 
that he was raised up for the great work he has so well performed, and that he 
was permitted to behold the breaking up of the rebellion, the restoration of 



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the stars and stripes over all the national forts from which it was torn down 
by the haads of traitors four years ago, and the coming of that glorious day 
that is to witness the whole American people again united under the folds of 
the time-honored "flag of the free." 

Resolved, That we will, in a body, with the officers of this court, join in the 
ceremony of paying funeral honors to the deceased, and will wear crape on the 
left arm for thirty days. 

Resolved, That we tender the condolences of sorrowful hearts to the family 
of the deceased, and that a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to them. 

Resolved, That in the preservation of the life of our beloved and honored 
statesman, the Secretary of State, from the efforts of the base assassin, we recog- 
nize the hand of Providence, and we tender to him and his distressed family 
our heartfelt sympathy, and hope that he and they may be speedily restored to 
health, and that his valuable services to the nation may be continued. 

Resolved, That we sympathize with the President, Hon. Andrew Johnson, 
upon the sudden necessity of his assuming the responsible duties assigned him 
by the American people and the Constitution in this great emergency, and 
assure him of our generous and unqualified support in his new and trying posi- 
tion. 

N. SARGENT, 
President oj the Levy Court. 

Teste : 

Nicholas Callak, Clerk. 

MEETING OP THE BAR AND OP THE GRAND JURY. 

The members of the bar and of the grand jury met in the 
Criminal Court room, City Hall. 

On motion, Hon. Justice Andrew "Wylie, of the Supreme 
Court of the District, presided, and Mr. E. J. Middleton, clerk 
of the court, was appointed secretary. 

A committee, consisting of E. C. Carrington, Esq., Jos. H. 
Bradley, Esq., and Philip R. Fendall, Esq., on the part of the 
bar, and Messrs. George A. Bohrer, James Y. Davis, and 
Henry Barron, on the part of the grand jury, were appointed 
to draft suitable resolutions. The committee retired, and sub- 
sequently appeared, and through their chairman, Mr. Carring- 
ton, reported the following preamble and resolutions : 

A heavy pall overhangs the land, and all hearts are united in the holy 
brotherhood of sorrow. The President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, 
is dead — stricken down, not by accident or disease, but by an awful crime t^at 
has no parallel in the annals of the country. 

Whilst the death of the Chief Magistrate is always a public calamity, on this 
occasion the nation mourns the irreparable loss of one whose labors, rendered 



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illustrious in war, were about to be crowned by the glory of diffusing the 
blessed rays of peace over a reunited land. Adding our voices to the wail of 
lamentation that swells from the nation, without distinction of class or party, 
and with profound abhorrence of the atrocious deed, and a deep sense of shame 
for the stain upon the American character and name : therefore, 
£e it resolved by this meeting, 

1. That we will in a body join in the ceremony of paying funeral honors to 
the deceased, and will wear the usual emblem of mourning for sixty days. 

2. That we tender an assurance of respectful and heartfelt sympathy to the 
family of the deceased. 

3. That on this solemn occasion we renew our pledge of devotion to the 
cause of our country, to which the best energies of our martyred President were 
devoted during his eventful and trying administration, humbly invoking the 
blessing of Almighty God. 

CITY COUNCIL OP WASHINGTON, D. C. 

Mayor's Office, April 15, 1865. 
To the Boards of Aldermen and Common Council: 

Gestlemen^ : The moment of our country's greatest glory and joy has most 
suddenly alternated into its hour of saddest sorrow. The nation's greatest and 
best citizen fell by the hands of an assassin at Ford's Theatre, in this city, about 
the hour of 10 o'clock last night. 

I have summoned you together to give shape and expression to the irrepres- 
sible grief of this community, and adopt measures befitting an event which 
will fill the world with horror and gloom. 

EICHARD WALLACH, 

Mayor. 

Mr. Utermelile then moved the appointment of a committee 
of seven — three from the Board of Aldermen and four from the 
lower Board — to draft resolutions suitable to the melancholy 
occasion ; which was adopted ; and Messrs. Utermehle, Lloyd, 
and Barr were appointed on the part of the Board. 

The committee retired, and after conference with the com- 
mittee on the part of the Common Council, reported the fol- 
lowing preamble and resolutions ; which were unanimously 
adopted : 

Whereas our late President, Abraham Lincoln, has fallen beneath the blow oJ 
a cowardly assassin, stricken down at a period when his magnanimity and exalted 
statesmanship had raised the country from the depression caused by four years 
of bloody war to a period from which the smiling path of peace and plenty 
was clearly brought to view. He has fallen, and the tears of millions of free- 
Dorn Americans water his grave. And while the wail of desolation goes up 



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from all quarters of our land, we, the people of the city of Washington wTiO 
know best his many virtues, private aa well as public, would indicate the high 
esteem in which they have ever held him, the deep regret which they feel for 
his irreparable loss, and the horror and detestation entertained by them for the 
instigators of his death. Of him truly it may be said that in his death the mis- 
guided people of the South have lost their best friend, the American Union ita 
firmest supporter, and liberty its most undaunted champion : therefore, be it 

Resolved, That in the death of Abraham Lincoln, the country has lost a great 
and good man, one prompted by the purest and best motives, one ever solicit- 
ous for the best interest of the whole American people, and whose whole life 
has been enlisted in the cause of liberty and union. 

Besolved, That while words but feebly express our deep sorrow, we tender to 
the American nation and his grief-stricken family our sympathy in this their 
hour of great bereavement, and we pray Almight^v God to avert from this na- 
tion further calamity, and to sustain and comfort the sorrowing widow and fa- 
therless children. 

Resolved, That the Mayor be, and he is hereby, requested to cause the build- 
ings of the Corporation and the chambers of the two Boards to be draped in 
mourning for the period of sixty days ; and further, as an additional mark of 
our respect, the members of the two Boards wear the usual badge of mourning 
for the like period. 

Resolved, That the corporate authorities will attend the funeral obsequies in 
a body; and that the citizens of Washington be, and they are hereby, requested 
to close their usual places of business on the day of the funeral, and to unite 
with us in this last mark of esteem and sympathy ; and that a joint committee 
of seven — three members of the Board of Aldermen and four members of the 
board of Common Council — be appointed to make the necessary arrangements. 

Resolved, That the Mayor be, and he is hereby, requested to transmit a copy 
of these resolutions to the family of our late President. 

CITY COUNCIL OP GEORGETOWN. 

Mayor's Office, Geoegetowit, D. C, 

Apnl 17, 1865. 
Gektlemen : You have been assembled to consider the great national ca- 
lamity which has been brought down upon us by the assassination of Abraham 
Lincoln, President of the United States, and to express yourselves in such a 
manner as may seem to you to become the sad occasion. 

HENRY ADDISON, Mayor. 

Resolved, by the Board of Aldermen and Board of Common Council of 
Georgetown, That we have received with a sensation of profound horror the 
intelligence of the assassination of the President of the United States, and of 
the dastardly attack upon the Secretary of State. 

That whether regard be had to the lofty station of the victim or his personal 
character and virtues, the crime is to be reprobated as one unparalleled for 
•noimity in the history and traditions of the republic, and is one which shocks 



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the enlightened spirit of the age, and merits the unqualified execration of all 
mankind. 

That in the death of President Lincoln we deplore the loss of a great and 
good man, a wise, upright, and magnanimous ruler, whose life, by the common 
consent of his adherents and opponents, was, at this crisis, of inestimable value 
to his country ; whose far-reaching statesmanship, proverbial gentleness of 
heart, and disposition to temper justice with mercy, afforded the surest pledge 
of the speedy extinction of the rebellion, the honorable pacification of our 
country, and the restoration of fraternal relations with our erring brethren of 
the South. 

That we tender our heartfelt sympathy to his bereaved family, and in testi- 
mony of our sense of the national bereavement, the public offices and schools 
of the town be draped in mourning, and the members and officers of the Cor- 
poration will attend the funeral of the President in a body, and will wear crape 
on the left arm for thirty days. 

That our heartfelt sympathy and support are eminently due, and are hereby 
tendered, to our present Chief Magistrate, Andrew Johnson, in his sudden call 
to the discharge of the high and important duties of his office ; and we hereby 
tender to him the expression of our confidence in his ability to discharge them, 
under God, to the best interests of the American people. 

MEETING OP THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION. 

The president, the Hon. Charles Mason, called the meeting 
to order. On motion of Hon. Tliomas B. Florence, a commit- 
tee of five was chosen to draft resolutions, viz : F. A. Aiken, 
John W. Clampitt, D. C. Laurence, W. J. Miller, and Dr. 
Charles Allen. The following resolutions were presented and 
adopted : 

Eesolved, by the National Democratic Association of Washington, D. C, 
That, as a body, we desire to express our profound, sincere, and heartfelt sor- 
row for the national loss which we, in common with our fellow countrymen, 
have met in the death of President Lincoln, by the hand of an assassin. 

Hesolved, That the affections of the American people were fast centring 
around President Lincoln as an exemplar of an enlarged humanity, and one 
whose conciliating and patriotic efforts in the administration of public affairs 
were about to culminate in the restoration of peace to our unhappy country. 

Hesolved, That in order to vindicate the violated law, we pledge ourselves to 
use our utmost endeavors to ferret out and bring to merited punishment the 
guilty perpetrators of this most unnatural crime. 

Eesolved, That the attempted assassination of Hon. William H. Seward, Sec- 
retary of State, and of his son, the Hon. Frederick W. Seward, meets, as in 



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the case of the President, with our deepest and most unqualified condemnation, 
trusting that the brutal assassin will be brought to speedy justice. 

Resolved, That we tender to the sorrow-stricken widow and family of our 
late President our most sincere condolence in this the hour of their great be- 
reavement. 

Mesolved, That the Secretary of the Association be directed to transmit a 
copy of these resolutions to the family of the deceased. 

MEETING OP GERMAN CITIZENS. 

At a large meeting of Germans, held at the " Winter Gar- 
den," Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, of which Mr. Cohn- 
heim, editor of the " Columbia," was president, Dr. H. Risler and 
Geo. Gambs, Second Auditor's Office, secretaries, F. Muhling- 
haus, treasurer, the following preamble and resolutions, in- 
troduced by Mr. A. Shucking, were unanimously adopted : 

Whereas a great calamity has befallen this nation in the sudden death of the 
President of •^he United States : 

Resolved, That we shudder at the deed which has violently deprived this na- 
tion of its constitutional head by the assassin's hand, as one of unparalleled 
atrocity, shocking to all mankind, and second only to the one commemorated 
in the day of its perpetration — "an offence most rank, that smells to heaven ;" 
a crime so enormous that in the presence of it a moral faintness overspreads 
the land. 

That this blow is stunning in its nature, because aimed at the head and 
declared choice of a whole nation ; and, if the voice of a free and enlightened 
people is the voice of God, thus aimed at the God-approved sacred head and 
representative of the sovereignty of a great people, an act of diabolical rebel- 
lion against God and man. 

That although dead in body, Abraham Lincoln, like George Washington, to- 
day liveth, and will continue present with his people, and in the hearts and 
sentiments of his countrymen, while he will live immortal as a martyr in the 
cause of human freedom for all time to come; his atrocious death will be rich 
and glorious in fruits ; the sacrifice of his life and blood will inspire to stronger 
and firmer purposes, resolves, and action. 

That we tender our profound sympathies to the family of the deceased ; 
though deprived as the nation itself is of a father, their anguish can scarcely 
be greater than that felt by ourselves and the friends of liberty and constitu- 
tional government, and of rectitude in its rulers, throughout the civilized world. 
That the German citizens wiLl individually and in their various associate 
organizations pay the last sad respect to our late lamented President. 

Another series of resolutions, prepared by Dr. Henry Risler 



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in the German language for publication in the German papers 
of this country and Germany, were also unanimously adopted. 
In conclusion, Colonel Jos. Gerhardt was selected to report 
to the chief marshal. 

MEETING OF COLORED CITIZENS. 

Pursuant to notice, the colored citizens of Washington met 
in the Fifteenth-street Presbyterian church, on the anniversary 
of the emancipation in the District of Columbia. 

The meeting was organized by electing Mr. C. A. Stewart 
chairman, and Mr. W. H. Wormlcy secretary. Remarks were 
then made by several speakers, relative to the death of the 
late President of the United States. 

The Chair appointed the following gentlemen a committee on 
resolutions. 

Samuel J. Datcher, William Syphax, D. G. Muse, William 
A. Hughes, and John F. Cook. 

The committee, after a brief withdrawal, reported the fol- 
lowing resolutions, which were unanimously adopted, as expres- 
sive of the feelings of the meeting : 

Whereas on the 14th of April, 1865, our late President, Abraham Lincoln, 
was foully assassinated ; and whereas, in him, we, the colored people of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, have lost an emancipator, benefactor, friend, and leader; 
therefore, be it 

Resolved, That we, in common with all other loyal citizens of the republic, 
have cause to mourn the sudden loss of one whose faithfulness to convictions of 
duty, and earnest execution of his realizations of the truth, whose warm-heart- 
edness, magnanimity, frankness, and honesty have endeared him to our hearts. 

Resolved, That we devoutly feel this lamentable event to be a part of the 
chastening discipline to which the nation is being subjected for its departure 
from the original principles on which the government was founded, the self- 
evident and unyielding truths of the Declaration of Independence, " That all 
men are born free and equal, and endowed with the inalienable gift of life, 
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." 

Resolved, That we condole with his sorrowing wife and bereaved children in 
the terrible bereavement; and our sincere prayers shall be to Almighty God to 
sustain them in their hour of saddening trial. 

Resolved, That we sincerely sympathize with the Hon. Secretary of State, 
and his son, the able Assistant Secretary, and their families, in their great suf- 



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fering and aggravated injuries, and pray God for their speedy recovery to 
health. 

Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be published in the city papers, and 
a copy be transmitted to the family of our late President. 

Tributes of respect to the memory and services of President 
I/incoln were expressed, in appropriate resolutions, by various 
benevolent organizations and churches in Washington city and 
Georgetown, but the limits assigned to this work preclude their 
insertion 



FUNERAL HONORS ON THE ROUTE FROM 
WASHINGTON TO SPRINGFIELD. 



The funeral cortege, by order of the Secretary of War, who 
had superintended and directed the entire funeral ceremonies 
with admirable efiSciency, left "Washington with the remains of 
the late President, on Friday morning, the 21st of April, 1865, 
for Springfield, Illinois, the place of their final interment, and 
the early and cherished home of Mr. Lincoln. 

Peace ! Let the long procession come, 
For hark! — the mournful, muffled drum— 

The trumpet's wail afar — 

And see! the awful car! 

Peace! Let the sad procession go, 
While cannon boom, and bells toll slow: 

And go, thou sacred car, 

Bearing our woe afar! 

Go, darkly borne, from State to State, 
Whose loyal, sorrowing cities wait 

To honor all they can 

The dust of that good man! 

Go, grandly borne, with such a train 
As greatest kings might die to gain: 

The just, the wise, the brave 

Attend thee to the grave ! 

And you, the soldiers of our wars. 
Bronzed veterans, grim with noble scars, 

Salute him once again. 

Your late Commander — slain! 

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So, sweetly, sadly, sternly goes 
The Fallen to his last repose: 

Beneath no mighty dome, 

But in his modest home; 

The churchyard where his children rest, 
The quiet spot that suits him best: 

There shall his grave be made. 

And there his bones be laid ! 

And there his countrymen shall come. 
With memory proud, with pity dumb, 

And strangers far and near, 

For many and many a ^ar! 

For many a year, and many an age. 

While History on her ample page 

The virtues shall enroll 

Of that Paternal Soul! 

— H. H. Stoddaed. 

And now the martyr is moving in triumphal march, mightier than when 
alive. The nation rises up at every stage of his coming. Cities and States are 
his pall-bearers, and the cannon speaks the hours with solemn progression. 
Dead, dead, dead, he yet speaketh. Is Washington dead ? Is Hampden dead ? 
Is David dead? Disenthralled of flesh, risen to the unobstructed sphere where 
passion never comes, he begins his illimitable work. His life is now grafted 
upon the Infinite, and will be fruitful, as no earthly life can be. Pass on, thou 
that hast overcome! Your sorrows, oh people, are his paeans; your bells and 
bands and muffled drums sound triumph in his ears. Wail and weep here ; 
God makes it echo joy and triumph there. Pass on! Four years ago, oh 
Illinois, we took from thy midst an untried man, and from among the people ; 
we return him to you a mighty conqueror. Not thine any more, but the na- 
tions ; not ours, but the world's. Give him place, oh ye prairies ! In the midst 
of this great continent his dust shall rest, a sacred treasure to myriads who 
shall pilgrim to that shrine to kindle anew their zeal and patriotism. Ye 
winds that move over the mighty places of the West chant his requiem! Ye 
people, behold the martyr, whose blood, as so many articulate words, pleads for 

fidelity, for law, for liberty ! 

— Henst Wabd Beecheb. 



OBSEQUIES AT BALTIMORE. 

The funeral train arrived in Baltimore at 10 o'clock Friday 
morning, April 21st. Governor Bradford and the State and 
city authorities, Major General Wallace, Brigadier General 
Tyler, Commodore Dornin, and many other officers of the army 



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and navy were present, and escorted the remains to the fun'»ral 
car ; thence they were followed by an immense multitude, and 
placed in state in the rotunda of the Excliange Building, and 
were visited by tens of thousands during the day. 

The military display, under General Lockwood, was the most 
imposing ever witnessed in Baltimore ; and the civic procession, 
headed by the Governor of the State, and composed of the 
clergy, fire department, and benevolent associations, was the 
largest ever assembled in that city. The tribute was with an 
unanimity never before equalled by the citizens of Baltimore. 
The sorrow was sincere, and the homage to the illustrious dead 
universal. Houses, public buildings, churches, and flags, were 
everywhere draped in mourning symbols. 

This spontaneous tribute to the memory of President Lincoln 
marked a grand historic epoch in the public sentiment of Balti- 
more and Maryland in favor of the principles for which he 
died as a martyr. In February, 1861, the President elect 
passed in secrecy through the city, on his way to Washington 
to be inaugurated ; but in April, 1865, though a dead President, 
he is borne as a triumphant conqueror through the same city, 
and receives the profound and tearful homage of the people. 
The State, under his benign and wise administration of the 
general government, had been radically revolutionized in favor 
of freedom, and had abolished slavery by a legal and popular 
decree, and their reverence and love for the great emancipator 
and good man found expression in every form of sorrow. They 
felt the national calamity as a personal bereavement, and the 
honor paid to his memory and services were worthy of the 
Monumental city and State of Maryland, of which it is the 
metropolis. 

On the route from Baltimore toHarrisburg,at every railroad 
station, thousands of the country people assembled and mani- 
fested their sorrow in affecting and beautiful symbols. At 
York, the ladies asked permission to lay on the coffin a wreath 
of flowers. General Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General 
United States Army, granted the request, with a modification 
that six of them might perform the service. During the per- 
formance of a dirge by an instrumental band, the flowers were 
brought forth and carried in procession to the funeral car, 



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while the bells tolled, and all the men stood uncovered. The 
ladies — Mrs. Samuel Smalley, Mrs. Henry E. Miles, Mrs. 
David E. Smalley, Miss Plover, Miss Louisa Ducka, and 
Miss Jane Latimore — entered the car, three on each side of the 
coffin ; and the wreath having been handed to them, they placed 
it in the centre of the coffin and then retired, those who wit- 
nessed the scene bitterly weeping. The bells continued to toll 
and the band to sound its mournful strains. The wreath was 
very large ; about three feet in circumference. The outer circle 
was of roses, and alternate parallel lines were composed of 
white and red flowers of the choicest description. 

FUNEEAL HONORS AT HARRISBURG. 

The Governor of Pennsylvania received the following official 
notice to receive the remains of the late President in the capi- 
tal of Pennsylvania : 

Washington, April 19, 1865. 
To his Excellency Governor A. G. Cuetin : 

The remains of the lato President, Abraham Lincoln, will leave Washington 
on Friday morning at 8 o'clock, to go by way of Baltimore to Harrisburg, and 
thence to Philadelphia and New York, by the time-table as arranged. The re- 
mains will reach Harrisburg at 8 P. M. on Friday, and leave at 12 noon on 
Saturday, for Philadelphia, where they will remain until 4 o'clock Monday 
morning, and then be conveyed to New York. A copy of the time-table and 
programme will be forwarded to you to-morrow. You are respectfully invited 
to meet the remains with your staff, at such point as you may designate to this 
Department, and accompany them so far as you may be pleased to go. Yon 
will please signify to this Department, by telegraph, where you will join the 
remains ; whether you will take charge of them at Harrisburg ; where you will 
have them placed while they remain at the capital of your State, and what 
honors you desire to pay while there. 
By order of the Secretary of War : 

E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Brigadier General, A. A. 0. 

In reply to the above, his Excellency immediately despatched 
as follows : 

Haeeisbubg, April 19. 

To Brigadier General Townsend, War Department : 

I propose to take charge of the remains at the line of the State, and to ac- 
company them until they leave the State. I will meet them at the border. 



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They will be placed in the capitol at Harrisburg. All the military and civil 

honors that can be arranged will be shown. Measures are being taken for that 

purpose. 

A. G. CURTIN. 

PROCLAMATION OP THE GOVERNOR. 

In the name of and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
Andrew G. Curtin, Governor of the said Commonwealth — 

A PEOCLAMATION. 

The remains of the murdered patriot, Abraham Lincoln, President of the 
United States, will arrive in the State on Friday evening next, on their way 
to the place of interment in Illinois. They will come from Baltimore to Har- 
risburg ; thence they will, on Saturday, be conveyed to Philadelphia, and thence 
on Monday morning to New York. I shall meet them at the State line, and 
take charge of them while in the Commonwealth. I recommend that all busi- 
ness be suspended during their passage through the State. Local authorities 
and people everywhere join the State authorities heartily in paying honor to 
the memory of the martyred statesman who has fallen a victim to the savage 
treason of assassins. 

A. Q. CURTIN. 

By the Governor : 

Eli Slifer, Secretary of the Commonwealth. 

The following order was sent to General Cadwalader, com- 
manding the military department of the State : 

War Department, 
Adjutant General's Office, April 19. 
To Major General Cadwalader : 

You will meet the remains of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, npon 
their entry into your line, and escort them to Harrisburg, the capital of Penn- 
sylvania, keeping guard over them while they remain in your command. Tho 
ceremonies and public honors to be paid them, while in your command, will 
be in conformity with the direction of the Executive of the State, to whom you 
will report. 

By order of the Secretary of War: 

E. D. TOWNSEND, A. A. O. 

On the reception of the remains, the streets of Harrisburg 
were densely thronged, and a large military escort accompanied 
the remains of President Lincoln to the State House, amid the 
sound of minute guns, where the corpse was exposed to the view 
of the public until a late hour at night. 

A little more than four years ago there was a scene of re- 



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joicing in the capital of the great Commonwealth of Pennsyl- 
vania. Flags were hung on outer walls, and there was every 
token of jubilation. Deep-mouthed cannon proclaimed a great 
event. Hosannas rang in the air, and shouts of applause shook 
the capitol from foundation to dome. 

Four years had elapsed, and Abraham Lincoln, or at least 
his outward semblance, was again within the walls of the 
capitol. Now, as then, a vast concourse of people had gathered 
in the capitol of the Commonwealth, from far and wide. Those 
who saw him then saw him now, for that was the order of their 
coming. The same men and women who shouted and waved 
their handkerchiefs for Abraham Lincoln in 1861 were here 
now to mourn. 

The lips that moved then in praise, were lisping now in 
prayer ; for the lips of him who spoke then were now fixed in 
death. But the policy he enunicated then, through the grace 
of God, was fixed upon the country. He said then he would 
do nothing to alarm the American people or arouse their 
animosities. How well he had kept his promise let his meek 
and merciful life testify. Some doubted him then ; none doubt 
him now. The once incredulous wept with the sanguine, for 
grief does but unite our hearts. Amid the general drapery 
of mourning, there was the great man's picture with this in- 
scribed : " Being dead, he yet liveth." Thirty thousand people 
from the adjacent country visited the remains of the late Presi- 
dent while in Harrisburg, in silent and solemn grief for their 
and the nation's loss. 

OBSEQUIES AT PHILADELPHIA. 

Philadelphia, the birthplace of American Independence, had 
no day in her history like that of Saturday, the 22d of April. 
At half-past four in the afternoon the remains of Abraham Lin- 
coln, the gentle and humane President, whom she loved as slic 
loved Washington in other days, arrived within her limits. 
Half a million of sorrow-stricken people were upon the streets 
to do honor to all that was left of the man whom they 
respected, revered, and loved witli an affection never before be- 
stowed upon any other, save the Father of his Country. Uni- 



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^■ersal irrief was depicted on the faces of all. Hearts beat quick 
and fast with the throb of a sorrow which they had never before 
experienced. Young ana old alike bowed in solemn reverence 
before the draped chariot which bore the body of the deceased, 
assassinated President. The feeling was too deep for expres- 
sion. The wet cheeks of the strong man. the tearful eyes of 
tlie maiden and the matron, the hush which pervaded the atmos- 
phere and made it oppressive, the steady measured tread of the 
military and the civic procession, the mournful dirges of the 
bands, the dismal tolling of the bells and the boom of the 
minute guns, told more than it is possible for language to ex- 
press. Slowly and sadly the funeral cortege moved over the 
designated route. Everywhere were the emblems of mourning. 
The flags were all at half-mast and heavily draped, and not a 
house along the line of procession, indeed, not a house in all 
this vast city, but exhibited the signs of grief, the weeds of 
woe. Rome never paid such honors to her dead heroes. 
Greece never lavished such expressions of sorrow and regret 
over the remains of her departed great. The day was a day of 
mourning in Philadelphia. It was a day devoted solely as a 
mighty tribute of regard to the illustrious dead ; and as the 
funeral car bearing the casket which inclosed the precious dust 
passed along the crowded streets, all felt that too much respect 
could not be given to the dead President, whose every thouglit, 
whose every pulsation of his generous heart, and whose only 
ambition were for the wclfo-rc of his poor bleeding country. 

The mourning throngs at least realized, what it was so dif- 
ficult to realize just one week previous, that the noble ruler, 
who for four years had been striving to secure the perpetuity 
of our institutions, and preserve untarnished the lustre of our 
old flag, had passed from life unto death. 

They thought of all that he had done ; how bravely he had 
stood up during the darkest days of the rebellion, and encour- 
aged his people ; how his own stout heart, stout in faith and 
the justice of our cause, had refused to yield to despondency, 
and ever hopeful, ever cheerful, had imparted his own hope- 
fulness, his own buoyancy, to tlieir own hearts. 

They thought of Ins unselfishness, and they recalled to mind 
the thousand magnanimous acts wliich have endeared him so to 
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the affections of the people. The mother, the wife, the sister, 
remembered bow he cared for the soldier, and the sleepless 
interest he took in his welfare. The veteran remembered his 
kind words and genial smiles, and turned aside and wept. 
Children gazed through dimmed eyes on the sable chariot, and 
felt that they too had lost a parent in " Father Abraham." 

ARRIVAL AT INDEPENDENCE HALL. 

It was nearly 8 o'clock when the funeral car arrived c/f)po- 
site the lower or southern main entrance to Independence 
Square, The Union League Association were detailed to re- 
ceive the body at that point, and superintend the work of hav- 
ing it placed in its proper position in Independence Hall. The 
members of the league assembled in great numbers at Concert 
Hall, about 5 o'clock, and proceeded from thence to Independ- 
ence Square, accompanied by a fine band of music and colors 
draped in black. The members were all dressed in full suits of 
black, and wore white gloves. On reaching: the square, the 
members of the association took up position on either side of 
the main thorouglifare ; they were formed in two ranks, and 
filled the square from one end to the other. The band was 
placed in the State House steeple, and prior to the arrival of 
the remains performed a number of dirges. 

When the funeral car reached the main entrance to the 
square, the coffin was removed and taken within the inclosure, 
when the line of procession was formed, consisting of the body- 
guard and pall-bearers, and the solemn cortege moved slowly 
and sorrowfully through the square to Independence Hall. 
The members of the Union League stood with uncovered heads, 
and the band in the steeple performed a mournful dirge. The 
square was brilliantly illuminated. 

In the shadows of night and to the sad music of the wailing 
bands, the dead President was borne through Independence 
Square into Independence Hall. Abraham Lincoln, the martyr 
of the nineteenth century, was laid in solemn repose beneath 
the roof wliich covered the grand old heroes and statesmen of 
tlic Revolution. Cold and l-foless he lay in the same chamber 
where our fathers subscribed their names to the innnortal 



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magna charta of our liberties, the declaration of AmericaE 
independence. On the 22d of February, 1861, he was in that 
hall, and under the inspiration of its sacred memories, while 
raising the national flag above its hallowed roof, he uttered these 
significant words : 

It was something in the Declaration of Independence, giving liberty, not only 
to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. It was 
that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the 
shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. * * Now, 
my friends, can the country be saved upon that basis ? If it can, I will con- 
sider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. But 
if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about 
to say I would rather be assassinated upon this spot than to surrender it. 

He may have had a glimpse into the future, and his eye may 
have seen dimly the fate which overtook him at the moment the 
noble principles for which he has so long and faithfully con- 
tended were triumphantly vindicated and forever established. 

It was proper that Abraham Lincoln, the champion of free- 
dom, the martyr to those principles, should rest over the holy 
Sabbath in this sanctuary of the republic. It was fitting that 
his remains should repose during the sacred hours beneath the 
eyes of the statesmen and patriots who look down from the 
walls of that consecrated temple — a temple dedicated nearly a 
century since by our fathers as a shrine to human freedom — a 
shrine to which all time would come with reverence and afi'ec- 
tion. It was meet that the sacrifice of the nineteenth century 
should be laid in awful glory at the feet of his statue whose 
memory we were taught to love and honor in our infancy — 
George Washington. 

At the head of the coffin, clothed in black drapery, relieved 
by a profusion of flowers in bouquets, wreaths, crosses, and 
anchors, is the great bell tliat ninety years ago burst with the 
miglity strokes that proclaimed tlic passage of the Declaration 
of Independence. It still bears in cut bronzie the famous in- 
scription — 

Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof. — 
Lev., XXV., 10. 

Then there is the chair in which Hancock sat when presiding 



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over tLe Continental Congress ; the chair he rose from when 
he stepped to the clerk's desk on the fourth day of July, 1776, 
to sign his name in bold characters to the Declaration, Around 
the room are statues and pictures of Washington and others of 
the fathers. The whole hall is one mass of flags, drapery, and 
flowers — flags for patriotism, drapery for mourning, flowers for 
love, for hope, for all tender and beautiful sentiment, and for 
the resurrection. 

Independence Hall has, during the years which succeeded the 
Fourth of July, 1776, been the scene of many joys and much 
sorrow, but the old walls never before witnessed such touching 
displays of grief. The occasion will be ever memorable in its 
history as one in which a city's tears were freely shed, when 
sorrow and distress were superior to every other interest, and 
when mourning thousands passed through its sacred inclosure 
intent only upon a tearful duty. Peace to the memory of the 
good President. Honor will gild his name in history, and 
generations 3'et unborn will bless the memory of the man who 
restored republican institutions to their true course, and taught 
the world a lesson of freedom which will redound to the advan- 
tage of the oppressed in every land. 

Of all the incidents connected with the late solemnities in 
Philadelphia, not one has been so full of silent pathos, so full 
of present and future meaning, as that of the poor black woman 
bringing her " roughly-made" wreath of evergreen, and in tears 
presenting it, to be placed at the head, or at the feet, or some- 
where near the beloved remains of him, the crowning act of 
whose life was the immense benefit he had conferred upon her 
people — her down-trodden, her oppressed people. Was she not 
on that solemn occasion the chosen representative of her race ? 
'Twas right to strew rare and sweet flowers around the form 
of the one so loved and honored. This poor woman's tribute 
was, however, an evergreen — emblematic of the everlasting re- 
membrance in which the name of Abraham Lincoln would be 
held in all time to come. 

No formal funeral oration or services were performed over 
the remains while in Philadelphia, except an expressive prayer 
ofi'ered by Rev. Dr. Brooks, on the reception of the remains at 
Independence Hall. The Sabbath, as the remains rested in 



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tliat consecrated Hall, was improved by most of the ministers 
in delivering appropriate discourses on tlie character of the il 
lustrious dead, and the providence that had so suddenly be- 
reaved the nation of its great chieftain and ruler. 

The funeral procession through the streets of the city num- 
bered one hundred thousand, and three hundred thousand more 
were spectators. During Saturday evening, the 22d of April, 
and the following Sabbath, it was estimated that three hundred 
thousand visited Independence Hall to gaze upon the face of 
our martyred and immortal President. The days are historie 
and memorable days in the annals of that patriotic and loyal 
city, and will be in interest and moral significance reckoned 
with the immortal days of revolutionary memory, which trans- 
pired in that city then, so full of the inspirations of liberty and 
of loyal devotion to the great principles of freedom and right 
for which Abraham Lincoln fell a martyr on the night of the 
14th of April, 1865. 

The scenes between Philadelphia and New York were im- 
pressive pictures of the universal sorrow. 

At Newark, New Jersey, it seemed as if the inhabitants had 
resolved to turn out en masse to pay their brief tribute of 
respect to the memory of the departed as his coffin passed by. 
For a distance of a mile, the observer on the train could per- 
ceive only one sea of human beings. It was not a crowd surg- 
ing with excitement or impatience like most assemblages, but 
stood quiet and apparently subdued with grief unspeakable. 
Every man, with hardly an exception, from one end of the town 
to the other, stood bareheaded while the train passed ; half of 
the women were crying, and every face bore an expression of 
sincere sadness. Housetops, fences, and the very ditches beside 
the track, were covered with people. Nothing could be more 
touching tlian the simple unanimity with which the men and 
women of Newark left their avocations and waited beside the 
track for the passage of the funeral train. 

Jersey City witnessed a grand reception of tlie remains of 
the President. The train moved slowly into the immense 
station, than which there is no larger hall in the country. A 
brilliant collection of military officers and a large number of 
civic dignitaries were gathered on the floor. The long galleries. 



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extending all around the hall, were filled with ladies, and in the 
centre of the hall was stationed a choir of seventy German 
male singers, whose voices ascended tlirough the lofty arches in 
a solemn chant, the sound blending in exquisite harmony with 
the solemnity of the scene. The reception at Newark was the 
most touching; that at Jersey City the most thrilling. A sin- 
gular circumstance in this building was the huge clock of the 
railroad station being stopped at twenty minutes past seven, the 
hour of the President's death. As the cortege crossed the 
river on the ferry-boat, the choir sang again with fine effect. 

FUNERAL HONORS IN NEW YORK. 

New York never before saw such days as it witnessed on 
Monday and Tuesday, the 24th and 25th of April, 1865. Rome 
in the palmiest days of its power never witnessed such a 
triumphal march as New York formed and looked upon. 
When, four years ago, Abraham Lincoln passed through 
the city to be armed with authority as the nation's leader, 
Broadway sufficed to contain the crowd which, with varied 
sentiments, cheered, and scoffed, and scowled him a doubtful 
welcome. When the same people, inspired with a common, 
universal sorrow, sadly followed his body, crowned with more 
glorious honors as the nation's saviour, the same wide street 
hardly held a fraction of them. Then he was going to be 
crowned Chief Magistrate of a divided people and disruptured 
nation on the eve of a great, bloody, and uncertain war. Now 
he was the great martyr of a nation united under his guidance 
and that of God, by the successful close of that gloomy war. 
Then he passed through almost unknown, and the crowd that 
followed his coach with cheers were actuated by curiosity as 
much as by admiration. Now it was different ; it witnessed 
the real triumphal march of Abraham Lincoln ; for he had con- 
quered the prejudices of all classes, and the hearts of the peo- 
ple who honored him beat with love and veneration for the 
man. Better for his fame that it should thus come late than 
too soon. This test of his success and his greatness can never 
be doubted or disputed. 

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mournful, could produce anytliing like it, if we regard it either 
in point of numbers, or tlie class of men who participated, or 
the universality with which all interests, nationalities, creeds, 
political bodies, trades, professions, and ranks united — all ani- 
mated by one spirit, and that spirit respect for the dead, asso- 
ciated with a deep love of country, of which the illustrious 
departed was so honorable an example. The funeral ceremo- 
nies of the iirst Napoleon, in the streets of Paris, when his re- 
mains were transferred from St. Helena to the Invalides by 
Louis Philippe, were regarded as the greatest pageant the world 
had ever known, but the pageant in New York far exceeded 
it. The idol of France received no more devoted homage than 
was paid to the deceased President of the United States by 
the people of the metropolis of this republic. The restoration 
of the dead Napoleon to France brought about the restoration 
of the Bonajmrte dynasty. So the circumstances attending 
the death of Mr. Lincoln have ushered in a new era in the po- 
litical history of this country — an era of strength, unity, and 
unswerving patriotism. As France, under the regime inaugu- 
rated by that event, became a great empire, so also will tho 
United States assume, from the consequences of the tragedy 
which has lately been enacted, a grander position as a republic 
than they have ever occupied before. 

It is estimated that there were in the procession one hundred 
thousand men, of whom twenty thousand were soldiers. One 
hundred bands sent forth solemn strains of music during the 
march. From half a million to a million of spectators are 
supposed to have witnessed the spectacle. Among those who 
followed the remains was the venerable soldier and chieftain, 
Lieutenant General Scott. 

The city, in all its private and public buildings, was draped 
in symbols of mourning, and beautiful and appropriate mottoes 
were everywhere seen, expressive of the profound and heart- 
felt grief of that great commercial centre of the nation. 

The public services in Union Square, held on Tuesday after- 
noon, the 25th of April, were of the most imposing grandeur and 
solemnity. They were opened with the following prayer, by 



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Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, who was introduced to the vast au- 
dience bj ex-Governor King : 

I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord ; he that believeth in me, 
though he were dead, yet shall he live ; and whosoever liveth and believeth in 
me shall never die. I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand 
at the latter day upon the earth, and though after my skin worms destroy this 
body, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes 
shall behold and not another. We brought nothing into this world, and it is 
certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken 
away, blessed be the name of the Lord. 0, God, who art the God of the spirits 
of all flesh, in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways, in Thine 
infinite wisdom Thou hast seen well to take away the desire of our eyes with 
a stroke, the anointed of the Lord and the faithful choice of a loving people, 
under whose shadow we hoped and desired to dwell before Thee. We bow be- 
fore Thy righteous will with deep humiliation, submission, confidence, and faith. 
We revere and acknowledge Thee as the high and lofty One who inhabitest 
eternity, whose name is Holy, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow 
of turning. We look upon Thee as a Father of infinite tenderness, reconciling 
us unto Thyself in Thy dear Son ; and as a father pitieth his own children, so 
have compassion on all them that fear Thee. We confess Thee as the Saviour 
and defence of Thy people, who hast put away their sins by an infinite sacri- 
fice, and as far as the east is from the west, and rememberest our iniquity no 
more. We acknowledge Thee this day the God of all comfort and consolation, 
whose gracious command in Thy word is, " Comfort ye, comfort ye, my peo- 
ple, saith your God ; cry unto them that their warfare is accomplished and their 
iniquity is pardoned." 0, God, we would bow with deep humility before the 
righteousness of Thy will, and with unfeigned gratitude acknowledge the ful- 
ness of Thy grace. A mourning and bereaved people gather together at Thy 
feet; we would come with the deepest feeling of thankfulness for that which 
Thou hast given and for that which Thou hast taken away. We bless Thee for 
all the influence, example, wisdom, and fidelity of the loved and exalted ruler 
whom Thou didst set up over us, and whom Thou hast now taken to 
Thyse'i. We praise Thee that Thou hast made him the instrument ot 
saving this nation from overthrow and ruin ; that Thou hast made 
him thine agent in subduing a rebellion terrific and atrocious, whose 
condemnation is recorded by Thee. We bless Thee that Thou hast spoken 
peace by him to the oppressed and suff'ering, proclaiming liberty to those held 
in bondage, and bid millions of helpless and despairing lift up their heads with 
joy among Thy people. We thank Thee for the remembrance of all his fidelity 
in government, ruling in equity as the morning which ariseth without a cloud, 
and for all that meekness, and gentleness, and faithfulness, and love, so attract- 
ive and so conspicuous in his example. And while with the deepest seise of 
our loss we bow, as bereaved and mourning ones at Thy feet, with the most 
humble thankfulness for all that the nation has gained through his instrument- 



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aliiy and faithfulness, we adore and glorify Thy name. We meet throughout 
this land to-day in the spirit of accordant supplication and praise. We implore 
thy blessing upon this whole nation, that this chastisement, painful and mys- 
terious as it appears, may be Thine instrument of uniting this people in bonds 
of fellowship and love, and bringing the hearts of all in full accord in the sup- 
port of the government Thou hast set over us, and in seeking the thinga which 
make for peace and things whereby one may edify another. We pray that in the 
midst of Thy judgments this whole nation may learn righteousness. We implore 
Thy gracious blessing upon the sorrowing and the suffering, upon the wounded and 
the bereaved who have given their joy on earth, their health in early life, as a 
service and sacrifice for their fidelity to us and their obedience to Thee. We 
unite'in supplication for Thy blessing upon the widow and the fatherless, who 
stood in the tenderest relations to our honored and exalted ruler, and while 
from them, as from us, thou hast hidden lover and friend in darkness, we im- 
plore Thee to be the everlasting Ruler of this people, and make them to remem- 
ber and feel that the Most High ordereth all things among the nations of the 
earth, putting down one and setting up another. 

We implore Thy blessing upon him whom, in Thine own providence, Thou 
hast exalted to be the present ruler of this nation. Guard his valued life from 
outward violence and from fear of wrong; guide him by Thine own wisdom and 
judgment, and succor and defend him by Thine own protecting power. Give 
him wise and faithful counsellors who shall combine to rule this people in 
equity and truth ; prosper all their efforts for a speedy, stable, and righteous 
peace throughout this nation. 0, God, in the sorrow of this day, hasten the 
com'ing hour when this people shall desire to learn war no more ; when they 
shall speak peace to all the nations of the earth, and North and South, East 
and West, dwelling in concord and harmony, we shall be one people, known 
by one name and feeling, and that we have one interest forever. Set up Thy 
glorious Gospel through all this land; make it Emmanuel's land; and as Thou 
wast our fathers' God, be Thou our God and the God of our seed afterwards, 
from generation to generation, through successive presidents of fidelity, useful- 
ness, and honor ; that this people may be a prospered people, a thankful people, 
a useful people, a holy people, under Thy government and by Thy blessing. 
And this day we ask that for all the nations of the earth a dominion of right- 
eousness and peace — Thine everlasting dominion — may be set up, and the king- 
dom of our Lord and of his Christ. Meet us, sanctify us, and bless us as we 
are here together ; and in the spirit of filial gratitude and humility, teach us to 
unite in using those precious words of our Divine Redeemer: Our Father who 
art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done 
on earth as it is in heaven ; give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us 
our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us ; and lead us not into 
temptation, but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, 
:ind the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. 

ORATION BY THE HON. GEO. BANCROFT. 

A few words from the chairman introduced the orator of the 
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The Hon. Geo. Bancroft tlien proceeded to deliver tlie fol 
lowing oration, during the delivery of which he was frequently 
applauded : 

Our grief and horror at the crime which has clothed the continent in mourn- 
ing find no adequate expression in words, and no relief in tears. The President 
of the United States of America has fallen by the hands of an assassin. Neither 
the office with which he was invested by the approved choice of a mighty peo- 
ple, nor the most simple-hearted kindliness of nature, could save him from the 
fiendish passions of relentless fanaticism. The wailings of the millions attend 
his remains as they are borne in solemn procession over our great rivers, along 
the sea-side, beyond the mountains, across the prairie, to their final resting 
place in the valley of the Mississippi. The echoes of his funeral knell vibrate 
through the world, and the friends of freedom of every tongue and in every 
clime are his mourners. Too few days have passed away since Abraham Lin- 
coln stood in the flush of vigorous manhood to permit any attempt at analysis 
of his character or an exposition of his career. We find it hard to believe that 
his large eyes, which in their softness and beauty expressed nothing but benevo- 
lence and gentleness, are closed in death ; we almost look for the pleasant smile 
that brought out more vividly the earnest cast of his features, which were 
serious even to sadness. A few years ago he was a village attorney, engaged 
in the support of a rising family, unknown to fame, scarcely named beyond 
his neighborhood; his administration made him the most conspicuous man in 
his country, and drew on him first the astonished gaze, and then the respect 
and admiration of the world. Those who come after us will decide how much 
of the wonderful results of his public career is due to his own good common 
sense, his shrewd sagacity, readiness of wit, quick interpretation of the public 
mind ; his rare combination of fixedness and pliancy ; his steady tendency of 
purpose; how much to the American people, who, as he walked with them, side 
by side, inspired him with their own wisdom and energy ; and how much to 
the overruling laws of the moral world, by which the selfishness of evil is 
made to defeat itself. But after every allowance, it will remain that members 
of the government which preceded his administration opened the gates to trea- 
son, and he closed them; that when he went to Wa.shington the ground on 
which he trod shook under his feet and he left the republic on a solid founda- 
tion ; that traitors had seized public forts and arsenals, and he recovered them 
for the United States, to whom they belonged; that the capital, which he found 
the abode of slaves, is now the home only of the free ; that the boundless 
public domain which was grasped at, and, in a great measure, held for the 
diffusion of slavery, is now irrevocably devoted to freedom ; that then men 
talked a jargon of a balance of power in a republic between slave States ani 
free States, and now the foolish words aro blown away forever by the breath 
of Maryland, Missouri and Tennessee; tliat a terrific cloud of political heresy 
rose from the abyss, threatening to hide the light of the sun, and under ita 
darkness a rebellion was rising into indefinable proportions; now the atmos- 
phere is purer than ever before, and the insurrection is vanishing away ; iha 
country is cast into another mould, and the gigantic system of wrong which 
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And as to himself personally: he was then scoffed at by the proud as unfit for 
his station, and now against the usage of later years, and in spite of numerous 
competitors, he was the unbiassed and the undoubted choice of the American 
people for a second term of service. Through all the mad business of treason 
he retained the sweetness of a most placable disposition ; and the slaughter ot 
myriads of the best on the battle-field and the more terrible destruction of our 
men in captivity by the slow torture of exposure and starvation, had never 
been able to provoke him into harboring one vengeful feeling or one purpose 
of cruelty. 

How shall the nation most completely show its sorrow at Mr. Lincoln's death ? 
How shall it best honor his memory ? There can be but one answer. He was 
Btruck down when he was highest in its service, and in strict conformity with 
duty was engaged in carrying out principles affecting its life, its good name, and 
its relations to the cause of freedom and the progress of mankind. Grief must 
take the character of action, and breathe itself forth in the assertion of the 
policy to which he fell a sacrifice. The standard which he held in his hand 
must be uplifted again, higher and more firmly than before, and must be carried 
on to triumph. Above everything else, his proclamation of the 1st day of 
January, 18G3, declaring throughout the parts of the country in rebellion the 
freedom of all persons who had been held as slaves, must be afiirmed and main- 
tained. Events, as they rolled onward, have removed every doubt of the 
legality and binding force of that proclamation. The country and the rebel 
government have each laid claim to the public service of the slave, and yet but 
one of the two can have a rightful claim to such service. That rightful claim 
belongs to the United States, because every one born on their soil, with the few 
exceptions of the children of travellers and transient residents, owes them a 
primary allegiance. Every one so born has been counted among those repre- 
sented in Congress ; every slave has ever been represented in Congress — imperfectly 
and wrongly it may be — but still has been counted and represented. The slave 
born on our soil always owed allegiance to the general government. It may in 
time past have been a qualified allegiance, manifested through his master, as 
the allegiance of a ward through its guardian or of an infant through its parent. 
But when the master became false to his allegiance, the slave stood face to face 
with his country, and his allegiance, which may before have been a qualified 
one, became direct and immediate. His chains fell off, and he stood at once in 
the presence of the nation, bound, like the rest of us, to its public defence. Mr. 
Lincoln's proclamation did but take notice of the already existing right of the 
bondman to freedom. The treason of the master made it a public crime for the 
slave to continue his obedience ; the treason of a State set free the collective 
bondmen of that State. This doctrine is supported by the analogy of prece- 
dents. In the times of feudalism, the treason of the lord of the manor deprived 
him of his serfs ; the spurious feudalism that existed among us differs in many 
respects from the feudalism of the middle ages, but so far the precedent runs 
parallel with the present case; for treason the master then, for treason the 
master now, loses his slaves. In the middle ages the sovereign appointed another 
lord over the serfs and the land which they cultivated; in our day the sovereign 
makes them masters of their own persons, lords over themselves. It has been 



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Baid tl at we are at war, and that emancipation is not a belligerent right. Tha 
objection disappears before analysis. In a war between independent powers, 
the invading foreigner invites to his standard all who will give him aid, whether 
bond or free, and he rewards them according to his ability and his pleasure 
with gifts or freedom; but when at peace he withdraws from the invaded 
country he must take his aiders and comforters with him ; or if he leaves them 
behind, where he has no court to enforce his decrees, he can give them no 
security, unless it be by the stipulations of a treaty. In a civil war it is 
altogether different. There, when rebellion is crushed, the old government is 
restored, and its courts resume their jurisdiction. So it is with us ; the United 
States have courts of their own that must punish the guilt of treason and vin- 
dicate the freedom of persons whom the fact of rebellion has set free. Nor 
may it be said that because slavery existed in most of the States when the 
Union was formed, it cannot rightfully be interfered with now. A change has 
taken place, such as Madison foresaw, and for which he pointed out the remedy. 
The constitutions of States had been transformed before the plotters of treason 
carried them away into rebellion. When the federal constitution was formed, 
general emancipation was thought to be near, and everywhere the respective 
legislatures had authority, in the exercise of their ordinary functions, to do 
away with slavery; since that time the attempt has been made in what are 
called slave States to make the- condition of slavery perpetual ; and events have 
proved, with the clearness of demonstration, that a constitution which seeks to 
continue a caste of hereditary bondmen through endless generations is incon- 
sistent with the existence of republican institutions. So, then, the new Presi- 
dent and the people of the United States must insist that the proclamation of free- 
dom shall stand as a reality ; and, moreover, the people must never cease to 
insist that the Constitution shall be so amended as utterly to prohibit slavery on 
any part of our soil forevermore. Alas ! that a State in our vicinity should 
withhold its assent to this last beneficent measure ; its refusal was an encourage- 
ment to our enemies equal to the gain of a pitched battle, and delays the only 
hopeful method of pacification. The removal of the cause of the rebellion is 
not only demanded by justice; it is the policy of mercy, making room for a 
wider clemency ; it is the part of order against a chaos of controversy ; its suc- 
cess brings with it true reconcilement, a lasting peace, a continuous growth of 
confidence through an assimilation of the social condition. Here is the fitting 
expression of the mourning of to-day. ***** 

No one can turn back or stay the march of Providence. No sentiment of 
despair may mix with our sorrow. We owe it to the memory of the dead, we 
owe it to the cause of popular liberty throughout the world, that the sudden 
crime which has taken the life of the President of the United States shall not 
produce the least impediment in the smooth course of public affairs. This great 
city, in the midst of unexampled emblems of deeply seated grief, has sustained 
itself with composure and magnanimity. It has nobly done its part in guard- 
ing against the derangement of business or the slightest shock to public credit. 
The enemies of the republic put it to the severest trial ; but the voice of faction 
has not been heard ; doubt and despondency have been unknown. In serene 
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proves to the world the quiet energy and the durability of institutions growing 
out of the reason and affections of the people. Heaven has willed it that the 
United States shall live. The nations of the earth cannot spare them. All tho 
worn-out aristocracies of Europe saw in the spurious feudalism of slaveholding 
their strongest outpost, and banded themselves together with the deadly enemies 
of our national life. If the Old World will discuss the respective advantages df 
oligarchy or equality ; of the union of church and state, or the rightful freedom 
of religion; of land accessible to the many, or of land monopolized by an ever 
decreasing number of the few, the United States must live to control the decision 
by their quiet and unobtrusive example. It has often and truly been observed 
that the trust and affection of the masses gather naturally round an individ- 
ual; if the inquiry is made whether the man so trusted and beloved shall elicit 
from the reason of the people enduring institutions of their own, or shall se- 
quester political power for a superintending dynasty, the United States must 
live to solve the problem. If a question is raised on the respective merits of 
Timoleon or Julius Caesar, of Washington or Napoleon, the United States must 
be there to call to mind that there were twelve Casars, most of them tho oppro- 
brium of the human race, and to contrast with them the line of American Presi- 
dents. The duty of the hour is incomplete, our mourning is insincere, if while 
we express unwavering trust in the great principles that underlie our govern- 
ment, we do not also give our support to the man to whom the people have 
entrusted its administration. Andrew Johnson is now by the Constitution the 
President of the United States, and he stands before the world as the most con- 
spicuous representative of the industrial classes. Left an orphan at four years 
old, poverty and toil were his steps to honor. His youth was not passed in tho 
halls of colleges ; nevertheless he has received a thorough political education 
in statesmanship in the school of the people, and by long experience of public 
life. A village functionary, member successively of each branch of the Ten- 
nessee Legislature, hearing with a thrill of joy the words, "The Union, it must 
be preserved ;" a representative in Congress for successive years ; Governor of 
the great State of Tennessee, approved as its Governor by re-election ; he was 
at the opening of the rebellion a Senator of that State in Congress. Then at 
the Capitol, when senators, unrebuked by the government, sent word by tele- 
gram to seize forts and arsenals, he alone from that Southern region told them 
what the government did not dare to tell them — that they were traitors, and 
deserved the punishment of treason. Undismayed by a perpetual purpose of 
public enemies to take his life, bearing up against the still greater trial of the 
persecution of his wife and children, in due time he went back to his State, de- 
termined to restore it to the Union, or die with the American flag for his wind- 
ing sheet. And now, at the call of the United States, he has returned to Wash- 
ington as a conqueror, with Tennessee as a free State for his trophy. It remains 
lor him to consummate the vindication of the Union. To that Union Abraham 
Lincoln has fallen a martyr. His death, which was meant to sever it beyond 
repair, binds it more closely and more firmly than ever. The blow aimed at 
him was aimed not at the native of Kentucky, not at the citizen of Illinois; 
but at the man who, as President, in the executive branch of the government, 
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fhe crime was tlie life of the whole people, and it wonnd? the affections of the 
whole people. From Maine to the southwest boundary of the Pacific, it makes 
us one. The country may have needed an imperishable grief to touch its in- 
most feeling. The grave that receives the remains of Lincoln receives the 
martyr to the Union ; the monument which will rise over his body will bear 
witness to the Union ; his enduring memory will assist during countless ages to 
bind the States together, and to incite to the love of our one undivided, indi- 
visible country. Peace to the ashes of our departed friend, the friend of his 
country and hia race. Happy was his life, for he was the restorer of the 
republic; he was happy in his death, for the manner of his end will plead for- 
ever for the Union of the States and the freedom of man. 

After the oration, the Rev. J. P. Thompson, D. D., read the 
inaugural of the 4th of March, 1865, which was received with 
enthusiastic applause. It is on the seventh page of this Memo- 
rial Record. 

Rev. W. H. Boole then read the 94th Psalm. 

1. Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth ; God, to whom vengeance 
belongeth, shew thyself. 

2. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth : render a reward to the proud. 

3. Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph ? 

4. How long shall they utter and speak hard things ? and all the workers of 
iniquity boast themselves ? 

5. They break in pieces thy people, Lord, and afflict thine heritage. 

6. They slay the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherless. 

7. Yet they say, the Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it- 

8. Understand, ye brutish among the people : and ye fools, when will ye be 
wise? 

9. He that planted the ear, shall he not hear ? he that formed the eye, shall 
he not see. 

10. He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth 
man knowledge, shall not he know ? 

11. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. 

12. Blessed is the man whom thou chasteueth, Lord, and teachest him out 
of thy law. 

13. That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit 
be digged for the wicked, 

14. For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his in- 
heritance. 

15. But judgment shall return unto righteousness; and all the upright in 
heart shall follow it. 

16. Who will rise up for me against the evil doers ? or shall stand up for 
me against the workers of iniquity ? 

17. Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. 

18. When I said, my foot slippeth ; thy mercy, Lord, held me up. 



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19. In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my 
Boul. 

20. Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth 
mischief by a law ? 

21. They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and 
condemn the innocent blood. 

22. But the Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge. 

23. And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off 
in their own wickedness ; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off. 

Rev. Dr. Rogers then made the following prayer : 

Almighty and everlasting God. Thou art our God and we will praise Thee. 
Thou wert our father's God and we will magnify Thy holy name. Thou art 
the high and lofty one thatinhabiteth eternity. Thou doest all things according 
to Thy will, among the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth. 
None can stay Thy hands or say, "What doest Thou?" Thy way is in the sea, 
and Thy path in the great waters, and Thy footsteps are not known. Clouds 
and darkness are around and beneath, but righteousness and judgment are the 
habitudes of Thy throne. Thou hast in Thy inscrutable Providence called us 
together in sadness and sorrow, and stricken a mourning people. They bow 
beneath the stroke of Thy hand, and we lift up our hearts to Thee out of the 
depths of the calamity. Thou hast removed by a sudden, violent, and unex- 
pected blow our honored President. Thou hast broken our strong staff and our 
beautiful rod, and from one end of this land to the other the sound of wailing 
and of woe is borne on every breeze. The nation follows the body of its lamented 
chief with mourning hearts and streaming eyes to its last earthly resting place. 
We humble ourselves, oh God, beneath the stroke of Thy hand, and we find 
comfort and hope in the thought that it is not an enemy that has dealt us the 
blow, but that of a just God, in His infinite wisdom, and who doeth all things 
well ; and so we would say in the midst of our sorrows over the bier of our 
lamented and murdered President, "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken 
away, blessed be the name of the Lord." But oh, our God, while we mourn, 
we thank Thee for the circumstances of mercy which are mingled with this 
stroke. We bless Thee in the midst of our sorrow that Thou didst give us Thy 
servant to be the leader and commander of Thy people in times of peril. And 
we bless Thee that Thou didst gird him with wisdom and might and counsel in 
the field. We bless Thee that Thou didst guide him in alhthe so difficult and 
delicate way, and didst permit him to live so long and do so much for the benefit 
and welfare of this land. And we bless Thee that since it was Thy will to 
take him away, Thou didst remove him in the midst of his race with honors, 
with no shadow upon his fame, but to be cherished in the memory of a grateful 
people to the latest generations. We bless Thee that Thou didst permit our 
lamented chief to see this atrocious and causeless rebellion crushed. We bless 
Thee that Thou didst permit him to see the loved banners of our country waving 
again in triumph over all its States and Territories. We bless Thee that Thou 
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and to go to his honored grave to be kept ever green by the tears of a grateful 
people, having done his work and done it well, to the glory of God, and for the 
benefit of his native land. And while we sorrow, we sorrow not as others 
who have no hope. We bless God for his memory, enshrined in our deepest 
hearts. Oh ! let it be sacred to the remotest times in the great hearts of the 
American people. Let it be an inspiration to all that is pure, all that is honest, 
all that is faithful, all that is patriotic ; to all that is patient, gentle, loving, and 
kind ; to all that is firm, to all that is Christian ; and let peace, with freedom, 
with justice, with righteousness, and with Christianity, raise an everlasting 
monument above the spot where sleeps his honored dust. Our Father, we com- 
mend to Thee the country for which he loved and wept, and toiled and prayed 
and died. We bless Thee that Thou hast given to that wearied brain rest — rest 
to that anxious heart — rest to that troubled spirit — a blessed rest. But we bless 
Thee that though the President died, the republic lives, God lives, our just God, 
and we bless Thee that though our Moses led the people through the wilder- 
ness to the borders of Canaan, he saw as from Mount Pisgah the glorious land 
of Promise, and laid him down to die, that Thou hadst another Joshua to take 
his work upon him and to clear this beautiful land of the last remnant of the 
rebellious tribes. Oh ! God, assist our new President in his work; let him ad- 
minister justice and maintain truth; and with purity, with honesty, with piety 
and patriotism like his honored predecessor, let him accomplish the great and 
delicate work that yet remains to be done, and to be a benefit to the land. 
Remember the widow and the fatherless, oh Thou who art the widow's God and 
Father of the fatherless. Have them in Thy holy keeping, and wipe their 
tears away; and let them be cherished by the sympathies and prayers of a grate- 
ful people. We ask Thy tender mercy in behalf of Thy servant, the Secretary 
of State. Oh! Lord, heal his wounds, make his broken bones rejoice, raise him 
up from the bed of weakness whereon he lies, and let his counsel yet be given 
to his country, and his life be spared to her services; and, oh Lord, let thy bless- 
ing be on the land in all its beauty and glory. Let our father's God be our 
God, and never in all its after history let the least vestige of treason or of 
slavery do anything to dishonor God or man, or rest as a dark curse upon us. 
But let the whole country be the home of freedom, of intelligence, of true and 
pure Christianity — a beacon light among the nations of the earth, and a great 
benefactor to the people. Hear this our prayer. Let Thy blessing be upon us 
all; forgive our sins, and graciously hear, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
to whom with the Holy Ghost shall be honor and glory, world without end. 
Amen. 

Rabbi Isaacs, of the Broadway Tabernacle, then followed, 
and read the following selections from the Holy Scriptures : 

Remember, Lord, Thy tender mercies and Thy loving kindness ; for they 
are eternal. Grant us to be among those who die by Thy hand, Lord ! those 
who die by old age, whose lot is eternal life; yea, who enjoy even here Thy 
bidden treasures. His soul shall dwell at ease, and his seed shall inherit the 



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land. Therefore will wc not fear, though the earth be overturned and though 
the mountains be hurled in the midst of the seas. 

He redeemeth thy life from destruction ; He crowneth thee with loving kind- 
ness and tender mercies. Wherefore doth living man complain, he who can 
master bis sins? Small and great are there; and the servant is free from his 
master. For He remembered that they were but flesh ; a wind that passeth 
away and cometh not again. All flesh shall perish together, and man shall re- 
turn unto dust — who rejoice even to exultation and are glad when they find a 
grave. 

And such a frail mortal shall be more just than God? Shall man be more 
pure than his Maker ? In God I will praise His word ; in the Lord, I will praise 
His word. Man is like to vanity ; his days are as a shadow of a thing that 
passeth away. Be kind, Lord, unto those that are good, and unto them that 
are upright in their hearts. Let the pious exult in glory ; let them sing aloud 
upon their couches. Then shall Thy light break forth as in the morning, and 
Thy health shall spring forth speedily, and Thy righteousness shall precede 
Thee ; the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward. The Lord shall preserve thee 
from all evil. He shall preserve thy soul. 

Behold, the keeper of Israel doth neither slumber nor sleep. The Eternal 
killeth and maketh alive ; He bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up. 
Wilt Thou not turn, and revive us, that we may rejoice in Thee ? Let us, there- 
fore, trust in the Lord ; for with the Lord is mercy, and with Him is plenteous 
redemption. 

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh ; but the earth 
abideth forever. For the word of the Lord is upright, and all His works are 
done in faithfulness. The dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit 
shall return unto God who gave it. His seed shall be mighty upon earth ; the 
generation of the upright shall be blessed. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath 
taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. 

And as for him, righteousness shall precede him and form steps for his way. 

Ye are blessed of the Eternal, who made heaven and earth. 

The Rabbi then made the following prayer : 

Thou, whose attributes are omnipotence and immutability, mighty and in- 
visible. Thine eye unseen, and Thy direction unknown, guides ; Thy mercy un- 
bounded, upholds ; our God, our Father. From hearts penetrated by grief, we 
pray; oppressed by the weight of our feelings, bruised in spirit, we most 
earnestly implore Thee, visit us not in Thine anger, nor chastise us according to 
our works. Enter not into judgment with us, look not to our iniquities. 
As frail, erring creatures, in faltering accents we confess our guilt. Who 
can be justified before Thy immaculate purity ? In humble and reveren- 
tial awe, we approach Thee, invoking Thee to inspire us with a proper 
spirit and temper of heart and mind under the powers of Thy providence. God 
of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, millions of beings Thy will has created 
this day fall prostrate at Thy throne, o9"ering the overflowing of their hearts 
and their resignation to Thy will, as the liomage of their adoration. The id 
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habitants of this land are over-burdened with grief. The good being who, lika 
Aaron of old, "stood between the living and the dead," so that the war which 
decimated the land might cease, alas! he is no more. Thy servant, Abraham 
Lincoln, has, without a warning, been summoned before Thy august presence. He 
has served the people of his afflicted land faithfully, zealously, honestly, and, we 
would fain hope, in accordance with Thy supreme will. that " his righteous- 
ness may precede him and form steps for his way" to the heavenly abode of 
bliss ; that Thy angels of mercy may be commissioned to convey his soul to the 
spot reserved for martyred saints; that the suddenness with which one of the 
worst of beings deprived him of life may atone for any errors which he may 
have committed. Almighty God ! every heart is pierced by anguish — every 
countenance furrowed with grief, at our separation from one we revered and 
loved. We beseech Thee, in this period of our sorrow and despondency, to 
soothe our pains and calm our griefs ; and, as in days of old, before the sun of 
Eli went down. Thou didst cause that of Samuel to beam upon Israel, so may 
it be Thy divine will, as the sun of our deeply lamented Abraham Lincoln had 
scarcely set, and darkness covered the people, that the sun of Andrew Johnson, 
which has burst upon the gloom, may shed its brilliant rays as sparkling it is 
borne amid purity and innocence. Our Father who art in Heaven, show us 
this kindness, so that our tears may cease to depict our sorrow and give place 
to the joyful hope that, through Thy goodness, peace and concord may supersede 
war and dissension, and our beloved Union, restored to its former tranquility, 
may be enabled to carry out Thy wish for the benefit and the happiness of 
humanity. We pray Thee, do this ; if not for our sakes, for the sake of our 
little ones unsullied by sin, who lisp Thy holy name ; with hands uplifted, with 
the importunity of spotless hearts, they re-echo our supplication. Let the past 
be the end of our sorrow, the future the harbinger of peace and salvation to all 
who seek Thee in truth. Amen. 

Rev. Dr. Osgood then recited the following ode for the fu- 
neral of Abraham Lincoln, by W. C. Bryant : 

Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare, 

Gentle, and merciful, and just! 
Who in the fear of God did'st bear 

The sword of power — a nation's trust. 

In sorrow by thy bier we stand, 

Amid the awe that hushes all. 
And speak the anguish of a land 

That shook with horror at thy fall. 

Thy task is done — the bond are free; 

We bear thee to an honored grave, 
Whose noblest monument shall bo 

The broken fetters of the slave. 



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Pure was thy life ; its bloody close 

Hath placed thee with the sons of light, 

Among the noble host of those 

Who perished in the cause of right. 

THE BENEDICTION. 

At the conclusion, the chairman announced that the Most 
Reverend Archbishop McCloskey was so fatigued from his 
long attendance in the funeral cortege that he was unable to be 
present to pronounce the closing benediction ; the venerable 
prelate's absence would be filled by Professor Hitchcock. 

The funeral train left the city of New York at 4 o'clock, 
April 25th. Hundreds of thousands were in attendance. As 
the cars moved out, two dense lines were on either side. Men 
and women wept like children. The lame and crippled had 
hobbled to the depot, and mercliants and mechanics, lawyers, 
doctors, and ministers, and the entire population stood with 
uncovered heads as the sacred ashes were borne onward. New 
York was bowed down with grief for the loss of the murdered 
martyr President. At the way stations — at Manhattanville, 
Yonkers, Dobbs's Ferry, Tarrytown, and Sing-Sing — large 
crowds of people were waiting, and gave evidence of their 
deep grief. The men remained uncovered, and the women 
looked sorrowfully at the fleeting cortege containing the loved 
and lost. 

At Yonkers was a beautiful flag, with the inscription, " Yonk- 
ers mourns with the nation." Tiie women of this place were 
greatly affected, and waved their handkerchiefs while the tears 
fell down their cheeks. 

At Irvington about 7,000 people were assembled. The sta- 
tion was beautifully draped, with the inscriptions, " The hon- 
ored dead," and " We mourn the nation's loss." Sadness was 
depicted on every countenance. 

At Tarrytown, the train passed under the drooping arch 
made of American flags. There were beautiful inscriptions on 
the depot. Twenty-four young ladies, dressed in white, were 
standing under the dome, made of our country's flag, studded 
with flowers and draped with black velvet. The large crowd 
of spectators looked sad and mournful. 



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At ?ing-Sing there was an immense assemblafre. The train 
passed under an arch eighteen feet from base to base, and four 
feet thick, made of alternate stripes of black and white muslin, 
and the verges covered with black velvet. It was covered with 
evergreens, and on the top, in the centre, was a statue of the 
Goddess of Liberty, robed in white, and a chaplet of evergreens 
around her neck. In large black letters on either side was the 
inscription, " We mourn our country's loss." Many other mot- 
toes were conspicuous, among them, " He died for Truth, Jus- 
tice, and Mercy." 

At Peekskill great crowds were assembled. The depot was 
heavily draped. In the centre was a portrait of the President, 
encircled with roses and tassels of red, white, and blue. A 
company of firemen, and the Highland Grays, a military organ- 
ization of boys, marched around, preceded by drooping flags. 

At Garrison's Landing, opposite West Point, Gen. Galium 
and staff, and all the College Professors, with three companies 
of Cadets, numbering about 1,000, came across the Hudson to 
meet and greet the funeral cortege. A very large concourse of 
people were also present, who evinced their sorrow for the dead. 

At Cold Spring a. mournful crowd stood around a raised 
platform draped in black. In the centre was a young lady 
dressed as the Goddess of Liberty, with a black veil over her 
face, and holding, as she knelt, our country's flag in her hand. 
On her right was a boy kneeling, dressed as a soldier, and on 
the left, a boy kneeling, dressed as a sailor The depot was 
handsomely draped. 

At Fishkill a crowd of people lined both sides of the track. 
The depot was heavily draped. In the centre, surrounded by ever- 
green, was the motto, "In God we trust." Opposite Fishkill, 
across the Hudson, is Newburg, where flags were flying at half- 
mast, thus adding to the universal grief. From the very house 
where General Washington had his headquarters in Revolution- 
ary days, when George the Third enslaved us with British bay- 
onets, could be seen floating the Stars and Stripes, drooped and 
draped in memory of our assassinated chief. Thus is entwined 
the sacred history of the Father of His Country and the sa- 
viour of His Country. 

At Poughkeepsie an immense assemblage greeted the train ; 



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the men with heads uncovered, the women and children having 
miniature mourning flags. A committee of ladies asked per- 
mission to place a wreath of roses on the martyr's coffin, which 
was granted; Mrs. Prof. Eastman, Mrs. Gen. Davis, Mrs. Mayor 
Irving, Mrs. James Winslow, Mrs. D. Harvey, and the Misses 
Van Kleck, entered the car and fulfilled their holy mission. 
The National Business College, Professor Eastman leading, 
had 1,000 pupils formed in line, with uncovered heads. The 
splendid College Band played a solemn air. Minute guns 
were fired during the fifteen minutes' stay; and also, during the 
time, a number of ladies passed through the car containing the 
President and his little son Willie. 

At Strasburg a beautiful circle of light was displayed, and 
a large assemblage was standing on the platform. 

At Rhinebeck, crowds were assembled with torches. A band 
was on the verandah of the hotel, playing appropriate airs. 

At Barrytown a procession with lighted torches and drooped 
banners were marching. 

At Tivolia the people were assembled in large groups, with 
lighted lamps. The depot was draped, and flags drooping. 
Some fine residences near Tivolia were handsomely illuminated 
and festooned with flags. 

At Catskill large bonfires were lighted, and crowds of peo- 
ple were present. The United States vessels in the river had 
their flags draped at half-mast. 

At Hudson a large assemblage was gathered. The Hudson 
House and American Hotel were illuminated and draped in 
mourning. Minute guns were fired. 

At East Albany, Gen, Rathbone and staff, the military aad 
civic organizations, and a vast concourse of people were assem- 
oled at the depot. Thousands of lighted torches, and banners 
draped in mourning, made the scene impressive. The people 
flocked around the car containing the President's remains, 
becking to get a glimpse of the coffin. The depot was heavily 
draped. Conspicuous was a magnificent American flag twen- 
ty-five feet long and eight feet wide, on which was elaborately 
worked thirty-four stars, all surrounded by black drapery. 



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FUNERAL HONORS AT ALBANY, NEW YORK. 

The spectacle presented ia Albany, Wednesday, the 25th of 
Aprii, was, in the highest degree, solemn and imposing. Thou- 
sands from the surrounding cities and villages — from distant 
portions of the State — from Vermont and Massachusetts — came 
in to pay the last tribute of respect to the revered dead. Every 
train and boat and omnibus was crowded — every avenue lead- 
ing to the city was thronged with vehicles. Thousands viewed 
the remains during the latter part of the night and the earlier 
hours of morning ; while before nine o'clock in the forenoon, 
State street, from its foot to the Capitol, was a solid mass of 
humanity. 

Arrived at the Park, the gate at the front entrance was 
opened, and the cortege conveyed the remains to the Assembly 
Chamber, which was tastefully draped. 

The Assembly Rooms in tlie Capitol were visited by 
thousands of people while the remains lay in state. The degree 
of feeling and sympathy manifested has never had a parallel. 
Voices were hushed and hearts beat heavily as the people 
pressed forward. The silence of the grave reigned. The 
gazers looked sorrowfully on the cold and sacred clay with 
throbbing hearts. They felt in their inmost soul as if they had 
lost their dearest household treasure. Many eyes were drowned 
with tears, as they looked on the face of the great martyr. 
Strong men wept like children as they witnessed the solemn 
train and listened to the wailing notes of the death dirge. 
Even tlie most indifferent felt that it was not merely a Ruler 
but a Friend whom the people had lost. 

The city was draped in sable, and everywhere were seen re- 
minders of the sadness pervading the hearts of the people. The 
Assembly room, where the remains lay, was most appropriately 
decorated. Albany deeply sympathizes in the Nation's grief. 

Among the touching and suggestive tokens of sorrow at 
Albany were the mottoes inscribed on public buildings and 
private mansions. 



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The following was suspended over the Speaker's chair : 

I have an oath registered in Heaven to preserve, protect, and defend the 
Government. 

— Lincoln. 

The State Geological Rooms were draped and festooned, 
with this sentiment displayed in large letters : 

ABRAHAM LINCOLiT. 

His faithful heart the bulwark of the Nation. The Nation erects his tomb in 
her heart of hearts. His greatness she admires. His goodness commands her 
eternal love and admiration. 

Major General Robinson's lieadquarters were ornamented 
with a variety of ilags and drapery, with the following in large 
letters, reaching the entire length of the building : 

The great heart of the Nation throbs heavily at the Portals of his Grave. 

Suspended in front of the offices of the Assessor and Col- 
lector of Internal Revenue was the following : 

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, 
as God gives to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in. 

— A. LlNCOLK. 

On business and private houses were read the following : 

The eye of the sage and the heart of the brave 
Are hidden and lost in the depth of the grave. 

All joy is darkened ; the mirth of the land is gone. 

And the mourners go about the streets. 

And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people. 

His life was gentle, and the elements were so mixed in him that Nature 
miglit stand up and say to all the world — TUis was a man. 

Washington, the Father of his Country; Lincoln, the Saviour of his Coun- 
try. 

With the words : 

The Marlyr to Liberty. 

The mournful scenes of the day made a profound and abiding 



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impression upon the people. They tended to chasten and sanc- 
tify the public grief, increased the popular reverence for the 
murdered President, and enshrined his memory more deeply and 
sacredly in the popular affections. They breathed into all 
hearts something of that earnest yet magnanimous spirit that 
made Mr. Lincoln's last moments so glorious. 

From Albany to Buffalo, the funeral cars passed throuo-h the 
populous and central part of the Empire State, and at^every 
point symbols of sorrow were displayed. On the hills and in 
the valleys, groups assembled, with flags draped in mournin- 
and other emblems of sorrow, and saluted with solemn rever- 
ence the passing train. 

At Schenectady, Utica, Rome, Oneida, Syracuse, the city of 
Rochester, and the smaller towns, great crowds were assembled 
and draped flags were waved, funeral dirges were suno- bon- 
fires blazed, bells tolled, minute guns were fired, and^'every 
emblem of sorrow manifested. One of the most beautiful and 
affecting scenes was that of the farmers and their families 
gathered m groups around bonfires, and waiting in the silent 
hour of the night to add their tokens of grief for the lamented 
dead. 



BUFFALO. 



The funeral train reached Buffalo on Thursday morning, the 
27th of April. The body was taken from the funeral car' and 
borne by soldiers up into St. James's Hall, and deposited on the 
dais, in the presence of the accompanying officers, the guards 
of honor, and the Union Continentals, commanded by N. K. 
Hall. 

The remains were placed under a crape canopy, extending 
from the ceiling to the floor. The space was lit by a large 
chandelier. In the gallery, outside the canopy, was the Buffalo 
St. Cecilia Society, an amateur American music association, 
who, as the remains were brought in, sang witli deep pathos 
the dirge, " Rest, spirit, rest," affecting every heart and moving 
many to tears. The society tlien placed an elegantly formed 
harp, made of clioice white flowers, at tlie head of the coffin, as 
a tribute from them to the honored dead. Shortly after this 



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tlie public were admitted. Ex-President Fillmore was among 
the civilians escorting the remains to St. James's Hall. Also 
Company D, Seventy-fourth Regiment, Captain J. C. Bowles. 

The remains were visited through the day, from half-past 
nine this morning until eight this evening, by an immense num- 
ber of persons. 

During the morning there was placed at the foot of the cof- 
fin an anciior of white camelias, from the ladies of the Unita- 
rian Church of Buffalo. A cross of white flowers was also laid 
upon the coffin. At the request of Major General Dix and 
others, the officers of the St. Cecilia Society repeated the dirge, 
which was sung with solemn and touching effect. 

At all the towns and stations between Buffalo and Cleve- 
land, through which the train passed in the night, multitudes 
had assembled, some bearing lanterns and mourning flags in 
their hands, while on their houses was plainly discernable the 
usual drapery and mottoes expressive of the prevailing grief. 

At Dunkirk the platform was elaborately decorated. Fes- 
toons of evergreens extended all along the eaves of the struc- 
ture, while from the ceiling gracefully drooped white and black 
folds. The background, covered with flags interlaced with 
crape, completed the artistical arrangement. But the chief fea- 
ture was the group of thirty-six young ladies, representing the 
States of the Union. They were dressed in white, each with 
a broad black scarf resting on the shoulder, and holding in 
the hand a national flag. The tolling of bells, the solemn music 
of an instrumental band, and the firing of minute guns contrib- 
uted to the interest of the scene. 

CEREMONIES AT CLEVELAND. 

On Friday morning, the 28th of April, the funeral cortege 
reached the city of Cleveland. The remains, as they passed 
from the Empire State of the Union into the Empire State of 
the West, were received and escorted to Cleveland by the fol- 
lowing officers and eminent citizens of Ohio, viz: Governor 
Brough and staff ; General Cowan, Adjutant General ; General 
Barlow, Quartermaster General ; Surgeon General Barr, and 
Colonel Maxwell. Also ilajor General Hooker, commanding 



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the Department of the Ohio, witli liis staff, as follo-ws : Colonel 
Swords, Lieutenant Colonel Simpson, Lieutenant Colonel La- 
throp. Major McFeely, Mnjor Bannister, and Captain Taylor. 
Also United States Senator Sherman, Hon. S. Galloway, Hon. 
0. Waters, and Major Montgomery. Also the following gen- 
tlemen, committee from Cleveland : Hon. R. P. Spaulding, ex- 
Governor David Tod, Thomas Jones, Jr., Colonel Anson Stager, 
Amasa Stone, Jr., Hon. H. B. Payne, Hon. John A. Foot, Hon. 
H. V. Wilson, Stillman Witt, Ansel Roberts, William Bing- 
ham, Hon. W. B. Castle, Charles Hickox, John Martin, Hon. 
W. Collins, H. N. Johnson, Dr. G. C. E. Weber, Dr. Proctor 
Thayer, H. B. Hurlbut, Jacob Hovey, and James Warsick. 

The importance and solemnity of the occasion was evidently 
appreciated by all. The dense crowds that lined the streets 
from the Euclid street depot to the public square, the numerous 
badges of mourning worn, the heavily draped buildings, and 
the uniform stillness and decorum of the immense gathering of 
people testified to the respect and love borne to the deceased 
by the people of Cleveland and the surrounding country. The 
immense crowd was hourly added to by the trains and steamers 
arriving from different points. 

The scene when the procession started was very solemn and 
impressive. A slight rain fell, falling like tears on the remains 
of the good man in whose honor the crowd had gathered, but 
not enough to be heeded by the people assembled. The street 
was lined with a continuous wall of people, and the yards and 
houses were also crowded. The long perspective of Euclid 
street stretched away in unrivalled beauty, and the procession, 
with its solid column, great length, and imposing display, made 
up a scene never equalled in Cleveland. 

The coffin was placed in a hearse, the roofing of which was 
covered with the national flag, with black plumes and otherwise 
tastefully and appropriately adorned. The military escort em- 
braced Major General Hooker and staff, and Governor Brough, 
of Ohio, and staff, and the escort and civic guard of honor was 
followed by the United States civil officers, veteran soldiers, 
members of the City Council and city officers of Cleveland and 
other cities, members of the bar, the Board of Trade, Knights 
Templar, the Orders of Masons and Odd Fellows, Temperance 



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Societies, Fenian Brotherhood, St. Vincent's Society, the Ger- 
man Benevolent Society, the Equal Rights League, &c., and all 
the l>enevolent and other associations and citizens. 

The procession embraced all conditions of the people, with- 
out distinction of party or religion, and it presented a fine 
appearance as it moved through the streets of this truly beau- 
tiful city, from Euclid street to Erie, down Erie to Superior, 
and thence to the Park. The sidewalks were densely crowded 
with mournful-looking spectators, while thousands of persons 
beheld the cortege from the steps and windows of the beautiful 
residences which line the entire route. Emblems of mourning 
were everywhere prominent, with expressive mottoes. 

In the Park had been erected a building especially for the 
reception of the remains, to which they were conveyed. The 
coffin rested on the dais, about two feet above the floor. On 
the four corners stood columns, supporting a canopy. The col- 
umns were draped and wreathed with evergreens and white 
flowers in the most beautiful manner — black cloth falling as 
curtains, and fringed with silver, caught and looped back to 
these columns. The floor of the dais was covered with flowers, 
and a figure of the Goddess of Liberty was placed at the head 
of the coffin. 

After the coffin was opened, the Right Rev. Charles Pettit 
Mcllvaine, Bishop of the Diocese of Ohio, advanced to the 
coffin, and read from the burial service of the Episcopal Church: 

I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord : he that believeth in me, 
though he were dead, yet shall he live ; and whosoever liveth and believeth in 
me shall never die. 

We brought nothing into the world, and it is certain we can carry nothing 
out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away ; blessed be the name of 
the Lord. 

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of 
misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a 
shadow, and never continueth in one stay. 

In the midst of life we are in death ; of whom may we seek for succor but 
of thee, Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased? 

The Bishop then o2"ercd an appropriate prayer, in the course 
of which he asked the blessing of Heaven on the Immediate 
llamily of the deceased, and a sanctification of the event which 



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had called the nation to mourn to the good of him who had 
succeeded to the chief magistracy. He then read a part of the 
funeral service of the Episcopal church, slightly altering the 
text to suit the occasion. These services were intensely sol- 
emn, and moved many of the listeners to tears. 

The number who witnessed the remains of the President 
during the day was one hundred and eighty a minute. Two 
rows of spectators were constantly passing, one on each 
Bide of the coffin. The lid was freshly covered with flowers 
in the form of harps, crosses, and bouquets, gathered in the hot- 
houses of Cleveland, and laid upon the coffin by ladies repre- 
senting the Soldiers' Relief Association. 

As the funeral pageant closed, and the remains of the illus- 
trious dead passed away, the people of Cleveland responded to 
these well chosen words of their public organ : " Nothing of 
him now is left us but his shining example — nothing but a mem- 
ory which is blessed — the memory of the just. 

" The broad prairie, from whose boundless generosity he 
drew inspiration, opens its bosom to receive him. Moisten, 
sweet dews, the light sod that covers him ; sing, gentle breezes, 
his triumphant requiem ; weave, gentle flowers, a perpetual 
chaplet above him." 

FUNERAL HONORS AT COLUMBUS, OHIO. 

The remains of President Lincoln reached Columbus, the 
capital of the State, on Saturday morning, the 29th of April. 
Governor Brough had, in an official order, indicated the time and 
manner of tlie honors to be rendered to the illustrious dead in 
Ohio, as follows : 

GeNEEAL HEADCiUAETEES, StATE OF OhIO, A. G. 0., 

Columbus, April 21. 
General Order No. 4. 

The remains of the late President Lincoln, in transit to their final resting 
place at, Springfield, Illinois, will arrive at Cleveland on Friday, the 28th inst., 
7.30 A. M. Leaving Cleveland at midnight on the same day, they will arrive 
at Columbus at 7.30 of Saturday, the 29th inst., and will leave Columbus for 
Indianapolis, via the Great Central Railroad, at 8 o'clock P. M. of the same 
day. 

A national salute of thirty-six guns will be fired at Cleveland at 6.30 oa the 



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morning of the 28th inst,. and one gun at the expiration of each half hour 
during the day until sunset. 

A similar salute will be fired at Columbus on the morning of the 29th inst., 
and during the day. At Columbus the remains will be deposited during the 
day in the rotunda of the Capitol. The rotunda and the building will be ap- 
propriately draped in mourning, and such arrangements made for the ingress 
and egress of the public as will effectually prevent disturbance or confusion. A 
sufficient military guard will be stationed in the building and grounds. Maj. 
General Joseph Hooker, U. S. Vols., Commanding Northern Department, will 
have charge of the train through the State. The procession to escort the 
remains from and to the depot at Cleveland and Columbus will be organized 
and controlled by officers detailed for that purpose by Major General Hooker. 
As a mark of respect for the memory of our late Chief Magistrate, it is sug- 
gested that business be generally suspended during the day on the 28th inst., 
at Cleveland, and at Columbus on the 29th inst. ; that all the flags upon public 
buildings, and upon shipping in our harbors and elsewhere, be displayed at half- 
mast, and suitably draped in mourning, during the time when the remains are 
in the State ; and that our citizens generally unite in manifesting, in every 
suitable manner, the deep grief which rests upon their hearts under this great 
national bereavement. 

The people of the State are invited to be present at Cleveland or Columbus, 
as may be most convenient to them, and unite in paying the last sad offices of 
respect to the remains of our beloved President, who has sealed his devotion to 
the holy cause of liberty with his life-blood, though he still lives, and will ever 
live, in the affectionate remembrance of a patriotic people. Let them come and 
gaze upon his murdered body, and there renew their vows of allegiance, and 
swear anew eternal hostility to every enemy of the country. 
By order of the Governor : 

B. R. COWEN, 
Adjutant General of Ohio. 

The train entered the Union depot amid the ringing of muf- 
fled bells. An immense crowd of spectators was congregated 
in the vicinity of the depot, together with the marshal and his 
aides, the carriages for the escort, and the military and civic 
bodies that were to take part in the solemnities. At a given 
signal, one of the bands struck up a dirge, and the coflfiu was 
taken from the car and laid in the hearse by a portion of the 
Veteran Reserve Corps, the other Veteran Reserves marching 
by its side, with drawn sabres, attended by the pall-bearers and 
military guard of honor. 

The pall-bearers were Dr. John Andrews, Robert Niel, F. C. 
Kelton, John Field, Augustus Piatt, Christian Heyl, E. W. 
Gwynne, W. B. Hubbard, Judge Taylor, John Brooks, Wm. 
B. Thrall, D. W. Deshlcr, L. Goodale, Jos. R. Swan, Wm. T. 



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Martin, Wm. M. Awl, G. W. Manypeniiy, John M. Walcott, 
F. Stewart, John Noble, F. Jaeger, Sen., and Amos S. Ramsey. 

Slowly and solemnly the escort, headed by General Hooker 
and staff, and Governor Brough and staff, passed to the Capi- 
tol entrance, and reverently the coffin was lowered from the 
shoulders of the veterans to the flowery bed awaiting it. The 
officers named, with their attendants, Major General Hunter 
and staff, and the general officers in charge of the corpse from 
Washington, General Wager Swayne and staff, the pall-bear- 
ers, and members of committees, assumed their proper places 
around the catafalque, with uncovered heads, the guard of honor 
from the Veteran Reserve Corps formed in line on each side, 
and as soon as the corpse was in place. Rev. Mr. Felton offered 
an appropriate prayer. 

The rotunda of the Capitol, so well calculated for display, so 
grand in its loftiness, was transformed into a gorgeous tomb. 
The grand column of light streaming down from the lofty dome 
made distinct and impressive each feature of the solemn scene 
below. There was no unwonted display to mar the solemnity, 
but beautifully and simply grand as was the character of him 
whose mortal remains were to repose therein, the rotunda of 
Ohio's Capitol emblemed the sorrow of Ohio's people- 

The coffin rested on a mound of moss, in which were dotted 
the choicest flowers. At the head of the coffin rested a large 
floral wreath, while directly behind the latter were flowers in 
glass and china vessels, contributed by ladies. At the corners 
of the platform, on the floor, were large vases, also filled with 
flowers. The walls were adorned with a naval picture repre- 
senting a scene in the life of Commodore Perry, and with 
banners carried by Ohio troops in the recent war, torn and rid- 
dled by bullets in many a conflict. 

By actual count it was found that over eight thousand passed 
in and out every hour from half after nine until four o'clock, and 
making due allowances, it is thought that fifty thousand people 
viewed the remains in that time. 

For more than six hours a steady stream of humanity poured 
througli the channel, all eager to gaze at the sainted martyr on 
his bier. 

Long before the hour appointed for the delivery of the funeral 



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oration in the afternoon, tlie east terrace of the State House 
was crowded with men and women who had gathered to hear 
the lessons which might be suggested from the life and death of 
a martyred President. Upon the platform, at tliree o'clock, 
appeared ^lajor General Hunter, Major Gen, Hooker, Major 
General Barnard, Brigadier General Townsend, Brigadier 
General McCuUum, Colonel Swords, Colonel Simpson, Colonel 
Lathrop, Captain Taylor, Hon. T. B. Shannon of Cal., Hon. 
T. W. Terry of Michigan, Hon. Mr. Clarke of Kansas, the 
orator, Hon. Job E. Stevenson of Chillicothe, Reverends E. P. 
Goodwin and C. E. Felton of Columbus. After appropriate 
music by military bands, and the singing of a hymn by a choir 
under the direction of J. A. Scarritt, a prayer, impressive in 
thought and earnest in manner and word, was offered by the 
pastor of the Congregational Church of Columbus, Mr. Good- 
win. A solemn hymn was then sung by the choir. 
Hon. J. E. Stevenson delivered the following address : 

Ohio mourns I America mourns ! The civilized world will mourn the cruel 
death of Araham Lincoln — the brave, the wise, the good — the bravest, wisest, 
best of men. History alone can measure and weigh his worth. But we, in 
parting from his mortal remains, may indulge the fulness of our hearts in a few 
broken words of his life, and his death, and his fame — his noble life and 
martyr's death and matchless fame. A western farmer's son, self-made, in 
manhood he won by sterling qualities of head and heart the public confidence, 
and was entrusted with the people's power. Growing with his State, he became 
leader. President. He disbelieved the threats of traitors, and sought to serve 
his term in peace. 

When clouds of civil war darkened the land, the President prayed for peace, 
and long opposed the war ; and only when the war became furious did he stem 
the elements, and during the four years of war which raged the President was 
tried as man was never tried before. Oh ! with what a load of toil and care 
has he come, with a steady step, through the valley and shadow of defeat over 
the bright mountains of victory, up to the sunlight plain of peace ; tried by 
dire disaster of Bull Run, where volunteer patriots met traitors ; at Fredericks- 
burg, where courage contended with nature ; at Chancellorsville, that desperate 
venture in the swamps of the Chickahominy, where a brave army was buried 
in vain; by the siege of Charleston, the mockery of Richmond, and the dangers 
of Washington ; through all these trials the President stood firm, trusting in God, 
and while the people trusted in God and him, there were never braver men 
than the Union soldiers, in Grecian phalanx, Roman legion, nor braver ever 
bent the Saxon bow or bore the barbarian battle-axe, or set the lance in rest; 
none braver ever followed the Crescent and the Cross, or fought with Napoleon, 



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or Wellington, or Washington. Yet the Commander-in-Chief of the Union 
army and navy was worthy of the man filling for four years the foremost and 
most perilous post. Unfalteringly tried by good fortune, he saw the soldiers 
of the West recover the great valley and bring back to the Union the father 
of the waters and all his beautiful children. He saw the legions of Lee hunted 
from the heights of Gettysburg. He saw the flag of the free rise on Lookout 
Mountain and speed from the river to the sea, and rest over Sumter. He saw 
the star-spangled banner, lighted by the blaze of battle, bloom over Richmond, 
and he saw Lee surrender; yet he remained wise and modest, giving all the 
glory to God and our army and navy. Tried by civil affairs which would have 
tried the power and tested the virtue of Jefferson, Hamilton and Washington, 
he administered that so well, that after three years no man was found to take 
his place. He was re-elected, and the harvest of success came in so grandly 
that he might have said "Now, Lord, let thy servant depart in peace, for mine 
ej'es have seen the glory." Yet he was free from weakness and vanity. Thus 
did he exhibit, on occasions, a due proportion of harmonious action, those car- 
dinal virtues, the trinity of true greatness, courage, wisdom, goodness to love, 
the right wisdom to know the right, and courage to do the right. Tried by 
those tests, and by the touchstone of success, he was the greatest of living men. 
He stood on the summit, his brow bathed in the beams of the rising sun of 
peace, singing in his heart the angelic song of "Glory to God in the highest, 
peace on earth, good-will to men." With charity for all, he had forgiven the 
people of the South, and might have forgiven their leaders, covering with the 
broad mantle of his charity their multitude of sins. But he is slain by 
slavery ; that fiend incarnate did the deed ! Beaten in battle, the leaders sought 
to save slavery by assassination. Their madness forced their destruction. 

Abraham Lincoln was the personification of mercy ; Andrew Johnson is the 
personification of justice. They have murdered mercy, and justice rules alone ; 
and the people, with one voice, pray to heaven that justice may be done. The 
mere momentum of our victorious armies will crush every rebel in arms, and 
then may our eyes behold the majesty of the law. They have appealed to the 
Bword. If they were tried by the law their crimes against humanity would 
doom them to death. The blood of thousands of murdered prisoners cries to 
Heaven; the shades of sixty-two thousand starved soldiers rise in judgment 
against them; the body of the murdered President condemns them. Some 
deprecate even vengeance. There is no room for vengeance. Ere long, before 
justice can have her perfect work, the material will be exhausted and the record 
closed. 

Some wonder why the South killed her best friend. Abraham Lincoln was 
the true friend of the people of the South, for he was their friend as Jesus is 
the friend of sinners — ready to save when they repent. He was not the friend 
of rebellion or slavery. He was their strongest foe, and therefore they slew 
him ; but in his death they die. The people have judged them, and they stand 
convicted with remorse and dismay, while the cause for which the President 
perished, sanctified by his blood, grows stronger and brighter. These are some 
of the consequences of the death of Mr. Lincoln. Ours is the grief; theirs is 
the loss, and his is the gain. He died for liberty and Union, and now he 



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wears the martyr's glorious crown. He is our crowned President. While 
the Union survives, while the love of liberty warms the human heart, Abraham 
Lincoln will hold high rank among the immortal dead. The North needs no 
aid from rebel hands to help the Union. The Union needs no improvement. It 
has not been made by man. It was created by God. It is vital. If it has 
wounds in the members of its body, they will heal and leave no scar, without 
the opiate of compromise with treason. * * * -^ ^^Q cannot 
afford to sacrifice one jot or tittle of principle for conciliation. We had better 
bear all the ills of war than fly to the corruption of an unprincipled peace. 
But no conciliation is needed. Let the prodigals feed on the husks till they 
come in repentance and ask to be received in their father's house — not as the 
equals to their faithful brethren, but on a co-equal with their former servants. 
Then we can consider their position and discuss the question, not of the recon- 
struction of the Union, but of the formation of free States from the national 
domain. Until then let the sword which reclaimed their territory rule it, tem- 
pered by national laws. Some say that except by conciliation there can be no 
true peace by conquest. On the contrary, there is no enduring peace but the 
peace that is conquered. The peace of France is a conquered peace ; the peaf^e 
of England is conquered and conquered again ; the peace of our fathers is a 
conquered peace ; the peace of the world is a conquered peace, and thanks be 
to God our peace is to be conquered; and, therefore, a lasting peace. For a 
hundred years shall the people enjoy liberty and Union in peace and security. 
The nation shall be revived through all its members by the hand of free labor. 
Prosperity shall fill and overflow the land, roll along the railways, thrill the 
electric wire, pulsate on the rivers, blossom on the lakes, and whiten the sea; 
and the imperial face of the public, the best and strongest government on 
earth, will be a monument of the glory of Abraham Lincoln ; while over and 
above all shall rise and swell the great dome of his fame. 

The clioir then sang Bryant's funeral ode for the burial of 
Abraham Lincoln, when the benediction was pronounced and 
an air played by the band. 

The closing scene at Columbus was one of impressive beauty 
and solemnity. The sun, setting in peculiar glory, was shed- 
ding his golden light over the city, and giving to the closing 
funeral scenes a solemn interest. A cluster of ladies entered 
the rotunda, and in tearful silence sat near the catafalque. The 
guard of honor, keeping faithful vigilance over their sacred 
treasure, and waiting the moment of departure, were walking 
in slow and solemn tread around the platform on which rested 
the remains of the honored dead. Flowers, and other expres- 
sive symbols of sorrow, surrounded the coffin, adorned with its 
gorgeous ornaments. Through the dome of the magnificent 
capitol the soft, lingering rays of the departing sun streamed 

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down, witl; a mild and half-dimmed radiance, covering the scene 
within the rotunda with an attractive and subduing aspect. In 
the midst of this picture of beauty, and almost painful silence, 
Governor Brough and a few others entered, and, with the guard 
of honor, and the group of ladies, followed the remains out of 
the rotunda into the spacious grounds that surround the capitol. 
As the cortege passed out of the door, a band struck up the 
grand historic tune of " Old Hundred," followed by a national 
salute from the military, and thus to the sound of inspiring 
music and minute guns was the remains of the illustrious dead 
borne to the funeral car, and left the capital of Ohio at the set- 
ting of the sun. 

As the arrangements made at Washington prevented the 
funeral cortege from passing through Cincinnati, the great 
commercial metropolis of Ohio and the West, the Mayor, Com- 
mon Council, and several hundred eminent citizens of that city 
were present at Columbus, to mingle in the ceremonies and to 
add to the honors paid to the illustrious and departed Presi- 
dent by the great State of Ohio. 

The route from Columbus to Indianapolis, in its entire length, 
was passed over in the darkness of the night. This, however, 
did not diminish the spontaneous tributes of honor. At all the 
stations, villages, and towns multitudes assembled to manifest 
in all appropriate symbols their sorrow, and to add their tears 
to the universal grief. There was a perfect torchlight along 
the whole route. Every farm-house had its bonfire in order 
to see the train. Nearly every town had arches built over the 
track. 

At Urbana, a large and beautiful town in central Ohio, 
some three thousand people were present. A large cross 
was on the platform, entwined with circling wreaths of 
evergreens, which were worked under direction of Mrs. 
Miles G. Williams, President of the Ladies Soldiers' Aid 
Society. From the top of the cross, and shorter arms, 
were hung illuminated colored transparencies. On the op- 
posite side of the track was an elevated platform, on which 
were forty gentlemen and ladies, who sung with pathetic 
sweetness the hymn entitled " Go to thy rest." The singers 
represented the Methodist, Baptist, Episcopalian, and Presby- 



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terian clmrcbes. Large bonfires made night light as day. 
Minute guns were fired. Ten young ladies entered the car and 
strewed flowers on the martyr's bier. One of the ladies was 
so afi"ected that she cried and wept in great anguish. The 
scene was one of great beauty and effect, and did credit to the 
good taste of the people of that town. 

At Piqua, ten thousand people assembled at the hour of 
midnight to honor the martyred President. They were seen in 
all directions, by the light of lamps, torches, and bonfires. The 
railroad station was adorned with Chinese lanterns and flags, 
in conjunction with dark mourning drapery. Thirty-six ladies 
in white, with black sashes, sang a plaintive tune, which 
brought tears from many eyes. The Troy band and the Piqua 
band played appropriate music, after which a delegation from 
the Methodist churches, under Rev. Granville (Col.) Moody, 
sung a hymn. Mr. Moody repeated the first line, when it was 
then sung by the entire choir. It was a scene such as is seldom 
witnessed. 

Richmond, Indiana, was reached by the train on Sunday 
morning, at three o'clock, and ten thousand people were 
assembled. Wreaths of flowers were brought by ladies, 
bearing the motto, " The nation mourns;'^ and these floral 
gifts were laid upon the coffins of the President and little 
Willie. The train passed under an arched bridge, the abut- 
ments of which were trimmed with evergreens, dotted with 
white roses, and wreathed with mourning drapery. On this 
bridge was the representation of a coffin, covered with the na- 
tional flag ; a female figure was kneeling, and was in the act of 
weeping ; she represented tlie Genius of Liberty ; a soldier 
and a sailor at either side of the coffin completed the group. 
At Centreville, Germantown, and Cambridge, thousands of 
people were gathered. At Cambridge the train passed under 
an arch trimmed with evergreens, surmounted with a female 
figure, to represent the Genius of America weeping. At Dub- 
lin the train passed under an arch, thirty feet high, dotted with 
small United States flags. On the depot were set different pic- 
tures, wreathed with evergreens, representing Washington, Lin- 
coln, Grant, Sherman, Ellsworth, and others. At Knightstown 
were erected funeral arches at each end of the depot, and the 



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building was festooned with the badges of sorrow. A choir 
chaunted a solemn and beautiful hymn as the train moved 
leisurely between the files of mourning citizens. 

At Charlotteville, chief among the procession at the depot 
was quite a large body of colored people. How fitting and 
sublime seemed the gospel declaration, as the Great Eman- 
cipator's coffin passed through a file of freemen, " Of one blood 
made He all nations of men." The brightest star in the im- 
mortal diadem that encircled the brows of Abraham Lincoln 
was his fiat to his country: " Be ye indeed free." 

FUNERAL HONORS AT INDIANAPOLIS. 

The State of Indiana, the early home of Mr. Lincoln, and 
its capital city, gave affecting and universal evidence of the 
profound grief felt by the people. The train, bearing all that 
was mortal of the late President, arrived at Indianapolis on 
Sabbath morning at seven o'clock, the 30th of April. It was 
escorted to the city by the following ofBcers, citizens of the 
State, who had gone as a special committee to Richmond to re- 
ceive and conduct the remains to Indianapolis : 

Governor 0. P. Morton, Lieutenant Governor Conrad Baker, T. B. lilcCarty, 
Auditor of State ; John I. Morrison, Treasurer of State ; D. R. Williamson, At- 
torney General ; Laz Noble, Clerk of the Supreme Court ; Thomas A. Hen- 
dricks, U. S. Senator; Brigadier General Tom Bennet ; H. S. Lane, U. S. Sena- 
tor; G. S. Orth; Thomas N. Stillwell, M. C; David Kilgore, D. S. Gooding, 
D. C. Branham, J. Matson, Hon. John H. Farquhar, M. C, Henry Secrist, Gen. 
Colgrove, J. F. Kibby, T. J. Cason, J. L. Miller, M. C Culver, Colonel R. N. 
Hudson, Colonel R. W. Thomson, Colonel Oyler, General Dumont, M. C, John 
U. Petit, Joseph E. McDonald, General John Love, Thomas Whitesides, Jer. 
Sullivan, Colonel James Burgess, Colonel L. L. Shuler, H. C. Newcomb, Joseph 
J. Bingham, Alfred Harrison, William Hannaman, James N. Tyner, Captain 
H. B. Hill, Captain Stansifer, J. Y. Allison, Colonel C. D. Murray, Colonel Ira 
Grover, Colonel D. G. Rose, Colonel W. H. J. Robinson, David McDonald, J. D. 
Howland, Judge C. A. Ray, Judge Blair, John Hannah, ex-Governor Dunning, 
Dr. Hendrix, Judge Gregory, J. H. McVey, E. J. Banta, D. E. Snyder, Charles 
F. Hoagate, R. N. Brown, R. B. Catherwood, E. W. Halford, Esq., Wm. Wal- 
lace, E. H. Barry, Hon. A.H.Connor,.!. T.Wright, W. A. Bradshaw, J. J.Wright, 
Esq., E. W. Kimball, Esq., General Elliott, Major J. H. Lozier, Andrew Wal- 
lace, J. C. New, Esq., W. H. English, Captain James Wilson, Mayor Caven and 
the Common Council, T. C. Philips, J. P. Luse, J. H. Jordan, M. C. Garber, W 
S. Lingle, R. J. Ryan, C. S. Butterfield, J. K. English, W. R. Manlove, Dr. 
George W. Clippinger, Charles N. Todd, Rev. F. C. HoUiday, Rev. J. V. R. 



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Miller, Rev. B. F. Foster, Rev. J. P. T. Ingraham, Rev. Dr. Bowman, Rev. C. 
F. Marshall, Rev. 0. A. Burgess, Father Bessonies, Mr. Silverthorn of the Ev- 
ansvUle Journal, and Mr. Westfall of the Terre Haute Express. 

At the Union depot immense multitudes were assembled, 
and tlie military was drawn up, in open order, to receive the 
remains and escort them in solemn procession to the State 
House. Amid the sound of tollino^ bells, and in falling rain, 
the procession moved in slow and solemn march to the capitol, 
while on the entire line of march the citizens thronged the side- 
walks, balconies, and house-tops, in deep sympathy with the 
solemn scene. The body, carried by the sergeants, was borne 
into the State House, and lay in state during the entire Sabbath. 
The enclosure of the State House Square was hung with 
wreaths of arborvitas. At each corner on Washington street 
small arches, trimmed with evergreen, had been erected. The 
main entrance on "Wasliington street was a structure of con- 
siderable size, combining quite a variety of styles of architec- 
ture ; it was about twenty-five feet high, forty feet in length, 
and twenty-four feet wide. Underneath was a carriage-way, 
twelve feet wide, with a six-feet passage way on either side. 
The main pillars were fifteen feet high. Portraits of Grant, 
Sherman, Farragut, and Morton were suspended from the pillars, 
while on the pedestals at the top rested handsome busts of Wash- 
ington, Webster, Lincoln, and Clay. The entire structure was 
beautifully shrouded in black, and was relieved by evergreen 
garlands, with a fine display of flags. At the north side a 
simple draping of black and white had been erected. The 
pillars of the south front of the capitol were spirally covered 
with alternate white and black cloth, the latter edged with 
evergreens, while the coat of arms of the State was placed in 
the pediment. During the performance of an impressive 
funeral dirge, the tolling of bells, and the sounding of cannon, 
the coffin was carried to the interior of the State House in the 
presence of the military and civic escort which had accom- 
panied the remains from Washington. Along the walls 
were suspended pictures of Washington, Lincoln, Johnson, 
Seward, Sheridan, Hovey, Morton, Douglas, Sherman, Grant, 
Colonel Dick O'Neall, and Edward Everett. Busts of Wash- 
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placed at intervals, their brows bound with the ever-living 
laurel flowers, and evergreens everywhere literally entered 
into the artistic arrangements. Heavy black cloth was hung 
in the rotunda, looped at the pillars with large white tassels, 
while the surmounting of the interior dome, which formed 
loosely the hung canopy, was in black, with white cords and 
tassels, and ornamented with golden stars. Immediately beneath 
hung the chandelier, witli numerous burners, and from which a 
mellow light was shed upon the sombre scene. The platform 
was in the centre of the rotunda, under the chandelier. It 
was covered with fine black velvet, with silver fringe. On this 
the coflBn was placed, surrounded by flowers, while white 
wreaths and floral crosses laid upon the lid. 

It was estimated that persons were passed through at the 
rate of one hundred and fifty per minute, and that fully one 
hundred thousand persons viewed the remains in the course of 
the day. 

All the public and private buildings of the city were 
draped in mourning, and on many of them beautiful, artistic 
devices were seen, and striking and suggestive mottoes were 
read. On one was this inscription, so historic and true of the 
departed President : " He sleeps in the hlessing of the poor, 
whose fetters God commanded him to break.'- On another was 
elegantly represented Grief, Hope, and Immortality, in festoons 
of black and white, with a beautiful embroidery of evergreen. 
On the hall of a benevolent organization was the suggestive 
and beautiful sentiment, " To live in hearts ive leave behind is 
not to die." 

No formal religious services were performed at the State 
House, but the clergy of the city preached discourses appro- 
priate to the solemn scenes of the day, and commemorative of 
the virtues and services of the late President. A pleasing in- 
cident of the Sabbath was the visit of five thousand Sunday 
Sciiool scholars to the State House, marshalled under the 
venerable Colonel James Blake, wlio, for forty years, had 
been a laborer in Sunday schools, to look for the first 
and last time on him whom they had learned to honor and 
love, and who, in public addresses, had advocated the noble 
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The world's history is emblazoned by the examples of a few 
martyrs to the cause of liberty and religion, and sacred in the 
heart of Indiana .is now added to the shining necrology 
the name of Abraham Lincoln, the murdered President of the 
United States of America. 

Governor Bramlette and other distinguished men from Ken- 
tucky came to Indianapolis to represent their State, and to tes- 
tify their sorrow for the death of the President. 

The City Councils of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Ky., 
also participated, as representative mourners of their States, 
in the ceremonies at Indianapolis, having met the train at 
Richmond, Indiana, and accompanied the remains to tlie cap- 
ital of the State. 

The ceremonies on the part of the State closed at ton o'clock 
with a procession of the marshals around the coffin, after which 
the guard of honor and the guard of sergeants filed in and 
took cliarge of the remains. The undertaker re^aced the lid, 
and the last glance of Abraham Lincoln had been taken in 
Indiana forever. The flowers which garlanded the coffin were 
gathered up and given to the charge of the State Librarian for 
preservation. 

At a few minutes past ten the order was given, and while 
the band played the solemn air, " Old Hundred," the coffin was 
lifted from the dais to the shoulders of the sergeants, and by 
them carried to the funeral car, whence, through a line of 
armed troops and torch bearers, extending from the south en- 
trance of the capitol to the west end of the Union depot, the 
procession, headed by the carriages of Generals Hooker and 
Hovey, and composed of the civic and military escort, attended 
by Senator Lane and Representatives Orth, Stillwell, audFar- 
quhar, moved, amid the tolling of bells and thousands of un- 
covered heads, to place the coffin of Abraham Lincoln upon the 
train prepared by the Lafayette Railroad Company, to be 
transported to Chicago. 

Every Indianian felt that the honor of the State had been 
brightened by their reception of the remains of President Lin- 
coln, and that the State where he passed some years of his 
youth had rendered her full quota of honor to him as the 
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Oil Sabbath evening, at 10 o'clock, the funei'al cortege left 
Indianapolis for Chicago. The demonstrations of sorrow 
along the route from Indianapolis were most solemn and im- 
pressive. At the villages of Whitestown, Lebanon, Thorntown, 
Colfax, Clarksville, and others, people in great numbers were 
assembled, and expressed their sorrow in various and signifi- 
cant symbols. 

At Lafayette, though the train passed it before day-break, 
thousands were assembled to honor the lamented dead. Houses 
were illuminated ; badges of mourning and draped flags were 
abundant ; the bells were tolled, bonfires lit, and the funeral 
strains, sweet and solemn, came from the choir of many voices. 

Michigan City presented striking and beautiful emblems of 
grief. A temporary structure, under which the train stopped, 
was erected with a succession of arches in the Gothic style, 
and from the crowning central point floated a draped na- 
tional flag at half-mast. The arches were trimmed with white 
and black, and ornamented with evergreens and choice flowers. 
Numerous miniature flags fringed the curved edges, and por- 
traits of the lamented dead were encircled with crape. At the 
abutments and at the ends of the main arch were the mottoes: 
"The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must pre- 
vail;" " Abraham Lincoln, the noblest martyr to freedom; 
sacred thy dust; hallowed thy resting place." On each side 
of the arch were the words, " Abraham Lincoln," formed with 
sprigs of the arbor vitse, with the mottoes : " Our guiding star 
has fallen ;" " The nation mourns ;" and " Though dead he yet 
speaketh." Near by this combination of arches were sixteen 
young ladies dressed in white waists and black skirts, with 
black sashes. They sung " Old Hundred," concluding with 
the doxology. Many persons were affected to tears, the mili- 
tary and civil. Thirty-six young ladies were on a tastefully- 
decorated platform in white dresses, with black scarfs. They 
held in their hands little flags. In their midst, and almost 
hidden in the folds of the national flag, was a lady represent- 
ing the Genius of America. It was a lovely group, upon which 
all eyes gazed admiringly. Miss Colfax, a niece of the Speaker, 
and fifteen other ladies, entered the funeral car, and laid flowers 
upon the coSin of the dead. Meantime guns were fired, and the 



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subduing strains of music gave a solemn sadness and beauty to 
the scene. 

FUNERAL HONORS AT CHICAGO. 

On Monday, meridian, the 1st of May, 1865, the funeral 
train, numbering nine cars, covered with mourning drapery, ar- 
rived at Chicago, the great commercial city of the Northwest, 
bearing back to Illinois the remains of her honored and illus- 
trious citizen, Abraham Lincoln, The imposing scenes of the 
route seemed to culminate in Chicago, and to be, if possible, 
more striking, more beautiful, and more impressive than had 
yet been witnessed. 

Illinois was the early home of the honored dead, the field 
of his forensic life and labors, and the State in which he first 
displayed those just and comprehensive views of statesmanship 
which resulted in his election to the presidency, and secured 
for him a rank among the most illustrious men of the world. 
Chicago, too, was the city where he received. May 16, 1860, 
his first nomination as a candidate for the highest office in the 
republic, to which he was elected by the unanimous vote of the 
free States of the Union. His nomination by the convention 
was hailed with unbounded enthusiasm by the people of Illinois 
and the citizens of Chicago. In his letter of acceptance he 
said : "Imploring the assistance of Divine Providence, and with 
due regard to the views and feelings of all who were repre- 
sented in the convention ; to the rights of all the States and 
Territories and the people of the nation ; to the inviolability 
of the Constitution, and to the perpetual union, harmony, and 
prosperity of all, I am most happy to co-operate for the prac- 
tical success of the principles declared by the convention." 
Thus early, formally, and solemnly devoted to freedom, to the 
Constitution, and to trust in God, Abraham Lincoln nobly ex- 
emplified these sentiments as President of the United States, 
and for which he fell a martyr. The city wliich greeted his 
nomination and triumpliant election with such delight was the 
first to give him a mournful reception on his return to Illinois 
as a dead President and yet a conquering hero. 

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Micliigan city, and bore them from Indiana, the home of his 
early and friendless boyhood, into the State of Illinois, and its 
commercial metropolis, where they received the highest possi- 
ble mark of affection and honor. An immense asssemblage 
waited at Park Place, the point at which the funeral train 
paused, and where the remains were borne but of the car into 
the Park. A reception arch was stretched across the Park, 
and its columns, side arches, and gothic windows were draped 
in elaborate mourning, and over each was a motto, expressive 
of some feature in the character and life of the late President, 
and the affection and veneration of the citizens for his memory 
and virtues. 

The coffin, carried by eight sergeants, was laid upon the dais 
underneath the arch, and while the pall-bearers and guard of 
honor from Washington formed around the bier, a funeral 
march, " The Lincoln Requiem," composed for the occasion, 
was performed with solemn effect by a musical band. 

As the solemn strains of the funeral march were pealing in 
the air, a most beautiful and touching rite was performed. This 
was the strewing of immortelles and garlands upon the bier by 
thirty-six young ladies of the High School. Before the arrival 
of the funeral escort this fair company of maidens had been the ob- 
ject of universal admiration and remark. Attired in snow white 
robes, with a simple sash of thin black crape tied with a rosette 
at the side; bare-headed and with a black velvet wreath over 
their brows, in front of which spaHvled a single star ; some 
with fair, sunny ringlets hanging loosely around their shoulders ; 
others with their hair arranged in neat plaits at the back — they 
looked the very emblems of purity. 

The grand procession, numbering fifty thousand people, then 
formed and marched through the avenues of the city to the 
Court House, in which the remains of the lamented President 
were placed in state. The Court House outside was draped in 
the most elaborate manner, the windows being decorated with 
mourning flags, and the rotunda covered with symbols of- sor- 
row. As the coffin was being placed in position, a choir of a 
hundred voices, overhead and invisible, sang a solemn dirge, 
which was inexpressibly sad and mournful. 

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decorated with mourning-. Rays of black and white clotL 
covered all the roof, being gathered into a centre around the 
chandeliers. The walls were also covered with black and white 
cloth, and significant inscriptions placed over both entrances, 
and upon the walls. Over the north door, on the outside, were 
the words, 

The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : 

And on the inside, over the same door, 

The altar of Freedom has borne no nobler sacrifice. 

Over the south door, on the outside, was the inscription, 

Illinois clasps to her bosom her slain, but glorified son : 

And inside, over the same entrance, 

He was sustained by our prayers, and returns embalmed by our tears. 

During the first and second days of May, the time that the 
remains reposed in Chicago, a half million of people were spec- 
tators of the solemn ceremonies, and laid their tributes of 
affection and honor upon the dead body of their former fellow- 
citizen and late illustrious President. The civic, military, 
mercantile, professional, educational, mechanical, benevolent, 
and religious, all orders and organizations, with banners 
draped in mourning and the emblems of sorrow, united with the 
citizens and large delegations from Wisconsin and Iowa in 
honoring the remains and the memory of the late President. 
The procession was under the marshalship of Colonel R. M. 
Hough and his assistants, and the pall-bearers consisted of the 
following gentlemen : 

Hon. Lyman Trumbull, Hon. John "Wentworth, Hon. F. C. Sherman, Hon. 
E. C. Larned, Hon. F. A. Hoffman, Hon. J. R. Jones, Hon. Thos. Drummond, 
Hon. Wm. Bross, Hon. J. B. Rice, Hon. S. W. Fuller, Hon. T. B. Bryan, Hon. 
J. Y. Scammon. 

During the night solemn dirges were sung ; the Germans, 
some tJiree hundred in number, chanted at midnight a beautiful 
and impressive requiem with thrilling effect. The remains were 
removed on the evening of the 2d of May, and borne through 



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a line of a thousaud men aud boys, with blazing torches ia 
their hands, to the funeral car. As the remains were re- 
placed, and the train moved slowly away, the German band, in 
strains of sweet and subduing melody, made the scene vocal 
with solemn song, and thus with the benedictions and love of the 
people of Chicago, and the air filled with the harmony of 
music, the remains of the honored dead were borne away to- 
wards their resting place in the capital of the State of Illinois. 

FUNERAL ORATION BY SPEAKER COLFAX. 

On Sabbath afternoon, April 30th, the day previous to the 
arrival of the funeral cortege at Chicago, the Hon. Schuyler 
Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Thirty- 
Ninth Congress, and long the intimate, honored, and political 
friend of the late President, delivered, in Byrant Hall, a funeral 
oration on the life and character of the illustrious deceased. 

The chair was occupied by John V. Farwell, Esq., the Presi- 
dent of the Northwestern Branch of the Christian Commission. 
The services were opened with prayer by Prof. F. W. Fisk, 
D. D., of the Chicago Theological Seminary, after which Mr. 
Farwell introduced the eloquent speaker in a few befitting and 
appropriate remarks. 

The copy of the oration, inserted in this memorial record, 
was written out, at the special request of Rev. Thomas Eddy, 
D. D., Editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, by the 
orator, and is as follows : 

Over two centuries and a half have passed away since the ruler of any great 
nation of the world has fallen by the murderous attack of an assassin ; and for 
the first time in our history there is blood on the presidential chair of the re- 
public. Death is almost always saddening. The passing away of some dear 
friend from our earthly sight forever fills the heart with sorrow. When it 
strikes down one who fills honorably a position of influence and power, as in 
the case of our two Presidents who died of disease in the White House, the sin- 
cerest grief is felt throughout the land. But when this affliction is aggravated 
by death coming through the hand of a murderer, it is not strange that the 
wave of woe sweeps gloomily over a nation, which sits down to mourn in 
sackcloth, its pulses of business stilled, feeling in every individual heart as if 
there was one dead at our own hearthstones. It seems, too, as if this wicked 
deed was intensified, in all its horror, by every attendant circumstance. The 
fatal shot was fired on the very day when the nation's flag was again 
unfurled in triumph over that fort in Charleston harbor, which, in fouc years' 



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time, had been the cradle and the grave of the rebellion. It was at an hour 
when the death of the President could not be of the slightest avail to the trea- 
sonable conspiracy against the republic, which its military leaders acknowl- 
edged at last was powerless and overthrown. And it was aimed, alas ! with 
too sure a hand, at the life of that one man in the Government whose heart 
was tenderest towards the would-be assassins of the nation's life. 

You may search history, ancient and modern, and when the task is ended all 
will concede that Abraham Lincoln was the most merciful ruler who ever put 
down a powerful rebellion. He had so won the hearts of the people, and so en- 
twined himself in their regard and affection, that he was the only man living 
who could have stood in the breach between the leaders of this iniquity and the 
wrath of the country they had plunged into bloody war. Feeling, as so many 
did, that his kindly heart almost forgot justice in its throbbings for mercy, yet, 
knowing his unfaltering devotion to his country, his inflexible adherence to 
principle, his unyielding determination for the restoration of our national unity, 
there was a trust in him, almost filial in its loving confidence, that whatever 
he should finally resolve on would prove in the end to be for the best. Had 
he been an unforgiving ruler ; had his daily practice been to sit in his high 
place and there administer with unrelenting severity the penalties of offended 
law ; had he proclaimed his resolution to consign all the plotters against his 
country to the gallows they had earned, we might have understood why the 
rebel assassins conspired against his life. But no assassination in history — • 
not even that of Henry IV of France, for which Ravaillac was torn in pieces 
by horses, nor William of Orange — approximates in utterly unpalliated infamy 
to this. 

In the midst of the national rejoicings over the assured triumph of the na- 
tional cause, with illuminations and bonfires blazing in every town, and tha 
merry peal of the festive bell in every village, our cities blossoming with flags, 
our hearts beating high with joy, the two great armies of Grant and Lee fra- 
ternizing together after their long warfare, and exulting together over 
the return of peace, we were brought in a single moment from the utmost 
heights of felicity to the deepest valleys of lamentation. No wonder that 
rebel generals acknowledged that it sent down their cause through all the 
coming centuries to shameless dishonor. For, disguise it as some may seek to 
do, behind the form of the assassin, as his finger pulled the fatal trigger, 
looms up the dark and fiendish spirit of the rebellion, which, baffled- in it3 
work of assassinating the nation's life, avenged itself on the life of him who 
represented the nation's contest and the nation's victory. As surely as the 
infamous offer of twenty-five thousand crowns by Philip of Spain to whomso- 
ever would rid the world of the pious William of Orange, the purest and best- 
loved ruler of his times, who, by a striking coincidence, was called Father 
William, as we called our beloved President Father Abraham — as surely as 
this public offer, with its false denunciations of William's offences, inspirited 
the murderous Balthazer to shoot him through the body — so surely are the 
chiefs of this gigantic rebellion of our times responsible for the fatal bullet 
that carried death to our Chief Magistrate, and filled the land with unavailing 
Borrow. 



Unrebuked by tbem, history repeated itself in tbe following infamous proffer, 
published in the Selma (Alabama) Dispatch of last December, and copied ap- 
provingly into other rebel organ a : 

" Onb Million Dollars Wantei>, to have Peace bt the Fiest op Mabch. 
— If the citizens of the Southern Confederacy will furnish me with the cash, oi 
good securities for the sum of one million dollars, I will cause the lives of Abra- 
ham Lincoln, W. H. Seward, and Andrew Johnson to be taken by the first oi 
March next. This will give us peace, and satisfy the world that cruel tyrants 
cannot live in a ' land of liberty.' If this is not accomplished, nothing will be 
claimed beyond the sum of fifty thousand dollars in advance, which is supposed 
to be necessary to reach and slaughter the three villains. 

" I will give, myself, one thousand dollars toward this patriotic purpose. 

" Every one wishing to contribute will address Box X, Cahawba, Ala. 

" Decemeee 1, 1864." 

You will not fail to remember that these very three thus named were to have 
been murdered on that fatal night; and that when Booth was captured he was 
fleeing in that very direction. 

And, to fix upon them the brand ineffaceably and for ever, as the miscreant 
leaped upon the stage, his shout of Virginia's motto, " Sic semper tyrannis," 
with his own addition, " The South is avenged," proclaims to the civilized world, 
which will be filled with horror at the deed, as well as to posterity, which will 
ever loathe the crime and the cause for whose interests it was committed, the 
authorship of this unparalleled atrocity. It seems, however, but a natural 
sequel to the infamous pjlot to murder him as he passed through Baltimore 
when first elected ; to the brutalities on our dead soldiers at Bull Run, burying 
them face downwards, and carving up their bones into trinkets ; to the piracies 
on the high seas, and attempts to burn women and children to death in crowded 
hotels and theatres ; to Fort Pillow massacres, and to the systematic and inex- 
piable starvation of thousands of Union prisoners in their horrid pens. 

I can scarcely trust myself to attempt the portraiture of our martyred chief, 
whose death is mourned as never mau's was mourned before ; and who, in all 
the ages that may be left to America, while time shall last, will be enshrined 
in solemn memory with the Father of the Republic which he saved. How 
much I loved him personallj^, I cannot express to you. Honored always by 
his confidence ; treated ever by him with affectionate regard ; sitting often with 
him familiarly at his table ; his last visitor on that terrible night ; receiving 
his last message, full of interest to the toiling miners of the distant West; 
walking by his side from his parlor to the door, as he took his last steps in that 
Executive Mansion he had honored ; receiving the last grasp of that generous 
and loving hand, and his last, last, good-by ; declining his last kind invitation 
to join him in those hours of relaxation which incessant care and anxiety 
seemed to render so desirable, my mind has since been tortured with regrets 
that I had not accompanied him. If the knife which the assassin had intended 
for Grant had not been wasted, as it possibly v;ould not have been, on one ol 
BO much less importance in our national affairs, perchance a sudden backwf.rd 
look at that eventful instant might have saved that life, so incalculably 



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precious to wife and childrf-n and country; or, failing in that, miglit have 
hindered or prevented the escape of his murderer. The willingness of any man 
to endanger his life for another's is so much doubted that I scarcely dare to say 
how willingly I would have risked my own to preserve his, of such priceless 
value to us all. But if you can realize that it is sweet to die for one's country, 
as so many scores of thousands, from every State and county and hamlet, have 
proved in the years that are past, you can imagine the consolation there would 
be to any one, even in his expiring hours, to feel that he had saved the land 
from a funereal gloom which, but a few days ago, settled down upon it frcni 
ocean to ocean and from capitol to cabin, at the loss of one for whom even a 
hecatomb of victims could not atone. 

Of this noble hearted man, so full of genial impulses, so self forgetful, so 
utterly unselfish, so pure and gentle and good, who lived for us and at last died 
for us, I feel how inadequate I am to portray his manifold excellences — his 
intellectual worth — his generous character — his fervid patriotism. Pope cele- 
brated the memory of Robert Ilarley, the Lord of Oxford, a privy counselor of 
Queen Anne, who hirnsjelf narrowly escaped assassination, in lines that seem 
prophetic of Mr. Lincoln's virtues : 

A soul supreme in each hard instance tried; 
Above all pain, all anger, and all pride, 
The rage of power, the blast of public breath, 
The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. 

No one could ever convince the President that he was in danger of violent 
death. Judging others by himself, he could not realize that any one could seek 
his blood. Or ho may have believed, as Napoleon wrote to Jerome, that no 
public man could effectually shield himself from the danger of assassination. 
Easier of access to the public at large than had been any of his predecessors ; 
admitting his bitterest enemies to his reception-room alone ; restive under the 
cavalry escort which Secretary Stanton insisted should accompany him last 
summer in his daily journeys between the White House and hi^ summer resi- 
dence, at the Soldiers' Home, several miles from Washington, at a time, too, as 
since ascertained in the details of this long-organized plot discovered since his 
death, when it was intended to gag and handcuff him and to carry him to the 
rebel capital as a hostage for their recognition ; sometimes escaping from their 
escort by anticipating their unusual hour of attendance ; walking about the 
grounds unattended; he could not be persuaded that he run any risk whatever. 
Being at City Point after the evacuation of Richmond, he determined to go 
thither, not from idle curiosity, but to see if he could not do something to stop 
the effusion of blood and hasten the peace for which he longed. The ever- 
watchful Secretary of War, hearing of it, implored him by telegraph not to go, 
and warned him that some lurking assassin might take his life. But armed 
with his good intentions — alas ! how feeble a shield they proved against the death- 
blow afterwards — he went, walked fearlessly and carelessly through the streets, 
met and conferred with a rebel leader who had remained there, and when he 
returned to City Point, telegraphed to his faithful friend and constitutional 
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" I received your Jespatch last night, went to Richmond this morning, and have 
just returned. 

" ABRAHAM LINCOLN." 

When I told him, on that last night, how uneasy all had been at his going, 
he replied, pleasantly and with a smile, (I quote liis exact words,) "Why, it 
any one else had been President and gone to Richmond, I would have been 
alarmed too ; but I was not scared about myself a bit." 

If any of you have even been at Washington, you will remember the foot- 
path lined and embowered with trees leading from the back door of the War 
Department to the White House. One night, and but recently too, when, in 
his anxiety for news from the army, he had been with the Secretary in the 
telegraph office of the Department, he was about starting home at a late hour 
by this short route, Mr. Stanton stopped him and said, " You ought not to go 
that way; it is dangerous for you even in the daytime, but worse at night." 
Mr. Lincoln replied, " I don't believe there's any danger there, day or night." 
Mr. Stanton responded solemnly, "Well, Mr. President, you shall not be killed 
returning that dark way from my Department while I am in it; you musi let 
me take you round by the avenue in my carriage." And Mr. Lincoln, joking 
the Secretary on his imperious military orders and his needless alarm on his 
account, as he called it, entered his carriage and was driven by the well-lighted 
avenue to the White House. 

And thus he walked through unseen dangers, without " the dread of death;" 
his warm heart so full of good will, even to his enemies, that he could not 
imagine there was any one base enough to slay him ; and the death-dealing 
bullet was sped to its mark in a theatre, where, but little over an hour before, 
he had been welcomed as he entered by a crowded audience rising, and with 
cheers and waving of handkerchiefs, honoring him with an ovation of which 
any one might well be proud. Some regret that he was there at all. But, to 
all human appearance, he was safer there, by far, than in his own reception- 
room, where unknown visitors so often entered alone. He found there a 
temporary respite occasionally from the crowds who thronged his ante-rooms — 
relaxation from the cares and perplexities which so constantly oppressed him, 
keeping his mind under the severest tension, like the bent bow, till it almost 
lost its spring — and, on this fatal night, to be so black an one hereafter in our 
calendar, going with reluctance, and, as he expressed it to LIr. Ashmun and 
myself, only because General Grant, who had been advertised with himself to 
be present, had been compelled to leave the city, and he did not wish to disap- 
point those who would expect to see him there. 

To those who have expressed their regrets that the murderer found him in a 
theatre, let me further add that, by the etiquette of Washington, the President 
is prohibited from making or returning calls, except in the case of the danger- 
ous illness of some intimate friend. If he made one social visit, the thousands 
whom he could not call on, especially distinguished strangers from abroad, 
would feel the discrimination. And hence, a President, not able to enjoy a 
social evening at some friend's mansion, as all of us can, must remain within 
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which always confront him there from sunri?e till midnight at some public 
place of amusement. 1 remember that, when we heard of those bloody battles 
of the Wilderness which any one less persistent than General Grant would have 
regarded as reverses that justified retreat, Mr. Lincoln went to the opera, say- 
ing : " People may think strange of it, but 1 must have some relief from this 
terrible anxiety, or it will kill me." 

Of the many thousands of persons I have met in public or private life, I 
cannot call to mind a single one who exceeded him in calmness of temper, in 
kindness of disposition, and in overflowing generosity of impulse. I doubt if 
his most intimatt^associate ever heard him utter bitter or vindictive language. 
He seemed wholly free from malignity or revenge, from ill-will or injustice. 
Attacked ever so sharply, you all remember that he never answered railing 
with railing. Criticised ever so unjustly, he would reply with no word of re- 
proof, but patiently and uncomplainingly, if he answertd at all, strive to prove 
that he stood on the rock of right. When, from the halls of Congress or else- 
where, his most earnest opponents visited the White House with business, they 
would be met as frankly, listened to as intently, and treated as justly as his 
most earnest friends. It could be said of him as Pyrrhus said of Fabricius, 
when the latter, though in hostile array, exposed to his enemy the treachery 
of his physician, who proffered to poison him : " It is easier to turn the sun from 
his career than Fabricius from his honesty." Men of all parties will remem- 
ber, when the exciting contest of last fall ended in his triumphant re-election, 
his first word thereafter, from the portico of the White House, was, that he 
could not and would not exult over his countrymen who had differed with hia 
policy. 

And thus he ruled, and thus he lived, and thus he died. The wretch who 
stood behind him and sent his bullet crashing through that brain, which had 
been devising plans of reconciliation with the country's deadly foes, as he 
leaped upon the stage and exulted over the death of him whom he denounced 
as a tyrant, uttere<l as foul a falsehood as the lying witnesses who caused the 
conviction and the crucifixion of the Son of Man, on the same Good Friday, 
nearly two thousand years ago. I would not compare the human with the 
Divine, except in that immeasurable contrast of the finite with the infinite. 
But his whole life proves to me that if he could have had a single moment of 
consciousness and of speech, his great heart would have prompted him to pray 
for those who had plotted for his blood, " Father, forgive them, for they know 
not what they do." 

He bore the nation's perils and trials and sorrows ever on his mind. You 
knew him, in a large degree, by the illustrative stories, of which his memory 
and his tongue were so prolific, using them to point a moral, or to soften dis- 
content at his decisions ; but this was the mere badinage which relieved him for 
the moment from the heavy weight of public duties and responsibilities un'lcr 
which he often wearied. Those whom he admitted to his confidence, and with 
whom he conversed of his feelings, knew that his inner life was checkered witli 
the deepest anxiety and most discomforting solicitude. Elated by victories for 
the cause which was ever in his thoughts, reverses to our arms cast a pall of 
depression over him. One morning, over two years ago, calling upon him on 

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business, I found liim looking more than usually pale and car'^worn, and 
inquired the reason. He replied, with the bad news he had received at a late 
hour the previous night, which had not yet been communicated to the press, 
adding that he had not closed his eyes or breakfasted ; and, with an expression 
I shall never forget, he exclaimed, " How willingly would I exchange places 
to-day with the soldier who sleeps on the ground in the Army of the Potomac." 
He was as free from deceit as from guile. He had one peculiarity which 
often misled those with whom he conversed. When his judgment, which acted 
slowly, but which was almost as immovable as the eternal hills when settled, 
was grasping some subject of importance, the arguments against his own de- 
sires seemed uppermost in his mind, and in conversing upon it he would present 
these arguments to see if they could be rebutted. He thus often surprised both 
friend and foe in his final decisions. Always willing to listen to all sides till 
the latest possible moment, yet, when he put down his foot, he never took a 
backward step. Once speaking of an eminent statesman, he said : " When a 
question confronts him he always and naturally argues it from the standpoint 
of which is the better policy; but with me," he added, "my only desire is to 
see what is right." And this is the key to his life. His parents left Kentucky 
for Indiana in his childhood on account of slavery in the former State, and he 
thus inherited a dislike for that institution. As he said recently to Gov. Bram- 
lette, of his native State, " If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong." Moving 
to Illinois, he found the prejudice there against anti-slavery men, when he 
entered on public and professional life, more intense than in any other free 
State in the Union. But he never dissembled, never concealed his opinions. 
Entering, in 1858, on that contest with his great political rival but personal 
friend. Judge Douglas, which attracted the attention of the whole Union, he 
startled many of his friends by the declaration of his convictions that the Union 
could not permanently endure half slave and half free — that ultimately it 
would be either the one or the other, or be a divided house that could not 
Btand — that he did not expect the Union to be dissolved or the house to fall, 
but that it would cease to be divided — and that the hope of the Republic was 
in staying the spread of slavery that the public mind might rest in the hope of 
its ultimate extinction. And though he coupled this with declaration against 
Congressional interference with it in existing States, it was not popular, and 
kept him in the whole canvass upon the defensive. But to every argument 
against it his calm reply was, in substance, " such is my clear conviction, and I 
cannot unsay it." 

His frankness in expressing unpopular opinions was manifested also when, in 
Southern Illinois, before an audience almost unanimously hostile to the senti- 
ment, he declared in the same close and doubtful contest, that, when the Declara- 
tion of Independence proclaimed that all men were created free and equal, it dul 
not mean white men alone, but negroes as well, and that their rights to life, lib- 
esty, and the pursuit of happiness were as inalienable as the noblest in the land. 
He claimed no power over State laws in other States which conflicted with these 
rights, or curtailed them ; but with unfaltering devotion to his conscientious 
conviction, and regardless of its effects on his political prospects, he never wa- 
vered in his adherence to this truth. And yet, when elected President of the 



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United States he executed the fugitive slave law, hecause his oath of office as 
the Executive, in his opinion, required it. When urged to strike at slavery 
under the war power, he replied in a widely published letter, " My paramount 
object is to save the Union, and I would save it in the shortest way. If I could 
save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it. If I could save it 
by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and 
leaving others alone, I would also do that. But I intend no modification of 
my often expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free." And 
when at last the hour arrived when, in his honest opinion, the alternative be- 
tween the death of slavery and the death of the Union confronted him, then, 
and not till then, he struck at the cause of all our woes with the battle-axe of the 
Union. Signing that immortal proclamation which made him the Liberator of 
America, on the afternoon of January 1st, 1863, after hours of New Year's hand- 
shaking, he said to me and other friends that night, " The signature looks a 
little tremulous, for my hand was tired ; but my resolution was firm. I told 
them in September, if they did not return to their allegiance and cease mur- 
dering our soldiers, I would strike at this pillar of their strength. And now 
the promise shall be kept ; and not one word of it will I ever recall." And 
the promise was kept, and every word of it has stood. Thank God, when 
slavery and treason benumbed that hand in death, they could not destroy that 
noble instrument to which that hand had given a life that shall never die. A 
great writer said that when Wilberforce stood at the bar of God he held in his 
hands the broken shackles which on earth had bound hundreds of thousands 
of his fellow men. But, when baffled treason hurried Abraham Lincoln into 
the presence of his Maker, he bore with him the manacles of four millions 
•whom he had made free — fetters that no power on God's footstool is strong 
enough to place again on their enfranchised limbs. 

No man in our era, clothed with such vast power, has ever used it so merci- 
fully. No ruler holding the keys of life and death ever pardoned so many and 
BO easily. When friends said to him they wished he had more of Jackson's 
sternness, he would say, " I am just as God made me, and cannot change." It 
may not be generally known that his doorkeepers had standing orders from 
him, that no matter how great might be the throng, if Senators and Ptep- 
resentatives had to wait or to be turned away without an audience, he must see, 
before the day closed, every messenger who came to him with a petition for the 
saving of life. One night in February I left all other business to ask him to 
respite the son of a constituent, who was sentenced to be shot, at Davenport, 
for desertion. He heard the story with his usual patience, though he was 
wearied out with incessant calls, and anxious for rest, and then replied: "Some 
of our generals complain that I impair discipline and subordination in the 
army by my pardons and respites, but it makes me rested, after a day's hard 
work, if I can find some good excuse for saving a man's life, and I go to bed 
happy, as I think how joyous the signing of my name will make him, and his 
family, and his friends." And with a happy smile beaming over that care- 
furrowed face, he signed that name that saved that life. 

But Abraham Lincoln was not only a good and a just and a generous and a 
humane man. I could not be just to that well-rounded character of his with- 



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oat adding that he was also a praying man. He often said that his reliance in 
the gloomiest hours was on his God, to whom he appealed in prayer, although 
he never became a professor of religion. To a clergyman who asked him if he 
loved his Saviour, he replied, and he was too truthful for us to doubt the decla- 
ration : " When I was first inaugurated I did not love Him ; when God took my 
son I was greatly impressed, but still I did not love Him ; but when I stood 
upon the battle-field of Gettysburg, I gave my heart to Christ, and I can now 
say I do lore the Saviour." 

Two of my fellow-members, Messrs Wilson of Iowa, and Casey of Ken- 
tucky, called upon him at one of those periods when reverses had dispirited our 
people. Conversing about the prospects of our country, one of them said, 
"Well, Mr. President, I have faith that Providence is with us, and if the people 
are but true to the cause, all will be right." Mr. Lincoln gravely replied, with 
deep solemnity in his tone, "I have a higher faith than yours. I have a faith, 
not only that God is with our cause, but that He will control the hearts of the 
people so that they will be faithful to it too." 

The Bible was always in his reception room. I have doubted the report 
that he read an hour in it every day, for he often came direct from his bed to 
his reception room, so anxious was he to accommodate members who had im- 
portant business, and it would sometimes be two or three hours before he would 
playfully say to some friend whose turn had come, "Won't you stay here till I 
get some breakfast?" But he must have read the Bfble considerably, for he 

often quoted it. One day that I happened to come in, he said, " Mr. has 

just been here attacking one of my Cabinet, but I stopped him with this text," 
and he read from the Proverbs a text I had never heard quoted before, as fol- 
lows: "Accuse not the servant to his master." 

You cannot fail to have noticed the solemn and sometimes almost mournful 
strain that pervades many of his addresses. When he left Springfield, in 1861, 
to assume the Presidency, his farewell words were as follows : 

" My Feiends: No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at 
this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more 
than a quarter of a century ; here my children were born, and here one of them 
lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves 
upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any 
other man since the days of Washington. He never would have succeeded 
except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I 
feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, 
and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support; and I hope 
you, my friends, will all pray that I may receive that Divine assistance, with- 
out which I cannot succeed, but with which success is certain. Again I bid 
you all an affectionate farewell." 

Before that murderer's blow closed his eyes in death, that "success" for which 
he had struggled was assured — that " duty" devolved upon him had been per- 
formed. But the friends to whom, with "the sadness he felt at parting," he 



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bade this " affectionate farewell," can only look upon his lifeless eorpse, now 
elowly borne to their midst. 

When, in the same month, he raised the national flag over Independence Hall, 
at Philadelphia, he said to the assembled tens of thousands : " It was something 
in the Declaration of Independence giving liberty, not only to the people of 
this country, but hope to the world for all coming time. It was that which 
gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders 
of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. * * * * 
Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis? If it can, I will 
consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. 
But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was 
about to say that I would rather be assassinated upon the spot than to surrender 
it. I liave said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and if it be the 
pleasure of Almighty God, to die by." 

He seemed, as he thus spoke, to have the dark shadow of his violent death 
before him. But even in its presence he declared that he would rather be as- 
sassinated than to surrender a principle ; and that while he was willing to live 
by it, yet, if it was God's pleasure, he was equally willing to die by it. He 
was assassinated, but his name and principles will live while history exists and 
the republic endures. 

So, too, in the conclusion of his first inaugural, he appealed in the language 
of entreaty and peace to those who had raised their mailed hands against the 
life of their father-land : 

" You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You 
have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I have 
the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. The mystic cord of 
memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living 
heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the 
Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our 
nature." 

In all my literary reading, I have never found a more beautiful and touching 
sentence than the one I have just quoted. 

In the funeral exercises in the East Room on the 19th of April, the very an- 
niversary of the day when the blood of murdered Massachusetts soldiers stained 
the stones of the city of Baltimore, Dr. Gurloy quoted the President's solemn 
reply to a company of clergj-men who called on him in one of the darkest hours 
of the war, when, standing where his lifeless remains then rested, he replied 
to them in tones of deep emotion : 

" Gentlemen, my hope of success in this great and terrible struggle rests on 
that immutable foundation, the justness and goodness of God. And when events 
are very threatening and prospects very dark, I still hope in some way, which 
man cannot see, all will be well in the end, because our cause is just and God 
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You cannot have forgotten this impressive invocation with wliich he closed 
his Proclamation of Emancipation : 

" And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by 
the Constitution on military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of 
mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God." 

The solemn words of his last inaugural sound in my ears to-day as I heard 
them fall from his lips only last month, on the steps of the Capitol. There was 
no exultation over his own success, though he was the first Northern President 
who had ever been re-elected. There was no bitterness against the men who 
had filled our land with new-made graves, and who were striving to stab the 
nation to its death. There was no confident and enthusiastic prediction of the 
country's triumph. But, with almost the solemn utterances of one of the He- 
brew prophets ; as if he felt he was standing, as he was, on the verge of his 
open grave, and addressing his last ofiicial words to his countrymen, with his 
lips touched by the finger of inspiration, he said : 

" The Almighty has his own purposes. ' "Woe unto the world because of of- 
fences, for it must needs be that offences come ; but woe to that man by whom 
the offence cometh.' If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those 
offences which in the providence of God must needs come, but which, having 
continued through His appointed time. He now wills to remove, and that He 
gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by 
whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those 
divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? 
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that that mighty scourge of war may 
soon pass away. Yet, if God will that it continue until all the wealth piled by 
the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, 
and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid with another 
drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be 
said, ' The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.' 

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as 
God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in ; to 
bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle 
and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a, 
just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." 

What a portraiture of his own character he unconsciously draws in this 
closing paragraph : "With malice toward none, with charity for ail, with firm- 
ness in the right, as God gives us to see the right." And yet they slew him ! 

As this extraordinary state paper crossed the Atlantic to the Old World, it 
elicited the most profound interest. Mr. Gladstone, himself the most eloquent 
of living English statesmen, spoke in the most elevated eulogy of it, saying 
that it showed a moral elevation which commanded the highest respect ; adding 
in emphatic language, " I am taken captive by so striking an utterance as thi:i;^ 
for I see in it the effect of sharp trial, when rightly borne, to raise men to a 
higher level of thought and feeling than any could otherwise reach." And the ' 



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British Standard declared it "the most remarkable thing of the sort ever pro- 
nounced by any President of the United States from the first day until now. ltd 
Alpha and its Omega is Almighty God, the God of j ustice and the Father of mercies 
who is working out the purposes of his love. It is invested with a dignity and 
pathos which lift it high above everything of the kind, whether in the Old 
World or the New." 

Bear with me further while I quote one letter, when, in the midst of the ex- 
citing canvass of last fall, in which he was so deeply interested, during the very 
week that he was being denounced in Chicago, as scarcely any man had ever 
been denounced before, he shut out the thoughts of these cruelly unjust asper- 
sions to write in this deeply impressive strain to a Philadelphia lady, then 
resident in England: 

"Executive Mansion, 
" Washington, Sept. 6, 1864. 
" Eliza B. Gurnet : 

" My Esteemed Friend : I have never forgotten, probably never shall forget, 
the very impressive occasion, when yourself and friends visited me on a Sab- 
bath forenoon, two years ago, nor has your kind letter, written nearly a year 
later, ever been forgotten. 

" In all it has been your purpose to strengthen my reliance on God. I am 
much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant 
prayers and consolations, and no one of them more than yourself. The pur- 
poses of the Almighty are perfect and must prevail, though we erring mortals 
may fail to perceive them in advance. 

" We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this, but 
God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall acknowledge Ilis wisdom 
and our own errors therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best 
light He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great end Ha 
ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion 
which no mortal could stay. Your people — the Friends — have had and are hav- 
ing very great trial on principle and faith." 

I stop here in the reading of this letter to draw your attention to the next 
sentence, which illustrates Mr. Lincoln's power in stating facts. He seemed to 
have the rare ability of taking a great truth, a living principle, or a striking 
argument, out of all the mists that might be gathered around it, and place it 
before you so vividly, in a single sentence, that the presentation of it by others 
would contrast with his as a picture tiat before your eyes compares with the 
figures in the same picture brought out so palpably and lifelike under the 
linocular mystery of the stereoscope. Witness the striking condensation and 
unanswerable argument of this next sentence: 

" Opposed to both war and oppression, they can only practically oppose op- 
vression by war. In this hard dilemma some have chosen one horn and some 
the other. For those appealing to me on conscientious grounds, I have done, 
and shall do the best I can in my own conscience, and my oath to the law. 



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That you believe this I doubt not, auvd believing it, I shall still receive, for oar 
country and myself, your earnest prayers to our Father in heaven. 
" Your sincere friend, 

"A. LINCOLN." 

And yet, while he was writing this beautiful letter, he was denounced at 
Chicago as a tyrant and usurper, and compared to Nero and Caligula, and 
every other vile wretch whose black deeds darken the page of history. 

Nor should I forget to mention here that the last act of Congress ever signed 
by him, was one requiring that the motto, in which he sincerely believed, " In 
God we trust," should hereafter be inscribed upon all our national coin. 

But April came at last, with all its glorious resurrection of spring — that 
spring which he was not to see ripening into summer. The last sands in the 
hour-glass of his life were falling. His last moment drew nigh ; for his banded 
assassins, foiled in an attempt to poison him last year, (a plot only discov- 
ered since detectives have been tracking the mysteries of his death,) had re- 
solved this time on striking a surer blow. Victory after victory crowned our 
national armies. A hundred captured rebel banners filled the War Department. 
Scores of thousands of rebel soldiers had surrendered, and all over the republic 
the joyous acclaim of millions hailed the promised land of peace. But our be- 
loved leader was to enter another land of rest. Thank Heaven, though wicked 
men may kill the body, they cannot kill the immortal soul. And if the spirits 
of the good men who have left us are permitted to look back on the land they 
loved in life, it is not presumptuous to believe that Washington and Lincoln^ 
from the shining courts above, look down to-day with paternal interest on the 
nation which, under Providence, the one had founded and the other saved, and 
which will entwine their names together in hallowed recollection forever.. 

But in his last hours all these affectionate traits of character, which I have 
so inadequately delineated, shone out in more than wonted brilliancy. How 
his kindly heart must have throbbed with joy as, on the very day before his 
death, he gladdened so many tens of thousands of anxious minds by ordering 
the abandonment of the impending but now not needed draft! With what 
generous magnanimity he authorized our heroic Lieutenant General to proffer 
terms unparalleled in their liberality to the army of Virginia, so long the bul- 
wark of rebellion ! And the very last official act of his life was, when learning by 
telegraph, that very Friday afternoon, that two of the leaders and concocters 
of the rebellion were expected to arrive disguised, in a few hours, at one of our 
ports, to escape to Europe, he instructed our officers not to arrest them, but let 
them flee the countiy He did not wish their blood, but their associates thirsted 
for his, and, in a few short hours after this message of mercy to save their friends 
from death sped on the wings of lightning, with wicked hands they slew him. 
No last words of affection to weeping wife and children did they allow him. 
No moment's space for prayer to God. But in order that consciousness might 
end with the instant, the pistol was held close to the skull, that the bullet might 
be buried in his brain. 

Thus lived and thus died our murdered President. But, as the ruffian shot 
down the pilot at our helm, just as the ship of State, after all its stormy seas, 
was sailing prosperously into port, another, whose life, like that of Seward and 



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Stanton, had leen marked for that very night of horrors, but who had been 
Baved, sprang to the rudder, and the noble ship holds on her course, without a 
flutter in her canvas or a strain upon her keel. Andrew Johnson, to whom 
the public confidence was so quickly and worthily transferred, is cast in a sterner 
mold than him whose place he fills. He has warred on traitors in his mountain 
home as they have warred on him ; and he insists, with this crowning infamy 
filling up their cup of wickedness, that treason should be made odious, and that 
mercy to the leaders who engendered it is cruelty to the nation. 

The text of Holy Writ, which he believes in for them, is in the 26th verse of 
the 7th chapter of Ezra: "Let judgment be executed speedily upon him, 
whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to 
imprisonment ; " and to tnis do not all loyal hearts respond amen ? 

And thus, though the President is slain, the nation lives. The statesman 
who has so successfully conducted our foreign correspondence as to save us from 
threatened and endangering complications and difficulties abroad, and who, with 
the President, leaned over to mercy's side, so brutally bowie-knifed as he lay 
helpless on his bed of anguish, is happily to be spared us; and the conspiracy 
which intended a bloody harvest of six patriots' lives, reaped with its murderous 
sickle but one. 

But that one — how dear to all our hearts — how priceless in its worth, how 
transparent and spotless its purity of character. In the fiery trial to which the 
nation has been subjected, we have given of the bravest and the best of the 
land. The South is billowed with the graves where sleep the patriot martyrs 
of constitutional liberty till the resurrection morn. The vacant chair at the 
table of thousands upon thousands tells of those who, inspired by the sublimest 
spirit of self-sacrifice, have died that the republic might survive. Golden and 
living treasures have been heaped upon our country's altar. But after all these 
costly sacrifices had been offered, and the end seemed almost at hand, a costlier 
sacrifice had to be made ; and from the highest place in all the land the victim 
came. Slaughtered at the moment of victory, the blow was too late to rob him 
of the grand place he has won for himself in history. 

'We know him now. All narrow jealousies 
Are silent. And we see him as he moved — 
How modest, kindly, all compassionate, wise, 
With what sublime repression of himself, 
And in what limits and how tenderly. 
Whose glory was redressing human wrongs; 
Not making his high place the lawless perch 
Of winged ambitions, nor a vantage ground 
Of pleasure. But through all this tract of years, 
Wearing the white flower of a blameless life." 

Murdered, coffined, buried, he will live with those few immortal names who 
were not born to die ; live as the Father of the Faithful in the time that tried 
men's souls ; live in the grateful hearts of the dark-browed race he lifted under 
the heel of the oppressor to the dignity of freedom and of manhood ; live in 



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every Lercaved circle which has given father, hushand, son, or ft lend to dit, iM 
he did, for his country; live with the glorious company of martyrs to libe.c^, 
justice, and humanity, that trio of Heaven-born principles; live in the love of 
all beneath the circuit of the sun, who loathe tyranny, slavery, and wrou^;. 
And, leaving behind him a record that shows how honesty and principle liTtod 
him, self-made as he was, from the humblest ranks of the people to the nobitts-* 
station on the globe, and a name that shall brighten under the eye of posten*-- 
as the ages roll by — 

" From the top of Fame's ladder he stepped to the sky." 

Notwithstanding the request of the speaker that the audience 
would not applaud, it was impossible to restrain them, and Mr. 
Colfax was repeatedly interrupted. 

From Chicago to Springfield the funeral train was greeted 
with mournful demonstrations of respect. At Lockport the 
night was illuminated with bonfires, and hundreds of persons 
holding torches in their hands. The buildings were draped with 
symbols of sorrow, and in the reflected light was read the 
touching and appropriate motto, " Come Home." 

At Joliet, twelve thousand persons at midnight were assem- 
bled to add their tribute to the departed President. Minute 
guns were fired, bells were tolled, and a band played a funeral 
dirge. The train moved beneath an arch, which spanned the 
track. It was constructed of immense timbers, decked with mot- 
toes and a profusion of evergreens, and surmounted by a figure 
of the Genius of America, in the attitude of weeping. The 
hymn, " There is rest for thee in Heaven," was sung by mixed 
voices as the train slowly left. 

At Wilmington a number of people were drawn up in line 
on each side of the track, with torches. Minute guns were 
fired. Over 2,000 persons were gathered. At Gardner all the 
bouses were draped and illuminated. 

At Towanda were a large assemblage of people. At Bloom- 
ington a large arch bore the inscription, " Go to thy rest." 

At Funk's minute guns were fired, bells tolled, and singing 
by a choir of ladies contributed with mournful efi'ect to the 
occasion. 

At Atlanta the usual badges and drapery of sorrow were 
displayed. Thousands assembled, and minute guns were fired. 
The interest there, as at all other stations, was intense. 



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At Lincoln, (named after Abraham Lincoln,) the depot was 
handsomely draped. Ladies, dressed in white and black, were 
singing. The train passed under a handsomely constructed 
arch, on each side of which was a picture of tlie deceased Presi- 
dent, with the motto, " With malice to none; witli charity for 
all." 

At Elkhart men stood with uncovered heads, and the ladies 
waved flags. The depot was handsomely draped. They passed 
under another arch with flags, mourning drapery, and ever- 
greens. 

At Williamsville the houses were draped, and there were 
many little flags and portraits. The train passed a beautiful 
arch, with the inscription, " He has fulfilled his mission." 

FUNERAL CEREMONIES AND BURIAL AT SPRINGFIELD. 

The mortal remains of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth Pres- 
ident of the United States, arrived in Springfield, the capital 
of Illinois, on Wednesday morning, the 3d of May, 1865. On 
leaving, four years and three months previous, to assume the 
solemn responsibilities of the Presidency, he said to his friends 
gathered around him at the moment of his departure : 

One who has never been placed in a like position cannot understand my 
feelings at this hour, nor the oppressive sadness I feel at this parting. For 
more than twenty-five years I have lived among you, and during that time I 
have received nothing but kindness at your hands. Here the most cherished 
ties of earth were assumed. Here my children were born, and here one of 
them lies buried. To you, my friends, I owe all that I have, all that I am. 
All the strange, checkered past seems to crowd now upon my mind. To-day I 
must leave you. I go to assume a task more difScult than that which devolved 
upon Washington. Unless the great God who assisted him shall be with me, I 
cannot prevail ; but if the same Omniscient mind and the same Almighty arm 
that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail ; I 
shall succeed. Let us pray that the God of our fathers may not forsake us 
now. To Him I commend you all. Permit me to ask that, with equal sincer- 
ity and faith, you will invoke His wisdom and guidance for me. With these 
few words I must leave you ; for how long I know not. Friends, one and all, 
I must now bid you an affectionate farewell. 

President Lincoln, having fulfilled his great mission in the 
salvation of his country, and in giving freedom to four millions 
of immortal l)eings, and having passed through, as the ruler of 



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a great nation, the most eventful scenes in liuman liistory, was 
returned, all that was mortal of him, to his neighbors and 
friends, to receive the last mournful funeral honors. It was 
beautifully appropriate that his dust should sleep in the spot 
he loved so well, and among those with whom he had lived so 
long, and to whom the sacred associations of friendship were 
so strong and precious. Never did a conqueror, in the hour of 
his proudest triumph, receive such proof of the devotion of a 
nation, as that which was accorded to the remains of the mar- 
tyred President on their way to be deposited in their last rest- 
ing place. 

If the feelings of sorrow on the part of the people have been 
deep and real elsewhere, they were even more so in the late 
President's State and home. Here his virtues were appreci- 
ated, and the struggles by which he so worthily rose to such 
distinction, as well as the difficulties with which he had to con- 
tend through four years of the most stupendous war, were fully 
understood. Here were those who never lost faith in the pilot 
at the helm, even when the storm of war beat most violently 
about the " Ship of State." Here he always received sympa- 
thy and encouragement from those who knew him best. Thou- 
sands who loved the man for his virtues, and the cause of which 
he was the noble champion, wept at the ruin which the assassin 
had wrought. 

These affectionate and mutual attachments between the late 
President and his friends at home found a fitting expression in 
the following touching and beautiful poem, written by Rev. Dr. 
Allen, of Northampton, Massachusetts, for the reception and 
burial of the remains at Springfield. It is entitled, " Spring- 
field's Welcome to Lincoln :" 



Lincoln! thy Country's Father, haill 
We bid thee welcome, but bewail : 
Welcome unto thy chosen home ; 
Triumpliant, glorious, dost thou come. 

Before the rebels struck the blow 
That laid thee in a moment low, 
God gave thy wish : it was to see 
OuE Union safe, cue countey feek. 



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A country where the Gospel truth 
Shall reach the hearts of age and youth, 
And move unchain'd in majesty, 
A model land of liberty ! 

When Jacob's bones, from Egypt borne, 
Eegain'd their home, the people mourn. 
Great mourning then at Ephron's cave, 
Both Abraham's and Isaac's grave. 

Far greater is the mourning now ; 
Our land one emblem wide of woe; 
And where thy coffin car appears, 
Do not the people throng in tears ? 

Thy triumph of a thousand miles, 
Like eastern conqueror with his spoils— 
A million hearts thy captives led. 
All weeping for their chieftain dead. 

Thy chariot, moved with eagle's speed. 
Without the aid of prancing steed, 
Has brought thee to thy destined tomb ; 
Springfield, thy home, will give thee room. 

Lincoln, the martyr, welcome home 1 
What lessons blossom on thy tomb ! 
In God's pure truth and law delight ; 
With firm, unwavering soul do right. 

Be condescending, kind, and just; 
In God's wise counsels put thy trust ; 
Let no proud soul e'er dare rebel. 
Moved by vile passions sprung from hell. 

Come, sleep with us in sweet repose 
Till we, as Christ from death arose, 
Shall in His glorious image rise 
To dwell with Him beyond the skies. 

Amid the profound silence and solemnity of tens of thousands 
of people, the funeral train of nine cars, draped in mourning, 
arrived, and the remains were conveyed to an elegant hearse, 
covered with emblems of grief, to the Capitol, where they were 
laid in state. 

The remains of President Lincoln were received by the com- 
mittee of reception, and the procession formed in the following 
order: Brigadier General Cooke and staJ3F, military escort, 



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Major General Hooker and staff, guard of honor, relatives and 
friends in carriages; the Illinois delegation from Wasliington; 
Senators and Representatives of the Congress of the United 
States, including their Sergeant-at-Arms and Speaker Colfax; 
Illinois State Legislature; Governors of the different States; 
delegations from Kentucky, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and 
Kansas; Chicago Committee of Reception, Judges of different 
courts, clergy, officers of the army and navy, firemen, citizens 
generally, colored citizens, &c., and marched with slow and 
solemn tread to the State House. 

On arriving at the Hall of Representatives, the coffin was 
placed upon the catafalque, resting on the dais underneath the 
canopy, and opened by the embalmer; after which the guard of 
honor took their stations around the remains. The coffin, 
"when opened, revealed the marked and well-known features of 
the noble dead, which " wore a calm expression," and had it 
not been for a slight discoloration of the face it would have 
appeared as though the martyr had " fallen into a quiet sleep." 

The scene inside the Hall was most solemn and impressive; 
the elegance and appropriateness of the decoration, the wreaths 
of evergreens that encircled the columns, the portraits that 
hung upon the walls, the rich catafalque underneath a splendid 
canopy, the silent dead, the officers and guards, made up a sad 
picture. 

The coffin was placed on a platform approached by steps. It 
was surrounded by evergreens and flowers. The walls were 
adorned by the following inscriptions: " Sooner than surrender 
this principle, I would be assassinated on this spot," " Wash- 
ington, the Father; Lincoln, the Saviour." 

The buildings around the public square, and a large majority 
of the private residences in the city, were beautifully draped, 
manifesting the sorrow of the people at the tragic death of 
him whose remains were lying in state at the Capitol. 

The emblems of mourning everywhere displayed, the solemn 
strains of martial music, the slow and measured tread, the sad 
countenances of the people, all told of the grief which touched 
all hearts. Illinois received a murdered son again to her bosom, 
no less loving than when she sent him forth to the most dis- 
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During Wednesday, it was estimated that seventy-five thou- 
sand persons, old and young, passed into the hall to view the 
remains, and a hundred and lifty thousand visitors were sup- 
posed to be present. 

THE BURIAL. 

The interment took place on Thursday, the 4th of May, and a 
procession, the largest and most imposing ever witnessed at 
the West, followed the remains from the Capitol to Oak Ridge 
Cemetery. 

General Hooker was Marshal-in- Chief, and while he was 
arranging the parts of the procession, a choir of three hundred 
voices chanted magnificently the grand old Pleyel's liymn, and 
as the last strains died away, the dense mass of humanity sud- 
denly crystalized into a mournful funeral train, which, with sad 
step, left the city, passed over the gently undulating suburbs, 
across the beautiful meadows, to the cemetery. 

The singing of a choir of full-chested vocalists as the corpse 
was borne from the State House was grand and overwhelming. 
Slowly amid tears and sorrow moved the grand line. There 
were double and single starred generals who had won distinc- 
tion on many hotly fought fields. There was a long line of 
eminent gentlemen of the bench and the bar, and of the rev- 
erend clergy a great many of the chief ministers of the West. 

The pall-bearers were the Hon. Jesse K. Dubois, Judge S. 
T. Logan, the Hon. G. P. Koerner and James S. Lamb, S. H. 
Treat, John Williams, Erastus Wright, J. N. Brown, Jacob 
Brown, C. W. Mathews, Elijah Des, and J. T. Stuart, Esqs., all 
old neighbors of the President. These walked by the side of 
the hearse. The various escorts and delegations followed in 
their order. 

Thus were the remains of Abraham Lincoln, the late Presi- 
dent, borne to his burial place by his neighbors and friends, 
and the vast concourse of mourners from all parts of the coun- 
try. 

Oak Ridge Cemetery, if it has not the grandeur of Green- 
wood or Mount Auburn, is yet a beautiful resting place for the 
dead, covering an area of thirty -eight acres. Nature made the 



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spot beautiful, and the artificial landscaping has been made 
with much taste and skill, in conformity with the natural out- 
lines. The original growth of small oaks still stands, and there 
are a score of towering elms along the banks of the brook 
which flows across the soutliern side. This stream winds sinu- 
ously at the bottom of a deep cut or ravine, which is inter- 
sected on either side by smaller ravines. 

The vault where the President has been laid is on the left 
bank of the stream, forty rods from the entrance. It is built 
of the hard, white limestone found in this vicinity, and the door 
is an immense slab of the same, swung on massive hinges, be- 
hind which is a heavy one of grated iron, through which may l>o 
viewed the coffin within the tomb The road from the city to 
the cemetery is lined nearly all the distance by residences, 
surrounded by gardens and orchards, though a part of the way, 
on one side, it skirts the woodland. 

On the high bank above the vault there were thousands upon 
thousands of people, and on the hillside across the stream from 
the vault there were as many more, and then the narrow valley 
was overflown with " a sea of upturned faces." On the left of 
the vault sat the choir of two hundred voices, and on the right 
was the platform, upon which sat the clergy who were to con- 
duct the exercises. Facing the vault were the Congressional 
and Illinois Committees, Governors of States and other dele- 
gations, and nearer still the pall-bcarers and family friends, and 
on either side of the door the relatives. The appearance of 
the audience seated in the God built amphitheatre was most 
imposing. The people had come to bury their chief 1 They had 
come to lay away their Father ! Within the vault, ranged on 
either side of the bier, stood the guard of honor, one or more 
of whom had stood at the head of the coffin every minute since 
it left Washington. The roof and sides of the vault had been 
covered with black cloth. The stone floor was strewn with 
evergreen. The choicest offerings from a hundred flower-gardens 
covered the evergreen, and other flowers, wrought into symbols 
of religion and tenderness, covered the margins of the bier. 
The coffin, in a receptacle of plain black walnut and resting 
in the centre of its black bier, was also hidden in the beauty of 
flowers. 



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RELIGIOUS SERVICES AT THE TOMB. 

The services began with prayer and music. After the choir 
had sung the hymn — 

Unveil thy bosom, faithful tomb, 

Take this new treasure to thy trust, &c., 

the Rev. Albert Hale, who liad been pastor of a Presby- 
terian church at Springfield for more than twenty-five years, 
and a warm personal friend of the late President, offered the 
following prayer. It is more a thanksgiving than a lamenta- 
tion, and the voice of the aged preacher was choked with tears, 
and many who had not wept before melted into tears : 

PRATER. 

Father of Heaven, we acknowledge Thee as the author of our being and the 
giver of every good and perfect gift. Them givest life, and Thou takest it away. 
The lives of men and the lives of nations are in Thy hands as the drop of a 
bucket. 

Father in Heaven, we bow down before Thee to-day, believing in Thy pres- 
ence and asking that with submissive hearts we may acknowledge Thee in the 
serious thoughts that press upon the millions to-day. Father in Heaven, we 
tliank Thee that Thou didst give to this nation Thy servant, so mysteriously 
aud maliciously taken from us. We acknowledge Tliy hand in all these provi- 
dences which Thou hast suffered from time to time to unfold themselves, by 
which we have been blessed with his private and public influence. We thank 
Thee, Father of Heaven, that Thou didst give him to this people, and that he 
was raised to a position of power and authority, and that through him Thou 
liast led them through storm and strife to the present hopeful condition of our 
public affairs. 

And now. Father in Heaven, we bow to that stroke by which, suddenly, and 
contrary to our desires and expectations, he is taken from the high place where 
he stood, and we are now called upon to deposit his remains in the grave. 

Father in Heaven, we mourn before Thee ; our hearts bow in grief and in 
sorrow unto Thy stroke, but he helped us to say, " It is the Lord, let him do 
what seemeth good for us." And we do entreat Thee, Father in Heaven, to re- 
member especially the bereaved widow and family. We pray that in this hour 
of their trial God will give to them those blessings that they need, and so open 
the fountains of Divine consolation that they in their grief shall make this 
event not only a sorrow, but, under God, the opening day of numberless bless- 
ings. To Thee we commit them and all personal relatives who mourn in con- 
sequence of this distressing event, and, Father in Heaven, to Thee we commit 
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tlie people of the city and of the State in which he has grown up, whose affec- 
tion he holds to-day in his death, stronger than in the most powerful moment 
of his life. 

Merciful God, bless us, and, we pray Thee, help us to cherish the memory of 
his life, and the worth of the high example he has shown us. Sanctify the 
event to all in public offices; may they learn wisdom from that example, and 
study to follow in the steps of him whom Thou hast taken away. We do pray 
and beseech Thee to grant that the high purpose for which he lived, and in 
which, by the blessing of God, he had so far succeeded, may be carried to a 
completion, and the time soon come when the good in heaven and on earth 
s'.iall unite in shouts of joy and praise to the everlasting God. And, God, 
we thank Thee for that other example which he set us, in a steady adherence 
to truth, a love of freedom, and opposition to wrong, and injustice, and slavery; 
and we pray that God will grant that the policy of our Government touching 
these great issues may be successfully carried through, when not a slave shall 
clank his shackles in the land, and not a soul be found that will not rejoice 
in universal freedom, in righteousness established, in pure religion revived, 
in Christ manifested in His glory and reigning with power in the hearts of 
this nation. 

We mourn in sorrow to-day, yet we would rejoice in that " nor life, nor 
death, nor things present, nor things to come " can check this consummation. 
Give us grace, we pray Thee, to plead for thy blessing upon all men through- 
out the land, and for the dawning of that day in which righteousness and 
truth, and freedom, and pure religion, and humanity, shall reign triumphant. 

God, our Father, give grace and wisdom to him who so mysteriously is 
called to occupy the chair of state, from which, by the hand of malice, he 
whom the country and the nation mourn has been taken away. Give unto 
him humility; give him wisdom to direct his steps; give him a love of right- 
eousness, and help him to cherish the freedom of the people, while he sits at the 
helm of the nation ; and may God give him, and all associated with him, grace 
to perceive the right, and to bear the sword of justice so as to serve the na- 
tion's welfare, and to redound to the honor of truth and the honor of God ; 
and may they conduct themselves patiently and courageously to the end. 

Our Father in heaven, smile, we pray Thee, upon the millions that have come 
out of bondage. Remember them, we pray Thee, our brethren, dear to him who 
is taken from us. May God grant that they may be able to act worthily of the 
privileges which Providence opens before them, and may all the people unite 
their prayers, their patience, their self-denial, so that these may come up and 
take their place in the nation as citizens, rejoicing in new-born privileges, and 
the rights which God gave, and which man cannot rightfully take away. 

Father in heaven, we ask Thy blessing upon all those who are endeavoring, 
to-day, to secure the public interest against the hands of an assassin, and to 
prevent the murder of those in high places. God, let Thy justice. Thy 
righteousness, and power, speedily rid the nation of those lusts out of which 
all these evils arise, and the Union rise up from out this great trial, and be- 
come a light among the nations of the earth in all future time. 

Father in heaven, Thou art just and righteous in all thy ways, holy in all 



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Thy doings; we are sinful and unworthy of our privileges, but t.hou hast not 
dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. Hear 
us and aid us in the services still to be performed here ; and accept us through 
(yhrist our Redeemer, to whom, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, be glory 
everlasting. Amen. 

After the prayer the choir sang the followiug dirge, com- 
posed for the occasion. Music by George F. Root, words by 
L. M. Dawes. It was sung with much feeling and effect : 

All our land is draped in mourning, 

Hearts are bowed and strong men weep ; 
For our loved, our noble leader 

Sleeps his last, his dreamless sleep- 
Gone for ever, gone for ever, 

Fallen by a traitor's hand. 
Though preserved his dearest treasure, 

Our redeem'd, beloved land. 
Rest in peace. 

Through our night of bloody struggle 

Ever dauntless, firm, and true, 
Bravely, gently, forth he led us, 

Till the morn burst on our view- 
Till he saw the day of triumph, 

Saw the field our heroes won ; 
Then his honor'd life was ended, 

Then his glorious work was done. 
Rest in peace. 

When from mountain, hill, and valley, 

To their homes our brave boys come, 
When with welcome notes we greet them, 

Song, and cheer, and pealing drum ; 
When We miss our lov'd ones fallen, 

When to weep we turn aside. 
Then for him our tears shall mingle. 

He has suffered — he has died. 
Rest in peace. 

Honor'd leader, long and fondly 

Shall thy mem'ry cherished be ; 
Hearts shall bless thee for their freedom. 

Hearts unborn shall sigh for thee; 
He who gave thee might and wisdom, 

Gave thy spirit sweet release; 
Farewell father, friend and guardian, 

Rest forever, rest in peace. 
Rest in peace. 



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The reading of the Scriptures was by Rev. N. W. Miner, 
His selections were from different parts of the sacred oracles, 
blending the sad and the triumphant — the grave and the resur- 
rection. Then came a chorus — 

To Thee, Lord, &c. 

Rev. Mr. Hubbard read the last inaugural of President Lin- 
coln, delivered two short months before. 

FUNERAL ORATION BY BISHOP SIMPSON. 

Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was 
invited by the citizens of Springfield to deliver the funeral 
address. His eminent piety, his outspoken and earnest loyalty 
in all his public ministrations, his commanding eloquence as a 
pulpit orator, his eminence in the Christian Church, and his 
long and intimate friendship with the late President, who 
always attended upon the Bishop's preaching when he visited 
Washington, made it peculiarly appropriate that he should 
speak at the tomb of the late President, upon the solemn lessons 
of the providential event. Tears and hearty and vocal amen 
responses testified to the pathos and power of the oration. He 
said : 

Fellow-citizens of Illinois, and of many parts of our entire Union : 

Near the capital of this large and growing State of Illinois, in the midst of 
this beautiful grove, and at the open mouth of the vault which has just received 
the remains of our fallen chieftain, we gather to pay a tribute of respect and 
to drop the tears of sorrow around the ashes of the mighty dead. A little 
more than four years ago he left his plain and quiet home in yonder city, receiv- 
ing the parting words of the concourse of friends who in the midst of the drop- 
ping of the gentle shower gathered around him. He spoke of the pain of part- 
ing from the place where he had lived for a quarter of a century, where his 
children had been born and his home had been rendered pleasant by friendly 
associations, and, as he left, he made an earnest request, in the hearing of some 
who are present at this hour, that, as he was about to enter upon responsibili- 
ties which he believed to be greater than any which had fallen upon any man 
since the days of Washington, the people would offer up prayers that God 
would aid and sustain him in the work which they had given him to do. His 
company left your quiet city, but, as it went, snares were in waiting for the 
thief magistrate. Scarcely did he escape the dangers of the way or the hands 
of the assassin, aa he neared Washington; and I believe he escaped only through 



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the vigilance of officers and the prayers of his people, so that the blow was 
suspended for more than four years, which was at last permitted, through the 
providence of God, to fall. 

How different the occasion which witnessed his departure from that which 
witnessed his return. Doubtless you expected to take him by the hand, and to 
feel the warm grasp which you had felt in other days, and to see the tall form 
walking among you which you had delighted to honor in years past. But he 
was never permitted to come until he came with lips mute and silent, the 
frame encoffined, and a weeping nation following as his mourners. Such a 
scene as his return to you was never witnessed. Among the events of history 
there have been great processions of mourners. There was one for the patriarch 
Jacob, which went up from Egypt, and the Egyptians wondered at the evi- 
dences of reverence and filial affection which came from the hearts of the 
Israelites. There was mourning when Moses fell upon the heights of Pisgah 
and was hid from human view. There have been mournings in the kingdoms 
of the earth when kings and princes have fallen, but never was there, in the 
history of man, such mourning as that which has accompanied this funeral pro- 
cession, and has gathered around the mortal remains of him who was our loved 
one, and who now sleeps among us. If we glance a* the procession which 
followed him, we see how the nation stood aghast. Tears filled the eyes of 
manly, sunburnt faces. Strong men, as they clasped the hands of their friends, 
were unable to find vent for their grief in words. Women and little children 
caught up the tidings as they ran through the land, and were melted into tears. 
The nation stood still. Men left their plows in the fields and asked what the 
end should be. The hum of manufactories ceased, and the sound of the ham- 
mer was not heard. Busy merchants closed their doors, and in the exchange 
gold passed no more from hand to hand. Though three weeks have elapsed, the 
nation has scarcely breathed easily yet. A mournful silence is abroad upon the 
land; nor is this mourning confined to any class or to any district of country. 
Men of all political parties, and of all religious creeds, have united in paying 
this mournful tribute. The archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church in New 
York and a Protestant minister walked side by side in the sad procession, and 
a Jewish rabbi performed a part of the solemn services. 

Here are gathered around his tomb the representatives of the army and navy, 
senators, judges, governors, and officers of all the branches of the government. 
Here, too, are members of civic processions, with men and women from the 
humblest as well as the highest occupations. Here and there, too, are tears, as 
sincere and warm as any that drop, which come from the eyes of those whose 
kindred and whose race have been freed from their chains by him whom they 
mourn as their deliverer. More persons have gazed on the face of the departed 
than ever looked upon the face of any other departed man. More races have 
looked on the procession for sixteen hundred miles or more — by night and by 
day — by sunlight, dawn, twilight, and by torchlight, than ever before watched 
the progress of a procession. 

We ask why this wonderful mourning — this great procession? I answer, 
first, a part of the interest has arisen from the times in which we live, and in 
which he that had fallen was a principal actor. It is a principle of our nature 



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that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they ara 
excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of 
the mind. Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather 
around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and 
ideas of the passing age. If we look then at the times, we see an age of excite- 
ment. For four years the popular heart has been stirred to its inmost depth. 
War had come upon us, dividing families, separating nearest and dearest friends 
—a war the extent and magnitude of which no one could estimate — a war in 
which the blood of brethren was shed by a brother's hand. A call for soldiers 
was made by this voice now hushed, and all over the land, from hill and moun- 
tain, from plain to valley, there sprang up thousands of bold hearts, ready to 
go forth and save our national Union. This feeling of excitement was trans- 
ferred next into a feeling of deep grief because of the dangers in which our 
country was placed. Many said, "Is it possible to save our nation?" Some 
in our country, and nearly all the leading men in other countries, declared it 
to be impossible to maintain the Union ; and many an honest and patriotic heart 
was deeply pained with apprehensions of common ruin ; and many, in grief and 
almost in despair, anxiously inquired. What shall the end of these things be ? 
In addition to this, wives had given their husbands, mothers their sons, the 
pride and joy of their hearts. They saw them put on the uniform, they saw 
them take the martial step, and they tried to hide their deep feeling of sadness. 
Many dear ones slept upon the battle-field never to return again, and there was 
mourning in every mansion and in every cabin in our broad land. Then came 
a feeling of deeper sadness as the story came of prisoners tortured to death or 
Btarved through the mandates of those who are called the representatives of 
the chivalry, and who claimed to be the honorable ones of the earth ; and as we 
read the stories of frames attenuated and reduced to mere skeletons, our grief 
turned partly into horror and partly into a cry for vengeance. 

Then this feeling was changed to one of joy. There came signs of the end of 
this rebellion. We followed the career of our glorious generals. We saw our 
army, under the command of the brave officer who is guiding this procession, 
climb up the bights of Lookout mountain and drive the rebels from their strong- 
holds. Another brave general swept through Georgia, South and North Carolina, 
and drove the combined armies of the rebels before him, while the honored 
Lieutenant General held Lee and his hosts in a death grasp. 

Then the tidings came that Richmond was evacuated and that Lee had sur- 
rendered. The bells rang merrily all over the land. The booming of cannon 
was heard; illuminations and torch-light processions manifested the general joy, 
and families were looking for the speedy return of their loved ones from the 
field of battle. Just in the midst of this wildest joy, in one hour — nay, in one 
moment — the tidings thrilled throughout the land that Abraham Lincoln, the 
best of Presidents, had perished by the hands of an assassin ; and then all the 
feelings which had been gathering for four years, in forms of excitement, grief, 
horror, and joy, turned into one wail of woe — a sadness inexpressible — an 
anguish unutterable. But it is not the times merely which caased this mourn-i 
mg. The mode of his death must be taken into the account. Had he died on a 
bed of illness, with kind friends around him; had the sweat of death bnnn 



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wiped from his brow by gentle hands, while he was yet conscious; could he 
have had power to speak words of affection to his stricken widow, or words of 
counsel to us, like those which we heard in his parting inaugural at Washington, 
which shall now be immortal — how it would have softened or assuaged some- 
thing of the grief Tiiere might, at least, have been preparation for the event. 
But no moment of warning was given to him or to us. He was stricken down, 
too, when his hopes for the end of the rebellion were bright, and prospects of a 
joyous life were before him. There was a cabinet meeting that day, said to 
have been the most cheerful and happy of any held since the beginning of the 
rebellion. After this meeting he talked with his friends, and spoke of the four 
years of tempest, of the storm being over, and of the four years of pleasure 
and joy now awaiting him, as the weight of care and anxiety would be taken 
from his mind, and he could have happy days with his family again. In the 
midst of these anticipations he left his house, never to return alive. The eve- 
ning was Good Friday, the saddest day in the whole calendar for the Christian 
Church — henceforth in this country to be made sadder, if possible, by the 
memory of our nation's loss ; and so filled with grief was every Christian heart, 
that even all the joyous thought of Easter Sunday failed to remove the crush- 
ing sorrow under which the true worshipper bowed in the house of God. 

But the great cause of this mourning is to be found in the man himself. Mr. 
Lincoln was no ordinary man. I believe the conviction has been growing on 
the nation's mind, as it certainly has been on my own, especially in the last 
years of his administration, that, by the hand of God, he was especially singled 
out to guide our government in these troublesome times, and it seems to me that 
the hand of God may be traced in many of the events connected with his his- 
tory. First, then, I recognize this in the physical education which he received, 
and which prepared him for enduring herculean labors. In the toils of his boy- 
hood and the labors of his manhood God was giving him an iron frame. 
Next to this was his identification with the heart of the great people, under- 
Ptanding their feelings because he was one of them, and connected with them in 
their movements and life. Ilis education was simple. A few months spent in 
the school-house gave him the elements of education. He read few books, but 
mastered all he read. Bunyan's Progress, (Esop's Fables, and the Life of 
Washington were his favorites. In these we recognize the works which gave 
the bias to his «haracter, and which partly molded his style. His early life, 
with its varied struggle, joined him indissolubly to the working masses, and no 
elevation in society diminished his respect for the sons of toil. He knew what 
it was to fell the tall trees of the forest and to stem the current of the broad 
Mississippi. His home was in the growing West, the heart of the republic, and, 
invigorated by the wind which swept over its prairies, he learned lessons ol 
eelf-reliance which sustained him in seasons of adversity. 

His genius was soon recognized, as true genius always will be, and he wa3 
placed in the legislature of his State. Already acquainted with the principles 
of law, he devoted his thoughts to matters of public interest, and began to be 
looked on as the coming statesman. As early as 1839 he presented resolutions 
in the legislature asking for emancipation in the District of Columbia, when, 
with but rare exceptions, the whole popular mind of his State was opposed to 



the measure. From that hour he was a steady and uniform friend of humanity, 
and was preparing for the conflict of latter years. 

If you ask me on what mental characteristic his greatness rested, I answer, 
on a quick and ready perception of facts ; on a memory unusually tenacious 
and retentive ; and on a logical turn of mind, which followed sternly and un- 
waveringly every link in the chain of thought on every subject which he was 
called to investigate. I think there have been minds more broad in their 
character, more comprehensive in their scope, but I doubt if ever there has been 
a man who could follow, step by step, with more logical power, the points which 
he desired to illustrate. He gained this power by the close study of geometry, 
and by a determination to perceive the truth in all its relations and simplicity, 
and, when found, to utter it. 

It is said of him that in childhood, when he had any difficulty in listening to 
a conversation to ascertain what people meant, if he retired to rest he could not 
sleep till he tried to understand the precise points intended, and, when under- 
stood, to frame language to convey it in a clearer manner to others. Who that 
has read his messages fails to perceive the directness and the simplicity of his 
style? And this very trait, which was scoffed at and decried by opponents, is 
now recognized as one of the strong points of that mighty mind which has so 
powerfully influenced the destiny of this nation, and which shall, for ages to 
come, influence the destiny of humanity. 

It was not, however, chiefly by his mental faculties that he gained such con- 
trol over mankind. His moral power gave him pre-eminence. The convictions 
of men that Abraham Lincoln was an honest man led them to yield to his 
guidance. As has been said of Cobden, whom he greatly resembled, he made all 
men feel a sense of himself — a recognition of individuality — a self-relying power. 
They saw in him a man whom they believed would do what is right, regardless 
of all consequences. It was this moral feeling which gave him the greatest 
hold on the people, and made his utterances almost oracular. When the nation 
was angered by the perfidy of foreign nations in allowing privateers to be fitted 
out, he uttered the significant expression, " One war at a time," and it stilled 
the national heart. When his own friends were divided as to what steps should 
be taken as to slavery, that simple utterance, " I will save the Union, if I can, 
with slavery ; if not, slavery must perish, for the Union must be preserved," 
became the rallying word. Men felt the struggle was for the Union, and all 
other questions must be subsidiary. 

But, after all, by the acts of a man shall his fame be perpetuated. What are 
his acts ? Much praise is due to the men who aided him. He called able 
councillors around him — some of whom have displayed the highest order oi 
talent united with the purest and most devoted patriotism. He summoned able 
generals into the field — men who have borne the sword as bravely as ever any 
human arm has borne it. He had the aid of prayerful and thoughtful men 
everywhere. But, under his own guiding hands, wise counsels were combined 
and great movements conducted. 

Turn towards the different departments. We had an unorganized militia, a 
mere skeleton army ; yet, under his care, that army has been enlarged into a 
force which, for skill, intelligence, efficiency, and bravery, surpasses any which 



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the world had ever seen. Before its veterans the fame of even the renowned 
veterans of Napoleon shall pale, [applause.] and the mothers and sisters on 
these hill-sides, and all over the land, shall take to their arms again braver 
eons and brothers than ever fought in European wars. The reason is obvious. 
Money, or a desire for fame, collected those armies, or they were rallied to sus- 
tain favorite thrones or dynasties ; but the armies he called into being fouglit 
for liberty, for the Union, and for the right of self-government ; and many of 
them felt that the battles they won were for humanity everywhere and for all 
time ; for I believe that God has not suffered this terrible rebellion to come 
upon our land merely as a chastisement to us, or as a lesson to our age. There 
are moments which involve in themselves eternities. There are instants 
which seem to contain germs which shall develop and bloom forever. 
Such a moment came in the tide of time to our land, when a question must 
be settled which affected all the earth. The contest was for human free- 
dom — not for this republic merely, not for the Union simply, but to decide 
whether the people, as a people, in their entire majesty, were destined to be 
the government, or whether they were to be subject to tyrants or aristocrats, 
or to class rule of any kind. This is the great question for which we have 
been fighting, and its decision is at hand, and the result of the contest will 
affect the ages to come. If successful, republics will spread in spite of mon- 
archs, all over this earth. [Exclamations of " Amen," " Thank God."] 

I turn from the army to the navy. What was it when the war commenced? 
Now we have our ships-of-war at home and abroad, to guard privateers in for- 
eign sympathizing ports, as well as to care for every part of our own coast. 
They have taken forts that military men said could not be taken, and a brave 
admiral, for the first time in the world's history lashed himself to the mast, 
there to remain as long as he had a particle of skill or strength to watch over 
his ship, while it engaged in the perilous contest of taking the strong forts of 
the rebels. 

Then, again, I turn to the Treasury Department. Where should the money 
come from ? Wise men predicted ruin, but our national credit has been main- 
tained, and our currency is safer to-day than it ever was before. Not only so, 
but through our national bonds, if properly used, we shall have a permanent 
basis for our currency, and an investment so desirable for capitalists of other 
nations that, under the laws of trade, I believe the centre of exchange will 
speedily be transferred from England to the United States. 

But the great act of the mighty chieftain, on which his fame shall rest long 
after his frame shall moulder away, is that of giving freedom to a race. We 
have all been taught to revere the sacred characters. Among them Moses 
stands pre-eminently high. He received the law from God, and his name is 
honored among the hosts of heaven. Was not his greatest act the delivering 
of three millions of his kindred out of bondage? Yet we may assert that 
Abraham Lincoln, by his proclamation, liberated more enslaved people than 
ever Moses set free, and those not of his kindred or his race. Such a power, or 
such an opportunity, God has seldom given to man. When other events shall 
have been forgotten ; when this world shall have become a network of repub- 
lics; when everv throne shall be swept from the face of the earth: when 



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literature shall enlighten all minds; when the claims of humanity shall be 
recognized everywhere, this act shall still be conspicuous on the pages of 
history. We are thankful that God gave to Abraham Lincoln the decision and 
wisdom and grace to issue that proclamation, which stands high above all other 
papers which have been penned by uninspired men. 

Abraham Lincoln was a good man. He was known as an honest, temperate, 
forgiving man, a just man, a man of noble heart in every way. As to his 
religious experience, I cannot speak definitely, because I was not privileged to 
know much of his private sentiments. My acquaintance with him did not 
give me the opportunity to hear him speak on those topics. This I know, how- 
ever, he read the Bible frequently ; loved it for its great truths and its profound 
teachings ; and he tried to be guided by its precepts. He believed in Christ, the 
Saviour of sinners ; and I think he was sincere in trying to bring his life into 
harmony with the principles of revealed religion. Certainly if there ever was 
a man who illustrated some of the principles of pure religion, that man was our 
departed President. Look over all his speeches, listen to his utterances. He 
never spoke unkindly of any man. Even the rebels received no word of anger 
from him, and his last day illustrated in a remarkable manner his forgiving dis- 
position. A despatch was received that afternoon that Thompson and Tucker 
were trying to make their escape through Maine, and it was proposed to arrest 
them. Mr. Lincoln, however, preferred rather to let them quietly escape. He 
was seeking to save the very men who had been plotting his destruction. This 
morning we read a proclamation offering $25,000 for the arrest of these men as 
aiders and abettors of his assassination ; so that, in his expiring acts, he was 
saying, "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." 

As a ruler, I doubt if any President has ever shown such trust in God, or in 
public documents so frequently referred to divine aid. Often did he remark to 
friends and to delegations that his hope for our success rested in his conviction 
that God would bless our efforts, because we were trying to do right. To the 
address of a large religious body he replied, " Thanks be unto God, who, in our 
national trials, giveth us the churches." To a minister who said he hoped the 
Lord was on our side, he replied that it gave him no concern whether the Lord 
was on our side or not, for, he added, " I know the Lord is always on the side 
of right," and, with deep feeling, added, " But God is my witness that it is my 
constant anxiety and prayer that both myself and this nation should be on the 
Lord's side." 

In his domestic life he was exceedingly kind and affectionate. He was a 
devoted husband and father. During his presidential term he lost his second 
son, Willie. To an officer of the army he said, not long since, " Do you ever 
find yourself talking with the dead?" and added, "Since Willie's death I catch 
myself every day involuntarily talking with him, as if he were with me." On 
his widow, who is unable to be here, I need only invoke the blessing of Almighty- 
God that she may be comforted and sustained. For his son, who has witnessed 
the exercises of this hour, all that I can desire is that the mantle of his father 
may fall upon him. 

Let us pause a momen*-. in the lesson of the hour before we part. This man, 
thorgh he fell by an assassin, still fell under the permissive hand of God. He 



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had some wise purpose in allowing him so to fall. Wliat more could he have 
desired of life for himself? Were not his honors full ? There was no office to 
which he could aspire. The popular heart clung around him as around no 
other man. The nations of the world had learned to honor our chief magis- 
trate. If rumors of a desired alliance with England be true, Napoleon trem- 
bled when he heard of the fall of Richmond, and asked what nation would 
join him to protect him against our government under the guidance of such a 
man. His fame was full, his work was done, and he sealed his glory by becom- 
ing the nation's great martyr for liberty. 

He appears to have had a strange presentiment, early in political life, that 
some day he would be President. You see it indicated in 1839. Of the slave 
power he said, "Broken by it I too may be; bow to it I never will. The prob- 
ability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support 
of a cause which I deem to be just. It shall not deter me. If ever I feel the 
soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy 
of its Almighty architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, 
deserted by all the world besides, and I standing up boldly and alone and hurl- 
ing defiance at her victorious oppressors. Here, without contemplating conse- 
quences, before high Heaven and in the face of the world, I swear eternal 
fidelity to the just cause, as I deem it, of the land of my life, my liberty, and 
my love." And yet, secretly, he said to more than one, " I never shall live out 
the four years of my term. When the rebellion is crushed my work is done." 
So it was. He lived to see the last battle fought, and dictate a despatch from 
the home of Jefferson Davis ; lived till the power of the rebellion was broken ; 
and then, having done the work for which God had sent him, angels, I trust, 
were sent to shield him from one moment of pain or suffering, and to bear him 
from this world to the high and glorious realm where the patriot and the good 
shall live forever. 

His career teaches young men that every position of eminence is open before 
the diligent and the worthy. To the active men of the country, his example 
is an incentive to trust in God and do right. 

Standing, as we do to-day, by his coffin and his sepulchre, let U3 resolve to 
carry forward the policy which he so nobly began. Let us do right to all men. 
To the ambitious there is this fearful lesson. Of the four candidates for Presi- 
dential honors in 1860, two of them — Douglas and Lincoln, once competitors, 
but now sleeping patriots — rest from their labors ; Bell perished in poverty and 
misery, as a traitor might perish; and Breckinridge is a frightened fugitive, 
with the brand of traitor on his brow. Let us vow, in the sight of Heaven, to 
eradicate every vestige of human slavery ; to give every human being his true 
position before God and man ; to crush every form of rebellion, and to stand by 
the flag which God has given us. How joyful that it floated over parts of 
every State before Mr. Lincoln's career was ended. How singular that, to the 
fact of the assassin's heels being caught in the folds of the flag, we are proba- 
bly indebted for his capture. The flag and the traitor must ever be enemies. 

Traitors will probably suffer by the change of rulers, for one of sterner mould, 
and who himself has deeply suffered from the rebellion, now wields the sword 
of justice. Our country, too, is stronger for the trial. A republic was declared 



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by monarchists too weak to endure a civil war; yet we have crushed the mosi 
gigantic rebellion in history, and have grown in strength and population every 
year of the struggle. We have passed through the ordeal of a popular election 
while swords and bayonets were in the field, and have come out unharmed. 
And now, in an hour of excitement, with a large majority having preferred 
another man for President, when the bullet of the assassin has laid our Presi- 
dent prostrate, has there been a mutiny? Has any rival proffered his claims? 
Out of an army of near a million, no officer or soldier uttered one note of dis- 
sent, and, in an hour or two after Mr. Lincoln's death, another leader, under 
constitutional forms, occupied his chair, and the government moved forward 
without one single jar. The world will learn that republics are the strongest 
governments on earth. 

And now, my friends, in the words of the departed, " witn malice towards 
none," free from all feelings of personal vengeance, yet believing that the sword 
must not be borne in vain, let us go forward even in painful duty. Let every 
man who was a Senator or Representative in Congress, and who aided in begin- 
ning this rebellion, and thus led to the slaughter of our sons and daughters, be 
brought to speedy and to certain punishment. Let every officer educated at 
the public expense, and who, having been advanced to position, perjured him- 
self and turned his sword against the vitals of his country, be doomed to a 
traitor's death. This, I believe, is the will of the American people. Men may 
attempt to compromise and to restore these traitors and murderers to society 
again. Vainly may they talk of the fancied honor or chivalry of these mur- 
derers of our sons — these starvers of our prisoners — these officers who mined 
their prisons and placed kegs of powder to destroy our captive officers. But 
the American people will rise in their majesty and sweep all such compromises 
and compromisers away, and will declare that there shall be no safety for rebel 
leaders. But to the deluded masses we will extend the arms of forgiveness. 
We will take them to our hearts, and walk with them side by side, as we go 
forward to work out a glorious destiny. 

The time will come when, in the beautiful words of him whose lips are now 
forever sealed, " the mystic cords of memory which stretch from every battle- 
field, and from every patriot's grave, shall yield a sweeter music when touched 
by the angels of our better nature." 

Chieftain ! farewell ! The nation mourns thee. Mothers shall teach thy 
name to their lisping children. The youth of our land shall emulate thy 
virtues. Statesmen shall study thy record and learn lessons of wisdom. Mute 
though thy lips be, yet they still speak. Hushed is thy voice, but its echoes of 
liberty are ringing through the world, and the sons of bondage listen with joy. 
Prisoned thou art in death, and yet thou art marching abroad, and chains and 
manacles are bursting at thy touch. Thou didst fall not for thyself. The 
assassin had no hate for thee. Our hearts were aimed at, our national life was 
sought. We crown thee as our martyr — and humanity enthrones thee as her 
triumphant son. Hero, martyr, friend, farewell ! 

At the conclusion of the oration. " Over the Valley the An- 
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Rev. Dr. P. D. Gurley then arose, made a few remarks, and 
offered the closing prayer. The following hymn and doxology 
was then sung : 

Best, noble martyr ! rest in peace ; 

Rest with the true and brave, 
Who, like thee, fell in Freedom's cause. 

The Nation's life to save. 

Thy name shall live while time endures. 

And men shall say of thee, 
" He saved his country from its foes. 

And bade the slave be free." 

These deeds shall be thy monument, 

Better than brass or stone ; 
They leave thy fame in glory's light, 

Unrival'd and alone. 

This consecrated spot shall be 

To Freedom ever dear ; 
And Freedom's sons of every race 

Shall weep and worship here. 

God ! before whom we, in tears, ' 

Our fallen chief deplore, 
Grant that the cause for which he died 

May live forevermore. 

To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 

The God whom we adore. 
Be glory, as it was, is now. 

And shall be evermore. 

Rev. Dr. Gurley pronounced the benediction, and the solemn 
funeral services at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln closed. 

As days of national dedication will the annals of history 
hold in perpetual record the closing days of April and the first 
days of May, 1865. Washington to Springfield has become 
the via sacra of the republic, marked by the fallen tears of a 
nation's love. Springfield, as the depository of Lincoln's re- 
mains, assumes classic rank with Mount Vernon, and these sa- 
cred sites become the foci of the national domain, where will 
concentrate the patriotic devotion of loyal America. Death 
has given renewed vitality to patriotism, and from the martyr's 
tomb springs undying loyalty, and devotion to the perpetuity 
and glory of the Union, sealed and made sacred by the sacri- 
ficial death of its martyred President. Abraham Lincoln. 



TRIBUTES AND SYMPATHY OF FOREIGN 
NATIONS. 



In Europe the assassination of the President of the United 
States produced the profoundest sensation and sorrow. Everv 
court was in mourning, and the official and popular expressions 
of sympathy for the American government and people were 
universal. The solemn scenes there were scarcely less affecting 
and forrowful than here, and the chain of international friend- 
ship between the nations of Europe and America was strength- 
ened and brightened by the great affliction which had fallen 
upon the government and people of the United States. 

GREAT BRITAIN 

gave the fullest and heartiest manifestations of grief. In Par- 
liament, on the reception of the intelligence, Earl Russell rose 
in the House of Lords and said: 

I am sure your lordships will feel entire sympathy with her Majesty, 
who has instructed me already to express to the government of the United 
States the shock which she felt at the intelligence of the great crime which has 
been committed. * * * All I can say is, that, in the presence of the great 
calamity which has fallen on the American nation, the Crown, the Parliament, 
and the poople of this country do feel the deepest interest for the government 
and people of the United States; for, owing to the nature of the relations be- 
tween the two nations, the misfortunes of the United States affect ua more than 
the misfortunes of any other nation on the face of the globe. 

The noble Lord concluded by moving a humble address to 
her Majesty, to express tlie sorrow and indignation of the 
House of Lords at the assassination of the President of the 

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United States, and to pray her Majesty to communicate these 
sentiments to the government of the United States. 
The Earl of Derby said: 

In joining in this address, your Lord'^hip will only follow the universal 
feeling of sympathy which has been expressed from one end of this kingdom to 
the other. I hope that the manner in which the news has been received in this 
country will satisfy the people of the United States that her Majesty's subjects, 
one and all, deeply condemn the crime which has been committed, and deeply 
sympathize with the people of the United States in their feelings of horror at 
the assassination of their chief magistrate. 

Lord Stratford de Redcliffe said : 

The expression of our sympathy is not confined to numerous associations in 
every part of the country. It now assumes the more solemn character of a 
Parliamentary condolence, confirmed by the unanimous consent of both Houses, 
and crowned by the gracious participation of a sovereign whose sad acquaint;- 
ance with sorrow is the strongest pledge of her sincerity. 

Sir George Grey, in the House of Commons, said : 

I wish it were possible for us to convey to the people of the United States an 
adequate idea of the depth and universality of the feeling which this sad event 
has occasioned in this country, that from the highest to the lowest there has 
been but one feeling entertained. Her Majesty's minister at Washington will, 
in obedience to the Queen's command, convey to the Government of the United 
States the expression of the feelings of her Majesty and of her Government 
upon the deplorable event; and her Majesty, with that tender consideration 
which she has always evinced for sorrow and suffering in others, of whatever 
rank, [cheers,] has with her own hand written a letter to Mrs. Lincoln, [loud 
cheers,] conveying the heartfelt sympathy of a widow to a widow, [renewed 
cheers,] suffering under the calamity of having lost one suddenly cut off. 
[Cheers.] From every part of this country, from every class, but one voice has 
been heard — one of abhorrence for the crime and of sympathy for and interest 
in the country which has this great loss to mourn. 

Mr. Disraeli said : 

In expressing our unaffected and profound sympathy with the citizens of the 
United States on this untimely end of their elected Chief, let us not sanction 
any feeling of depression, but rather let us express a fervent hope that out of 
the awful trials of the last four years, of which the least is not this violent 
demise, the various populations of North America may issue elevated and 
chastened, rich in the accumulated wisdom and strong in the disciplined en- 
ergy which a young nation can only acquire in a protracted and perilous strug- 
gle. Tlien they will be enabled, not only to renew their career of power and 



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prosperity, but they will renew it to contribute to the general happiness of the 
world. 

The address of the Queen, as moved in the British Parlia- 
ment, and referred to by Earl Russell, was forwarded to the 
Government of the United States, but has not, up to this 
date, (June, 1865,) been published in this country. Jt, and 
other addresses of condolence from European Governments, 
and from many public bodies and popular assomblaires in 
Great Britain and on the Continent, are on file in the State 
Department at Washiuirton. Written ap;»lication was made 
to the Acting Secretary for copies of the one from the Gov- 
ernment of Great Britain, and one or two others, necessary 
to complete the chain of official addresses from Europe, as 
inserted in this volume, which application was to be referred 
to Hon. William H. Seward, the distinguished Secretary of 
State, when he should be able to resume the duties of the de- 
partment over which he has presided with such signal ability 
and success. Owing to the continued feebleness of the Secretary 
of State, who was to have been one of the victims of assassi- 
nation with our late honored and beloved President, and whose 
life but scarcely escaped the assassin's thrust, the application 
was not made. If these foreign addresses should ever be pub- 
lished by our national authorities, they will, doubtless, furnish 
most interesting and noble testimonials of international friend- 
slup and sympathy, and tend to bind the nations of the earth 
into closer bonds of peace and concord. 

On the receipt of the melancholy intelligence in the House 
of Commons, about sixty members of all parties immediately 
assembled, and signed the following address of sympathy to 
the American minister : 

We, the undersigned, members of the British House of Commons, have learnt 
with the deepest horror and regret that the President of the United States of 
America has been deprived of life by an act of violence; and we desire to ex- 
press our sympathy on the sad event with the American minister, now in Lon- 
don, as well as to declare our hope and confidence in the future of that great 
country, which we trust will continue to be associated with enlightened free- 
dom and peaceful relations with this and every other country. 

London, April 29, 1865. 
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The sacredness that shields the silence of pnvnte sorroTV 
will, probably, ever prevent the letter of the Queen of Enn:laT\d 
to the widow of the late President of the United States from 
receiving pnblicity ; yet the fact, so fitly referred to by Earl 
Rnssell in the House of Lords, and by Sir George Grey in the 
House of Commons, presents a beautiful lesson of the sorrows 
of our common humanity, and will, doubtless, bind together in 
closer and more affectionate friendship the two greatest Chris- 
tian nations of earth. 

In harmony with the unusual grief of the Crown, the Parlia- 
ment, and the people of Great Britain, Sir Frederick Bruce, the 
new Minister from the Court of St. James, arriving in this 
country just at the occurrence of the death of the President of 
V the United States, also addressed a letter to Mrs. Lincoln, ex- 
pressive of his own sympathy and that of the great nation he 
represented, for the calamity wliich enslirouded her own heart 
and home, and the Government and people of the United States, 
with such deep and profound sorrow. 

The Manchester Union Emancipation Society of England, 
representing the feelings of the friends of general freedom in 
that country, sent also to the widow of the late President the 
following touching communication: 

To Mrs. Lincoln: 

Madam: It is not for us to invade the privacy of domestic sorrow, nor fitting 
that we should add to the sharpness of your grief by characterizing as it 
deserves the deed which has deprived you of a husband and your country of its 
Chief Magistrate. We desire, however, to express our deep sympathy with you 
in this mournful affliction, and our earnest hope that you may be supported 
through the trial by the consciousness that your husband, though called to the 
helm in the midst of tempest and storm, never failed to respond to the call of 
duty, and that throughout a period of unparalleled difficulty he has guided th« 
affairs of the nation in a manner which will ever connect his name with all 
that is noble, magnanimous, and great in your country's history. His name 
will be associated with the cause of human freedom throughout all time, and 
generations yet unborn will learn to lisp his name as synonymous witli liberty 
itself, and to connect the atrocious deed by which his career was closed with the 
exi'iring throes of that foul system of slavery against which his life was a 
stiniding protest, and the fate of which he had sealed. 

The Emancipation Society of London convened on the 29th 
of April, 1865, on the reception of the news of President Lin- 



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coin's assassination. It was a most magnificent and imprcssivo 
demonstration. The liall is one of the hirgcst and most beau- 
tiful in London. American flags, looped with crape, and droop- 
ing, and black drapery edged with white, gave a solemn and 
sombre display to the hall and scene. The building was crowded 
in every part, and multitudes were unable to obtain admission. 
The ladies who were present were dressed in deep mourning. 
Many members of Parliament and eminent citizens of the United 
States then in London were in attendance. Tlie magnitude 
and representative character of the assembly, the solemnity and 
enthusiasm, the eloquence and ability of the speeches, surpassed 
all meetings which had been held in London for many years. 

Public meetings and organized associations in London and 
throughout Great Britain, united to give expressions of sorrow 
at the sad event. 

A great meeting of the merchants of Liverpool was held at 
St. George's Hall, on the afternoon of the 27th of April, 1865, to 
express the sentiments of the people at the assassination of 
President Lincoln. The Mayor presided, and he and several 
leading merchants made speeches, denouncing the crime and 
expressing sympathy with the people of the United States in 
strong terms. A resolution expressing sorrow and indignation, 
regardless of all differences of opinion politically, was unani- 
mously adopted, and ordered to be sent to the American Minis- 
ter at London, to Mrs. Lincoln, and to Mrs. Seward. 

On the evening of the same day, and at the same place, there 
was another great meeting of the working classes, at which 
similar resolutions were adopted. 

The Common Council of London and tlie American Chamber 
of Commerce in Liverpool adopted resolutions of sympathy 
and indignation. 

Large numbers of Germans in London also presented an ad- 
dress to Mr. Adams. 

The press of Great Britain, with singular unanimity, and in 
language of ])athetic sorrow and passionate eloquence and 
indignation, expressed the deep public sentiment of that great 
empire. 



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The London Times, the great and influential paper of the 
kingdom, in its issue of the 27th of April, 1805, said: 

The American news we publish this morning will be received throughout 
Europe with sorrow as sincere and profound as it awoke even in the United 
States. Deeds of such atrocity cover their perpetrators with everlasting infamy 
and discredit the cause they are presumably meant to serve. 

The Glohe^ (London,) said: 

Mr. Lincoln had come nobly through a great ordeal. He had extorted the 
approval even of his opponents, at least on this side of the water. They had 
come to admire, reluctantly, his firmness, honesty, fairness, and sagacity. He 
tried to do, and had done, what he considered his duty with magnanimity. He 
had never called for vengeance upon any one. In his dealings with foreign 
countries, and his expressions with regard to them, he had become to be re- 
markable, because, among American Presidents, he showed a justness of view 
and tone which was not common. 

The Express, (Loudon,) remarks:' 

President Lincoln is dead. He has gone too soon, indeed, and yet, had it 
been earlier, how far greater had been our loss. He had tried to show the 
world how great, how moderate, and true he could be in the moment of his 
great triumph. He had lived to inspire a whole people with the spirit of peace 
and good will towards that section of their race with whom they had so long 
contended in bitter warfare. 

The Daily Post, (Liverpool,) April 27, 1865, published the 
following: 

In the hour of Northern victory the Northern President has been martyred. 
His faithfulness to his sworn duty has cost him his life. If ever there was a 
man who in trying times avoided offences it was Mr. Lincoln. If there ever 
was a leader in a civil contest who shunned acrimony and eschewed passion it 
was he. In a time of much cant and affectation he was simple, unaffected, 
true, transparent. In a season of many mistakes he was never known to 
be wrong. When almost all were dubious he was clear; where many were 
recreant he was faithful. By a happy tact, not often so felicitously blended 
with pure evidences of soul, Abraham Lincoln knew when to speak, and never 
spoke too early or too late. 

The mortal part of Abraham Lincoln will be consigned to an honorable and 
long-remembered tomb ; but the memory of his statesmanship, translucent 
in the highest degree, above the average, and openly faithful, more than 
almost any of this age has witnessed, to fact and right, will live in the hearts 
and minds of the whole Anglo-Saxon race as one of the noblest examples of 
that race's highest qualities. Add to all this that Abraham Lincoln was the 



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humblest and pleasantestof men, that he had raised himself from nothing, and 
that to the last no grain of conceit or ostentation was found in him, and there 
stands before the world a man whose like we shall not soon look upon again. 

The national journal of Ireland, the Irishman, said: 

History has written her last, greatest epoch in pure and noble blood — in the 
blood of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. 

Though we mourn for the death of Lincoln, we feel no foreshadowing of 
danger. * * * President after President may fall ; but the Nation 
lives — the Nation rules. Its fate is not in the hands of its governors, but in 
its own. Rulers do not make it; it makes its rulers. This is the peculiar glory 
of democracy. This it is which makes a republic so stable. In our sorrow for 
the death of Lincoln we have confidence in the republic — we remember that 

LiBEETY LIVES, 

The WeeUij Northern Whig, Belfast, Ireland, April 29, 1865, 
said: 

Abraham Lincoln, the saviour of the republic, is its martyr. A good and 
great man, but a few days since the noblest living type of Christian statesman- 
ship, has been struck down by the assassin's bullet. Happily the first part of 
his great work was finished before he was called away. 

He has fallen in the hour of victory, not of a victory of brute force, but of a 
victory gained chiefly by the operation of those great moral causes which move 
the world. He has died a martyr for principles as noble as those for which 
ever martyr died. In his death we may, indeed, look for a fresh triumph to 
those principles, and we can only humbly bow in submission to that wisdom 
which guides and directs all things. 

FEANCE. 

In the French Corps Legislatif, on the 1st of May, M. Eou* 
ber. Minister of State, said: 

An odious crime has plunged in mourning a people which is our ally and 
our friend. The report of this crime has produced throughout the civilized 
world a sentiment of indignation and of horror. Abraham Lincoln had ex- 
hibited, in the sad struggle which rends his country, that calm firmness and 
indomitable energy which belong to strong minds, and are the necessary condi- 
tions of the accomplishment of great duties. In the hours of victory he ex- 
hibited generosity, moderation, and conciliation. He hastened to put an end 
to war and restore peace — America to her splendor and prosperity. [Marks of 
approbation.] The first punishment which God inflicts upon crime is to render 
it powerless to retard the march of right. The profound emotion and the deep 
sympathy manifested in Europe will be received by the American people as a 
consolation and encouragement. The work of peace, commenced by a grand 



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citizen, will be completed by the national will. The Government of the Em- 
peror has caused to be sent to Washington the expression of a legitimate hom- 
age to the memory of an illustrious statesman, torn from the Government of 
the United States by an execrable assassin. By order of the Emperor I have 
the honor to communicate to the Corps Legislatif the despatch sent by the Min- 
ister of Foreign Affairs to our representative at Washington, It is conceived 
as follows : 

MiNISTKY OF FOEEIGN AfFAIES, 

Paeis, April 28. 

The news of the crime of which M. le President Lincoln has fallen a victim 
has caused a profound sentiment of indignation in the imperial Government. 
His Majesty immediately charged one of his aides-de-camp to call upon the 
Minister of the United States to request him to transmit the expression of this 
sentiment to Mr. Johnson, now invested with the Presidency. I myself de- 
sired, by the despatch which I addressed you under date of yesterday, to ac- 
quaint you without delay of the painful emotion which we have experienced; 
and it becomes my duty to-day, in conformity with the views of the Emperor, 
to render a merited homage to the great citizen whose loss the United States 
now deplore. 

Elevated to the Chief ^lagistracy of the republic by the suffrage of his coun- 
try, Abraham Lincoln exhibited, in the exercise of the power placed in his hands, 
the most substantial qualities. In him firmness of character was allied with ele- 
vation of principle, and his vigorous soul never wavered before the redoubtable 
trials reserved for his Government. At the moment when an atrocious crime 
removed him from the mission which he fulfilled with a religious sentiment of 
duty, he was convinced that the triumph of his policy was definitely assured. 
His recent proclamations are stamped with the sentiments of moderation with 
which he was inspired, in resolutely proceeding to the task of reorganizing the 
Union and consolidating peace. The supreme satisfaction of accomplishing 
this work has not been accorded to him ; but in reviewing these last testimonies 
to his exalted wisdom, as well as the examples of good sense, of courage, and 
of patriotism, which he has given, history will not hesitate to place him in the 
rank of citizens who the most honored their country. [Cries of " tres bien, trcs 
bien."] By order of the Emperor, I transmit this despatch to M. the Minister 
of State, v/ho is charged to communicate it to the Senate and the Corps Legisla- 
tif. France will unanimously associate itself with the sentiment of his Majesty. 
Eeceive, &c., &c. 

DROUYN DE L'HUYS. 

M. De Geofet, Charge d' Affaires de France at Washington. 

The same letter was read in the Upper House, and received 
with equal approbation. Speeches by various members were 
also made in both Houses. 

L' Opinion Nationale, La Siech, UAvenir Nationale, and Le 
Temps have prepared an address, signed by the whole corps of 



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their contributors, while all the papers publish a note, which is 
to receive signatures until the 8th, when it will be handed to 
Mr. Bigclow. This note is as follows : 

United from the bottom of our hearts with the citizens of the American re- 
public, we come to express our admiration for the great, people which have 
destroyed the last vestiges of slavery, and for Lincoln, the martyr to duty. 

All the leading liberals signed the above. 

The assembly of the Evangelical Alliance of France voted 
addresses to President Johnson and to Mrs. Lincoln, to be 
signed by the pastors of the Protestant churches of France. 

A most signihcant and imposing demonstration, in Paris, was 
made by two thousand students of the College de France. Tiiey 
proceeded to the Americanlegation, and alarge committee having 
sheltered themselves under the American flag, read to Mr. Bige- 
low, Minister from the United States, an eloquent and sympathiz- 
ing address, to which he made a reply in writing. Mrs. Bigelow 
was present at the interview, whicli was so very full of kindly 
sympathy on the part of the young Frenchmen that she could 
not refrain from tears. All Paris was moved to show how 
deeply it felt the loss which is sustained not only by America, 
but by the whole world, in the death of President Lincoln. 

The following letter of the Count de Paris, the grandson of 
Louis Pliiliitpe, and the present head of'the Orleans family, is 
another testimony to the character of President Lincoln. It 
will be remembered that the writer, with his brother, Duke de 
Chartres, served for a year in the army of the Potomac, where 
they were much regarded by their brother officers. In their 
Englisli exile since, they have kept alive those original sympa- 
thies which led them to enlist on our side. The letter is writ- 
ten from Twickenham, in England, and is addressed to Senator 
Sumner : 

Twickenham, May 5, 1865. 
Dear Sir: You stood by the death-bed of the good and noble-hearted man 
■who was torn from the love and confidence of a great nation on the fatal nigiit 
of the 14th of April ; you received the last breath of one on whom all the 
friends of America looked as the worthy representative of her free institutions. 
You will, therefore, understand tliat after reading the sad particulars of that 
terrible tragedy, I should feel anxious to confide to you my deep emotion and 



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my fitter grief. I should not have presumed to add my voice to the unani- 
mou,'^ expressions of sympathy offered by Europe to your fellow-citizens, if my 
personal relations with Mr. Lincoln, which henceforth will remain among the 
most precious recollections of my youth, had not added something in my eyes 
to the magnitude of that public calamity. My brother and myself will both 
always gratefully remember the way which he admitted us four years ago into 
the Federal army, the opportunity he then gave us to serve a cause to which 
we already felt bound by our family traditions, our sympathies as Frenchmen, 
and our political creed. 

Those who saw Mr. Lincoln during that great ordeal when every thing seemed 
to conspire against the salvation of the republic, will never forget the honest 
man who, without personal ambition, always supported by a strong perception 
of his duties, deserved to be called emphatically a great citizen. And when the 
dreadful crisis during which he presided over the destinies of America will be- 
long to history — when its bloody track will disappear under the rapid growth 
of an invigorated nation and a regenerated community — people will only re- 
member its beneficial results, the destruction of slavery, the preservation of free 
institutions, and will ever associate with thera the name of Mr. Lincoln. In 
this struggle with slavery his name will remain illustrious among those of the 
indefatigable apostles who fought before him and who will achieve his work. 
But it will also be said of him that he secured the preservation of the Union 
through a tremendous civil war, without ceasing to respect the authority of the 
law and the liberty of his fellow-citizens ; that in the hour of trial he was the 
Chief Magistrate of a people who knew how to seek in the fullest use of the 
broadest liberties the spring of national endurance and energy. 

I beg you, sir, to excuse the length of this letter ; you know that it is in- 
spired by the feelings of my heart. 

Believe me, my dear sir, yours very truly, 

LOUIS PHILIPPE D'ORLEANS. 
To Hon. Chaeles Sumner, Senator U. S. 

The Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon, the Emperor of 
France, like the Queen of England, also addressed a letter of 
sympathy to Mrs. Lincoln, the wife of the martyred President 
of the United States. Thus the chain of womanly affections 
binds in stronger bonds of sympathy and friendship the 
greatest empires of the world. What beautiful tributes to the 
common humanity and to the genius of a common Christianity. 

In Nantes, Prance, a collection was made of a penny sub- 
scription for the purchase of a gold medal, to be presented to 
Mrs. Lincoln, bearing the inscription : " Liberty, Equalihj, Fra- 
ternity ! To Lincoln, tioice elected President of the United States , 
French Democracy grateful. Lincoln, the honest man, abol- 



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isJied slavery, re-established the Union, saved the Bepidylic, loith- 
out veiling the statue of Liberty. He loas assassinated on the 
Uth of April, 1865." 

PRUSSIA. I 

The death of President Lincoln was received with the great- 
est concern by the Prussian Government and people. Herr 
Loewes, one of the most active members of the Lower House of 
Deputies, on the reception of the news, rose and said: 

Abraham Lincoln has been taken away in the hour of triumph. I wish to 
assure the German Americans, as well as the Americans generally, that we 
glory in their glories and sorrow in their sorrows. It was the banner of free- 
dom he carried aloft. He performed his duties without pomp or ceremony, and 
relied on that dignity of his inner self alone which is far above rank, orders, 
and titles. He was a faithful servant, no less of his own commonwealth than 
of civilization, freedom, and humanity. 

The House rose in token of assent to these admiring words 
to the memory of the deceased republican statesman, and an 
address, signed by a vast majority of the members, was sent to 
Mr. Judd, the American Minister. It is as follows: 

Sir: We, the undersigned, members of the Prussian House of Deputies, pray 
3'our acceptance of our heartfelt condolences on the heavy loss the Government 
and people of the United States have suffered by the death of the late President 
Lincoln. We turn in horror from the crime to which he has fallen a victim, 
and we are the more deeply moved by this public affliction, inasmuch as it has 
occurred at a moment when we were rejoicing at the triumph of the United 
States, as it was accompanied by an attempt upon the life of Mr. Seward, the 
faithful associate of his labors, who, with so mucli wisdom and resolve, aided 
Mr. Lincoln in the fulfilment of his arduous task. By the simultaneous death 
of these great and good men, the people of the United States were to be de- 
prived of the fruits of theia- protracted struggle and patriotic devotion, at the 
very moment when the triumph of right and law promised to bring back the 
blessings of a long desired peace. 

Sir, you have been staying among us as a living witness of the deep and 
earnest sympathy which the people of Germany, during the long and serious 
war, have entertained for the people of the United States. You are aware that 
Germany has looked with feelings of pride and joy at the thousands of her sons 
so resolutely siding with law and right in this your war. You have seen our 
joy on receiving good tidings from the United States, and know the confidence 
with which we were looking forward to the victory of your cause and the re- 
construction of the Union in all its ancient might and splendor. The grand 



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■work of reconstruction will, we trust, not be delayed by tbis terrible crime. 
The blood of the great and wise chieftain will only serve to cement the Union 
for which he died. To us this is guaranteed by the respect of the law and the 
love of liberty which the people of the United States evince in the very midst 
of this tremendous contest. 

We request your good offices for giving expression to our condolences and our 
sympathies with the people and Government of the United States, and commu- 
nicating this address to the Cabinet you represent. 

Receive, &c. 

THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF DEPUTIES. 

Berlin, April 28. 

The following is a translation of tlie official note addressed 
by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of his Prussian Majesty to 
Mr. Judd, the Minister of the United States at Berlin, relative 
to the murder of President Lincoln and the attempted assas- 
sination of Secretary Seward: 

Berlist, April 27, 1865. 

The Royal Government is deeply grieved by the news received by the mail 
yesterday, of the murder of President Lincoln and the simultaneous attempt on 
the life of the Secretary of State, Mr. Seward. 

In consequence of the so happily established friendly relations between Prus- 
sia and the United States, it falls upon the undersigned to announce to that 
Government the sincere sympathy of the Royal Government in the heavy be- 
reavement which has been inflicted by this crime, and therefore respectfully 
request Mr, Judd to transmit the expressions of this sentiment to his Govern- 
ment. 

The undersigned has the honor, &c. 

BISMARK. 

Hon. Mr. Judd, &c. 

In Berlin, the capital of Prussia, May 2d, 1865, was held a 
very remarkable service to the memory of Mr. Lincoln. The 
clergy of the city tendered their churches for the solemn cere- 
monies, and one of the largest and most attractive edifices was 
selected. The altar, on which two candles were burning, was 
veiled in black drapery. The pulpit, and the galleries in the 
neighborhood of the altar, were likewise covered in black. 
Over the pulpit hung two large silk American flags, from tlie 
tips of the stars of which depended black crape streamers. On 
the desks in all the pews lay programmes of the ceremony, 
containing the texts of the hymns and anthems to be sung, and 
printed on mourning paper. In the front pews on the sonth 



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side of the main aisle sat the chiefs of almost the whole of the 
diphjuiutic corps in Berlin, including Lord Napier, the British 
ambassador, formerly British minister in Washington; M. Bcne- 
detti, the French ambassador; Count Karolyi, the Austrian 
ambassador; and the ministers of Russia, Sweden, Italy, Tur- 
key, Greece, Saxony, HanovQr, &c. Next to these came the 
deputies of the Lower Chamber, the municipal councillors of 
Berlin, and many men distinguished in literature and politics. 
On the north side of the aisle sat the Americans, most of them 
attired in mourning. The English community was well repre- 
sented. 

After some minutes Mr. Judd, the American ambassador, and 
his family, together with Mr. Kreismann, the Secretary of Le- 
gation, all wearing the deepest mourning, arrived and took 
their seats in front of the altar. A few moments later a gen- 
eral movement in the assembly indicated the arrival of Herr 
Von Bismark, in company with General Von Boyen, which 
two gentlemen had been deputed by the King to represent his 
Majesty at the ceremony. 

After a lesson and prayer had been delivered, the choir sang 
the beautiful anthem : " Sei getren his in den Tody The Rev. 
Dr. Tappan, of New York, then delivered a powerful funeral 
oration on the deceased President Lincoln, whose foul assassi- 
nation has filled the whole civilized world with horror. The 
singing of a chorale by the whole congregation, and a benedic- 
tion spoken by Pastor Vater, brought to a close the proceed- 
ings of this most remarkable religious demonstration, which 
will long live in the memories of many of the citizens of Berlin. 

There were more than two thousand people present in the 
church. 

RUSSIA. 

Mr. De Stoeckl, the Russian Minister to the United States, 
presented to President Johnson the instructions of Prince 
Gortcliacow, the Minister for Foreign Affairs at St. Petersburg, 
of which the subjoined is a translation: 

St. Petersburg, A'prxl 16, 1865. 

Sir: The telegraph has brought us the news of the double crime of which 
the President of the United States has fallen a victim and Mr. Seward barely 
escaped 



The blow which has struck Mr. Lincoln at the very moment when he seemed 
about to harvest the fruits of his energy and perseverance, has been deeply felt 
in Russia. 

Because of the absence of the Emperor, I am not in a position to receive and 
to transmit to you the expression of the sentiments of his Imperial Majesty. 
Being acquainted, nevertheless, with those which our august master entertains 
♦oward the United States of America, it is easy for me to realize in advance the 
impression which the news of this odious crime will cause his Imperial Majesty 
to experience. 

I have hastened to testify to General Clay the earnest and cordial sympathy 
of the Imperial Cabinet with the Federal Government. 

Please to express this in the warmest terms to President Johnson, adding 
thereunto our most sincere wishes that this new and grievous trial may not 
impede the onward march of the American people toward the re-establishment 
of the Union and of that concord which are the sources of its power and of its 
prosperity. 

Receive, sir, the assurance of my very distinguished consideration. 

GORTCHACOW. 

His Excellency Mr. Stoeckl. 

EELGflUM. 

The King of the Belgians charged one of his aids-de-camp 
to visit Mr. Sanford and express the feelings his Majesty- 
had experienced at the attacks made upon the President and 
Minister for Foreign Affairs of tlie United States. The Count 
of Flanders also sent one of his orderly officers to the Ameri- 
can Minister for the same purpose. The Minister for Foreign 
Affairs and the other members of the Cabinet have also lost no 
time in paying their respects to Mr. Sanford, and instructions 
have been forwarded to the Belgian legation at Washington to 
express to the American Government the sentiments of regret 
and reprobation excited by such disgraceful acts. At Satur- 
day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, M. le Hardy de Beau- 
lieu stated in the most sympathizing terms the emotion pro- 
duced in Belgium by the news of the tragic event, and recalled 
all the claims of President Lincoln to general consideration. 
M. de Haerne s[)oke in the same sense, with much feeling. The 
Minister for Foreign Affairs said that the Government fully 
agreed with the sentiments which had just been expressed, and 
that it had already conveyed its opinion to the Government of 
the United States and their representatives at Brussels. lie 
added his sincfrest good wishes for the recovery of Mr. Sew- 



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ard, whose life he considered highly important for the definite 
pacification of the country so long desolated by the war, and 
whose prosperity was earnestly desired by all the friends of 
liberty. 



AUSTRIA. 

Addresses of condolence to the American people have passed 
the lower house of the Austrian Reichsrath unanimously, and 
the Austrian Government forwarded an address 

THE HANSEATIC REPUBLICS. 

Mr. A. Schumacher, the Charge d'Afi'aires of the Hanseatic 
Republics, paid an official visit to President Johnson, to assure 
him in their behalf of the universal sorrow and sympathy felt 
for the American nation, that the career of their beloved Presi- 
dent, Abraham Lincoln, should have been cut ofi" so suddenly. 
At the close of his remarks, Mr. Schumacher handed to the 
President a letter from the Senate of Bremen, giving expres- 
sion to these sentiments. We subjoin it : 

The appalling news of the atrocious deed which brought to sa sudden an end 
the life and labors of President Lincoln, has caused horror and indignation 
wherever it has gone, but perhaps nowhere in a higher degree than in our city, 
whose citizens have, ever since the first foundation of the American Union, 
maintained with its people uninterrupted friendly relations of commerce and 
personal intercourse, and which, at the present time, has more numerous con- 
nections, comparatively, with the great transatlantic Eepublic than any other 
State of the European continent. 

Indeed, the loss which the Government and the people of the United States 
have sustained by the hand of a fanatical assassin is felt the same as a public 
calamity in our midst, and it is this universal sentiment of deep sorrow and 
indignation which prompts us, the Representatives of the Bremen Republic, to 
express to your Excellency, as the successor of President Lincoln, the feelings 
of hearty sympathy with which we, in common with all our citizens, regard 
this severe visitation upon your country. 

May an Almighty God, who, in His inscrutable providence, has permitted the 
commission of this awful crime, avert a similar calamity from the United States 
in all future time, and may He by His richest blessings heal the wounds from 
which the Union is suffering, and crown by an early peace the patriotic labors 
in which Abraham Lincoln has died as a martyr. 

"We avail ourselves of this mournful occasion to commend ourselves, and the 
Eepublic which we have the honor of representing, to the friendly considera- 



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tion of your Excellency, and to express to you our sentiments of distinguialied 

esteem and regard. 

J. D. MEIER, 

President of the Senate. 
Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. 
His Excellency the President of the United States of North America, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

ITALY. 

The Italian Chamber of Deputies was draped in black in 
mourning for Abraham Lincoln. The Minister of Finance 
moved, and the Chamber agreed, to send an address to the 
American Congress expressing the grief of the country and the 
House at Mr. Lincoln's assassination. It is as follows : 

To the President of the Congress of Representatives of the United States in 

America : 

Hon. Sir: The intelligence of the assassination of President Lincoln has 
moved and profoundly grieved the Deputies of the Italian Parliament. From 
all the political factions of which the Chamber is composed, one unanimous cry 
has arisen, denouncing the detestable crime that has been committed, and con- 
veying the expression of deep regret and sympathy for the illustrious victim 
and the free people whose worthy ruler he was. This Chamber has unani- 
mously resolved to cover its flag with crape for the space of three days, in 
token of mourning, and has charged me to notify to you, in a special message, 
its grief, which is also that of Italy and of all friends of liberty and civilization. 
The news of the attempt made to assassinate Mr. Seward has inspired the Cham- 
ber with like sentiments. In readily, though sadly, fulfiling the mission with 
which I have been charged, I beg you will accept, Hon. Sir, the assurance of 

mv sympathy and consideration. 
•^ •' ^ CASSINIS, 

President of the Chamber of Deputies. 
TURKEY. 

On Sunday, the 30th of April, the Greeks and Italian work- 
ingmcn, to the number of several hundred, repaired in solemn 
procession to the residence of the American Minister to Tur- 
key, E. Joy Morris, all wearing badges of mourning, to express 
their sympathy on the death of President Lincoln. The com- 
mittee read a beautiful address, and presenicd the American 
Minister with a framed portrait of Mr. Lincoln, crowned with 
laurel and decorated with tlie American and Greek flags. 
One of the most distinguished Greek lawyers subsequently 



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delivered an address in Greek, wliicli was rapturously ap- 
plauded and full of grateful allusion to the United States 
and tlic memory of Lincoln. The love of these people for 
America, and tiieir affectionate appreciation of the services 
of one of her greatest benefactors, touches one's heart to the 
core. It demonstrates what a strong hold the United States 
Government has upon the affections of the mighty nations. 
To these enthusiastic and affectionate demonstrations Min- 
ister Morris replied as follows : 

Hellenic GreeJcs of Constantinople : I receive witli mingled emotions of grief 
and pleasure this imposing manifestation of the sentiments of the Hellenes of 
Constantinople toward my country and its illustrious chief, the late President 
Lincoln. 

I rejoice that the character and actions of that great man are so justly ap- 
preciated and so affectionately revered by the intelligent community you rep- 
resent. It is another proof that the Greek people are faithful to tlie traditions 
of their history ; that the same love of liberty which distinguished them in an- 
tiquity still exists, and that everywhere where there is a struggle between the 
spirit of liberty and despotism, their suffrages are on the side of those who are 
the champions of tlie natural rights of man. It is from your ancestors that we 
have inherited our passion for liberty. The example of Leonidas with his 
three hundred Spartans falling willing victims for the safety of their country at 
ThermopylsB, of I^Iiltiades and Themistocles on the plains of Marathon and the 
waters of Salamis, repelling the invaders of Greece, not by the force of numbers, 
but by tlie force of an invincible courage, is taught in our schools as a sublime 
lesson of love of country. 

Honor to a [leople who, after the lapse of twenty-five centuries, yet preserve 
in their hearts that sacred fire v.'hich made their ancient heroes immortal! 

The terrible struggle which is about terminating in the United States was a 
conflict between the two opposing principles of libert)^ and slavery. To promote 
the interests of the latter, an attempt was made to destroy the American Union, 
and to erect on its ruins a government the corner-stone of which was to be hu- 
man slavery. By the favor of Divine Providence the man most capable of 
meeting such a crisis was placed at the head of the nation. 

He was a man of unblemished purity of life, and of unspotted integrity, and 
he loved his race and countr}'' with equal aficction. In defending the Constitu- 
tion he knew that he was defending an instrument of government in the main- 
tenance of which all mankind have a common interest with us. He compre- 
hended, in its fullest proportions, the great part which God had given him to 
perform, and before heaven and earth he proved that he was equal to the duty 
assigned him. 

At tlie moment when the shouts of victory were rising from the fields of bat- 
tle, and when llie (lag of freedom was again being raised over the forts and 
towns from wliich it had been sacrilegiously lorn down four years ago, he fell 



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bonoath the murderous arm of an assassiu. Fearful crime to kill such a man! 
Supreme folly to choose such a moment for such an infamous deed ! He had 
accomplished his mission, he had saved his countrj', and had gained a place in 
the temple of glory, where he will always be honored as one of the greatest 
benefactors of humanity. The assassins of liberty and of its champions merit 
and receive an eternal execration in history. 

The Secretary of State, Mr. Seward, who had so ably seconded the efforts of 
President Lincoln, and who, by his diplomatic writings, had most wisely repre- 
sented the nation to foreign countries, was also destined to be a victim We 
implore an All-merciful God that his life may be spared, that he may contribute 
by his sagacious intellect to the consolidation of the republic, which is now 
rising majestically, unimpaired in strength and iinchanged in form, from a hun- 
dred fields of battle. 

In tbe name of the American people, Hellenic Greeks, I thank you for this 
generous demonstration of regard for my country and her saviour, and for your 
wishes thatthe Republic of the United States of America may continue to exist 
in the future as in the past, the boulevard of modern liberty and the pioneer of 
luiman progress. 

Adieu, Hellenes I and may the Greek and American flags, which float united 
above our heads, be a symbol of that fraternity of heart which exists between 
two people of the same sympathies and the same aspirations ! 



MEETINGS OF AMERICANS IN FOREIGN 
COUNTRIES. 



LONDON. 



On the 1st day of May, 1865, the Americans in London held, 
in St. James's Hall, a meeting to give expression to their feel- 
ings in relation to the untimely death of the late President 
Lincoln. A large number were Englishmen, who desired to 
testify their sympathy and regard. The chair was taken by 
Hon. Charles Francis Adams, Minister of the United States. 
Among the distinguished gentlemen present were Lord Hough- 
ton, Cyrus W, Field, Mr. Morse, Consul of the United States; 
Mr. Ward, New York; Rev. J. Shaw, Boston; Rev. H. M. 
Storrs, Cincinnati; Mr. G. Ralton, Consul General of Siberia; 
Mr. J. Holmes Goodenow, Consul at Constantinople, and 
others. Minister Adams made an eloquent address, in which 
he said: 

The man who has fallen was immolated for no act of his own. It may be 
doubted whether in the whole course of his career he ever made a single 
personal enemy. * * * It was because Abraham Lincoln was the faithful 
exponent of the sentiments of the whole people that he was stricken down. 
The blow that was aimed at him was meant to fall upon them. It was a 
fancied short way of paralyzing the Government which we have striven so hard 
to maintain. It was for our cause that Abraham Lincoln died, and not his 
own. * * * Let us, then, casting aside all needless apprehension for the 
policy of our land, concentrate our thoughts upon the magnitude of the offence 
which has deprived us of our beloved chief in the very moment of most interest 
to our cause ; and let us draw together as one man in the tribute of our admira- 
tion of one of the purest, the most single-minded and noble-bearted patriots 
that ever ruled over tlie people of any laud. 

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A series of resolutions were adopted, among whicTi was the 
followino;: 

Resolved, That as loyal Americans, we have witnessed with peculiar pleasure 
the expressions of indignation and sorrow throughout Great Britain at the 
assassination of President Lincoln, and the cordial and hearty sympathy which 
has been extended by the public of this realm to the Government and people of 
the United States in their great bereavement and public calamity.^ 

ROME. 

Upon the receipt of tlie intelli^^ence in Rome of the assas- 
sination of President Lincoln, a meeting of Americans was 
summoned at the rooms of the United States Legation. The 
meeting, held on the 28th day of April, and largely attended 
by American artists, sojourners, and visitors, was called to or- 
der by H, G. De Forest, Esq., of New York ; on whose motion 
the Rev. Edward S. Lacy, of San Francisco, California, was 
called to the chair. 

The proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. 
Lacy. 

A committee consisting of General Rufus King, United 
States Minister; Mr. H. G. De Forest, Mr. W. W. Story, Rev. 
Dr. Lyman, and Judge Charles V. Dyer, was appointed. Du- 
ring the absence of the committee the meeting was ably and 
eloquently addressed by the Rev. Dr. Van Nest, of New York; 
Rev. Dr. J. C. Stockbridge, of Boston; Dr. 11. A. Johnson, of 
Chicago; Mr. Stansfeld of St. Louis; Mr. Stillman, United 
States Consul at Rome; George D. Phelps, of Nev?" York, and 
other gentlemen. 

The committee, through their chairman, General King, sub- 
mitted resolutions, among which were the following : 

Resolved, That in common with every true-hearted American, at home and 
abroad, we regard the loss of Abraham Lincoln as a national bereavement of 
unsurpassed magnitude, recognizing in him an able, upright, zealous, and con- 
scientious statesman, whose valuable life was consecrated to the public service, 
and whose tragic death has added the crown of martyrdom to the civic wreath 
which a grateful country had already placed upon his brow. 

Resolved, That we devoutly hope to be spared the additional affliction of be- 
ing called upon to mourn the loss of the great Senator whose able administra- 
tion of the Department of State during the trying ordeal of the past four years 



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had won for him Ihe proud confidence and affectionate regards of his country- 
men, and the admiration of the civilized world ; and that we humhly and hope- 
fully invoke the Almighty Ruler of the Universe to preserve a life so precious 
to America and to mankind. 

Resolved, That we tender to the immediate relatives of the lamented victimo 
of this fiendish conspiracy and crime our most heartfelt and respectful sympa- 
thy in their overwhelming sorrow. May the God of the widow and the father- 
less bind up their broken and bleeding hearts ; and to his overruling care do 
we trustingly commit our beloved country in this hour of her extreme and 
sore trouble. 

Resolved, That in token of our respect for the memory of the illustrious dead, 
we will wear the customary badge of mourning for a period of thirty days ; 
and that the chaplain to the legation be requested to hold a special religious 
service at some convenient hour to-morrow. 

Resolved, That copies of these resolutions, attested by the signatures of the 
chairman and secretary, be transmitted to the State Department, to the family 
of our late President, and for publication, 

PARIS. 

On the reception of the news of the assassination of Presi- 
dent Lincoln in Paris, France, the Americans in that city were 
convened to express their sorrow at the great calamity which 
had fallen so suddenly upon their nation. At the suggestion 
of Rev. Mr, Lamson, a commemorative service was held at the 
American Protestant Episcopal Chapel on Saturday, the 29th 
of April, 1865, to which a sort of semi-official character was 
given by the presence of an aid-de-camp of Prince Napoleon, 
and by the draping of the church in American flags with crape 
streamers. This service was conducted by Rev, Mr. Lamson, 
assisted by Rev. Mr. Swale, assistant chaplain of the British 
embassy. Nearly all of the congregation of the American 
chapel was present, but its pastor (the Rev. Dr. Sunderland) was 
entirely unable to take part in the ceremonies at so early a pe- 
riod after the arrival of the afflicting intelligence. The Rev. 
Doctor found himself wholly unequal to the task of a public 
demonstration. He was a personal friend of the late Presi- 
dent, and pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Wash- 
ington City, and for several years Chaplain of the Senate of 
the United States. He was in his pulpit, and elsewhere, the 
outspoken and fearless champion of the Government and its 



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righteous cause, during the great rebellion, and contributed 
largely to those patriotic and religious agencies and influences 
which preserved the life and nationality of the Great Re- 
public. 

The feeling shown on the following day (Sunday) in the 
American Chapel was far more touching than any formal mani- 
festation of respect. Dr. Sunderland, the pastor, by a violent 
effort of self-control, read the service ; but when he came to 
the prayer for the President of the United States — a different 
President from the one prayed for only a short week before — 
his voice broke down, and nearly every one in the little chapel 
in a foreign city shed tears — some sobbing outright. The Doctor 
finished the service with trembling accents, and resigned his 
place to the Rev. Dr. Palmer, of Albany, who preached an ad- 
mirable sermon, which had the effect of calming the troubled 
spirits of grief-stricken people. In this service was the ab- 
sence of the exultant hymns of praise which are usually sung 
during the taking up of the collection in the chapel, and which 
for the past two Sundays after the news of the glorious victo- 
ries were veritable songs of triumph. 

A meeting was held at the United States Legation, to con- 
cert upon some plan for publicly manifesting sympathy with 
their beloved country. Between seventy-five and a hundred 
American gentlemen were present. Mr. Bigelow was unani- 
mously named president. Mr. Slade, United States Consul at 
Nice, was appointed Secretary. The meeting was first ad- 
dressed by the Hon. Mr. Fogg, our Minister to Switzerland, 
who, being an intimate personal friend of Mr. Lincoln's, was 
several times entirely overcome by his feelings, and sobbed 
aloud. He started from Berne to come up to Paris to rejoice 
with his fellow-countrymen in view of peace, which Mr. Lin- 
coln's wise course had led us to suppose was near at hand, 
and was met by the cruel blow which has so fearfully smitten 
the nation. Several other gentlemen spoke, and the meeting, 
which was an occasion for mutual expression of sympathy, re- 
sulted in the appointment of a committee of nine gentlemen, 
who were charged with the preparation of a suitable address 
to President Johnson. 



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NATIONAL THANKSGIVING TURNED INTO NATIONAL HUMILIATION. 

President Lincoln, on the evening of the 11th of April, 1865, 
said to his countr^^men assembled at the Executive Mansion, 
" We meet this evening not in sorrow but in gladness of heart. 
The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender 
of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and 
speedy peace, whose joyous expression cannot be restrained. 
In the midst of this, however, He from whom all blessings flow 
must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is 
being prepared and will be duly promulgated." 

That proclamation was never issued. He whose heart was 
full of joy in the prospect of peace, and who was about to invite 
his countrymen to meet for devout thanksgiving to Almighty 
God for so great a blessing and the victories which had con- 
quered it, was smitten in death by tlie assassin, and the nation 
was bowed in deepest mourning. President Johnson, in view of 
the national affliction, issued the following proclamation : 

BY THE PEESIDENT OP THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA : 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas, by my direction, the Acting Secretary of State, in a notice to the 
public of the seventeenth, requested the various religious denominations to as- 
eerable on the nineteenth instant, on the occasion of the obsequies of Abraham 
Lincoln, late President of the United States, and to observe the same with ap- 
propriate ceremonies; but whereas our country has become one great house of 
mourning, where the head of the family has been taken away; and believing 
that a special period should be assigned for again humiliating ourselves before 
Almighty God, in order that the bereavement may be sanctified to the nation : 

Now, therefore, in order to mitigate that grief on earth which can only be 
assuaged by communion with the Father in Heaven, and in compliance with 
the wishes of Senators and Representatives in Congress, communicated to me 
by resolutions adopted at the National Capitol, I, Andrew Johnson, President 
of the United States, do hereby appoint Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of May 
next, to be observed, wherever in the United States the flag of the country may 
be respected, as a day of humiliation and mourning; and I recommend my 
fellow-citizens then to assemble in their respective places of worship, there to 
unite in solemn service to Almighty God, in memory of the good man who has 
been removed, so that all shall be occupied at the same time in contemplation 
of his virtues, and in sorrow for his sudden and violent end. 



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In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of tie 
United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington the twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of 
[l. s.] our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the Inde- 
pendence of the United States of America the eiglity-ninth. 

ANDREW JOHNSON. 

The day, by special proclamation, was changed to the first 
Thursday of June, because the day aforesaid was sacred to a 
large number of Christians as one of rejoicing for the ascension 
of tlie Saviour. 

The dny was universally observed, and these " solemn 
religious services to Alraiglity God in memory of the good man 
who had been removed " resulted in the richest blessings to the 
nation. The memorable events that immediately preceded the 
President's assassination, the Sabbath that succeeded tne day 
on wliicli his obsequies were performed in Washington, the 
rites and honors his remains received on their way to his final 
resting place, and the religious services around the tomb at 
Springfield, were consecrated days of patriotism and piety. 
They eminently developed the Christian element of our Govern- 
ment and people, as well as commemorated the virtues and 
public services of our departed President. 

When tidings came of the capture of Richmond and the dis- 
persion of Lee's army, the popular rejoicing found its appro- 
priate vent in acts of praise to Almighty God. The decora- 
tions of public buildings and of private houses, the orders of 
the War Department and tlie proclamations of tlie civil 
authorities, the editorials of political journals, and the resolu- 
tions of mass assemblies of citizens — all expressed the religious 
feeling of the nation in view of the manifest interposition of 
Providence for our deliverance. 

And when our sudden and crushing sorrow came, with one 
accord the people resorted to the house of God for relief and 
consolation in religious worship. Day after day the churches 
were thronged with serious assemblies. Day after day was 
God honored by the humiliations and the supplications of mil- 
lions tliroughout tlie land. And the long mournful procession, 
with tlie remains of President Lincoln, from Washington to 
Springfield, was not a mere funeral pageant, but one prolonged 



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religious service, in wliicli Jews and Papists united with 
Protestants of every name in acknowledging the hand of God. 

The religious sentiment is thoroughly woven into the 
character of the American people; and herein we have a noble 
encouragement from past religious labors and teachings, and a 
grand hope for the future. 

President Lincoln cherished in his inner life, and developed 
in his official acts and public efforts, the desire and purpose to 
diffuse and strengthen the religious element in all departments 
of the Government, and to bring all the interests of the nation 
under its controlling influence. To a great benevolent organ- 
ization, laboring for the religious good of our noble soldiers, 
he said, " You may have everi/thing, and command theAdminis' 
tration to the extent of its ability and means, to helj) you take 
care of the religious interests of the army." To another he said : 
" Whatever shall be sincerely and in God's name desii^ed for the 
good of the soldiers and seamen in their hard spheres of duty 
can scarcely fail to be blessed ;" and, " ivhatever shall tend es- 
pecially to strengthen our reliance on the Supreme Being for the 
final triumph of right cannot but be well for us." He also pro- 
nounced, in a letter to one of these Christian societies, this 
great, political, and Christian axiom which has so sublime a 
development in our national history: "Religion and good 

GOVERNMENT ARE SWORN ALLIES 1" 

God buries His workmen, but their work goes on. The 
death of martyrs to truth is but the day of their coronation, 
and their graves the fruitful earth from which blossom into 
fuller and riper forms the more abundant fruits of freedom ; 
and their translation to higher and nobler fields of effort is but 
the hour for surviving associates to renew their consecration to 
the imperishable principles for which they lived and for the 
vindication and triumph of which they died. 

Thus is it and thus shall it be with the death of Abraham 
Lincoln, the martyred President of the United States ! He is 
dead, but the principles of freedom and right which he pro- 
claimed and vindicated still live, and are marching on to a 
grand and perfect fulfilment. As the mourning millions of his 
countrymen shall review his life and contemplate his death. 



204 

or gather round his tomb, they will hear the echo of his words, 
spoken when he stood on the autumnal day of November the 
19th, 1863, over the graves of our martyred heroes, on that 
great battle-field of freedom, at Gettysburg : " It is for us to be 
dedicated hero to the unfinished work which they who fought 
here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is for us to be here 
dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these 
honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for 
which they gave the last measure of devotion ; that we here 
highly resolve that theae dead shall not have died in vain ; that 
this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that govern- 
ment of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not 
perish from the earth ;" and those other words, uttered at the 
first hour, almost, of the great conflict, to the national Con- 
gress : " Having chosen our course without guile and with pure 
purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without 
fear, and with manly hearts, in the great task which events have 
devolved upon us." 

Abraham Lincoln is dead 1 

*' In peace, great martyr, sleep! 
Thy people weep, 

But stop their tears to swear upon thy grave, 
The cause thou died'st for they but live to save; 
And the great bond cemented by thy blood 
Shall stand unbroken as it still hath stood. 

" Martyr of freedom ! may thy mantle rest 

On him who standest now to help and save ; 
While every drop that from tJiy wounds out-pressed, 
Shall bloom in flowers on treason's bloody grave !" 

FAVORITE POEM OF MR. LINCOLN. 

The following poem and the incidents connected with its re- 
]iroduction and recital will now have a new and touching in- 
terest. The artist, Mr. Carpenter, was an inmate of the Presi- 
dential Mansion for several months, engaged in painting the 
scene of the Proclamation of Freedom issued on the 1st day of 
January, 1863, and in which the President and his Cabinet 
Ministers — William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edwin M. 



Stanton, Gideon Welles, Caleb B. Smith, Montgomery Blair, and 
Edward Bates — have a life-like representation. The poem was 
written in 1778, by Alexander Knox, of Edinburgh, Scotland, 
who died at tlie age of tliirty-six years — incidents, it seems, 
unknown to Mr. Lincoln. This poem, so rich in sentiment and 
beauty, and wliich he repeated with such frequency and delight, 
unveils many of the mysteries of his marvellous life ; and the 
first and the last stanzas had a mournful fulfilment in his own 
sudden death. Mr. Carpenter says : 

I was with the President alone one evening in his room, during the time I 
was painting my large picture at the White House, in 1864. He presently 
threw aside his pen and papers, and began to talk to me of Shakspeare. He 
sent little "Tad," his son, to the library to bring a copy of the plays, and then 
read to me several of his favorite passages, showing genuine appreciation of the 
great poet. Relapsing into a sadder strain, he laid the book aside, and leaning 
back in his chair, said : 

" There is a poem which has been a great favorite with me for years, which 
was first shown to me, when a young man, by a friend, and which I afterward 
saw and cut from a newspaper and learned by heart. I would," he continued, 
" give a great deal to know who wrote it, but I have never been able to 
ascertain." 

Then half closing his eyes he repeated to me the lines which I enclose to you. 
Greatly pleased and interested, I told him I would like, if ever an opportunity 
occurred, to write them down from his lips. He said he would some time try 
to give them to me. A few days afterward he asked me to accompany him to 
the temporary studio of Mr. Swayne, the sculptor, who was making a bust of 
him at the Treasury Department. While he was sitting for the bust I was sud- 
denly reminded of the poem, and said to him that then would be a good time 
to dictate it to me. He complied, and sitting upon some books at his feet, as 
nearly as I can remember, I wrote the lines down, one by one, from his lips : 

0, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? 
Like a swift-fleeing meteor, a fast-flying cloud, 
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, 
He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. 

The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, 
Be scattered around and together be laid, 
And the young and the old, and the low and the high, 
Shall moulder to dust and together shall lie. 

The infant a mother attended and loved ; 
The mother that infant's afl'ection who proved; 
The husband that mother and infant who blessed, 
Each, all, are away to their dwellings of rest. 



266 

The hand of the king that the sceptre hath borne ; 
Tlie Lrow of the priest that the mitre hath worn ; 
The eye of the sage and the heart of the brave, 
Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave. 

The peasant whose lot was to sow and to reap ; 
The herdsman who climbed with his goats up the steep; 
The beggar who wandered in search of bis bread, 
Have faded away like the grass that we tread. 

So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed 
That withers away to let others succeed ; 
So the multitude comes, even those we behold, 
To repeat every tale that has often been told. 

For we are the same our fathers have been; 
We see the same sights our fathers have seen — 
We drink the same stream and view the same sun 
And run the same course our fathers have run. 

The thoughts we are thinking our fathers would think; 
From the death we are shrinking our fathers would shrink; 
To the life we are clinging they also would cling; 
But it speeds for us all, like a bird on the wing. 

They loved, but the story we cannot unfold ; 
They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold; 
They grieved, but no wail from their slumber will come ; 
They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb. 

They died, aye ! died ; we things that are now, 
That walk on the turf that lies over their brow, 
And make in their dwellings a transient abode, 
Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage road. 

Yea! hope and despondency, pleasure and pain, 
We mingle together in sunshine and rain; 
And the smile and the tear, the song and the dirge, 
Still follow each other, like surge upon surge. 

'Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, 
From the blossom of health to the paleness of death — 
From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : 
0, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? 

This Memorial Record, so abundant in tributes of affection 
ind honor to the late lamented President of the United States. 



267 

aud so rich in lessons of patriotism and piety, has a fitting close 

iu the following 

HISTORIC APOSTROPHE. 

To the memory 
of 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 

President of the United States of America, 

Who died a martyr to his country, 

Falling under the hand of a traitor assassin, 

On the night of the Uth day of April, 1865, 

The fourth anniversary of the beginning of the great 

WAR OF REBELLION, 

Through which he led the nation to a glorious triumph, 

Just completed when the dastardly revenge of vanquished treason was wrought 

in this monstrous murder. 

The Great Republic loved him 

As its Father, 

And reverenced him as the preserver of its national life. 

The oppressed people of all lands looked up to him 

As the anointed of liberty, and hailed in him the consecrated 

Leader of her cause. 

He struck the chains of slavery from four millions of a despised race, and, with a 

noble faith in humanity. 

Raised them to the admitted dignity of manhood. 

By his wisdom, his prudence, his calm temper, his steadfast patience. 

His lofty courage, and his loftier faith. 

He saved the Republic from dissolution; 

By his simple integrity, he illustrated the neglected principles of its Constitution, 

and restored them to their just ascendancy; 

By all the results of his administration of its government. 

He inaugurated a New Era in the history of mankind. 

The wisdom of his statesmanship was excelled 

Only by its virtuousness ; 

Exercising a power which surpassed that of kings. 

He bore himself always as 

The servant of the people, 

And never its master. 



268 

Too sincere in the simplicity of his nature to be affected by an elevatioc, 

The proudest among human dignities, 

He stands in the ranks of the ilUustrious of all time as 

The proudest exemplar of Democracy. 

While goodness is beloved 

And great deeds are remembered, 

The world will never cease to honor the name and memory 

of 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

Monuments are about to rise at the capital of the nation 
and in various States and cities of the Union, to the life and 
mevnory of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United 
States ; and on them will be engraven sentiments similar to 
those of the sublime apostrophe recorded above. 

But the best and most enduring monuments to perpetuate his 
life and illustrious services will be in the hearts op his fel- 
low-countrymen, OF THE MILLIONS HE EMANCIPATED, AND OF 
THE LOVERS OF LIBERTY IN EVERY CLIME AND THROUGH ALL 
COMING AGES 1 



INDEX. 



I. Memorable Days and Events preceding the President's 
Death. 

Character and Popularity of the President, 5, 6 ; Second Inaugu- 
ration— Chief Justice Chase administers the Oath — An Open 
Bible — The Chapter — Sun comes brightly out, 6 ; Inaugural 
Address, 7, 8; Opinions of an English Statesman — Of the 
British and American Press, 8, 9. 

II. Visit of the President to the Army and to Eichmond, and 
return. 

Conferences with General Grant, 11; With Campbell in Rich- 
mond, 9, 10 ; Return, 13 ; Speech on his return, at the White 
House, 14-17. 

III. President's Last Day on Earth, 

Its Incidents, 19-21. 

IV. Threats of Assassination. 

Proof of the same, 24-27. 
V. Assassination of the President, and his Dying Scenes. 

Incidents attending, 29-37 ; Announced by the Secretary of 
War, 38 ; Notes of the Physician when Dying, 39 ; Body 
removed to Presidential Mansion, 40; Autopsy, 41; Em- 
balmment, 41, 42. 

VI. Testimony in regard to the Assassination, and accounts of 

eye-witnesses. 

Major Rathbone's Affidavit, 42, 43, 44 ; Miss Harris's, 44. 
VII. John Wilkes Booth, the Assassin of the President. 

Statement of Mr. Ferguson, 45-47; Government Reward for 
Apprehension of the Assassins, 47, 48 ; Capture and Death of 
the Assassin, 48, 49 ; Extent of the Conspiracy to Assassinate 
the President, 49, 50 ; President Johnson's Reward for Davis 

269 



£70 

and other Leaders of the Ecbellion, 50 ; ]\Iilitary Commission 
for the Trial of the Accomplices of Booth, 51, 52. 

VII.I. Inauguration of President Johnson. 

Communication of the Cabinet to him, 54; Sworn into Office 
by Chief Justice Chase, 55 ; President's Remarks, 55, 56 ; An- 
nouncement of his Inauguration by the Cabinet, 56, 57. 

IX. Meeting of Senators and Members of the House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

Their Proceedings and Resolutions on the Death of President 
Lincoln, 59-61. 

X. Meeting of Clergymen — Their Visit to President Johnson. 

Proceedings and Resolutions, 63-68 ; Interview with the Presi- 
dent, and the President's Address, 69-73. 

XL President Lincoln's Remains lying in State in the Presiden- 
tial Mansion. 

His Appearance in Death, 73; The Coffin, 74; Catafalque, 
75 ; Thousands of Visitors, 76. 

XII. Funeral Services at the President's House. 

Scene in the East Room, 77, 78 ; The Audience in the East Room, 
79, 80; Scriptures Read by Dr. Hall, 81-83; Prayer of Bishop 
Simpson, 83-85 ; Funeral Address of Dr. Gurley, 85-92. 

XIV. Funeral Procession from the Presidential Mansion to the 
Capitol. 

Its Description and Order, 93-101 ; Remains in the Rotunda, 
102,103; Burial Service Read, 103; Guard of Honor, 104; 
Removal of the Body to the Cars, 105, 106 ; Order of Secretary 
of War regulating the Transportation of the Remains to 
Springfield, Illinois, 106, 107; Time and Arrangement desig- 
nated by Governor Brough and John W. Garrett, 107, 108; 
Names of the Guard of Honor and Committee who accompa- 
nied remains to Springfield, 100, 110. 

XV. Official Orders concerning the President's Death. 

Order of Secretary Stanton to the Army, 111, 112; Of Secretary 
Welles to the Navy, 112, 113 ; Of Secretary McCullough to 
the Officers of the Revenue Marine, 113; Of Postmaster Den- 
nison to Deputy Postmasters, 114 ; Of Mr. Hunter, Acting 
Secretary of State, to all connected with the State Depart- 
ment, 114 ; Of Secretary Usher to the Employees of the In- 
terior Department, 114; General Meade's Order to his Army, 
114, 115; General Sherman's Order to his Army, 115; Feeling 
in General Sherman's Army, 115, 116; Obsequies in the Army, 
116, 117; General Hancock's Appeal to the Colored People. 



271 

117, 118 : the Genpral Court Martial, 118 ; Major Burnliam'B 
Address, 118, 119. 

XVI. Action of the Diplomatic Body. 

Eussian Minister's Address to President Johnson, 119 ; Address 
of the Swiss Consul, 120, 121; The President's Reply, 121- 
Expression of Sympathy from the French Minister, 121. 

XVII. Tributes of the States represented at Washington. 

Proceedings and Resolutions of New Hampshire, 123-125; Of 
Massachusetts, 125, 12G ; Extract of Governor Andrew's Mes- 
sage to the Legislature of Massachusetts, 12G; Of Connecti- 
cut, 127-129; Governor Buckingham's Address, 129; Of New 
York, 129, 130; Governor Fenton's Proclamation concerning 
the President's Death, 130 ; Of New Jersey, 131 ; Of Pennsyl- 
vania ; 131-133 ; Of Ohio, 133, 134; Of Indiana, 134, 135; 
Governor Morton's Request to the Citizens of Indiana, 135; 
Of Illinois, 135-137; Of Kentucky, 137; Of Iowa, 137, 138; 
Governor Stone to the People of Iowa, 138 ; Of Wisconsin, 
133-140 ; Of Kansas, 140, 141 ; Of Missouri, 141, 142 ; Of 
Citizens from the Pacific Coast, 141, 142; Funeral Services in 
San Francisco, 142 ; In Denver, Colorado, 143. 

XVIII. Tributes of the Courts and Civic Bodies in AVashington. 

United States Court of Claims, 145 ; Solicitor Weed's Speech, 
announcing the President's Death, 145, 146 ; Response of 
Chief Justice Casey, 146, 147 ; Levy Court of the County of 
Washington, 147, 148 ; Expressions of the Bar and Grand 
Jury, 148, 149; City Council of Washington, 149, 150; City 
Council of Georgetown, 150, 151; National Democratic Asso- 
ciation, 151. 152 ; German Citizens, 152; Colored Citizens, 153, 
154 ; Reference to other Bodies, 154. 

XIX. Funeral Honors on the route from "Washington to Spring- 
field. 

Ode on the Procession, by R. H. Stoddard, 155, 156 ; Apostrophe 
on the Procession, by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, 156 ; Obse- 
quies at Baltimore, 156-158; Scene at York, Pa., 157, 158; 
Honors at llarrisburg, 158-160; Obsequies at Philadelphia, 
160-165; Funeral Honors in New York, 166-169 ; Bancroft's 
Oration, 169-174: Scenes between New York and Albany, 
179,150; Funeral Ilonorsat Albany, 182-184 ; Scenes between 
Albany and Buffalo, 184; Funeral Honors at Buffalo, 184, 185; 
Ceremonies at Cleveland, 185-188; Funeral Honors at Colum- 
bus, Ohio, 188-191 ; Stevenson's Oration, 191-193 ; Scenes 
between Columbus and Indianapolis, 194-196 ; Funeral Hon- 
ors at Indianapolis, 196-199 ; Scenes between Indianapolis 
and Chicago, 200, 201; Funeral Honors at Chicago, 201-204; 



272 

Colfax's Oration, 204-218; Scenes between Chicago and 
Springfield, 218, 219; Funeral Ceremonies at Springfield, 
219-228 ; Bishop Simpson's Oration, 228-236. 
XX. Tributes and Sympathy of Foreign Nations. 

Great Britian, 239 ; Earl Russell's and Earl Derby's Eemarks 
in the House of Lords, 259, 240; Sir George Grey's and Mr. 
Disraeli's Remarks in the House of Commons, 240 ; Address 
of the Queen — Not obtained, and the reason, 241 ; Unofficial 
Address of Members of the House of Commons, 241 ; Queen's 
Letter to Mrs. Lincoln, allusion to, 242; Sir Frederic Bruce's 
Letters, 242 ; Letter of Emancipation Society in England to 
Mrs. Lincoln, 242; Emancipation Society in London, 242, 
243; Meeting at Liverpool, 243; Remarks of the English 
Press, 243, 244, 245 ; Sympathy and Tribute of the Govern- 
ment of France, 245, 246 ; Count de Paris's Letter to Senator 
Sumner, 247, 248; Allusion to the Empress's Letter to Mrs. 
Lincoln, 248 ; Action of the Government of Prussia, 249; 
Scene in a Berlin Church, 250, 251. 

XXI. Meeting of Americans in Foreign Countries. 

In London, 257; Minister Adams's Address, 257; In Rome, 258; 
Resolutions, 258, 259 ; Paris, 259 ; Scene in the American 
Chapel, (Dr. Sunderland's,) 260; American Legation, 260. 

XXII. National Humiliation and Prayer. 

Proclamation by President Johnson, 261, 262; Observance of 
the Day, 262; Development of the Religious Element of the 
Nation, 262-264. 

XXIII. Favorite Poem of President Lincoln. 

Its Origin, 264,265; Recites to Mr. Carpenter, 265; The 
Poem, 265, 266. 

aXIV. Historic Apostrophe. 

Its Language and Truth, 267, 268. 



APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE OF 18G5. 






THE ASSASSOATIOJf 



ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 

IjATJE president of the UIVITED states of AMERICA, 
AND THE ATTEMPTJED ASSASSINATION 



SECEETARY OF STATE, 



FREDERICK ^V. SE\VARD, 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY, 
Ou the evcuiug of the 14th of April, 1&>G3. 



U.S. lie^T 



EXPRESSIOXS or CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY INSPIRED BY THESE EVENTS. 



WASHINGTON: 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 

1866. 



INDEX TO APPENDIX. 



Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865. 



"Where from. 



AUSTRIA. 
Government of Austria . 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Bielitz 

Vienna 

Do 



ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 
Government of the Argentine 
Republic. 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Buenos Ayres 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 



BELGIUM. 
Governmen t of Belgium . 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Brussels 

Do 

Ghent 

New Orleans 



BRUNSWICK. 

Government of Brunswick 

DUCHY OF BADEN. 

Carlsruhe 

Kappel Rliein 



From whom. 



Page. 



Count Meysenbug to Mr. Motley 

House of Deputies 

Count Meysenbug to Baron Wydenbruck 

Baron Wydenbruck to Mr. Seward 

Count Mensdorff to Baron Wydenbruck 

Baron Wydenbruck to Sir. Hunter 

Members of Associations of Commerce and Industry. 

Mr. Motley to Mr. Seward 

do 



Senor Rufino de Elizalde to Mr. Kirk 

Department of the Interior 

President pf the Congress 

Congress of the Argentine Republic. . 

Governor of the Province 

Mr. Kirk to Mr. Seward 

Spanish Democratic Committee 

Mr. Tomas Guido 

American Residents 



Mr. Rogier to Mr. Sandford 

Mr. Berghmans to Mr. Hunter 

House of Representatives 

From the Moniltur. Action of the Government 

Mr. Sandford to Mr. Seward 

do 

Septentriou Masonic Lodge 

Belgian consul. (See United States. ) 

Mr. Bechtel to President Johnson 



Swiss Residents to the Editor of the Bund, in Berne . 
Turners' Society 



IV INDEX. 

Appendix to diplo'iiatic correspondence r)flS'^i5 — Continued. 



Where from. 



BRAZIL. 
Government of Brazil. 
Do 



Botafoga 

Kio de Janeiro . 

Do 

Do 



BOLIVIA. 
Cochabamba 



CHILL 
Government of Chili 

Do 

Do 

Ancles , 

CalbuL'O 

Copiapo 

Santiago 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Valparaiso 

Do 

Do 



CHINA. 

Government of China 

Peking 

DENMARK. 

Government of Denmark. 



From Avhom. 



Senor Jose Antonio Saraiva to Mr. "Webb 

Seiior Ignacio de Avellar Barloza de Silva to Mr. 
Seward. 

The Marquis d' Abrantes 

Mr. Webb to Mr. Seward 

Minister of Peru 

Minister of the Argentine Republic 



Mr. Hall to Mr. Hunter. 



COSTA RICA. 
Government of Costa Rica 

Do 

Do 

Do , 

San Jose 

Do 



Senior Alvaro CovaiTubias to Mr. Nelson. 
President's annual rressage, (extract)... 
Senor F. S. Asta Buruaga to Mr. Hunter. 

Governor of the Department 

3Iunicipal Council of Carelmapu 

luhabitan - 

Mr. Nelson to Mr. Seward 

do 

do 

Minister of Spain 

Society of Primary Instruction 

Union Club 

Council of the Artisans' Society 

Union Americana 

Anglo-Saxon Workingmen's Association. 

American Residents 

Municipal Council of Quillota 

Senor J. Volio to Mr. Riotte 

do 

Seiior J. Volio to Don Luis Molina 

Don Luis Molina to Mr. Hunter 

Mr. Riotte to Mr. Hunter ^ 

do 



Prince Kung to Mr. Williams . 
Mr. Williams to Mr. Seward.. 



Mr. Raasloff to Mr. Hunter. 



INDEX. V 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence o/'lSG-'i — Continued. 



Where from. 



From whom. 



Goveniinent of Denmark 

Copefthagen 

St. Ciuix 



ECUADOR. 
Govermiieut of Ecnador. 

Do 

Do 

GuayH([iul 

Do 



EGYPT. 

Alexandria 

Do 



FRANCE. 
Government of France. 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Boyan-ou-the-Sea 

Choisy -le-Roi 

Chavaniac 

Cliarciite 

Caen 

Do 

Gnintrauip 

Grasse , 

GentiUy 

Gaillae 

Gnadeldiipe 

Lyons , 

Do 

Lure 

Libonvni' , 

Macon 

Metz 

Montauljan 



Mr. Raaslofl' to the President 

Mr. Wood to Mr. Seward 

Governor of the "West India Colonies of Denmark 



Senor Pablo Herrera to IMr. Ilassanrek 

do 

President Moreno to Mr. Hassaurek 

Mr. Hassaurek to Mr. Seward 

do 



Nancy 
Nimes . 



Mr. Hale to Mr. Seward 

Mr. Hale to Mr. Hunter 

Mr. Drouyn de Lhuys to Sir. Big'elow 

Corps Legislatif 

do 

Corps Legislatif, Deputies of the Left 

do 

Mr. Drouyn de Lhuys to Mr, de Geofroy 

Mr. de Geofroy to Mr. Hunter 

Inhabitants 

Lodge of La Frauehe P'uion 

Oscar de Lafayette 

Perfect Union Masonic Lodge 

Edward Talbot 

Iuhal)itants 

do 

New Friendship Lodge 

United Benefactors' Lodge 

Orion Lodge of St. John 

Creoles of African descent 

Republicans 

Evangelical Alliance 

Toleration and Progress Lodge 

L'Escole de la Morale 

Les Art Reunis Lodge 

Friends of Truth Lodge 

Members of the Protestant Church and Loudon So- 
ciety for the Abolition of Slavery. 

St. John of Jerusalem Lodge 

Louis and Casimir Didett 



Appendix to diplomatic correspondence oflSQo — Continued. 



Where from. 



Nimes 

Nice 

New York. .. 
Pbiladelpliia 
Paris 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 



From whom. 



Louis and Casimir Didett 

American Residents 

French Residents. (See United States.) 

French Society of Beneficence. (See United States.) 

Mr. Bigelow to Mr. Seward , 

do 

do 

do 

Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte 

Young Men of France 

Clement Friendship Lodge 

Oriental Lodge 

J'ars and Arts Lodge 

Straight Line Lodge 

Friends of the Country Lodge 

L' Avenir Lodge 

La^revoyance Lodge 

St. John's Lodge No. 147, the Heroes of Humanity 

Scotch Rite Lodge 

Henry IV Lodge 

Perseverance Lodge 

Admirers_ of the Universe Lodge 

Scotch Hive Lodge 

St. John of Jerusalem Lodge 

Harmony Lodge 

St. Pierre des Acacias Lodge _ 

Fraternity of the People Lodge 

Scotch Lodge No. 146 ; the Right Line 

Supreme G. '. C. '. of Misraim 

President of the Lodge Renaissance 

St. Augustus the Beneficent Lodge 

French Committee of Emancipation 

Students of the School of Medicine 

International Committee of the Darien Canal Company 
National Union for Commerce and Manufactures . 

Universal Religious Alliance ^jl^^^'"- 

Conference of French Pastors 

do 

Address of the press 

M. Imbert 

J. C. Lusiue 

J. C. Lusiue : Ode 



Page. 



INDEX. VII 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865 — Continued. 



Where from. 



From whom. 



Paris. 



Do. 

Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do- 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 



Do 

Do 

Do 

Do. 

Do 

Do 

Pau 

Do 

Pons 

Perpigmau 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Riette 

St. Stephen 

St. Germain-en-laye. 
Strasbourg 

Do 

Tarare 

Tours 

Do 

Toulouse 



Vierzon . 



Alfred Monod 

Ph. Target and E. Yilletard, Editors of the Sunday 

Courier. (See also page 97.) 

Auguste L'Alloux : Ode 

Ed. Laboulayc 

Paul Thouzery 

do 

Poul Thouzery : Ode 

F. Campadelli 

F. Campadelli : Ode 

J. H. Vries 

Ph. Target and E. Yilletard, Editors of the Sunday 

Courier. (See also page 90.) 

Gregory Ganesco 

General Count Faubert 

French "West Indian Colonists 

Charge d'x\ffaires of Persia 

American Residents 

do 

Cradle of Henry IV Lodge 

American Residents , 

Reformed Church of France 

Friends of Perfect Union Lodge 

do 

do 

do 

F. B. : Poem 

Royal Scotch Lodge .~ 

Good Faith Lodge 

Students of the Faculty of Protestant Theology 

Inhabitants 

^Yorkiug Classes 

Democrats 

do 

Members of the Protestant Church and the London 

Society for the Abolition of Slavery. (See Montan- 

han.) 
Inhabitants 



Appendix to dipilomatic correspondence o/'1865 — Continued. 

FROM THE PRESS OF PARIS. 



Date. 



Name. 



April 2 
April 28 
April 29 
May 
May- 
May 
April 29 
May 
April 28 
April 29 
May 
April 28 
April 30 
May 
May 
April 28 
April 30 
May 
April 28 
April 29 
May 3 
May 4 
May 8 
April 2' 
April 2i 
April 30 
May ] 
April 28 
May ] 
April 28 
April 23 
May 3 
May 1 
April 28 
April 30 
May ■ 
April 2 
April 28 
May ] 
May 2 
May 4 



,1865. 
,1865. 
,]365. 
, 1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
, 1865 . 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
, 1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
, 1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
, 1865. 
, 1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1885. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 
,1865. 



AA'enir Nationale 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Constitiitiomiel 

do 

Epoqiie 

do 

do 

France, La 

do 

do 

do ". 

Gazette de France 

do 

do 

Journal des Debats 

, do 

do 

do 

do 

Monde, La 

Opinion Nationale 

, do 

, do 

Presse, La 

, do 

Pays, La 

Patrie, La 

, do 

Eevue des Deux Mondes. 

Siecle 

, do 

, do 

Temps 

, do 

, do 

do 

do 



INDEX. 

A])pendix to diplofnatic correspondence of 1865 — Contiuned, 



IX 



"Wliere from. 



From whom. 



GEE AT BRITAIN AND DE 

TENDENCIES. 
Uuveriiment of Great Britain.. Earl Russell to Mr. Adams 

Do ' Earl Russell to Sir F.Bruce 

Do I do 

Do ! Resolutious of Parliament and tlie Queen's answer 

I to the Address. 

Do [ Proceedings in the House of Lords 

Do ' Proceedings in the House of Commons 

Do ....' Mr. Burnley to Mr. Hunter 

Antri in Northern Presbytery of Antrim. (See Ballyclurc. ) 

Aberdeen Convener Court of the Seven Incorporated Trades 

of the City. 

Municipal Council 

Axbridge do 

Anstruther Easter i do 

Ayr do 

Arl)roath do 

Ashton-under-Lyne ' do 

Do ! Temperance Society 

Do I Union and Emancipation Society 

Anglesey I Baptist Association. (See Beaumaris. ) 

Beaumaris j Anglesey Baptist Association 

Bolton I Municipal Council 

Do do 



Do. 



Brecliiu 

Berwick-upon-Tweed 

Burnley 

Burntisland 

Barnstaple 

Brecon 

Banbury 

Bridport 

Bath 

Buckingham I do 

Bedford ! do 

Bridgenorth | do 

Bristol 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 



do 

Inhabitants — -- 

Teachers of the Ragged School . . . 
Workingmen's Club and Institute 
Reform Union •- 



XLyxjiiiu\., 



Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865 — Continued. 



[Where from. 



From •whom. 



Brighton 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Balsall Heath 

Bourueniouth . 

Bilston 

Barrhead 

Bridlington 

Blackburn 

Do 

Burham - 

Broonifield 

Brockville, C. W. 

Belfast 

Bradford 

Do 

Do 

Birmin gham 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Blaydon 

Biidgewater 

Do 

Bmy 

Do 

Bally cl are 

Barnsley 

Berlin, C. W 

Birkenhead 

Bahamas 

Do 

Bermnda 

Do 

British Guiana 

Canada 

Calcutta 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Chelsea 



Inhabitants 

do 

Trading and Working Classes 

Workingiiien ,., 

Local Board of Health 

Inhabitants 

do „ 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Chamber of Commerce 

Municipal Council 

Inhabitants , 

Ladies' Negroes' Friend Society 

Eepresentatives of the Baptist Churches of England 

Local Board 

Municipal Council 

Methodist Free Church 

Town Commissioners 

Inhabitants 

Northern Presbytery of Antrim 

Local Board of Health 

Inhabitants 

Workingmen's Association 

Governor of the Bahamas 

Legislative Council 

Lieutenant Governor 

Colonial Secretary. (See Hamilton.) 

Government Secretary 

■Governor General to Sir F. Bruce 

Beng.al Chamber of Commerce - . 

do 

American Residents 

Justices of the Peace 

Vestry of the Parish 



INDEX. XI 

Appendix to diplottiatic correspondence of 1865 — Continued. 



Where from. 



From ■whom. 



[]!amden Town 

Chatham 

[)raiiiliugtoa West . 

::rail 

Chester 

Chippenham 

Cardio-an 

Carnarvon 

Canterbury 

Cork 

Congleton 

Do 

Cardiff 

Do 

Coventry 

Do 

Cambridge 

Do 

Do 

Colchester 

Do 

Carlisle 

Do 

Cobonrg, C. W.... 

Canada East 

Cape Town 

Do 

Cupar 

Do 

Cape Coast, Africa. 

Cardigan 

Carmarthen 

Deal 

Dorchester 

Dover 

Dumbarton 

Dumfries 

Doncaster 

Dumfermline 

Dewsbury 

Do 

Darwen 



Inhabitants 

do 

do 

Municipal Council 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Inhabitants 

do 

Merchants, Brokers, and others 

Municipal Council 

Inhabitants 

Municipal Council 

The Chancellor of the University 

University of 

Municipal Council 

Inhabitants 

Municipal Council 

Inhabitants 

Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance of Canada 
do 

Town Commissioners 

Chamber of Commerce 

Municipal Council 

Commissioners of Supply 

Inhabitants 

Independent Ministers. (See Pembroke.) 

Independent Ministers. (See Pembroke.) 

Municipal Council 

do 

do... 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Chamber of Commerce 

Inhabitants 



XII INDEX. 

Aj^pendix to dij^loinatic corresjjondence of 1865 — Continued. 



Where from. 



From whom. 



Derl>y 

Devizes 

Darlington . 

Do--.. 
Dublin - ... 

Do..-. 

Do.-.. 

Do.--. 

Do...- 

Dc... 
Dundee 

Do-... 



Do 

Dowlais 

Exeter 

Evesham 

Edinburgh 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Elgin 

Emerald Hill . . 

Do 

Falkirk 

Forfar 

Do 

Friockheim . .. 

Greenock 

Grantham 

Gloucester 

Geelong 

Great Bardfield 
Gait, C. W.... 

Galway 

Gla?gow 

Do 

Do 

Do , 

Do , 



Inhabitants 

do 

do 

15th Durham Rifle Volunteers 

Municipal Conncil 

do 

Inhabitants 

Democratic Classes 

Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland 

Wesleyan Ministers and Stewards 

Municipal Council 

Magistrates, Bankers, Manufacturers, and otlier In- 
habitants. 

American Residents 

Welsh Baptist Association 

Municipal Council 

do 

do 

Inhabitants 

do 

Chamber of Commerce 

Ladies' Emancipation tSociety 

Grand Master Masons of Scotland 

Commissiouers of Supply 

Municipal Council 

do 

do 

.....do 

Commissioners of Supply 

Inhabitants 

Municipal Council 

do 

do 

do 

Inhabitants 

do 

do 

do - 

Chamber of Commerce 

Members of the Merchants' House 

Union and Emancipation Society 

American Residents 



INDEX XIII 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865 — Cont^inued. 



Where from. 



Glasg^ow 
Do. 



Guernsey . ... 

Gateshead 

Holyhead 

Huutingdou . . 
Ha.stiuo-s . ... 

Hertford 

Hereford 

Haiiley 

Hawick 

Do 

Halifax, N. S. 



Do. 
Do. 



Do 

Halifax, York Co 

Do 

Hasliiigden 

Halstead 

Heckiiioudwike . . 
Hamilton 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Huddersfield 

Do 

Do 

Hull 

Holmfirth 

Hinton Martell .. 

Do 

Hartlepool 

Do , 

Do , 

Do 

Ipswich , 

Do 



From whom. 



American Eesideots 

Synod of the Ileformed Presbyterian Ciiurch of 

Scotland, 

Chaiiib(!r of Commerce 

Workingmen and Women 

Anglesey Baptist Association. (See Beaumaris.) 

Municipal Council 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Friends of Union and Emaucipat ion 

Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. (See Nova 

Scotia.) 
Legislative Chambers. (See Nova Scotia.) 
Proceedings in the Legislative Chambers. (See Nova 

Scotia.) 

Municipal Council 

do 

Inhabitants 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Lieutenant Governor. (See Bermuda.) 

Colonial Secretary 

Alexandria Lodge of the G. U. 0. of Odd Fellows. . 

Municipal Council 

Chamber of Commerce 

Improvemtrnt Commissioners 

Union and Emancipation Society 

Chamber of Commerce 

Chamber of Commerce 

Workingmen 

do 

Town Commissioners .'. 

do 

Inhabitants 

United Methodist Free Church 

Inhabitants 

Working Classes 



XIV INDEX. 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865 — Continued. 



Where from. 



Ingersoll. 

Jedbiu'ofh 

Do-. 



Kilmarnock 

KidderQiiuster 

King's Ljnn 

Kirkaldy 

Do 

Kendal 

Do 

Do 

Keighley 

Kettering 

King'ston, Jamaica. . 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Ivingston-ujjon- H nil . 

Lndlow 

Llanidloes 

Lymington 

Leominster 

Lancaster 

Lincoln 

Do 

Leicester 

Limerick 

Lanark 

Do 

Liverpool 

Do 

Do , 

Do... 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Leeds 



From whom. 



Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada 

Municipal Council 

Commissioners of Supply of the County of Eoxburgh. 
(See Roxburgh.) 

Municipal Council 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Inhabitants 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

..:..do 

Municipal Council 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Inhabitants 

do 

do 

Municipal Council 

Lord Lieutenant, Sheriff, and Commiss'ners of Supply 

Municipal Council 

Inhabitants 

do 

American Chamber of Commerce 

Chamber of Commerce 

Mercantile Marine Service Association 

Cotton Brokers' Association 

Emancipation Association 

Financial Reform Association : 

Albert Literary Society 

Eobert Leighton: Ode 

Inhabitants 



INDEX. XV 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865 — Continued. 



Where from. 



Leeds 

Londou 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do, south 

Do, west - 

Do 

Do 

Do 



Do...... 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

London, C. W. 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Luton 

Leith 

Do 

Lyndon, C. "\V 

Margate 

ilorpeth 



From whom. 



Working' People 

Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward , 

Mr. Adams to Mr. Hunter 

Leon Lewis , 

Lodge of Gyninosophists 

Municipal Council , 

Workingmen 

do 

Workingmen's Christian Institute 

International Workinguieu's Association 

Merchants, Bankers, and Traders 

White Chapel District Board of Works. (See Wliite 
Chapel.) 

Emancipation Societj'^ 

Freedmen's Aid Society 

British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society 

Committee of Deputies of British Jews 

Argyle Square Junior Members Society 

Bank of British Columbia 

British Honduras Company 

Temple Discussion Forum 

Atlantic Telegraph Company 

Corent Garden Theatrical Fund 

Concord Lodge 

German National Verein 

Aujerican Residents 

do : 

Mauritian Colored Eesidents 

German Residents 

Greek Race Residents 

Welsh Residents 

Irish Residents 

Municipal Council 

Inhabitants 

Board of Trade 

Grand Trunk Railroad Company 

Local Board of Health 

ilunicipal Council 

Chamber of Commerce 

Methodist New Connection Conference 

Municipal Council 

do 



XVI INDEX. 

ApjJendix to dijdomatic correspondence of 1865 — Continued. 



Where from. 



Maccli'sfiekl . 
Maidstone -.- 

Maldon 

Musselburgh . 

Montrose 

Maueliester.- 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 



Mossley 

Do 

Merthyr Tydfil 

Do 

Melbourne 

Do 

Montreal 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Newark 

Newcastle-uudt-r-Lyme 

Neath 

Nevvburg 

Do 

Newuiilus 

Northwich 

Newiidit 

Newport, (Isle of Wight). 
Nottingham 

Do 

Do 

Norwich 

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.. .. 

Do 

Do 

Newfoundland 



From whom. 



Municipal Council 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Inhubitauts 

do 

Chamber of Commerce 

Union and Emancipation Society 

do 

British Temperance League 

Sons of Temperance 

Executive ot the United Kingdom Alliance for the 
Total Suppression of the Liquor Traffic. 

Inhabitants ." 

do 

do 

do 

Polish and Hungarian Refugees 

Municipal Council 

do 

Inhabitants 

New England Society 

Canadian Institute 

Municipal Council 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Anti-slavery Society 

Salt Chamber of Commerce 

Watch Committee of the Corporation 

Municipal Council 

do 

Inhabitants 

United Methodist Free Church Assembly 

Inhabitants 

Municipal Council 

Inhabitants 

Conference of the Methodist New Connection 

Executive Council 



Pasre. 



INDEX. XVII 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1S65 — Continued. 



Where from. 



From whom. 



New South Wales . . 
Nassau 

Do 

Northampton 

Do 

Nova Scotia 

Do 

Do 

New Orleans 

New York 

Oldham 

Do 

Do 

Old Ford 

Oxford 

Do 

Do 

Ottawa 

Patrick 

PoUokshaws 

Portsmouth 

Paisley 

Perth 

Peterborough , 

Do 

Pudsey-near-Leeds . 
Preston 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Pembroke , 

Do 



Plymouth . . 

Do 

Plaistow 

Do 

Port Rowan 
Quebec 

Do 



Citizens of the Swiss Republic. , 

Governor of the Bahamas. (See Bahamas.) 
Legislative Councils. (See Bahamas.) 

Municipal Council , 

Miss Grace AV. Gray, Acrostic 

Lieutenant Governor of the Province 

Legislative Chambers 

Proceedings in the Legislative Chambers 

British Consul. (See United States.) 
British Residents. (See United States.) 

Municipal Council , 

do 

Inhabitants 

Ancient Order of Foresters 

Municipal Council 

Chancellor of the University 

University 

Municipal Council , 

do 



.do 
.do 
.do 
.do 



Improvement Commissioners 

Inhabitants 

Local Board of Surveyors 

Municipal Council — 

Inhabitants 

Anti-slavery Society 

do 

Union and Emancipation Society 

Municipal Council - 

Independent Ministers of the Counties of Carmar- 
then, Cardigan, and Pembroke. 

Municipal Couucil 

Inhabitants 

do 

do 

do 

Governor General of Canada. (See Canada.) 
Municipal Council 



2* 



XVIir INDEX. 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1S65 — Continued. 



WLere from. 



RoclicstiT 

liothesay 

Eoclidale 

Do 

Kanisp^ate 

Heading- 

IJl.yl 

EoxLurg 

Rjde 

Do 

Sudburj- 

Stratford-upou-Avon . 
Strasliioe: 



Scarborough 

Shrewsbury 

Saunnliar 

Saiut Albans 

Southampton 

Salford 

Stirling' 

Do 

Stalybridge 

Sunderland 

Staplehurst 

Stewarton 

Saint Helens 

Stroud 

South Shields 

Southport 

Solby 

St. Catharines 

Do 

Sherbrooke 

St. Thomas, C.W. 
Sheffield 

Do 

Do 

Do 

D.i 

l>o 

Selkirk 



From whom. 



Municipal Council 

do 

do 

Inhabitants '- 

do 

do 

Improvement Commissioners 

Commissioners of Supply 

do 

Inhabitants 

Municipal Council 

do 

Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada. (See Inger- 
soll.) 

Municipal Council 

do 



.do 
.do 
.do 

-do 
.do 



Commissioners of Supply. 

Inhabitants 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Municipal Council 

Inhabitants 

do 

Chamber of Commerce... 

C utler's Company 

Secular Society 

ilunicipal Council 



Page. 



324 
325 
325 
325 
326 
326 
326 
327 
327 
327 
328 
328 



328 
329 
329 
329 
329 
330 
330 
330 
331 
331 
331 
332 
332 
332 
333 
333 
334 
334 
335 
335 
336 
337 
337 
338 
338 
339 
339 
340 



INDEX. XIX 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865 — Oontiuiied. 



Where from. 



Selkirk , 

Sligo 

Do 

Stourbridge , 

Do 

Straffora 

Stockport 

Do 

St. Martiu-iu-the-Fields . 
Swansea 

Do.' 

St. Marylebone , 

St. Paucras 

Stockton 

Do 

St. John 

Do 

Saint George's 

Do 

Sydney, N. S. W 

Do 

Toronto 

Tewkesbury 

Tbetford 

Tynemoutli . 

Vancouver's Island 

Do 

Do 

Victoria, V.I 

Do 

Do 

Wigan 

White Chapel District. . 

Winchester 

Worcester 

Walsall 

Wells 

Warwick 

Waterford 

Do 

Waterloo, C.W. 



From whom. 



Warrington j Inhabitants 



Commissioners of Supply 

Municipal Council 

Board of Guardians 

Inhabitants , 

Workhouse Board 

Auxiliary Union and Emancipation Society , 

Municipal Council 

Sunday School Union , 

Vicar, Church AVardens, and Vestrymen of the Parish 

Inhabitants 

Workingnien's Institute 

Vestry of the Church 

Vestrymen of the Parish 

Municipal Council 

Inhabitants 

Grand Division of the Sous of Temperance 

Executive Council. (See Newfoundland.) 

Colored People 

Division of the Sons of Temperance 

Municipal Council 

Irish National League ■ 

Municipal Council ! 

do 

. . . t . . do 

Inhabitants 

Legislative Assembly 

do 

Legislative Council 

Welsh Baptist Association 

American Residents 

do 

Working Classes 

Board of Works 

Municipal Council 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Inhabitants 

Inhabitants. (See Berlin.) 



Paofe. 



340 
341 
341 
341 
342 
342 
342 
342 
343 
344 
344 
344 
344 
345 
345 
346 

347 

347 

348 

349 

350 

350 

350 

351 

351 

352 

352 

352 

352 

353 

354 

355 

355 

355 

355 

356 

35G 

356 

357 

357 



XX INDEX. 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865 — Contiuued. 



Where fropi. 



Wakcfiekl 

Wolverhampton. 

Woodstock 

WeJnesbury 

Yeovil 

York 



From whom. 



lohabitauts 

do 

do 

Local Board of Health. 

Municipal Council 

Inhabitants 



FROM THE PRESS OP GREAT BRITAIN. 



Androssan . . . 

Belfast 

Bradford 

Caledonian . . 

Carlisle 

Dublin 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Gateshead... 

Glasgow 

London 

Do 

Do 

'Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do .... 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do .... 

Liverpool 

Leeds 

Do 

Paisley 

Surrey West 

Belfast 

Saltcoats 



Herald, April 29, 1865 

Ulster Observer, April 27, 1865 

Eeview, April 29, 1865 

Mercury, April 27, 1865 

Examiner, April 29, 1865 

Freeman's Journal, April 28, 1865 , 

Evening Post, April 29, 1865 

Express, April 29, 1865 

Reformer, April 29, 1 865 

Observer, April 29, 1865 

Herald, May 1, 1865 

Morning Post, April 27, 1865 , 

Evening Standard, April 27, 1865 

Times, April 27, 1865 

Daily News, April 27, 1865 

Morning Star, April 27, J 865 

do 

Evening Star, May 2, 1865 

Daily Telegraph, April 27, 1665 

Daily Telegraph, April 28, 1865 

Spectator, April 29, 1865 

.....do 

John Bull, April 29, 1865 

Punch, May 6, 1865 

Daily Post, April 27, 1865 

Mercury, April 27, 1865 

do 

Renfrewshire Independent, April 29, 1865. 

Times, April 29, 1865 

Ulster Observer, April 27, 1865 

Herald. ( See A ndrossan. ) 



INDEX. XXI 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865 — Continued. 



Where from. 



From whom. 



Pajre. 



GUATEMALA. 
Governmeut of Guatemala .. 
Do 



GKEECE. 

Governmout of Greece. 



HONDURAS. 
Governmeut of Honduras 

HANSEATIC EEPUBLICS. 
Government of the Republics . . 
Government of Bremen 

Do 

Governmeut of Hamburg 

Hamburg 

Government of Lubec 

Do 



DUCHY OF HESSE-DARM 

STADT. 
Governm't of Hesse-Darmstadt 
Do 



Seiior de Irisarri to Mr. Hunter. (See Salvador.) 
Seiior de Irisarri to Mr. Seward. (See Salvador.) 

Mr. Braylas to Mr. Botassi 



Don Louis Molina to Mr. Hunter. (See Costa Rica.) 



Mr. Rosing to Mr. Hunter 

Senate 

House of Burgesses 

Senate 

American Residents 

Mr. Schumacher to Mr. Seward . 
Senate 



HAYTI. 
Government of Hayti 

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
Gov't of the Hawaiian Islands, 

Do 

Honolulu 



Mr. Hagedorn to President Johnson. . 
Baron von Dahvigk to Mr. Hagedorn. 



Lahaina 



ITALY. 
Government of Italy 

Do 

Do 

Ancona 

Abruzzo 

Acireale 

Alessandria 

Barga 

Brescia 

Bologna 

Do 



Mr. Bruno to Jlr. Hunter 



Mr. Odell to Mr. Hunter 

do 

Address delivered by Rev. E. Corwin. (Inadvert- 
ently inserted under the head of Liberia. ) 
Inhabitants 



Mr. Marmora to Mr. Marsh 

Mr. Marmora to Mr. Bertinatti.. 

House of Representatives 

Emigration Society 

Inhabitants -•- ■ 

do 

United Workmen's Society .. .. 

Workingmen's Society 

Mechanics' Mutual Aid Society 

Workingmen's Society 

Ladies' Society 



XXII INDEX. 

ApjJcndix to dijylomatic correspondence o/'lSGo — Continued. 



Where from. 



IJulnfriHl .... 

Caiizo 

Do 

Ciirrn 

Cliii-'ti 

Do 

Catniiifi 

Do 

Do..-.. 
Chiiivcnua . 
Dogliani . . . 

Fi'nno 

Foggia 

Florence . . . 

Do 

Do .... 

Do 

Do-..'.. 

Do 

Do 

Forli 

Geiioii 

Do 

Leglioru . . . 

Do 

Mest-ina 

Do 

Mihiu 

Mouterodiuii 

Marsala 

Naples 

Do 

1V> 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 




Do... 

N.w York. 
1*11111111 



Ladies Society 

Inhabitants 

JIunicipal Council 

Mechanics' Mutual Aid Society 

Mutual Aid Society 

Municipal Council 

Workingnien's Union 

Sons of Labor 

Students of the University 

Society of Operatives 

Mechanics' Society 

Municipal Council 

Wiirkingmen's Mutual Aid Society 

Mr. Marsh to Mr. Hunter 

Democratic Kepublican Association 

Democratic Association 

Social Progress Lodge 

Fraternity of Artisans 

Constitutional Eights Association 

American Residents 

Mechanics' Society and the Society of Progress 

Inhabitants 

Union of Operatives 

Fraternal Association of Artisans 

Anziani Virtuosi Lodge 

Lodge Le Lume e la Verita 

Municipal Council 

Workingnien's Mutual Help Association 

Inhabitants 

do. 
W^orkingmeu's Union 
Garibaldiau Mutual Aid Society 
Workingmen's Benevolent Society. 
Students . 

Juvenile Society of Progress 

Italian Electoral Association 

Municipal Council 

Juvenile Scientific, Literary and Political Associa- 
tion. 

From the Press. Eeunion of Students 

Italian Residents. (See United States.) 

Italian Una Lodffe 



436 
437 
437 
437 
438 
438 
439 
439 
440 
440 
441 
441 
442 
442 
444 
444 
445 
455 
446 
446 
448 
449 
449 
450 
450 
451 
451 
452 
452 
453 
453 
454 
454 
455 
456 
457 
457 
457 

458 

458 



INDEX. • XXIII 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence oj 1865 — Continued. 



Where from. 



Pavia 

Perugia 

•Do 

Pisa 

Reggio , 

San Marino , 

San Pier d" Arena . 
Sienna 

Do 

Sissa 

Spezia 

Do 

Salza Irpina 

Somma Vesuviana 

Sassari 

Torre del Greco... 

Do 

Do 

Turin , 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Vercilli 



JAPAN. 



Yedo 

Yokohama . 



LIBERIA. 
Government of Liberia 

Do 

Do 

Honohxhi 



Monrovia 
Do.. 



MEXICO. 
Government of Mexico . 



Do. 

Do. 

La Paz . 



From whom. 



Students of the Royal University 

Juvenile Politico Literary Association 

Students of the University 

Montanelli Democratic Society 

Patriotic Mutual Aid Society 

Regents of the Republic 

Union of Operatives 

Democratic Society 

Italian Union Committee 

Mechanics' Society 

Municipal Council 

Workingmen's Society 

Municipal Council 

do 

Mutual Help Association 

Municipal Council 

do 

Juvenile Association 

Mr. Marsh to Mr. Hunter. (See Florence.) 

Society of United Mechanics 

Regent of Masonry 

Italian Emigrants 

Polish Residents 

Merchants' Association 



Mr. Portman to Mr. Seward 

Charge d'affaires of Great Britain. 



Hon. H. B. AV. Johnson, Secretary of State 

President Warner 

Mr, Pinney to Mr. Hunter 

Address delivered by Rev. E. Corwiu, (inadvert- 
ently inserted under this head.) 

Municipal Council 

Mr. Hanson to Mr. Seward 



Senor Lerdo De Tejada. Circular addressed to the 
Governors of the various States. 

President Juarez 

Mr. Romero to Mr. Hunter 

Governor Gibert 



Page. 



XXIV 



INDEX. 



Appendix to diplomatic correspondence ofV^^b — Continued. 



■Where from. 



New York 

I'rovideucia 

San Juan Bautista 

MOROCCO. 
Tangier 

THE NETHERLANDS. 
Government of the Netherlands 

Do 

Tbe Hague 

Do 



NICARAGUA. 
Governmeut of Nicaragua. 

Do 

Do 

Leon de Nicaragua 



PRUSSIA. 
Government of Prussia 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 



Aix-la-Chapelle 
Berlin 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 



PORTUGAL. 
Government of Portugal ' 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 



From whom. 



Mexican Club. (See United States.) 

Governor of Guerrero 

Governor of Tabasco 



Mr. McMath to Mr. Hunter . 



Mr. van Limburg to Mr. Hunter 

do 

Mr. Pike to Mr. Hunter 

do : 



Senor Basilio Salinas to Mr, Dickinson 

Seiior Pedro Zeledon to Don Luis Molina 

Don Luis Molina to Mi-. Hunter. (See Costa Jiica.) 
Mr. Dickinson to Mr. Hunter 



Count Bismarck to Mr. Judd 

House of Deputies 

do 

Polish Members of the House of Deputies 

Baron Gerolt to Mr. Hunter 

Mr. Judd to Mrs. Lincoln, communicating the sym- 
pathy of the Royal Household. 

Municipal Council 

Mr. Judd to Mr. Seward 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Mr. Judd to Mr. Hunter 

Workingmen's Club 

Artisans' and Mechanics' Union 

Workingmen's Union 



Seiior de Figauiere to Mr. Hunter 

House of Peers 

House of Deputies 

Count d'Avila to Mr. Harvey 

do 



INDEX. XXV 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865 — Continued. 



Where from. 



From whom. 



Government of Portugal. 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Lisbon 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Macao 

New York 



PERU. 
Government of Peru 

Do 

Do 

Arequipa 

Lima , 

Do 

Do , 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do , 



RUSSLA.. 
Government of Russia. 

Do 

Do 

St. Petersbiirg 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 



ROME. 



Rome... 
Do- 
Do. 
Do. 



Chamber of Peers to Count d'Avila 

Count d'Avila to Mr. Harvey 

Chamber of Deputies to Count d'Avila 

Chamber of Deputies 

Count d'Avila to Seiior de Figaniere 

do 

Seiior da Silva to Count d'Avila 

Mr. Harvey to Mr. Seward 

do 

From the Comercio 

From the Jornal 

Working Class Improvement Association — 

Governor of Macao — . 

Portuguese Residents. (See United States.) 



Seiior Pedro Jose Calderon to Mr. Robinson 

President Juan Antonio Pezet 

Sefior Garcia to Mr. Seward 

American Residents 

Mr. Robinson to Mr. Seward 

do 

Mr. Robinson to Mr. Hunter 

Governor of the Department 

Society of the Founders of the Independence of Peru. 

do 

American Residents 



Prince 'Gortchacow to Mr. de Stoeckl 

Prince Gortchacow to Mr. Clay 

do 

Mr. Clay to Mr. Seward 

Minister of Great Britain 

Minister of Italy 

Minister of Belgium 

Minister of Sweden and Norway .... 



Mr. King to Mr. Hunter. . 

do 

do 

Mr. Henry Headly Parish . 



XXVI 



INDEX. 



Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1S65— Continued. 



Where from. 



SPAIN. 
Government of Spain 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Culia 



Jerez de laFrontera. 

Do 

Do 

Madrid 

Do 

Do 

New York 

Sineu 



SWEDEN AND NORWAY. 
Government of Sweden and 
Norway. 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Stockholm 

Do 

Do 



From whom. 



Senor Arrazola to Mr. Perry ■ 

Senor Banuelos to Mr. Peny 

Senate 

Chamber of Deputies 

Duke of Valencia to Mr. Perry '. 

Senate - 

Chamber of Deputies 

Debate in the Senate 

Debate in the Chamber of Deputies 

Senior Tassara to Mr. Hunter, 

Senior Arrazola to Senor Tassara 

Captain General, communicated through Senior Tas- 
sara. 

Democracy of the Town 

do 

do 

Mr. Perry to Mr. Seward 

do 

Cuban and Porto Eican Eesidents 

Spanish Residents. (See United States.) 
Committee of Progress 



Count Manderstrom to Mr. Campbell. 



.do. 
.do. 



SAXE-MEININGEN. 

Govcrnm'tof Saxe-Meiningen . 

SWITZERLAND. 
Govonnncnt of Switzerland ... 

Do 

Do 

Anrpau 

AJtdorf 



Baron de Wetterstedt to Mr. Hunter 

do 

Count Manderstrom to Baron de Wetterstedt. 

Mr. Campbell to Mr. Seward 

Fredrika Bremer 

Extract from a Newspaper 



Baron Von Uttenhoven to Mr. Hirshbach . 



Federal Council 

do 

Mr. Tlitz to Mr. Seward 

Mutual Aid Society of the North Part of the Canton 
Government of the Canton of Uri 



INDEX. XXVII 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence o/'1865 — Continued. 



Where from. 



Aavaii 

Do.... 
Ajipeuzell . 

Arwangen . . 
Aarmuhle . . 

Aarberg 

Berue 

Do.-.. 

Do..-. 

Do..-- 

Do.--. 

Do...- 

Do.-.- 

Do.-.- 

Do..-- 

Do.--- 

Do..-. 

Do-... 

Do.--- 

Do-.-- 

Biirgdorf . - 

Bleinbach . - 

Bollingen . . 

Breingarten 

Bieune 

Do.--- 
Do.... 



Bntimeu 

Basel 

Baloaeli 

Bucharest . 

Boudry 

BuUe 

Brittnaii 

Badeu 

Buren 

Do 

Convet 

Chaux-de-Fond , 

Do 



From whom. 



Government of the Canton Aargau 

Professor Dr. Troxler 

Government of the Canton of Appenzell of the Inner 

Rhodes. 

Inhabitants 

do 

Teachers of the District - . 

Mr. Fogg to ISIr. Hunter 

do. 

do 

Government of the Canton 

Editor of the Bund to Mr. Fogg 

Congratulatory address to President Lincoln 

Address of Condolence 

Justus Schaller, Director of the Berne Eailroad 

Commercial and Manufacturing Association 

Helvetia Students' Union 

Students of the Concordia Society 

Typographia Society 

Frohsinn Singing Society 

Men's Gymnastic Union 

F. Welchli 

N. T. Mollett 

Reading Society 

Municipal Council and Choral Union 

Members of various Societies 

Jean Jenk and R. Miiller 

Representatives from all the Districts of Berne. (See 

Tavannes.) 

A. Niderast and P. Beul 

Government of the Canton of Basel Town 

Inhabitants 

Swiss Residents. (See Tur/ccy.) 
Grutli Union. (See Travcrs.) 

German Residents 

Inhabitants 

Agi-ieultural Society 

Teacliers of the District 

Inhabitants 

Grutli Union. (See Travcrs.) 

Radical Electors 

Inhabitants 



XXVIII 



INDEX. 



Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865— Continued. 



Where from. 



Cliaux-de-Fond. 
Cliur 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Carlsnilie 

XJourtoliui 



Diegten .. 
Delemont 



Einsioilclii 

Do 

Estavayer 

Fraiiclies Montagues 

Do 



From ■whom. 



Fribourg... 

Do-... 
Frauonfeld 

Do.... 
Fraiibniuu 
Fleurier . . . 
Geneva . .. 

Do... 

Do... 

Do... 

Do... 

Do... 
Gruj'cre. .. 
Glivrus 

Do... 



1 Iirzogenbuschsce 



L\ici'nie , 
Do. 

Do. 
Li.'Mlial 
Laufl'eu . 



Lausunue 



Grutli Union. (See Tr avers.) 

Dr. Carl Hilton 

Government of the Canton of Grisons 

do 

do 

Chancery of the Canton of Grisons 

Swiss Residents. {See Ducky of Baden.) 
Representatives from all the District of Berne. (See 

Tavannes.) 

Singing and Musical Union 

Representatives from all the District of Berne. (See 

Tavannes.) 

"Workiugmen's Union 

do 

Democratic Circle 

Inhabitants - — --■-■ 

Representatives from all the District of Benie. (See 

Tavannes.) 

Inhabitants 

do 

Government of the Canton of Thurgan 

Thurgau Mutual Aid Society 

Teachers of the District 

Grutli Union. (See Trarers.) 

Grutli Union , 

Government of the Canton 

do 

do , 

Inhabitants , 

Polish Mutual Aid Society 

Inhabitants 

Municipal Coirncil 

Swiss Work Unions 

Singing Society 

Government of the Canton 

John Kilchman 

Kasimer Pfyffer 

Government of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft... 
Representatives from all the District of Berne. (See 
Tavannes.) 

Government of the Canton of Ticino 

Government of the Canton of Vaud 



INDEX. XXIX 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865 — Continued. 



Where from. 



From whom. 



Lausaune 

Do 

Do 

Laiit^uau 

Laugenthal . 

Lengnau. 

Locle 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Muusingeu . 
Menzingen . . 
Meiringen . . . 
Miirten 



Montier . 



Neuveville 
Do... 



Nidau 

Niederurncu 

Neuenburg 

Neufchatel 

Do 

Do 

Do 

New South Wales . 
Oftriugen 

Do 

Philadelphia 

Porrentrui 



Eoggweil 
Romout . . 
Soleure . . 
St. Gall . . 

Do.. 

Do.. 

Do.. 

Do.. 



Government of the Canton of Yaud 

do 

do 

Singing Society 

Inhabitants 

Israelite Citizens 

Inhabitants ■ 

Swiss Society 

German Harmony Society 

Swiss Gymnasts 

Official Song Union 

Sternenleistes Society 

District Synod of Oberhasli 

Singing Society, Friends Aid Society, City Schools, 

Under Officers Union, Grutli Union, and Mutual 

Aid Society. 
Representatives from all the District of Berne. (See 

Tavunncs.) 

Mutual Aid Society 

Representatives from all the District of Berne. (See 

Tavannes .) 

Teachers of the District 

Workingmen's Union 

Grutli Union. (See Trarcrs.) 

Government of the Canton 

do 

Inhabitants « 

German Industrial Union 

Swiss Residents. (See Great Britain.) 

Inhabitants 

do 

Consul of Switzerland. (See United States.) 
Representatives of all the District of Berne. (See 

Tavannes. ) 

Fire Company 

Grutli Union 

Government of the Canton 

.....do 

do 

Chancery of the Canton 

Inhabitants 

Company of Free Hunters 



XXX 



INDEX. 



Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865 — Continued. 



Where from. 



St. Gall 

Schoftland - - 

Do 

SrhciiienbcTf^ 
Scliwiiudou.. 
SteflSsburg . - 
Slon 

Do 

Do 

Do.-.-. 

Sissach 

Schwyz 

St. Maurice . 
Saruem 

Do 

Stanz 

Do 

Sehaffbausen . 

Do 

Teufffii 



Tavannes . . . 

Tburgau 

Thun 

Travcrs 

Thierucbcrn . 

Waiigcu 

Zuricli 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Zweisimme)! 

^'"P 

Zoliiij^iMi 

Do 



SALVADOR, 
liovornmnu uf Salvador. 

D.) 

Do 



From whom. 



Polish Mutual Aid Society. (See Geneva.) 

Captain Gloor 

Riflemen's and Private Club 

Grutli Union 

Factorymen's Association 

Men's Choral Union 

Industrial Society 

Government of the Canton of Valais 

do 

do 

Meyer and Sutterlin 

Government, of the Canton 

Inhabitants 

Government of the Canton of Unterwalden Upper . . 

do 

Government of the Canton of Unterwalden Lower. . 

do 

Government of the Canton 

do 

Government of the Canton of Appenzell Outer 
Rhodes. 

Representatives from all the District of Berne 

Mutual Aid Society. (See Frauenfeld.) 

Inhabitants 

Grutli Union 

Fahrni Dubois , 

Singing Society. (See Herzogenbuschsee.) 

Government of the Canton 

do 

Inhabitants 

Polytechnic Scholars from the Canton of Ticino.. .. 

Editor of the Weisse Adler 

Polish Refugees 

do 

Song Union 

Government of the Canton 

Municipal Council 

Inhabitants 



Seuor de Irisarri to Mr. Hunter. 
Seuor de Irisarri to Mr. Seward . 
do 



INDEX. 

Appendix to dijilomatic coi-resjwndence of 1S65 — Continuecl. 



XXXI 



Where from. 



From whom. 



TURKEY. 
Government of Turkey. 

Beirout 

Bucharest 

Constantinople 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Smyrna 

Do 



TUNIS. 
Government of Tunis 

Do 

Do 

Tunis 

Do 

Do 



UNITED STATES OF 
COLOMBIA. 
Government of the United 
States of Colombia. 

Do 

Do 

Do , 

Bogota 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 



His Highness Aali Pacha to Mr. Morris 

American Residents 

Swiss Residents 

Mr. IMorris to Mr. Seward 

Mr. Morris to Mr. Hunter 

Mr. Morris to Mr. Seward 

Mr. Morris to Mr. Hunter 

Germania of the Goldeu Horn Masonic Lodge 

Italian Industrial Society 

Minister of Persia 

Hellenic Greeks 

British Community 

American Protestant Community . 

American Residents 

British Residents 

American Residents 



Mustapha to Mr. Seward 

The Bey to President Johnson . 

The Bey to Mrs. Lincoln 

Mr. Perry to Mr. Seward 

Mr. Perry to Mr. Hunter 

Italian Masonic Lodge 



President JIurillo to Mr. Burton. 



Seiior Perez to Mr. Burton 

Speech of President Murillo 

Seiior Salgar to Mr. Hunter 

Mr. Burton to Mr. Seward 

do 

President of the State of Cundinaniarca. 

Minister of Great Britain 

Minister of France 

Consul General of the Netherlands 

Consul General of Venezuela 

Consul General of Chili 

Hon. Salvador Camacho Roldan 

From El Tiempo 



XXXII INDEX. 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1S65 — Continued. 



Where from. 



Bogota 

BaiiaiKiuilla . 

Do 

Corozal 

Cartliagcna.. 

Do 

Panama 

Do 

Do 



URUGUAY. 
Governmcut of Uruguay. . 

Do 

Montevideo 

VENEZUELA. 
Government of Venezuela 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Caracas 

Do 



WURTEMBURG. 
Government of Wtirtemburg. 

Do 

Do 



UNITED STATES. 
Government of the United 
States. 

Do 

Do 

Albany, N. Y 



Do 

Do 

Boston, ilass 

Do 

Do 

Baltimore, Md 

Do 

liuouo county. Mo. 
Cincinnati, Ohio . . 
Columbus, Ohio .. 



From whom. 



From El Tiempo 

President of the Municipality 

Municipal Council 

do 

President of the State of Bolivar. . 
Convention of the State of Bolivar. 

Governor of the State 

Consul of Peni 

Consul of Great Britain 



Senor C. D. Castro to Mr. Parsons . 

Decree of the Government 

American Residents 



Senor Eafael Seijas to Senor B. Brazual. 

Sefior Rafael Seijas to Mr. Culver 

Senor B. Bruzual to Mr, Hunter 

do 

Mr. Culver to Mr. Seward 

Mr. Culver to Mr. Hunter 



Mr. Bierwirth to Mr. Seward 

Baron de Varnbuler to Mr. Bierwirth 
Chamber of Deputies 



Senate 



House of Representatives 

Funeral Obsequies 

Albany Zouave Cadets, Company A, 10th Regiment 
National Guards, State of New York. 

Young Men's Christian Association 

Young Men's Association 

Municipal Council 

Hebrew Congregation, Ohabei Shalom 

German Citizens ." 

Jackson Literary Society 

Aged Guard 

Inhabitants 

St. George's Benevolent Society 

Municipal Council 



INDEX. XXXIII 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865 — Continued. 



Where from. 



Chicaffo, 111 

Concord, N. H 

Erie, Penn 

Huntsville, Ala 

Kalamazoo, Mich . . . 
MartiiLsburg, W. Va . 
Mattapoisett, Mass.. 
Manchester, N. H... 
Madison, Wis 

Do 

New York, N. Y 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 



From whom. 



Do 

Do 

Do.... 

Do 

Do 

New Orleans, La. . . 

Do 

Do 

Orange, N. J 

Oyster Bay, N. Y . . 
Philadelpliia, Penn 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

' Do 



3* 



Municipal Council 

do 

Inhabitants 

do 

State Synod 

1 st Brigade 3d Division Department of West Virginia. 

Inhabitants 

Municipal Council 

St. George's. Society 

Soldiers in Harvey General Hospital 

Italian Residents .■-. 

Portuguese Residents 

Spanish Residents , 

Chamber of Commerce 

Young Men's Christian Association 

Vestry of Trinity Church : 

Trustees of Columbia College 

Annual Conference of Methodist Ministers 

Seventh Regiment National Guards State of New York 

Historical Society 

United States Life Insurance Company 

Atheuseum Club 

do 
Ode, by Henry T. Tuckerman, delivered before the 

Athenseum Club. 
Mexican Club 
do 

French Residents 

British Residents 

Polish and Bohemian Citizens •, 

Inhabitants 

Consul of Great Britain 

Consul of Belgium 

Council No. 30 Union League of the State 

Inhabitants 

Historical Society of the State , 

Ministers of the Baptist Church 

National Union League of the 7th wiird 

National Union League of tlie ] 3th ward 

National Union League of the ]''>th ward 

Annual meeting of Friends of Pennsylvania, NeAV 

Jersey, and Maiyland. 



Page. 



661 

662 
.663 
664 
665 
666 
667 
668 
669 
670 
670 
671 
672 
673 
674 
674 
675 
677 
677 
679 
680 
680 
681 
690 

691 
692 
692 
693 
693 
694 
695 
695 
696 
696 
697 
699 
700 
70] 
702 
703 



XXXIV INDEX. 

Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865 — Continued. 



Where from. 



Philadelphia, Penn 

Do... 

Pennsylvania 

Pella, Jowa 

Providence, R. I 

Salem, Mass 

San Francisco, Cal . . . 

Savannah, Ga 

Santa Fe, New Mexico 

Wilmington, N. C 

Washington, D. C . - - - 

Do 

Do 

Zancsville, Ohio 



From whom. 



Pagre, 



French Society of Beneficence 

Consul of Switzerland 

1 16th Regiment of Volunteers 

Inhabitants 

Baptist State Convention 

Municipal Council 

Grand Council of the Union League 

Inhabitants 

Inhabitants, Colored 

Inhabitants 

Citizens of New York 

Citizens of Connecticut 

Lodge No. 6, L 0. O. F 

Inhabitants 



704 
704 
705 
706 
707 
707 
708 
709 
710 
712 
714 
714 
71G 
716 



APPENDIX 

TO 

DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDEICE. 



AUSTRIA. 



Count Meysenhug to Mr. Motley. 

Vienna. April 28, 1865. 

The undersignecl lias the honor to acknowledge the receipt from the honorable 
J. Lothrop Motley, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the 
United States of America, of the esteemed note concerning the frightful act 
perpetrated against the President, Mr. Abraham Lincoln, and to state that he 
at once laid the said note before his most gracious master, the Emperor. 

The imperial government could not receive the news of this horrible event 
"without the deepest indignation, which has made upon it the more painful im- 
pression as shortly before it had seen reason to instruct its minister at Washing- 
ton to express to the government there its sincere congratulations upon the 
brilliant results which promised a speedy end of the bloody contests in the 
States of the Union. 

The horrid crime of which Mr. Lincoln was the victim could not but inspire 
the government of his Majesty the Emperor with the more sincere grief, as at 
no time have the relations between Austria and the United States borne a more 
friendly character than during the official term of Mr. Lincoln. 

The imperial government cannot but cherish the liveliest desire that the 
hopes of a hapjiy future for the United States, Avhich in this country it was 
believed might be confidently based on the distinguished characteristics, the 
wisdom, and moderation of the lamented President, may be fulfilled under his 
successor, and the peaceful relations between the United States and foreign 
powers be preserved undisturbed. 

In conclusion the undersigned feels it his duty to give expression to the sin- 
cere wish of the imperial government that it may please Providence to preserve 
to the country still further the eminent Secretary of State, whose life has also 
been in danger from murderous hands. 

The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to renew to the honorable 
minister the assurance of his distinguished consideration. 

In the absence of the minister of foreign affairs, the Under Secretary of State, 

MEYSEN13UG. 

His Excellency J. Lothrop Motley, 

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Flenipoicntiary . 



2 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

SESSION OF THE HOUSE OF DEPUTIES, 
April 29, 1SG5, ' 

Thf po?«inn opened at 10.40. 

Dt'liuty I-)r. BiTii-er spnke as f(»l]ows : 

GE.vrr.K.MK.v : The news of the tragical fate which has befallen the President 
of tlic United States, Abraham Lincoln, through a murderous hand, at the very 
nionu'iit in which the cause of the northern States, and with it the cause of 
freedom and civilization and humanity, was victorious, has — I believe I may 
announce — deeply moved all circles and all classes of society iu our fatherland 
also. 

From the very beginning of that eventful and bloody struggle, whicli has 
lasted sev<'ral years, Austria was always on the side of the north ; and on the 
day on which the news of the last victory of the northern States reached 
Washington, the man who now stands at the head of the United States de- 
clared that the sovereign of the state to which we belong, from the beginning 
an enemv of every rebellion, had always stood on the side of the north. 

1 think that it becomes this house, which represents the population of Aus- 
tria, to express its sympathy for the cause of the northern States, its sympathy 
for the tragic fate of Abraham Lincoln, the plain, simple man who has risen 
>out of the people to be placed at the head of the greatest state, and I move 
that the president should summon the house to signify by rising from their 
places, this its double sentiment — sympathy for the tragic fate of President 
Lincohi — sympathy for the cause of the no! thern States. 

Thk Pr(',sii)K.\'T. 1 doubt not that the House shares the views and feelings 
which the deputy Berger has expressed and will be ready to give proper evi- 
dence thereof by rising from their seats. 

The assembly rises. During this ceremony, the ministers are in tlieir places 
as deputies. 



[Translation.] 

ViEWA, A;pr'd 27, 1865. 
Ba({(j.\: It is with the deepest indignation that the imperial government has 
heard the news of the horrible crime whicli has put an end to the days of Presi- 
dent Lincoln, and also that of the attempted assassination of the Secretary of 
State, Mr. Seward. 

The more the success obtained by the northern States in the bloody strife 
with till' south caused us to experience satisfaction, from seeing therein the secu- 
rity for the early re-establishment of peace over the vast territory of the repub- 
lic, the more must we deplore this day the tranquil end of the eminent states- 
man whosL- energy, combined with wise moderation, has so powerfully contribu- 
ted to these brilliant results, and caused the hope for his country of a future of 
jteaco and prosperity. We love, at any rate, to think that the sad event which 
lias hapixMied will not bring about any change in the conciliatory interests of 
tin- Aui.-riean government, and that its enlightened efforts Avill continue to tend 
towards an r-arly pacification of countries so long ravaged by civil war, as well 
a,-? towards the maintenance of friendly relations with foreign powers. 

1 invite you, baron, to express yourself in these terms to the Secretary of 
State, by rendering you the eventual interpreter of the wishes we form for the 
l-rcservation of the life of Mr. Seward. 

Receive, baron, the assurance of my distinguished con.^ideration. 

,,,, „ , MEYSENBUG, 

rri 1, ' ' ''■ •'^^c't'^cy <lf ^tatc, for (he Mmhtcr of Forci'm A fairs. 
ihcBAluix dl; WVUEABRUCK, Wa^/anaton. 



SEXTIMEXTS OF CONDOLENCE XND SYMPATHY. 6 

[Trauslatiou.] 

Xkw York, Ju?ic 14, 1865. 

Sir: I Lave rccoiverl by the European mail of yesterday a despatcli from my 
p:overnraent, dated IStli May, which charges me to express lo his Excellency 
President Johnson, tlie felicitalions of ray august court on the occasion of his 
advent to the presidency of the United States. 

Finding" myself still not in condition, in consequence of the breaking nf my 
arm, to go to Washington to ac([uit myself of these orders of my curt, I take 
the Hbei ty to send to you, Mr. Secretary of State, the above-mentioned despatch, 
in the original, begging you to place it before his Excellency the President. 
Let me be allowed to add, that I participate in the most lively manner in the 
sentiments of which 1 am charged by Count de Mensdorflf, to be the interpreter 
in respect to yourself, and that I of['er the most sincere vvashes for the complete 
restoration of that health so precious in so many aspects. 

Begging you, Mr. Secretary of State, to retiu-n to me, after using it, the afore- 
said despatch, I seize this occasion to reiterate to you the assurance of my most 
distinji'uished consideration. 

WYDEXBRU( )K. 

IIo:i. "William II. Seward, Secretary of Slate. 



[Translation.] 

Vienna, 3Ia?/ IS, 186-3. 

Baron : I have received the despatches you have done me the honor to ad- 
dress to me up to the 2d instant. 

By one of these despatches you transmit a copy of the note of the Acting Sec- 
retary of State, ]Mr. AYilliam Hunter, enclosing tlie official announcements of the 
tragic events of the 14th April, and of the advent of Mr. Andrew Johnson to 
the presidency of the United States, as well as the answer you made to that 
communication. 

Having already previously had occasion to request you, baron, to signify to 
the government of the United States, the deep share we have taken in the calam- 
ity which has plunged the American people in sorrow, it remains now that I 
should ask you to express to Mr. Andrew Johnson our felicitations on the occa- 
sion of his accession, which we hope will not bring about any change in the re- 
lations, so satisfactory, which subsisted between the two countries during the 
presidency of !Mr. Lincoln. 

Please, baron, to say to 'Mr. Seward, when occasion may offer, how happy 
we are to hear of the progress of his cure, and accept the assurance of my dis- 
tiu";uished consideration. 



MENSDOIllT. 



Barox de WvDENiJKUCiv, Was7iinsTton. 



[Traaslatiou.] 

Lmperial Leoation of Austria, 

Waslilnglon, April IS, ISe.*^. 
Mr. Skcrrtarv: I can scarcely fnid words to express my consternation at 
the news of the tragic event, the subject of your respected missive of this day, 
which deprived President Lincoln ot his life. 

No one participates more sincrely than I do in lamenting the sad catastro- 
phe that has tilled the American nation with mourning; for, though but re- 
cently arrived in this country, I had learned to appreciate the rare and eminent 
qualities of him whose loss we deplore this day. 



4 ArrEXDix to diplomatic correspoxdexce. 

It i.s my painful duty to announce the Pad news to my august court. It will 
certainly bo received with a feeling of aiiliction ; and I think I may add that 
the entire Austriau nation will sympathize deeply with the American people in 
their distress for the great calamity that has overwhelmed thein. 

The ahoniinahle attempt upon the lives of the Secretary of State and his sou 
lias also filled me with horror. I thank Heaven the crime was not accom- 
plished ; and I sincerely desire the speedy and perfect recovery of the intended 
victims. 

I will also hasten to inform my august court of the inauguration of Mr. An- 
drew Johnson as President of the United States. 

Have the kindness to accept the expression of my most distinguished con- 
sideration. 

WYDEXBRUCK. 

Hon. William Hunter, 

Acluig Secretary of State. 



[Translation ] 

BiELiTZ, Austria, April 29, 1865. 

Mr. President : We, the undersigned, members of associations of the sev- 
eral branches of commerce and industry in the contiguoiTS cities of Bielitz and 
liiala, in the interior of the Austi'ian dominions, wlio have always followed Avith 
the liveliest interest and the sincerest sympathy all the events that affected the 
country and the people of the United States, take the liberty to beg of you, Mr. 
President, to receive the expression of our most heartfelt sympathy for the ter- 
rible loss the Union has sustained in the death of President Lincoln. Amidst 
our rejoicings over the triumph uf the Union we received the intelligence of 
this great calamity. 

Sorrow and deep affliction followed our exultation, and the deepest abhor- 
rence for the terrible crimes to which this great and wise man fell a sacrifice, 
and which brought his faithful co-laborer in the difficult undertaking, the Sec- 
retarj' of State, iMr. Seward, to the brink of the grave, fills every heart. 

With terrible violence the noble leader was deprived of the happiness to en- 
joy with his self-sacrificing and devoted people, after the most tremendous strug- 
gle, fhe fruits of a long hoped for peace. 

ilay the final complete victory of the good cause and the great work of re- 
establishing the Union to its former greatness be reserved for you, Mr. President. 

That reverence for law and justice, as well as love for liberty, which the 
people of the United States have ever manifested daring this great war, will 
euj)port you. 

W ith feelings of the inmost sympathy we beg to assure you of oiu- most dis- 
tinguished consideration. 

LUDWIG BRULL, and 26 others. 

Hon. Am)kew Johnson, 

President United States, North America. 



Mr. Motleij to Mr. Seward. 
• '^'^•J Legation of the United Statep, 



» it/ina, ji[jr 

Sir: The news of the great tragedy which has brought desoh 

country ui the very moment of our highest joy, reached this plac^ 

llns IS the fii-st post which h-avcs Vienna s'iuce the receipt of th 



Vienna, April 30, 1865. 

solation upon our 

ace on the 26th. 

e intclliojence. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 5 

I shall not even attciiipt to picture the consternation which the event has 
caused throughout the civilized v/orld, nor to describe the anguish Avhich it has 
excited in my own heart as in that of every loyal American, whether at home 
or abroad. 

The European public spontaneously expresses in every public way its admi- 
ration for the character of the murdered President, and its horror at the vile 
assassin who has taken his life. And if the inhabitants of foreign and distant 
lands are giving expressions to such deep and unaft'ected sentiments, what must 
be the emotions now sweeping over our own country ] I confess that I shudder 
at the thought of the despatches and journals now on their way to Europe. As 
yet we have nothing but the brief telegraphic tale of horror published by the 
Secretary of War, to Mr. Adams, in London, and by him transmitted to the 
United States legations on the continent. 

Not often in human history has a great nation been subjected to such a sud- 
den conflict of passions. 

In the midst — not of triumph nor vulgar exultation — but of deep, religious, grate- 
ful joy at the final suppression of a wicked rebellion, the redemption of the Luid 
from the perils of death and the certainty of its purification from the great curse 
of slavery, blessings brought about under God by the genius of our great gen- 
erals, the courage of our armies, and the sagacity of our statesmen, the Ameri- 
can people have seen their beloved and venerated chief magistrate murdered be- 
fore their eyes. 

The eminent statesman who with such surpassing ability has guided our for- 
eign relations during the most critical and dangerous period of our history seems, 
thank God, to have escaped death — if we may trust the more recent telegrams 
received last night — but we must await with intense anxiety the arrival of more 
than one post before we can feel confidence that the cowardly and murderous 
assault upon him in his sick bed has not after all been successful. May God 
grant that his invaluable life may be spared, and that the country may long 
have tiie benefit of his wise and faithful counsels. May the life of that excel- 
lent son, who has so nearly perished in the attempt to defend his father, also be 
preserved. 

What may be the effect of this sudden revulsion in the national feeling I 
hardly dare to contemphite. 

The benignant heart of the late President was filled, as we have reason 
to believe, with thoughts of peace and reconciliation and reunion -with feel- 
ings of compassion for the criminals, mingled with det'estation of the crime, be- 
coming the chief of a great, free, and magnanimous nation in the hour of its 
victory — when the assassin took his life. And the country itself, conscious of 
its strength, seemed fully to respond to these sentiments of the President. 

Will not these gentler feelings give way to a d(!sire to vengeance, to a con- 
viction of the necessity of terrible severity, now that the great treason has just 
accomplished its darkest crime, now that the most illustrious of all the innu- 
merable victims of the slaveholders' rebellion has been so basely and wantonly 
sacrificed ? 

I should apologize for giving expression to these thoughts, not suitable to a 
formal despatch, but in such days as these, and in the midst of such a national 
sorrow, it is difficult to be formal and impossible to be calm. 

Nor can I resist the impulse to add my luunble contribution to the univer- 
sal eulogy which I know is pouring forth at this moment from so many more 
eloquent tongues than mine, and out of so many millions of sorrowing and af- 
fectionate hearts, now that the most virtuous of chief magistrates is no more. 

1 know that one should avoid the language of exaggeration, of over-excited 
enthusiasm so natural when a man eminent in station, mental abilities, and lofty 
characteristics is suddenly taken away; yet lam not afraid to express the 
opinion that the name of Abraham Lincoln will be cherished, so long as we have 



G APPENDIX TO DIPLO:.IATIC CORRESPOXDEXCE. . 

a history, as one of the wisest, purest, and noblest magistrates, as one of tlie 
"•roatest bcnefoctors to the human race, that have ever lived. 
*^ I believe that tlie foundation of his whole character was a devotion to duty. 
To borrow a phrase from his brief and simple but most eloquent inaugural ad- 
dress of this year, it was " his firmness in the right as God gave him to see the 
ri"ht " which enabled hira to discharge the functions of his great office, in one 
oHhe most terrible periods of the world's history, with such rare sagacity, pa- 
tience, cheerfulnct=s, and courage. And God, indeed, gave him to see the right, 
and lie needs no nobler epitajdi than those simple words from his own lips. 

So much firmness with such gputleness of heart, so much logical acuteness 
with .-uch almost childl'.ke simplicity and ingenuousness of nature, so much can- 
dor to weigh the wisdom of oihers Avith so much tenacity to retain his own 
judgment, were rarely before united in one individual. 

X( ver was such vast political power placed in purer hands; never did a heart 
remain more humble and more unsophisticated after the highest prizes of earthly 
ambition had been obtained. 

Certainly " government of the people, by the people, for the people" — to 
quote again his own words — shall never perish from the earth so long as the 
Amoiican people can embody itself in a character so worthy to represent the 
best qualities of humanity — its courage, generosity, patience, sagacity, and in- 
tegrity — as these have been personified in him who has been one of the best of 
rulers, and is now one of the noblest of martyrs. 

If it seems superfluous and almost presumptuous that T, a comparative stranger 
to Mr. Lincoln, although honored with his commission, should speak of him 
thus at length to those who shared his counsels and enjoyed his intimacy, I can 
only reply that the grief which, in common with every loyal American, I most 
))rofoundly feel at his death, demands an expression, and that at this distance 
from my country it is a consolation for me to speak of his virtues to those who 
knew him best. 

1 have followed his career, and have studied every public act and utterance 
of his with an ever-increasing veneratioii for a character and an intellect v.-hich 
seemed to expand and to grow more vigorous the greater the demand that was 
made upon their strength. 

And this feelhig, I believe, is shared not only by all Americms worthy of 
the name, but by all the inhabitants of foreign lands who have given themselves 
the trouble to study our history in this its most eventful period. 

I wish to conclude this despatch by requesting you to convey my most re- 
spectful compliments to President Johnson, together with my praye"rs for his 
success in administering the affairs of his great office. 

1 hat he is animated with the warmest patriotism, and by a determination to 
meet wisely and manfully the great responsibility Avhieh has devolved upon 
him, we an' all convinced, and I am sure that the best wishes of every patriotic 
heart and the counsels of the wisest minds will be ever ready to support him 
111 the great task of reconstructing that blessed Union which traitor hands have 
tailed, with all their efforts, to destroy. 

I have the honor to remain, respectfully, your obedient servant, 

,, ,,, J. LOTHllOP MOTLEY. 

Hon. U 11,1,1AM n. Seward, 

>Sccrctari/ of Siate, IVasJthfgton. 



Mr. Motlcu to Mr. Seward. 

~ J Leuation of the United States, 

Vienna, Ajrril 30, 1865. 
Sir : The impression created in this capital by the horrible murder and at- 
tempts to murder just committed in AVashington has been intense. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 7 

The whole diplomatic corps, witli scarcely an exception, have called upon 
me as representative of the United States, and their warm and sincere expres- 
sions of sympathy at our national loss, of cordial good-will for the Union, and, 
more important than all, of decided respect and admiration for the character of 
our lamented President, have been most grateful to my heart. 

The journals of the capital — all of them, as I have often had occasion to re- 
mark, conducted with great ability — have vied with each other in eloquent trib- 
utes to the virtues of ^Ir. Lincoln, in expressions of unaffected sympathy for 
the great cause of which he was the impersonation, and of horror at the ac- 
cursed crime by which one of the best ot men has been taken from the world. 

I enclose, marked A and B, the correspondence between the minister of for- 
eign affairs and myself in relation to this event. 

I send, further, a translation, marked C, of the report taken from the journals 
of the day of the action taken on the subject in the Eeichsrath. 

Dr. Berger, the member who pronoi^iced the brief but feeling eulogy upon 
Mr. Lincoln, is one of the most distinguished and eloquent members of the 
house. 

I have the honor to remain, sir, your obedient servant, 

J. LOTHROP MOTLEY. 

Hon. "William IE. Sewakd, 

Secretanj of State. ■ 



AITENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



AllGENTINE REPUBLIC. 



[Trausliition]' 

Ministry of Forrigx Affairs, 

Buenos Ayres, May 27, 1865. 

Sir : I liave the honor to enclose your excellency a copy of the resolutions 
issued hy the government, ordering all flags of the republic to be put at half- 
mast, as si"-n of inourniug for the death of the illustrious citizen President of the 
United States of America 

The Argentine government laments \iith the most profound sorrow the irre- 
parable loss that deprives the United States of their uoble President, Abraham 
Lincoln, whose persevering efforts were just being crowned by victory in favor 
of the cause of the Union. 

In communicating this resolution to your excellency, I take pleasure in offer- 
ing my most distinguished regards. 

RUFINO DE ELIZALDE, 

Minister of Foreign Affairs. 
lion. lloBBRT C. Kirk, 

Minister Resident of tlic United States of America. 



[Translation.] 

Department of the Interior, 

Buenos Ay res, May 27, 1SG5. 

Rcsoh-ed, The illustrious President of the United States of America, Abra- 
ham Lincoln, having been assassinated just as the cause so nobly sustained by 
the American people was being crowned by the most splendid triumph, the 
Argentine government and people, sorrow stricken by the loss that deprives that 
great republic of the distinguished and important services of so illustrious a cit- 
izen, resolve, that in testimony of their deep regret for so irreparable a loss, 
the offices and other public establishments on which the national flag flies, as 
also the national vessels-of-war in port, keep, durhig the day of to-morrow, the 
2Sth instant, their respective flags at half-mast. The present resolution to be 
communicated to whom it may concern for its accomplishment. 

WILLIAM RAWSON. 

PvUFlNO DE ELIZALDE. 

LUCAS (lONZALES. 

EDWARD COSTA. 

JOHN A. GELLY Y OBES. 
A correct copy : 

EDWARD TBARBAL. 



[Translation.] 

Legislative Congress of the Argentine Nation, 

Buenos Ayrcs, June 3, 1865. 
Marcos Paz, pr.'sident of the congress of the Argentine nation, to the presi- 
dent ot the Congress of the United States of America, greeting: 
Cor,si.i„us of the loss that liberty and democracy have suffered by the death 
' ■ Abialiani Lincoln, the great republican, the Argentine congress joins the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 9 

poople of tlic United States in tlieir mourning, by a resolution that its members 
shall wear mourning for three days, as you will see by the accompanying au- 
thentic copy of the resolution, which you will please transmit to the Congress of 
the Union. 

MARCOS PAZ. 
Hon. President of the Congress of tlie United States of America. 



[Translation. J 

The senate and chamber of deputies of the Argentine nation, in general as- 
sembly convened, resolve : 

Article 1. The senators and deputies of the Argentine people shall wear 
mourning for Abraham Lincoln for three days after the adoption of this resolu- 
tion. 

Art. 2. The national banner shall remain at half-mast over the house of ses- 
sions for the three days. 

Art. 3. The president of tlie Argentine congress shall address a letter of 
condolence, with a copy of this resolution, to the president of the Congress of 
the United States. 

Art. 4. Let this be promulgated, <.^c. 

Given in the hall of congress, in Buenos Ayres, on the second day of June, 
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. 

JOSK E. URIBURU. 
MARCOS PAZ. 
CARLOS MARIA SARAVIA, 

Secretary of the Senate. 
BERNABi> QUINTANA, 

Secretary of tlie House of Deputies. 
A true copy : 

[l. S.J BERXABE QUINTANA, 

Secretary if the Housp of Deputies. 
CARLOS MARIA SARAVIA, 

Secretary (f the Senate. 



[Translation.] 

Buenos Ayres, 3Iay 2S, 1865. 
Sir : The assassination of the illustrious republican, Abraham Lincoln, Presi- 
dent of the United States, has caused in Buenos Ayres the most profound regret. 
The governor of this province the same as all his couuti-ymen, moved by 
this execrable crime, sym[)athizes most heartily with your excellency for the 
misfortune that casts into mourning that joy caused by the recent victoiiea 
obtained, that would secure the union and liberty of the great republic you so 
nobly represent. 

May it please your excellency to accept the sympathy of this province, and 
the respect that I have always had for the eminent citizen that the country of 
your excellency has just lost. 

1 salute your excellency with most distini^uished esteem. 

MARIANO SAAVEDRA, 
Governor of the Province of Buenos Ayres. 
His Excellency Hon. Robert C. Kirk, 

Minister Resident of the United States of America. 



10 AITEXDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Mr. KirJc to Mr. Seward. 

[Extract.] 

>^o_ ]1,-^ 1 Legation of the TJnitrd States, 

Buenos Ayres, May 30, 1S65. 

Sir : The awful report of the assassination of Pre^sident Lincoln and the 
atteiiiiitod assassination of yourself reached here on the 27tli instant. I will 
not attempt to describe the intense excitement, indignation, and heartfelt sorro^y 
it has produced throughout this part of South America. During Saturday and 
Sunday I had continual calls from ministers and citizens giving expression to 
■words of condolence. On the same day the news arrived here I received a 
letter from the minister for foreign affairs, with a resolution passed by his 
government. :;:****** 

Agreealjly to that resolution, on Sunday the national and provincial flags 
M-cre at halt-mast, and the flags of foreign consuls followed the example. 

All the newspapers of this city appeared in mourning. * .^c * 

The native press is filled with glowing editorials on President Lincoln. 

It has never been my lot to witness such intense sorrow as this sad event 
has produced, and the universal prayer is that you may speedily be restored to 
health. The same mail which brought the sad news brought the news of the 
surrender of Lee's army. 

The provincial legislature has passed a decree authorizing the next town 
Btarted in this province to be named " Lincoln." 

Hoping sincerely that you may soon recover from your injuries, I am, sir, 
your obedient servant, 

ROBERT C. KIRK. 

Hon. William II. Skward, 

Secretary of State. 



Spaxi.sii Democratic Committee of Buenos xVyres. 

[Tiauslation.] 

Buenos Ayres, June 4, 1S65. 

The Spanish democratic committee in this city would fail in one of its most 
pacred duties did it not manifest to the superior government of the United 
States, which you represent, the sad impression caused by the news of the 
assassination of the illustrious citizen. President Abraham Lincoln, the minister 
of foreign affairs, Mr. Seward, and all the other victims of that drama of 
murder and consternation. 

The committee earnestly wishes that the tomb of those great men may inspire 
their sncces.sors with fortitude and firmness, so that along with the triumph of 
the United States of America, republican i)rincii)les may triumiih wherever the 
want of liberty is felt. ^ i j i 

Please then, citizen minister, to lay this manifestation before the superior 
govrrimient of the United States, which you so worthily represent near this 
repul)lic, and rely on the assurances of the most distinguished consideration and 
respect of the committee. 

T'y <>i''h'r of the committee. 

THE DIRECTOR. 



SEXTDIEXTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMrATlIY. 11 

ATr. Tomas Gtndo to Mr. KhJc. 
[Transliitioii. ] 

BuKXOS AvRES, Mdjj 30, 1865. 
Dkar Sir : T do not foai- to roiicsv your sorrow by niiiting niiue to the unutter- 
able grief that the Amoric.au people and all friends of liberty feel at the i?ight of 
Abraham Liucolu's grave. 

That great republican, torn from his country, family, and friends at a time 
■u'hen his sacred patriotism had gained its end, has sealed his work with his 
blood. That blood, though a stain on his murderer's hand, Avill cherish yet the 
seed of liberty in all generations. 

Peace to the memory of that great and just man, worthy brother of Wash- 
ington, with whom he is now in a better world to come. 

You, de-ar sir, who so honorably represent your country, let it mitigate your 
sorrow to find sympathy among Argentines for this great misfortune, and I as 
one of them feel most deeply affected. 

1 am 3'our most obedient servant, 

TO:\IAS GUIDO. 
Robert C. Kirk, Esq., 

U. S. Minister Resident. 



Resolutions adopted at a meeting of American citizens resident in Buenos 
Ayrcs, held May 31, 1S65. 

Whereas the sad tidings have reached us of the death of Abraham Lincoln, 
President of the United States, by the hand of a vile assassin — 

Resolced, First, that as loyal and ever-faithful citizens of the United States 
(f America, now resident in Buenos Ay res, we have been severely shocked, 
and at the same time filled with indignation and sorrow, on the receipt here, on 
Saturday last, the 27tli instant, of intelligence of the dastardly murder of the 
late eminently distinguished President of our country, Abraham Lincoln, in 
whom we have always recognized inflexible honesty and pure patriotism, and 
to whom we now assign in our memories a place among the very ablest and 
best statesmen of America. 

Rcsoli-cd, Second, that to the grief-stricken fixmily of the illustrious deceased 
we tender our most unfeigned and profound condolence. 

Resolrcd, Third, that in celebration of the obsequies of our late beloved 
President, Abraham Lincoln, whom we would proclaim and consecrate to pos- 
terity as tlie second father of his coxuitry, the Reverend William Goodfellow, 
the American clergyman resident in this city, be invitc^d to deliver, at an early 
day, an ajjpropriate discourse, commemorative of the distinguished virtues of 
the deceased. 

Resolved, Fourth, that as a measure emblematic of our sincere distress at 
this most de|)lorable occurrence, we will wear a badge of black crape around 
the left arm for the space of thirty days. 

Resolved, Fifth, that Ave gratefully accept as a compliment to our country 
and to ourselves, the voluntary and considerate action of the authorities here 
on Sunday last, the 28th instant, in causing all the national and provincial flags 
to be hoisted at half-mast, as a token of grief at the untimely loss of the 
honored and lamented subject of these resolutions. And we feel thankful that 
amid the lui paralleled trials of the most gigantic i-ebellion ever organized among 
rational and misguided men, our leaders and defenders have acted with such 
moderation and justice as to secure the sympathies of such enlightened and 



12 AITKNDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

pro'Tossive stato.-'men as those wliom we have the honor to know in the persons 
of President Mitre and his cahinet. 

Rvsolred, Sixth, that Governor Saavedra and the legislature of the province 
of Buenos Ayres are equally entitled to our thanks, for their complimentary 
resolutions of last eveninp:, declaring tliat the next new town or city Avhich shall 
be organized within the province shall be designated "Lincoln." 

llcsohvd, Seventh, that in a corresponding vein of thankfulness and grati- 
tude, we make our acknowledgments to the press of Buenos Ayres for ap- 
pearing in mourning on Sunday last, and for their numerous and well-expressed 
eulugiums of our own martyred President, and also to the whole body of the 
Argentine congress, for their sympathetic resolutions of yesterday, among which 
was one to signify their sad and painful recognition of this solemn occasion by 
wearing the badge of mourning for the space of three days ; and to the Argen- 
tine people, whose sympathies with us have been so unreservedly shown during 
the long and severe trials of our country, and particularly in this last and saddest 
event. 

Resolved, Eighth, that to our fellow-citizens in the United States we renew 
our j)ledge of continiu;d and unfaltering fidelity to the Union and to the federal 
govcrimicnt as constitutionally organized in Washington. 

Rcsolrcd, Ninth, that four copies of these resolutions be presented to our 
minister resident in this city, the honorable Robert C. Kirk, with the request 
that he will transmit one of them to the bereaved family of our late President, 
one to the Department of State in Washington, one to the government of the 
Argentine republic, and the other to the government of the province of Buenos 
Ayres. 

Also, resolved,. That in the attempted assassination of William Henry Seward, 
Secretary of State, part of the same dastardly conspiracy which resulted in 
the death of Abraham Lincoln, we recognize as the fitting close of a rebellion 
begun in robbery and })eijury, and ending in cowardly and cold-blooded mur- 
der, and we extend to him our -warmest sympathies, and offer at the same time 
our best hopes and wishes for his speedy recovery. 

ROBERT C. KIRK, Chairman. 

G.VIJOXER B. Pkrrv, Secretary. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY, 



BELGIUM. 



[Translatiou.] 

Brussels, Ajjril 29, 1865. 
My Dear Minister ; While 1 transmit to "Washington the expression of the 
sentiments of the government of the king, on account of the horrid crime per- 
petrated npou your venerable President, I must inform you of our astonishment 
at the sad news that has resounded through the entire country, and beg you to 
be the medium of our sentiments to your government. 

I also take the liberty of asking you to have the kindness to be my interpreter 
with the family of.]Mr. Seward, for whom I have always professed a particular 
regard. The news given by the papers leave some hope for the recovery of the 
eminent statesman, and it is my dearest wish that he may be restored to perfect 
health, and give peace to a country so long desolated by the calamities of a 
war greatly to be deplored by all friends of liberty. 

Accept, my dear minister, the new assurance of my very high and affectionate 
consideration. 

CH. ROGIER, 
Minister of Foreign Ajfairs. 
H. S. Sanford, Esqr., Minister of the United States. 



[Trauslatiou.] 



Legation of Belgium to the United States, 

lVas/ti/iffton,Aj}ril 16, 1865. 
Mr. Secretary: It is with real grief that I have the honor of acknowledg- 
ing the reception of your communication of the 15th, announcing the horrid 
crime that has djeprived the United States of its Chief Magistrate. 

The government, of the King, my august sovereign, will sympathize sincerely 
with the American nation. 

The sentiments of respect and affection which I personally entertain for the 
honorable Secretary of State and Mr. Frederick Seward, induce me to hope their 
injuries will have no serious consequences. 

Wishing them a speedy recovery, I beg you, Mr. Secretary, to accept the as- 
surances of my most distinguished consideration. 

A. BERGIIMANS. 
Hon. William Hunter, Acting Secretary of State. 



[Transkition.] 
MOTIOX IN OKDER. 



Mr. Le Hardv DE Beaulieu. Gentlemen, you were all horrified three 
days ago on hearing of the assassination of the President of the United States. 
You all felt that it was not only the chief of a free nation that was struck down, 
but at the same time it was law, the safeguard of all, and I may say civilization 
itself, for there is no longer any personal security when political passion substi- 
tutes brutal action for the protective power of law. I have thought it becoming, 
gentlemen, for us not to let this occasion pass without the expreasion of our 
painful sentiments. 



14 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPOXDENCE. 

I will not pive you the liistory of tlie eminent man avIio is no more ; he sprung 
from the humllest'ranks of society and elevated himself by labor and industry, 
when the American nation, with that acumen that rarely fails an intelligent 
peonle in important emergencies, chose him as a guide to direct it through a 
dan<'erous situation, where a foruiidable insurrection had placed it. 

yliu all know, gentlemen, what difficulties Mr. Lincoln had to overcome. 
Confronted by a portion of the nation that rebelled against the laws they them- 
t^elves had n'lade, he did not falter once in his patriotic duty. In the most 
perilous circumstances, in face of all kinds of dangers, external and internal, he 
was always calm, and I may even say benevolent to his bitterest enemies. 

Ai ter gigantic efforts, after a struggle of four years, Mr. Lincoln at last reached 
the close of that most bloody contest on American soil, and the greatest troubles 
of his life seemed over. He had already expressed the sentiments of conciliation 
that animated him — it -was in his last message, his political testament — when the 
assassin's bullet struck him in the back of the head, and laid him low. 

I cannot foretell the consequences of that crime, so horrid that no terms are 
strong enough to condemn it ; all 1 can say is, that the parliament of a free 
nation like Belgium would fail in its duties of international confraternity, if it 
did not express its feelings of horror and regret at a crime that has robbed a 
great and generous nation of its eminent chief magistrate. 

In expressing these sentiments we confirm the unanimous wishes that the 
dei)lorabl(! loss may not deprive the American nation of that calmness which is 
necessary to finish the great w^ork of conciliation and pacification wdiich Mr. 
Lincoln has so nobly begun. I am done. 

Mr. Dk Hakr.n'E. I agree with my honorable colleague in the sentiments he 
has expn.'ssed, and I am persuaded that the feeling of horror produced by this 
sad news from America is felt not only in this house, but in every quarter of 
the globe. Yes, gentlemen, w^e feel the greatest indignation at this political 
crin)e that has plunged a great people in the deepest mourning, but has not dis- 
couraged it, we must hope, for the great President who v^as the victim of the 
barbarous and cowardly act has set an example which his successors should 
follow, for the good of the nation they represent and the eulighteument of a 
free people. 

The dreadful catastrophe that has thrown America into the greatest conster- 
nation, and has appalled the world, contains a greit lesson for the people, par- 
ticularly when contrasU!d with the victories that had rejoiced the American Union 
only a few days before. 

Uu I'alin Sunday the news of General Lee's capitulation was announced in 
most of the cities of the United States — on that day consecrated to the Prince 
of Peace, as an American paper expresses it; and on Good Friday 3[r. Lincoln 
and ]Mr. Seward were attacked by barbarous assassins. And this recalls a pro- 
found remark of the august and holy pontiff Pius IX, who, speaking of the 
many vicissitudes of his reign, said, "truly Good Friday is very near to Palm 
Sunday ! " 

Tin- people of the Union, who were identified with their chief, parti(ailarly 
after the last presidential election, were morally immolated -with him, after en- 
joying the national triumph, to which Mr. Lincoln added glory by his moderation. 

Ihe nahou is plunged in grief; but hope will resurrect her from the gloom, 
like the I'rinci! of Peace and Glory. This grand and terrible lesson of misfortune 
to the iM'Ojrle and their government will prove a valuable instruction by the 
Kpirit of c(.iu-iliation bequeathed them by their worthy President, as a mysterious 
pie. ge ot future prosperity, the secret of which is hidden in their past glory. 

It thure IS a nation that ought to sympathize with America in its grief on 
tins occasion, that nati')u is Belgium; for we are the only nation that has re- 
niumedfaithfid in spirit to traditional rights, and fullowed America from the 
foundation ol her political establishment and her liberal institutions. Yes, gen- 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 15 

tiemen, we looked upon Englaud, on tlie one hand, as worthy of imitation in 
the march of progress in the path of true and practical liberty; but, at the same 
time, we were conscious that there were certain customs in the institutions of 
that country Ave could not adopt, and we cast our eyes beyond the Atlantic, 
where we found a great people worthy of entire imitation, aiid it is the institu- 
tions of that people we have chiefly inscribed upon our organic charter. We 
have followed their example in all that regards public liberty, the distribution 
of power, the election of representatives and decentralization of rule. For that 
reason, I say that Belgium ought to sympathize with America by expressions 
of horror and indignation, such as all civilized nations feel, and protest against 
the art of barbarism that has stained the soil of America with the last mournful 
trace of expiring slavery, which has now vanished before the vivifying breath 
of modern civilization. 

The sentiments manifested in this house are felt throughout all Europe ; 
England has protested through Parliament ; France has spoken by the mouth 
of her Emperor; Prussia by her legislative assembly, where all the members 
arose to declare that the infamy of the horrid act deserved the condemnation 
of all civilized nations. We must also do homage to the man who was the 
victim of that atrocious crime, to the man wlio, as the honorable Mr. De Beaulieu 
has truly said, sprung from the people to adorn a nation, and like certain popes, 
come from the lowest ranks of society to be the greatest honor to the church. 

Lincoln was a self-made man; he drank from the spring of liberty; he was 
guided by the light of a democratic nation, and merit elevated him to the 
highest dignities of the country. 

He has set a worthy example, which his successor ought to follow, relying on 
the support of public opinion, which should be his constant guide, never to be 
abandoned or opposed. 

That, gentlemen, should be his greatest honor, which, nnited with his firm- 
ness and wise impartiality, will mark him a place in history. 

In joining other civilized nations in our protest against this political crime, 
we do a good deed ; by our participation .in the sentiment of universal indig- 
nation, Ave help to arrest the contagion of an abominable example that might 
attack other nations. 

By outlawing monsters guilty of such crimes, Ave terrify thos^ Avho might be 
tempted to commit them. 

Mr. llocUER, minister of foreign affairs. It is useless for me to say, gentle- 
men, that the government participates in the sentiments so eloquently expressed 
by the two honorable members of this assembly entertaining different political 
opinions. Our goA'ernuient sympathizes with the bereaved nation, and has 
transmitted the expression of its sorroAv to the gOA'crnment of the United States 
and their honorable representative in Brussels. 

The motion just made is new to Belgium; but it has been made elsewhere, 
and the importance of the event justifies it. I consider the symjiatliy expressed 
in the speeches of the honorable Mr. De Beaulieu and Mr. I'Abbe De Ilaerne as 
the unanimous opinion of the house ; and thus the legislative assembly joins 
the government in the regrets felt and expressed on the occasion of a crime that 
has filled Belgium and the rest of the world Avith dismay. 

We must also express our wishes for the recovery of the eminent statesman 
who was attacked at the same time Avith the venerable President of the republic. 
His life must be preserved to insure the final pacification of a splendid country, 
too long desolated by the calamities of a Avar afflicting to all friends of true 
liberty. 

jMay that great statesman, now burdened with aheav}' duty, perscA'ere in the 
sentiments of moderation he has always shown through the excitement of the 
great struggle, and may Ave soon hear of the restoration of his health, and the 
relurn of peace between the fjictions of a great people whom we adniire, who 



16 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPOXDEXCE, 

liavo alwavs bad oiii-sympatliici?,aiicl who will soon resume their exalted station 

in tlu: world. ^. , , . . . ^ , . . 

TiiK Pia-:.siDE\T OF THE HOUSE : Gentlemen, as no objection is ottered, it is 
now decided that this house is unanimous in its approval of the sentiments just 
expressed by the two honorable members whose speeches you have just heard. 



[Trauslation.] 
Note from the Monitein- of the 30tb April 1865. 

The king ordered one of his aides de-camp to go to Mr. Sanford's and ex- 
press to him the sorrow his Majesty felt at the news of the attacks on the Presi- 
dent and Secretary of State of the United States of America. 

Uis highness the Count of Flanders also sent one of his aids to the minister, 
on the same mission. 

Tlie minister of foreign affairs and other members of the cabinet, on their 
part, hastened to call on j\Ir. Sanford, and instructions were sent to the Bel- 
gian legation in Washington to express to the American government the senti- 
ments of regret and condemnation e.\cited by such odious acts. 

In the house, session of yesterday, Mr. Hardy de Beaulieu spoke in the 
most moving terms of the emotions produced in Belgium by the news of the 
tragic event which has just occurred in the United States. He called general 
attention to all the eminent virtues of President Lincoln. 

Mr. De Haerne joined ]Mr. De Beaulieu in a eulogy of much beauty upon the 
character of the late lamented President. 

The minister of foreign affairs added, that the government sympathized sin- 
cerely in the sentiments just expressed by the honorable members, and that he 
liad already despatched a communication of that effect to the government of the 
United States, and to their honorable representatives in Brussels. He expressed 
the most fervent wishes for the recovery of the distinguished statesman, Mr. 
Seward, whose life was necessary to the final pacification of a country that had 
been so long ravaged by the desolation of v\'ar, and the prosperity of which 
was greatly desired by all friends of liberty. 



Mr. Sajijurd to Mr. Sctvard. 

No. 257.] , Legatiox of the United States, 

Brasses, April 28, 1565. 

Sir : The tragic tidings from Washington of the assassination of the Presi- 
dent and murderous assault upon the Secretary of State, has caused a deep im- 
pression here of horror and indignation at the cowardice and cruelty of the con- 
federate plotters. 

Following so rapidly upon the excitement' created by our late victories, and 
the public demonstrations on account of them, the announcement has aroused 
umisual agitation in this city and through the country. The King from his 
8ick-bed sent to me one of his aides-de-camp. Major General Bormann, to express 
in his name his deep feeling at this tragic event, and for the great loss we have 
Bustaiiu'd. " 

The minister of foreign affairs and tlie other members of the cabinet, the presi- 
tl.'nt ot the house of representatives, the high dignitaries of the court, and most 
the toieign legations, and a very large number of persons of every rank and 
station, have come personally to offer their condolence and to express their 
Horror at this crowning atrocity of the rebellion. 



.SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND .SYMPATHY. 17 

M. Rogier informed me lie bad sent a despatch to the Belgian charge d'affaires 
at Washington, to offer directly to tlie government the expression of their 
sympathy at the sad event. 

Immediately on receipt of Mr. Adams's telegram, I addressed a circular to our 
consuls. 

The shock caused by this news is too great to permit me to appreciate calmly 
its influence on public sentiment touching our affairs abroad. It cannot fail, I 
think, to cause a fiir-reachiug reaction in the sympathies heretofore entertained 
by the so-called " better classes" in Europe for the rebels and their cause, and 
to stimulate, on the other hand, a more friendly feeling toward us and the cause 
of the Union. 

The fact that the confederate loan at the London exchange yesterday rose 3 
per cent, upon the news, is a significant indication of the effect which the insti- 
gators of this dreadful crime imagined it would have upon their cause. 

The calm transition of the executive power to other hands, at "Washington, 
contrasted with vrhat would be likely to occur on a similar occasion in most 
European states, cannot but help to strengthen the conviction already becoming 
general by the influence of the success which has crowned this trial, under the 
strain of the rebellion, of the power, fitnes3,'and durability of our system of gov- 
ernment. 

I have the honor to be. with great respect, your most obedient servant. 

H. S. SANFOllD. 

Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



Mr. Sanford to Mr. Scivard. 

[Extract. J 

No. 261.1 Legatiox of the Umted States, 

Brussels, Afril 30, 1S65. 

Sir : His royal highness the Count de Flanders, sent to me yesterday one of 
his officers of " ordnance" to express in his name his condolence on the un- 
timely death of the President. 

I also received in the afternoon a private note from M. Rogier, expressive of 
his sentiments, of which, as he refers to it in public debate, I venture to enclose 
a copy, "A." I replied to it by a few lines of thanks. 

In the house of representatives this afternoon, M. Hardy De Beaulieu, a mem- 
ber of the extreme left, moved, in accordance with previous notice, for an ex- 
pression of feeling at ihe late tragic events at Washington. He was followed and 
warmly seconded by the late Canon De Hearne of the " conservative" party, who 
is the author of a widely disseminated pamphlet on our war, and is an ardent friend 
of the cause of the Union, and by M. Rogier, who announced that he adopted on 
the part of the government the views just expressed, and that he hoped the house 
would join in the expression of his desire for the recovery of the eminent states- 
man, Mr. Seward, to whose existence was attached, in so great a degree, the 
definitive pacification of the country, for too long a time desolated by war ; and 
after rendering homage to the moderation which he had displayed, the minis- 
ter expressed the hope " that they might one day rejoice over the restoration 
of his health, at the same time with the re-establishment of peace between the 
factions of a great people whom they admired, and which had always had their 
sympathies, and which he hoped would take again in the world the great part 
which is assigned to it." 
2— A 



18 APrENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

All which, interrupted by frequent marks of approval by the members, was 
'leclared by the president to be the unanimous sentiment of the house. 
^ ti-. * * * * * * 

I have the honor to be, with great respect, your most obedient servant, 

H. S. SANFORD. 

]Ion. AVii.LiA.M II. Seward, 

Hecrclary of State, &^t., i^-c, 8fc. 



[Translation.] 

Ghent, May 20, 1S65. 

31 li. 3I1M.STEU : The Septentriou Masonic Lodge of Ghent could not remain 
iiidifi'erentin presence of the crime which has spread consternation through the 
civilized world. During the strife, our sympathies and our prayers accompanied 
the heroic efforts and unshakable perseverance of the defenders of justice and 
huinanity. "We are associated W'ith the triumphs of the Americans of the north- 
ern States, whose noble persistence has saved the federal Union from a fearful 
disruption, and caused to issue from the social tempest a nev/ corroboration of the 
indissoluble power of the United States ; and inasmuch as the news of the mon- 
^•trous crime, which has brought mourning into the midst of joy, has reached us, 
we feel stricken as yourselves; for Lincoln personified the cause of liberty and 
human fraternity, and this cause, which unites nations in a common aspiration, 
honors and mourns in him one of its most illustrious martyrs. 

The Septentriou Lodge at its solemn meeting on the IGth of this month 
unanimously decided to address through you a tribute of regret and of sympathy 
to the republic of the United States. 

lieceive, Mr. Minister, the assurance of our sentiments of high consideration. 

R. MADRENNIGER, President. 

Am'H. Bi'Is.man, Secretary. 



•SENTINENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 19 



BRUNSWICK. 



New York, June 5, 1865, 

►Sir: The imdersigned, consul general of the government of his Serene 
Highness the Duke of Brunswick, has heen specially instructed to convey to you 
the sentiments aroused in the minds of the authorities, and of all classes of the 
people of the duchy, by the atrocious murder of yoiir illustrious predecessor, the 
lamented Abraham Lincoln, and by the deep loss thus entailed upon the United 
States. The inestimable qualities uniting in the character of the deceased — his 
pervading humanity and his lofty sense of right — the indomitable energy with" 
which he sustained all the vicissitudes of a sanginuary civil war, outlived all 
sacrifices, and eventually triiimphed over all obstacles in the restoration of the 
blessings of civil order to his distracted country, as well as the mild and con- 
ciliatory disposition so nobly manifested at the approaching close of the strug- 
gle, have gained him the warm regard and esteem of the civilized world, and 
will embalm his memory in the affectionate reverence of coming generations. 

May the peace now vouchsafed to your republic be as lasting, and the pros- 
perity which now dawns upon its future as unbroken, as even the great heart of 
the departed patriot could have desired. 

I have the honor to be, sir, most respectfully, vour obedient servant, 

G. J. BEOHTEL. 

AxiiRKW JoFr\so\, President of the United States. 



20 APPIONDIX TO DlPLOMxlTIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

DUCKY OF BADEx\. 



[Translation.] 

Carlsuuhe, AjvU 30, 1865. 

Mr. Editor: Wc send you our most hearty thanks for giving us Swiss peo- 
iile the opportunity of expressing our sympathy for the victory of the American 

Union. 

We, the undersigned, Swiss polytcchuists, residing in Carlsruhc, have watched 
the course of American affairs v.'ith intense interest, believing that the republic 
beyond the ocean was undergoing a trial by fire, not only for the principles of 
civilization, but for the good of the American States, and of the whole world. 
The news of the late Union victories gave us great pleasure, as that of the 
death of your first and greatest citizen caused us extreme sorrow. 

The address and supplement, in Nos. 115 and 116 of the Bund, expresses our 
exact sentiments, and we hereby rer[uest you to add our names to it, with our 
most cordial approbation. 

Very rcspectfullv, your obedient servants, 

J. GLAUSER. of Bern, 
H. HANHART, of Winter thur, 
E. BRUNNEN, of Kusnach, 
CARL MiJLLER, of Zurich. 
EUGENE SCHMIJDT, of Lausanne. 
The Editou of the Bund, Berne, Switzerhmd. 



[Translation — iu substance. ] 

K.^PPELL R[iEh\, May 1, 1865, 
To the President of the United States: 

The Turners Society, of Kappel Rhein, in the grand duchy of Baden, ex- 
press their sorrow and horror at the murder of President Lincoln— refer to his 
exalted character as conservator of the Union, and assertor of the equal rights of 
man by doing away with slavery. 
In the Turners Society : 

BERTIIOLD RICHTER, Leader. 

FRANZ RIOPITER. 

ADAIM LOSSEL. 

AUGUST LOSSEL. 

SANDELTN ARMBRASTER. 

MELCHIOR BAUMANN. 

E. HENNISGAR. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SY:MYATHY. 21 



BRAZIL. 



[Trauslation.] 

]\[l\ISTRY OF FORKIGX AFFAIRS, 

Puo de Janeiro, May 19, 1865. 

At the conference I Lad yesterday with J. Watson Webb, envoy extraordinary 
and minister plenipotentiary from the Uryted States of America, I manifested to 
liim the great sorrow caused by the information of the dreadful crime perpetrated 
in Washington, on the 14th of List month, on the person of his Excellency the 
Honorable Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. 

It is my paiafal duty nov/ to tender to General AVebb, in the name of the g'0%'- 
ernment of his Imperial JMajesty, the expressions of the feelings with v/hich it 
finds itself overwhelmed. The imperial government, with the highest severity, 
condemns an act so criminal as the one which has for its victim the Chief Ma- 
gistrate of the Union; and it comprehends the infinite pain thus inflicted upon 
American citizens, with whom ours so sincerely sympathize, in consequence of 
the close relations of the two countries. 

With the hope that Grcneral Webb will be pleased to convey this sincere mani- 
festation to the knowledge of his government, I have the honor to reiterate the 
assurances of m}^ perfect esteem and distinct consideration. 

JOSE ANTONIO SARAIVA. 

J. Watso.v Webb, Esq., Minister of the United States. 



[Translation.] 

I.MPKRiAL Legation of Brazil, ' 

Wa.'i/dngton, July 19, 1865. 

The undersigned, charge d'affaires ad interim of his Majesty the Emperor, 
has the honor to communicate to the Honorable William H. Seward, the Secre- 
tary of State of the United States, that the chambers of senators and deputies 
of Brazil, uniting in the manifestation of sympathy which has been caused in 
the empire, by the loss which the American Union has suffered in the person of 
the illustriou? President, Abraham Lincoln — above all, for the atrocious manner in 
which his existence M'as terminated, have resolved to cause the unanimous ex- 
pression of their sorrow to be presented to the Congress of the United States, 
and have recurred for that purpose to the government of his Majesty the Em.- 
peror. 

The imperial government, in obedience to the commission thus received from 
both of the branches of the legislative power, has ordered the undersigned to 
transmit to the Honorable William H. Seward that manifestation of sympathy, 
requesting him to be pleased to bring it to the knowledge of the Congress. 

While complying with the orders of the imperial government, the undersigned 
avails himself of the occasion to reiterate to the Honorable William H. Seward, 
the assurances of his highest esteem and consideration. 

IGNACIO DE AVELLAR BAKLOZA DA SILVA. 

Hon. William II. Se\vari), ^r., i]-c., S^x. 



22 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

The Marquis iV Ahr antes to General Webb. 

[Translation.] 

BoTAFouA, Ma// 2i, 1S65. 
My Deau General : Allow me to fulfil tlic painful duty to manifest to you 
my ilcep personal sorrow on the deplorable event which has deprived your 
country of her so highly distinguished President, Mr. Lincoln. 

But it may be said that the horrible act which has brought to a close his 
existence has heightened him still more in the thankful citizens of the United 
States, and insures him a still more rc^iowned name in history. 

In wishing to your great and fair country every prosperity, I remain, with the 
most perfect esteem and consideration, my dear general, your friend, 

^ ABRANTES. 

J. Watson Werb, Esq., Minister of tlie United States. 



Mr. Webb to Mr. Seward. 

[Extract.] I 

No. lis. J Legation of the United States, 

Rio de Janeiro, May 23, 1865, 
Sir : I have no heart to dwell upon the horrible and distressing news brought 
by an arrival from the West Indies and confirmed on the following day by tele- 
graphic despatches received at Lisbon on the 29th of April, and which were 
brought to this city by the French steamer from Bordeaux on the 24th. 

I was at Petropolis. The Emperor kindly telegraphed the distressing intelli- 
gence to the Duke of Saxe, who at ouce sent his secretary and principal cham- 
berlain to impart it to me, and on the following morning I came to town. 

I will not attempt any description of the universal horror and dismay which 
this melancholy news caused among all classes in this city. 

Every member of the diplomatic corps has made a visit of condolence, and 
the ministers of Peru and the Argentine republic have addressed to me letters 
expressive of their sorrow and sympathy. * * >}: * 

I have received a very fi-iendly letter from the government, to which I shall 
reply to-day, and forward by the next steamer. Also a letter of a similar character 
irom the Marquis d'Abrantes, late minister of foreign affairs, whose friendship 
ior oiu- country and personal feelings towards myself are known to the 
ilopavtment 

The Rev. Mr. Siraoutou, a missionary of the Presbyterian church in the 
United States, preached, at my request, on Sunday, the 21st, an appropriate sermon, 
and nearly every United States citizen resident in Rio, except a few well-known 
traitors, were present. At the close of the services, Mr. Simonton announced 
tliat the government otTicials would wear crape on the left arm for the space of 
thirty days, and that all our citizens were requested to do the same. Also, that 
the legation and consulate flags would be at half-mast during the same period; 
and that American vessels in port during the next thirty days would be expected 
lo exhibit the same manifestation of mourning. 

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
,, ,,, J. WATSON WEBB. 

ilou. \\ illia.m 11. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 23 



[Trauslation.] 

Rio de Jaxeiro, May IS, 1S65. 

The Peruvian minister at Brazil Jias the honor to address himself to his excel- 
lency General Webb, minister plenipotentiary of the United States, in order to 
express to him the great sorrow with which he has received the news of the 
tragic death of the very excellent Abraham Lincoln, that powerful nation's 
President. 

Wounded to death by a fanatic's weapon, when he finished to surround him- 
self with the purest glory, at a final victory of the redemption Avar which he 
conducted as far as his arm reached, the pain of his martyrdom, the feeling of 
his loss, and the mourning of the North American people will reach every 
christian soul, every freeman, every civilized people, and especially the Peru- 
vians and their government, who, closely connected with the Union's people and 
their government, and sympathizing Avitli that great upholder of human dignity, 
will lament his death more than they perhaps applauded his victories. 

The undersigned is persuaded that in expressing these feelings to his excel- 
lency General \Yebb, he is a faithful translator of those of the nation and gov- 
ernment represented by him, and he begs his excellency to accept them at the 
same time with his protest of his high esteem and especial consideration. 

B. SEVANE. 

J. Watsox Webb, Esq., Minister of the United States. 



[Translation.] 

Rio de Jaaeiuo, May IS, 1S65. 

The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister j^lenipotentiary of the 
Argentine republic, hastens to present to his excellency General Webb, envoy 
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America, the 
testimony of his profound grief caused by the sad incident that has put all the 
citizens of the United States in deep mourning — the undersigned bemg on this 
occasion, in the feelings that he transmits to his excellency, the true exponent 
of the sincere sorrow that will be felt by the Argentine people and government 
when they hear of the unfortunate event which happened on the 14th of April 
in the country of their greatest sympathies. 

The Divine Providence which has protected the destiny of the United States 
in this the most trying epoch of its history, will know how to make of his mar- 
tyrdom a new encouragement for the foith and heroism of the American citizens 
in the holy war, in which they defend, along with the institutions of their country, 
the highest principles of human dignity. 

The funeral of that great citizen will be morally accompanied by all the free 
countries of the universe. And be it allowed to the imdersigned to assure his 
excellency General Webb that no country will more sincerely and spontaneoitsly 
regret this event than the citizens of the Argentine republic. And again pre- 
senting his excellency the plenipotentiary of the United States the expression 
of his profound sorrow, the undersigned begs, at the same time, your excellency 
to accept the expression of his highest esteem. 

J. MARMOL. 

J. Watso.v Webb, Esq., Minister of the United States. 



24 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEEESPONDENCE. 



BOLIVIA. 



Hi: Hall to Mr. Hunter. 

Xo. 41.1 . Legation of the Umteu States, 

Cocliahamha, Bolivia, June 24, 1865. 
Sill : I Lave had the houor to receive yonr circular No. 29, apprising^ me of 
tlie horrible assassination of the late President Lincoln. The news of that de- 
plorable event was received here a fortnight ago, throngh. the Panama papers, 
and produced a sensation of universal and deep regret. From the inhabitants 
of this city I have received many expressions of sympathy and condolence. 
The instructions accompanying the circular " that all officers and otliers subject 
to the orders of the Secretary of State wear crape upon the left arm for the 
period of six months," will be carefully regarded by me. 

I liave the honor to be, very respectfullv, your obedient servant, 

ALLEN A. HALL. 
Hon. \Y. HuxTER, 

Acting Secretary of State 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 25 



CHILI. 



[Translation.}. 

^ Dki'artment of Foreign Relations, 

Repuhlic of Chili, Santiago, May 30, 18G5. 

Sir : The govenimcnt of the republic h;is been penetrated by grief as sin- 
cere as profound in receiving the melancholy intelligence of the crime which 
has just snatched from the United States their Chief Magistrate and one of 
their most illustrious sons. 

This sad occurrence is a just motive of grief, not only for the country which 
that eminent citizen governed liberally and wisely, but also for all those nations 
which, like Chili, accompanied him v/ith their prayers and sympathies in the 
cause of liberty and civilization, which he has not expired without leaving tri- 
umphant, and which he sustained for more than four years with incomparable 
wisdom and perseverance. 

President Lincoln is no more ; but the beneficent results of the victory ob- 
tained under his glorious government vvill be sufficiently imperishable to immor- 
talize his name. Beautiful privilege of free nations, Avhosc works are not chained 
to the life of one man, be he ever so great ! 

As a free and republican people, as a sincere friend of the United States, 
Chili has a double right to consider as her own, and to fraternally share, the 
grief which boAvs down the generous nation of which your excellency is the- 
worthy representative. 

My government believes itself the faithful interpreter of the sentiments of 
the country in expressing its own, and in offering, through the medium of your 
excellency, to the government and people of the 17 nited States its most profound 
sympathy and sorrov/^ for the grave calamity with which God, in his inscrutable 
designs, has permitted the resignation and energy of that great republic to be 
put to proof. 

As far as regards myself personally, I sympathize with my heart with the- 
grief which oppresses the mind of your excellency, and avail myself of this 
sad opportunity to reiterate to you the testimony of my most distinguished con- 
sideration and regard. 

Your excellency's most obedient servant, 

ALVARO COVARRUBIAS. 

The E.wov Extraorolxarv am> Minister Plenipotentiary 

of the United States of North America. 



His excellency Jose Joaquin Perez, president of tlie republic of Chili, in his- 
annual message to the congress of 18G5, thus alludes to the assassination of 
Mr. Lincoln : 

[Translation.] 

" Nor have we been indifferent to the mourning in Avliich the United State& 
of America have been plunged by the death of their illustrious ruler, Abraham 
Lincoln. This melancholy event has awakened throughout the country and in 
the government manifestations of grief and sympathy as just as sincere." 



•J 6 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



[Translation.] 

LEtiATio.N' OF Chili in the U.mted States of America, 

Washmgto7i, April 15, 1S65. 

MiJ. Skcrktarv : I have been bouored witb tbe reception of your note of 
to-day, informing me of tbe treacberous assassination perpetrated lastnigbt upon 
tlic person of Mr. Abrabam Lincoln, President of tbe United States, and of tbe 
no less borrid attempt on tbe life of Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, and Mr. 
F.W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, wbo were dangerously wounded. You also 
inform me tbat Jlr. Andrew Jobnson, tbe Vice-President, assumes tbe exercise 
of tbe functions of President from tins date, in conformity with tbe provisions 
of tbe Constitution of tbe country, and antborizes you to discbarge tbe duties 
of Secretary of State ad interim. 

Tbcsc most extraordinary and imexpected events ba-ve caused me tbe most 
intense sorrow and surprise, and I assure you tbat tbe grief felt by tbe govern- 
ment anrl people of Cbili, at tbe news of tbis public calamity, tbat justly covers 
your great nation witb mourning, will be as profound and sincere as mine. In tbe 
name, tberefore, of tbe government and people tbat I represent, I offer, tbrougb 
your intervention, to your government and nation, due sympathy and condolence 
(m account of tbe unfortunate event tbat bas just overwhelmed them with the 
tragic death of their illustrious and patriotic President, and for the serious injury 
to tbe worthy Secretary of State ; and at tbe same time our sincere wishes for 
tbe prosperity and happiness of tbe sister republic, under the administration of 
its new Magistrate, whose promotion to the dignity of President I will be pleased 
to communicate to my government. 

Be pleased to accept tbe sentiments of my very distinguished consideration 
and esteem. 

F. S. ASTA BURUAGA. 

Hon. AV'illiam Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State, &^-c.. S^-c, ^r. 



[Translation.] 



Departmental GIovernment of the Andes, 

June 3, 1865. 
Sir : Tbe illustrious municipality of this department, over which I have the 
honor to preside, bas resolved to address to your excellency the following note : 
The death of Abraham Lincoln, the great republican and President of tbe United 
btates of Xorth America, by tbe hand of an infamous and daring assassin, has 
produced in the hearts of tbis corporation bitter grief. They also participate 
in the profound sorrow which, in consequence of this sad event, has been man- 
itestod by all those wbo live beneath tbe protection of republican institutions, 
and who now lament the loss of Lincoln, the venerated apostle of American 
democracy. 

I have the honor to transcribe the foregoing to your excellency, in compliance 
with the resolutions of the illustrious municipality. 
< >od guard your excellency. 
„ J RUFINO DEL CANTO. 

Hon. l.NVOV LXTRAORIIIXARV AND MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY 

of the United States of North America. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 27 

[Trauslatioii.] 
MUMCIPALITV OF THE DeI'ARTME.N'T OF CaRELMAPT, 

Calhuco, June 22, 1565. 
Sir : This corporation feeling tlie most lively and profound pain for the grief 
which you have been caused by the catastrophe which has befallen one of those 
prominent men, the immortal President Lincoln, who has rendered services so 
important to the country of the free, the republic of the United States of Amer- 
ica, has the honor to address itself to your excellency, accompanying you in 
your just sorrow for so immeasurable a misfortune. 

But this corporation feels that it would be a consolation to your excellency in 
this irreparable loss, so justly wept over by every republican country, that he 
should have won the glory of preserving intact and unsullied tlie rights of his 
country, the natural consequence of which will be, as your excellency cannot 
doubt, the enjoyment by that magnanimous people of a perpetual peace. 

Be pleased, your excellency, with the protest of our most earnest sincerity and 
sympathy, to accept the condolence of this corporation. 

We remain, very respectfullv, voiir excellency's most obedient servants, 

E. N. NUNEZ VILLALON. 
FERNANDO ANDRADE. 
GREGNIO GONSALEZ. 
FRAN'CO S. NAVARRO. 
JUAN 3IA. PEREZ. 
CARPTANO ALVARADO. 
SANTIAGO MARTINEZ. 
J. MA. BUST AM ANTE. 
NICOLAS BARRIENTOS, 

Sccrctari/. 
Thomas H. Nelson, Esq., 

Minister of tlte United States. 



[Trau^latiuu.] 

Coi'iAPO, June 5, 1S65. 

Sir : The people of Copiapo, in a reunion held yesterday in this city for the 
purpose of paying a just tribute of grief to the memory of the illustrious Presi- 
dent of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, wantonly assassinated in Wash- 
ington on the 14th of April last, have commissioned us to address ourselves to 
you as the representative in Chili of that great nation, for the purpose of man- 
ifesting to you how profound has been their grief for this melancholy event, and 
how sincerely they accompany the North American people in their mourning 
for the loss of the great man Avhose political genius saved the Union from the 
formidable designs of its enemies, an I emancipated millions of men who had 
groaned in slavery. 

If there be anything which can mitigate the bitter sorrow for a loss so im- 
mense, it is the consideration that the cause defended by Abraham Lincoln has 
been definitely consolidated ; and that the hand that dealt the fetal blow to the 
elect of the people, while it severed, it is true, a precious existence, inscribed from 
that moment the name of the victim in the book of immortality, wounding to 
the death the inhuman principle of slavery, in whose name was perpetrated the 
execrable crime which has caused abundant tears to be shed by the republicans 
of the whole world. 

In complying with the commi.ssiou, at once grateful and painful, of communi- 



28 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

catinf to vou tlie resolutions of this community, we have the honor to express to 
you our own especial sorrow cat this bereavement, and to subscribe ourselves 
with every consideration, your most obedient servants, 

RAFAEL VALDEZ. 

EMILIO G. BEECHE. 

CARLOS GONSALEZ UGALDE. 

3L\NIJEL CONCHA, R. 

EMILIO ESCOBAR. 

PEDRO L. GALLO. 

JAVIER VERGARA. 

JOSE R. ROJAS, 2d. 

JOSE RAMON CORBALAN. 

RAMON FRITIS. 

J. EDWARDS. 
Thomas H. Nelson, E?a., Minister of the United States. 



Jir. Nehon to Mr. Seward. 

[Extract.] 

No. 19G.J Legation of the United States, 

Santiago de Chili, June 1, 1865. 

Sir : I know not in whc^t terms to give utterance to the feelmgs of grief and 
dismay which overpowered me upon learning of the brutal assassination of 
our great and good President, and of the dastardly attempt upon your own life. 
It is still difficult for me to realize that crimes so awful have been committed. 

The effect upon the residents of Santiago and Valparaiso was sad beyond de- 
scription. Strong men Avaudered about the streets weeping like children, and 
foreigners, unable even to speak our language, manifested a grief almost as deep 
as our own. 

Being temporarily in Valparaiso I invited our countrymen to meet me at the 
American consulate at four o'clock upon the 29th ultimo, (the steamer having 
arrived that morning,) to take such action as might be proper in the premises. 
At that hour, the rooms, the hall, the staircase, and even the street fronting th(i 
building were crowded, .and upon my addressing the assemblage, the exhibition 
ot profound grief was such as I have never seen equalled. Several overcome 
by their emotion, sat down upon the very ground and wept ; and men whose 
stoicism had never been affected gave violent coiu-se to their grief. Prayer 
haying been offered by the Reverend Dr. Trumbull, a series of appropriate reso- 
lutions wore proposed and adopted. ****** 

Upon the same day the intendente called upon me and stated that he had 
been instructed by the President to tender his earnest sympathy in this awful 
calamity, and to inquire in what way the government of Chili could most accep- 
rably manifest how sincerely it mourned with the people and government of the 
Li nited States. Thanking him cordially for the kind attention, I informed him 
tliat, while I should be deeply grateful for every mark of respect shovm to the 
inemory of the late Piesident, it was not for me to indicate the form of such 
'lemoustration. 

Instructions were then issued that the American and Chilian flags shoiild be 
'Irooped at half-mast from all the native vessels in the harbor, during eight days ; 
and as 1 left for Santiago on the following dav, minute guns were being fired 
trom the sloop-of war Esmeralda. The flags ixpon the public buildings, those of 
I lie foreign consuls, and of many private residences were also hoisted at half- 
mast, bimilar evidences of sympathy v/ere also shown by the government and 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 29 

diplomatic corps in Santiago ; and I have been informed that the government 
proposes, as a further tribute of respect, to order a parade of all the military or- 
ganizations in Santiago, to file past the legation with arms reversed and flags 
ishrouded in mourning. 

I have also received letters of condolence from the secretary of foreign rela- 
tions ; from the Spanish minister ; the Society of Primary Instruction ; the Work- 
ingmen's Union, and others, to all of which I have endeavored to reply appro- 
priately. All the members of the diplomatic corps have called to express their 
sympathy, as well as a large number of citizens and strangers. 

The President in his message, delivered this afternoon, alluded feelingly to 
the great loss sustained by the United States, and congress, in an informal meet- 
ing held prior to the delivery of the message, ordered the flag of the capital to 
be placed at half-mast. 

Mournful and depressing as is this sad bereavement, it behooves us not to 
forget, in our sorrow, that the Divine lluler has preserved to us a life whose 
importance at this crisis of our country's regeneration cannot be too highly es- 
timated. Permit me, therefore, to offer you my most earnest and sincere con- 
gratulations upon your own almost miraculous escape from the hands of the 
assassin, and to express the hope that you may be spared for many years to re- 
ceive the grateful thanks of the country for which you have so nobly labored, 
and to which your very life came so near being made a sacrifice. 

The steadfast and self-denying devotion manifested throughout the whole of 
our great struggle with treason by the eminent patriot who has succeeded to 
the presidency, gives cheering assurance to the hearts of our countrymen that 
the great purpose of Mr. Lincoln will be ably, firmly, and conscientiously car- 
ried out. 

^ * ^ * * 5i= 

1 have the honor to remain, very respectfullv, your obedient servant, 

THOMAS H. NELSON. 
Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of htatc. 



Mr. Kelson to Mr. Seivard. 

[Extract.] 

No. 197.] Legatiox of the Umted States, 

Santiago de Chili, June 1, 1865. 

Sir: At one o'clock to-day the congress of Chili was convened for the pur- 
pose of opening its regular sessions, and to listen to the annual message of the 
President. 

Upon my entering the senate chamber, where botli houses were assembled, 
manifestations of enthusiasm were made, while the members rose to their feet 
and remained standing until I had taken my seat. 

The message was read by his excellency in person. Alluding to the United 
States, he said : 

" In the relations of corlial friendship which we cultivate with the United 
States of America, it has been impossible for us to view without lively and sin- 
cere satisfaction the i'ltelli^ence which insures the complete re-establishment of 
peace. 

" The happy tin-minatiim of the sanguina; y struggle which has afflicted them 
will permit them to return again to the prolific labors of arts and manufactures, 
cleansed from a social plague which Chili banished from the earliest days of he:' 



30 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

.'mancipation, and which conflicted with the character and free institutions of 

tliat great republic. ..,.,,, 

" Xor have we been indifferent to the mourning ui which they have been 
piun"-ed by the death of their illustrious ruler, Abraham Lincoln. This melan- 
choly event has awakened throughout the country and in the government mani- 
festations of grief and sympathy as just as sincere." 
^** ******* 

I have the honor to remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

THOMAS H. NELSON. 
Hon. William H. Sbward, 

i^ecr clary of Slate. 



Mr. Nelson to Mr. Seicard. 
[Extract.] 

Xo. i^OLj Legation of the Uxiteu States, 

Santiago de Chili, June 15, 1865. 
Sir : lu my despatches Nos. 196 and 197, of the 1st instant, I had the honor 
to transmit to you numerous evidences of the very deep sympathy manifested 
in Valparaiso and Santiago in our great national bereavement. From that date 
until the present these manifestations of kind feeling have continued almost 
uninterruptedly. 

On the fourth instant, at noon, by order of the navy department and that of 
war, a national salute was fired, in honor of the late President of the United 
States, from the fort at Valparaiso, at the conclusion of which twenty-one guns 
were fired from the Chilian sloop-of-war Esmeralda, at intervals of two min- 
utes, and a like salute from the fortress of Hidalgo in Santiago. 

An hour later a procession was formed, consisting of the fire department, 
with flags and apparatus draped in mourning ; the society of the American 
Union, bearing the flags of the different American republics, also shrouded in 
crape, and citizens, most of them dressed in mourning, with crape upon the left 
arm. As the procession passed the legation, which was appropriately draped, I 
(observed tears falling from the eyes of many, and the absolute silence and 
decorum of the thousands of spectators who filled the street for squares was in 
itself a mute tribute to the memory of the illustrious dead. 

In Copiapo on the same day, the fourth instant, a very earnest demonstration 
of respect took place. Pursuant to a call signed by the principal citizens, the 
residents met at noon and proceeded, escorted by the military forming the gar- 
rison, to the aleviada or public walk, where, upon the uncovering of the portrait 
i)t Mr. Lincoln, a national salute was fired and appropriate discourses delivered. 
The national flag was hoisted upon the public and private edifices at half-mast, 
and salutes were fired at sunrise, noon, and sunset. Half hour guns were also 
tired during the day. 

Additional letters of condolence have also been addressed to me by the society 
ot the Union Americana, by the Anglo-Saxon workingmen's society of Valpa- 
raiso, and by the municipality of the department of Los Andres. * * 

In addition to these public demonstrations, I have received very marked and 
numerous evidences of sympathy from private citizens, and have endeavored in 
ivrurii to evince my grateful sense of the universal and profound respect shown 
111 Chili to the memory of the late President. 

I have the honor to remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

„ ^ THOMAS H. NELSON. 

Hon. \\ ILL! \\i H. SEWApa), 

Secretary of Htate. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 31 

Letter from the Minister Resident of Spain. 
[Translation.] 

Legation of Spain to Chili, 

Santiago dc ChiJi, May 29, 1S65. 
My Dear Sir : Through the newspapers which I have just received I learu 
with the deepest pain of the brutal assassination and horrible crime perpetrated 
ill Washington against the most worthy President of your excellency's nation. 
Abraham Lincoln, and his minister, William H. Seward. 

As an evidence of the sincere sorrow which will be felt by my august sove- 
reign and her government when they shall be informed of it, as well as of that 
experienced by myself, I immediately hoisted my flag in position of mourning. 
I hasten to inform your excellency of this, with the earnest assurances of 
distinguished consideration and regard with which I am your excellency's 
most obedient servant, 

SALVADOR DE TAVIRA. 
Thomas H. Nelson, Esq., S(c. 



Letter from Ike Society uf Priinarij Instruction. 
[Translation.] 

Santiago, May 30, 1S65, 
The board of directors of the society of primary instruction, over -which I 
have the honor to preside, resolved, upon the motion of one of its members, to 
address a note of condolence to the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo- 
tentiary of the United States, for the death of the President of that republic, 
!Mr. Abraham Lincoln. 

I comply with so sad a duty as the organ of the said board, manifesting to 
the minister how intense has been the grief experienced by its members in 
learning of the horrid and brutal crime of which the illustrious Mr. Lincoln has 
been the victim. 

Will the minister be pleased to receive this sincere expression of sympathy 
and the personal considerations of regard with which I subscribe myself your 
most obedient servant, 

PvAFAEL MINVIELLE. 
PvOBUSTIANO VERA, 

Secretary. 
Mr. Thomas IL Nelson, S^c 



Letter from tJie Union Cliih of Santiago. 
[Translation.] 

Santiago, May 30, 1865. 
The Santiago Union Club has received Avith profound sori'ow the news of 
the assassination perpetrated upon the person of the illustrious President of the 
United States, Abraham Lincoln, and has authorized me to transmit yon the 
expression of its grief. 

Lincoln was the incarnation of modern democracy, and, perishing a victim to 
the partisans of slavery, has been elevated to the category of the martyrs of 
humanity. 

In communicating to you the sentiments of the members of this club, I deem 
it my duty to express my own, and to subscribe myself your most obedient 
servant, 

MANUEL ALCALDE. 
Hon. Thomas H. Nelson, Santiago. 



32 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



Note from the ivorkingmen of Santiago. 
[Translation.] 

Santiago, May 30, 1865. 

Siii : The profound sorrow caused among the -vvorking classes of Santiago 
by the sad news of the crime committed upon the person of Lincoln, the honest, 
by the hand of an assassin, has impelled the council of the artisans' society, 
called the Union, to spontaneously unite last night in a session for the purpose 
of manifesting to your excellency the deep grief which it feels for so tragic an 
event. 

Since this society was the first to congratulate you upon the approaching ter- 
mination of the Avar which has afflicted the great republic, it cannot view un- 
moved one of the most execrable crimes which have been committed in modern 
times bv the apostles of evil. Upon me has devolved the duty, in the name of 
the council of the society and in that of the working classes, to manifest to you 
the grief experienced by them for the loss of one of the most devoted defenders 
of the rights of humanity, one whom with justice your I'ellow-citizens have called , 
the/«//<t'r of Ills country. 

So tragic an occurrence will awaken the indignation of honorable men, and 
<;ven the sorrow of the advocates of slavery, for a deed as brutal as it was infam- 
ous. From this day forward future generations will be unable to peruse vrith- 
out an abundant tribute of tears the page of mourning which closes the period 
of blood through which the greatest and most powerful nation governed by dem- 
ocratic principles has just passed. 

The memory of Abraham Lincoln will live in the heart of humanity so long 
as the current of the Potomac flows or the Andes endure. This reflection may, 
perhaps, in some degree mitigate your own grief, and that of your fellow-coun- 
trymen. 

With sentiments of the most profound respect, I have the honor to ofier my- 
self as your humble servant, who prays to the Supreme Dispenser of All Good 
to avert from your country the evils consequent upon crimes such as astound 
the world. 

JOSE SANTOS VALENZUELA, 

First Vice-President. 

Hon. Thomas H. Nklso.v, 

Envoy Extraordinnry and Minister Plenipotentiary of the U. S. 



Translation rf letter from the Union A?nencana, of Santiago. 

Santiago, June 1, 1S65. 

Sir : The atrocious crime which has plunged your noble country in the most 
])rof(nuul and just affliction cannot fail to draw forth expressions of grief from 
all who learn the mournful news, and such v/e come to utter to you in the name 
of the Union Americana of Santiago. 

"VV e, who have rejoiced in the triumphs obtained by the soldiers of the law and 
the apostles of humanity in the titanic war against slavery, uniting our hopes 
and prayers to those of the people and government of the United States — 
we, who were preparing to join in their songs of victory and to applaud, 
as heretofore, their heroism in battle, their clemency in the hour of triumph — to- 
day accompany in their grief that people and government, who have lost in 
Ml*. Lincoln one of their best and most illustrious representatives. 

The deplorable system which during four years has been aiming at the life 
of your country, and which had for its base and object the most horrible a:;d 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 33 

unjustifiable iniquity, slavery, has concluded by summing up and declaring 
itself in the most iniquitous and inexcusable of crimes, the assassination of Pres- 
ident Lincoln, thus confirming, as a sentence without appeal, the anathema which 
all free men and free nations have launched against it. 

Those of your fellow-citizens who, misled, have allowed themselves to be 
dragged by party passions or by interests of caste into a fratricidal war, may 
read to-day, in the ashes of their cities, how powerless and direful, and, in the 
death of Mr. Lincoln, how sterile and perverse, were the designs and instru- 
ments which have served the most odious of causes ; and may God grant that, 
horrified by results so lamentable, they may tiu-n to the aggrandizement of the 
country all the means and all the abilities employed during four years to destroy 
it. The blood of the President martyr thus counsels them, and thus also the 
hand of the assassin, from an ignominious solidarity with whom they ought to 
justify themselves, protesting by deeds, not of a blind party, but such as are 
worthy a great and enlightened people. 

Amid the painful emotions excited by this atrocious deed, it is at the same tirtie 
a consolation and a lesson to perceive that the victim and the slayer were each 
faithful to the principles and the Hag which each defended — in the name of which 
one dies, noble and magnanimous, as he had lived, serving his country and hu- 
manity ; and the other, a brutal assassin, strikes, serving the monstrous require- 
ments of an oligarchy or the instigations of a shameful speculation. 

The death of the honored and patriotic President is, for your country, and 
even for the entire world, a just cause for immense grief; but it is not and can- 
not be a motive for doubting the triumph and final consolidation of the work 
begun a hundred years ago by Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin, converting 
three millions of weak colonists into as many proud citizens, and which, to-day, 
is crowned by Lincoln, Grant, and Seward, converting four millions of poor 
slaves into as many free men, who will consolidate with their efforts the most 
just and prolific of governments. 

Amid the bitter grief which the death of Mr. Lincoln has caused us, and which 
has crowned with the aureola of martyrdom the defender of the Union, and has 
placed the stigma of infamy upon the brow of the dying rebellion,' we do not 
cease to feel the most abiding confidence that the situation of your country must 
continue developing itself in the most prosperous and secure manner ; that the 
bloody hand uf an assassin will not be permitted to retard the chariot of civiliza- 
tion, nor to impede the triumphantly progressive march of democracy. 

The atrocious deed of the parricide Booth has proven that the cause of law, 
of Union, and of true republican government is not bound to the inspiration and 
energy of a single individual, even though that individual be great of soul as 
Lincoln, but to the decision, the prudence, the self-denial of a nation, which, after 
teaching to the world that the practice of liberty is the most fruitful condition of 
prosperity, has taught it that in that practice are to be found the elements of 
war and victory, and will yet teach it that therein alone are rooted and flourish- 
ing the germs of concord and true fraternity. 

And thus will be belied one by one the doleful auguries which badly informed 
or evil-intentioned statesmen have not ceased to utter, ever since the shadows of 
civil war came to eclipse the splendor of the stars of your country, which by its 
course, in defeat and victory, in peace or war, has once again proved that the 
only and indispensable conditions for the stability of a government are liberty in 
all its forms, and justice in all its applications. 

In expressing to you, sir, our grief for the death of President Lincoln, and 
also our confidence in the proximate and lasting re-establishment of the Union, 
we believe ourselves to be not only the organ of our society, but that of our entire 
country, which has always found in the events of your prosperity motives for 
cordial rejoicing, and in those of your adversity even more powerful ones to 
sympathize, as to-day, in a grief the most profound and just. 
3- A 



34 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Be pleased, sir, to receive the considerations of high esteem witli wliicli we 
have the honor to subscribe ourselves your obedient servants. 

MANUEL BLANCO ENCALADA. 

M. A. MATTA. 

PEDRO MONCAYO. 

JUAN AUGUSTIN PALAZUELOS. 

DEMETBIO PtODRIGUES PENA. 
Hon. Thos. II. Nelson, ^-c, ^-c, Sfc. 



Letter from the Anglo-Saxon worldngynoi'-A association of Valparaiso. 

Valfaraiso, June 5, 1865. 
Sir : The Anglo-Saxon Workiugmen's Mutual Benefit Association of Valpa- 
raiso, being animated by the same deep sense of grief which has been felt by all 
classes of society at the untimely and violent death of the illustrious personage 
who filled the high and important position of President of the United States, 
beg you to accept the expression of their sincere regret at the manner in which 
his valuable life and services have been brought to an end. 

The body which we represent, and the class of society to which we belong, 
will be an excuse for the want of proper language or flowing rhetoric in which 
some addresses may have been sent to you ; but at the same time, dear sir, we 
can assure you that what is wanting in language to express our sentiments will 
be found deeply engraved in the hearts of those whose feelings and sense of 
right would by none be more highly appreciated than by him whose lamented 
death has called forth our just and truest sympathies. 

Having, as is well known, risen to eminence from the humblest walks of life, his 
example gives an impulse, especially to men in our station, teaching us that 
through uprightness, perseverance, and a strict adherence to the principles of 
society, there is no limit to the degrees of excellence and dignity which maybe 
attained by him who, like Abraham Lincoln, proves himself throughout life an 
honest and hard-working man. 

We remain, sir, most respectfully and truly yours, 

GEORGE LEBERT, 
H. B. GREENSTREET, 
WILLIAM H. BROWN, 

Com??iittee. 
RICHARD GROVES, Jr., 

Secretar}/. 
Hon. Thomas H. Nelson, 

United States Minister, Santiago de Chili. 



Resolutions adopted at a meeting of Ainerican residents at Valparaiso, May 29, 

1865. 

Deeply impressed and appalled by the intelligence this day received, that 
Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States of America, has been as- 
saf^smatcd in a manner unsurpassed for treachery and cowardice, we adopt the 
lollowing resolutions : 

Resolrcd, That our beloved country has in this event suffered the loss of one 
ot her purest and noblest sons, one of her best and most self-sacrificing citizens, 
one ot her most upright and sagacious statesmen. 

Resolved, That we blend our sympathies witli those of our fellow-citizens at 
home and abroad in the sorrow irrepressibly awakened by this occurrence, the 
Jitrocity of which, in the view of all honorable men, can be measured only by the 
distress it produces in the bosoms of patriots. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 35 

ResoJccd, That we cherish in highest lionor the private vii'tues and the public 
career of the late President, who in his lifetime patriotically sought, with ani- 
mosity towards none, with charity towards all, to save the nation's life, and heal 
its wounds ; while his death, investing his counsels with new value, cannot fail 
to endear him more than ever to his friends, as well as to disabuse the pre-judices 
and assuage the animosity of his opponents. 

Resolved, That while Ave bow with the humility appropriate to our limited 
vision before the wisdom of God, who has permitted this wild outbreak of the 
wrath of man to succeed, we do still acknowledge His merciful intervention that 
had spared so long a life on which such interests liung through the earlier 
periods of greater confusion and greater peril; and we do yet cherish profoundly 
the hope, and offer reverently the prayer, that the nation's life may still be dear 
in His all-embracing eye ; that its institutions may be maintained unimpaired, 
and its banner ever wave, an emblem of justice and freedom on earth. 

Resolved, That while the depths of grief are unutterably stirred within us, 
we still yield to no despondency in view of the machinations of men of criminal 
intent, confident that other patriots, true, wise, and brave, will arise from among 
the popular ranks, to serve the cause of our country, to maintain under Clod her 
liberties, and to guide her destiny to the wisest and noblest ends. 

These resolutions were at once adopted with entire unanimity and emotion. 

The following resolution was also proposed by the committee, in relation to 
the attack on the life of Secretary Seward : 

Resolved, That this meeting rejoices to learn that the dastardly attack on the 
Honorable William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, at the 
time an invalid in his bed, ffiiled utterly ; while we hope that, yet living to wit- 
ness that honorable and permanent peace for which so assiduously he has labored 
restored throughout the land, he may long be spared to serve his country, and 
to have her do him the honor his patriotic devotion to her interests and suffer- 
ings on her behalf have deserved. 

Mr. Caldwell recommended that the citizens of the United States, in conformity 
with the custom at home, should wear some token of moiu'ning on the arm or 
chest for the term of fifteen days. This was seconded by Paul Delano, esq., 
and adopted. 

HENRY M. CALDWELL, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 
Resolution of (he municipality of QuiUota. 
No. 1,G15.] Intendencv of Valparaiso, 

Valparaiso, June 28, 1S65. 

The following re .-olution has been approved by the municipality of the depart- 
ment of Quillota in its session of the 20th instant : 

The illustrious municipality over which I preside, in its session of the 20th 
instant, has approved the following draught of a resolution: 

The melancholy news which has plunged an entire continent in the deepest 
mourning, could not be received in this city without filling its inhabitants with 
grief and consternation. This news was no less than the extinction of an exist-' 
ence precious to humanity, that of an apostle of the truths of democracy — an 
untiring laborer for the greatness and prosperity of America, and a loyal and 
sincere friend of our country. Such was the President, Abraham Lincoln, sac- 
rificed on the fatal night of the 14th of April by the infamous hand of an 
assassin. 

In the privileged brain of the immortal Lincoln were meditated the gravest 
interests of the human race, under the impulses of the tendencies of a noble soul, 
and of a genius predestined to do good. From the lofty position achieved by 



36 ArrENDix to diplomatic coerespondence. 

liirf virtues, he watclied with the utmost solicitude over the destinies of America, 
exhibiting' with notable brilliancy a policy of justice in his relations with weak 
nations, imd manifesting, especially towards our own republic, sincere sympathy 

and regard. 

He co-operated earnestly in the crusade against the ominous oligarchy, pro- 
tector of the most horrible of all social inequalities. He showed a constant zeal 
for the preservation of the integrity of the great republic which intrusted its 
direction to him, thus insuring the stability of the most perfect form of political 
existence, and demonstrated that policy of justice by his course towards the 
Brazilian nation, weak in material power, while powerful in the right of her 
claims; and, finally, by his course towards Chili, which can only be interpreted 
as an evidence of the spirit of most perfect cordiality. 

While mourning over the blow which has wounded every American heart in 
its ir.nermost dej)ths, our satisfaction has been great to see the great republic 
pass unharmed through so fiery a trial. This is the privilege of governments 
resting not upon the shifting basis of force, but upon the solid foundations of 
principles — principles that study the means of elevating the august sovereignty 
of man to the position for which nature designed him, and not of strengthening 
dynasties by the legacy of millions of men to be converted into slaves and 
puppets. 

Mankind may weep, but it gazes upon his great work finished; while the 
human race exists will it remain. Although this result, the necessary conse- 
quence of the propagation of democratic ideas, is for us a just motive for rejoic- 
ing, it is not sufficient to do away with the painful impression which the news 
of this great calamity has caused us. The ftimily of redeemers is few ! Wash- 
ington left for his part political personality. Lincoln added social personality. 
The fn-mer made colonists into citizens; the latter made citizens frnm slaves. 
W^ashingtou gave a country lo those he redeemed ; Lincoln, to those he liberated, 
gave one also, saying to them, "Bl' ye men." Both made great conquests for 
mankind, giving back to man that which prejudice and egotism had usurped. 
From the time of W^ashington to that of Lincoln, America has completed her 
first era in the mission of redemption. 

As Chilenos, as Americans, as men, we have a just right to join wnth the 
republic of the north in celebrating the prosperous events of iis existence, as well 
as in accompanying it in our sympathy in the hours of misfortune; and in order 
to attest in some external manner the grief of the residents of this city for the 
death of the iUustrious Lincoln, we address ourselves to you as their immediate 
representative, soliciting your suffrages in favor of the following draught of a 
resolution : 

The people of Quillota, profoundly moved by the unexpected event of the 
death of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States, approach 
their representative in Chili in order to offer to that nation the most earnest 
expression of condolence for so painful an event. 

_A copy of this resolution will be transmitted, together with the requisite note 
of enclosure, to the Hon. Thomas Henry Nelson, minister pleniiiotentiary of the 
United States of North America. 

Quillota, June 12, 1865. 

In transcribing to your excellency the foregoing resolution of the municipality 
of Qudlota, I take pleasure in manifesting to your excellency identical senti- 
ments on the part of this intendency. 

God guard your excellency. 

J. RAMON LIRA. 
Thomas H. N rlson, Esq., 

Envoy Extraordinary ajid Minister FJenipotentiarij 

of the United States of North America. 



SENTIMENTS OP CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 37 



COSTA RICA. 



[Translation.] 

Palacio National, San Josk, May 16, 1865. 

The President of the i-opublic lias, with profound grief, in the despatch you 
v/ere pleased to send me from Punt Arenas, found the confirmation of the sad 
intelligence of the murder committed on the person of the President of the 
United States, Abraham Lincoln, which occurred the 14th of last month, at 
Ford's theatre, in the city of Washington. 

You have also been pleased to inform me of the criminal attempt to assassinate 
in their own house the Messrs. Seward, Secretary and Assistant Secretary of 
State, an attempt which, though fortunately frustrated, caused to these gentle- 
men several v/ounds and blows endangering their lives. 

My government would Avish, in honor of humanity, that this savage act should 
appear isolated, and solely chargeable to the wretched assassin who attacked 
the life of the unfortunate President. And it must be so. Whatever ferocity 
may be ascribed to the anti-national party, it is inconceivable how, even in a 
state of desperation, it should go to the extreme of defiling its cause with the 
most horrible of all crimes, without any other political result but that of calling 
down upon it the indignation of the whole world. 

Costa Rica deplores as her own the loss sustained by the United States in 
the death of the eminent man who for four years governed, with such justice, 
firmness, and loyalty, the great republic of the north, in the midst of the trou- 
bles and anxieties of an intestine war. She laments the violence of passions 
called into existence by political fanaticism, and condemns now, more than ever, 
the cause of those who attempted to destroy the American Union. 

In mark of mourning the President ordered the national flag on all public 
buildings to be raised half-mast during the 14th instant. 

Rejoicing in the restoration of the momentous health of the honorable Mr. 
Seward, and in the inauguration of Mr. Andrew Johnson in his character as 
President, 

I have the honor to reiterate, &c., 

J. VOLIO. 

Hon. Seuor C. N. Riotti:, Sfc, c^r., ^r. 



[Translation.] 

Palacio National, San Jos;':, May 30, 1S65. 

I have the honor, in reply to your esteemed note of the 26th instant, to com- 
municate to you that the government and the people of Costa Rica join, with 
the greatest spontaneity and alacrity, in the public demonstration of mourning 
and grief which the republic of the north, our sister and ally, is making in mem- 
ory of the good man that left the earth. 

Proper orders have been issued that on the 1st of June next the national flag 
will be hoisted half-mast. 
Repeating, &c., 

J. VOLIO. 

Hon. Sefior D. Carlos N. Riotte, ^., ^r., Sfc, 



38 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORKESPONDENCE 

[Translation.] 
National Palace, Sax Jose, May 25, 1S65. 

nil: : The ai'.sassination perpetrated in the person of Abraham Liiicohi, Presi- 
dent of the United State?, and the criminal attempt made against the Secretary 
of State, Mr. Seward, which you communicate in your despatch No. 186, has 
caused the profoundest regret to the members of this government, and generally 
to the Costa Rican ])eople, who understand and appreciate the merit of the illus- 
trious victims of such a horrible event. 

This "■overnmcnt has read with esteem the communications, copies of which 
you enclosed, exchanged between the secretaryship of state and that legation, 
in relation to said events, and it is highly pleased that it fell to you the honor 
to be one of the commission charged with the manifestation to the fomily of the 
ill-fated Mr. Lincoln of the share of the diplomatic body in the general mourn- 
in", and with the expression to Mr. Seward and his family of its sympathies 
and prayers for their recovery. 

As soon as the dismal intelligence reached this capital, his excellency the 
President directed the national flag to be hoisted at half-mast on all the public 
buildings. 

I am also informed of the inauguration of the new President, Mr. Andrew 
Johnson, and of the speeches on that solemn occasion. 

While the enormities to which political fanaticism may lead are lamented, it 
is a source of consolation that the attitude preserA^ed at so very critical moments 
by the nation so cruelly wounded, remaining immovably true to its institutions, 
and exhibiting sentiments of horror and bereavement, is equally worthy of a 
great and generous people as of the illustrious personages to whom they were 
devoted. 

Hailing the miraculous preservation of the Hon. Mr. Seward, and ofiering 
prayens foi- the restoration of himself, his worthy sou, and all other persons of 
his estimable family, I close this, recommending you to communicate its con- 
tents in the usual form, which might be more acceptable. 
I am, sir, your obedient servant, 

JULIAN VOLIO. 

His Excellency Don Luis Molina, 

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 

from Costa Rica, WasJiington, D. C. 



[Translation.] 

Legations ok Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras, 

Washington, April 15, 1865. 

Sir : Sincerely sharing in the feelings of the people of the United States, the 
persons connected with the government, and yourself, on the occasion of the 
melancholy events which you commuuicate to me in your note of this date, I 
do not venture anything in at once assuring you that the governments and the 
pe(^pl('s I have the honor to represent near the United States will receive with due 
appreciation the sad intelligence of the national calamity referred to, fully sym- 
I)athizing with the national sorrow. 

At Uie same time you have the kindness to inform me that, according to the 
Constitution of the United States, the Vice-President has formally assumed the 
tunctions of President, and that you have been by him authorized to perform 
the duties of Secretary of State. 

The uninterrupted existence of the constitutional government of the United 
states will doubtless be looked upon in the republics of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 39 

and Honduras as the surest guarantee of the friendly rehitions they so much 
desire to cultivate with this coifntry, and Avill now be a relief accompanied with 
the hope that the administration of President Johnson may advance those re- 
lations as Avell as that of his lamented predecessor. 

Let me offer my personal condolence with .the family of the late "resident 
in their bereavement, and my earnest wishes for the recovery of Mr. Seward, 
his son, and family. 

I have the honor to offer to you the assurances of my high consideration. 

LUIS MOLINA. 

Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of Slate of the United States, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Riotte to Mr. Hunter. 

[Extract.] 

No. 123.] Legation of the United States, 

San Jose, May 22, 1865. 

Sir : I had the honor of receiving on tlie 13th instant at Punta Arenas, 
whither I had gone for the purposes indicated in my despatch No. 122, your 
despatches Nos. 100 and 101 and your order of 17th April last. 

The terrible tragedy i-ecited in your despatch No. 100 has created a degree of 
jjainful sensation in this country altogether unexpected and heretofore evinced 
on no occadon. The President immediately upon the arrival of the mail raised 
the flag on his mansion half-mast, and the same was done by his order on all 
public buildings. The foreign diplomatic and consular representatives followed, 
and most of them wrote me letters or paid me visits of condolence. And the 
grief was not merely an official one, as to my sincere satisfaction I had abund- 
ant proof to convince myself. A real gloom was spread over the whole com- 
munity. 

It would not be proper in this place to speak of my personal feelings, but I 
hope I will be pardoned for saying that the great debt of gratitude I owed Mr. 
Lincoln made me feel his loss like that of a brother. In the miraculous salvation 
of the venerable chief of our department I rejoice most heartily, with every true 
friend of the great cause of our cDuntry, which, I am persuaded, in the hands 
of Mr. Johnson will be sustained ably and energetically. 

I have the honor, sir, to be your obedient servant, 

C. N. RIOTTE. 
Hon. "William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



Mr. Riotte to Mr. Hunter. 

[Extract. ] 

No. 125.] Legation of the United States, 

Sa?i Jose, June 4, 1865. 
Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of despatches Nos. 102 
and 103, and enclose copy of a note addressed to this government, and a copy 
and translation of the re})ly thereto ; also a copy of the circular note directed 
by me to the diplomatic and consular representatives of foreign nations, calling 
upon them to join in the celebration of the day set aside by the President as a 
day of mourning in memory of our lamented late President. 



40 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEEESPONDENCE. 

On that mournful clay I was made tlie recipient of a number of letters of con- 
dolence and of visits from many distinguished citizens and the charges of Peru 
and Si)ain. Without one single exception all flags in this capital were at half- 
mast, f(ime draped in crape. The legation and its flagstaff I had draped in 
black and white, while long black streamers hung down from tbe flag. 

Most Americans wore black, and two of them volunteered to put up the 

drapery on the legation. 

* -ic * * * * 

I have the honor, sir, to be your obedient servant, 

C. N. RIOTTE. 
Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 41 



CHINA. 



Prince Kung to Mr. Williams. 

[Translation.] 
July 8, ISrio, {Tioigclii, \tli year iiitcrcalary, bth moon, \lth day.) 

Prince Kun^, chief secretary of state for foreign affairs, herewith sends, in 
reply : 

I had the honor yesterday to receive your excellency's communication in- 
forming me that the President of the United States had been removed by death, 
an announcement that inexpressibly shocked and startled me. But, as you add 
that on the same day the Vice-President succeeded to the position without any 
disturbance, and the assassin bad been arrested, so that the affliirs of govern- 
ment were going on quietly as usnal, I hope that these considerations will alle- 
viate your grief at the event, and you will be able to attend to public business. 

I shall be pleased to embody the particulars connected with this event in a 
memorial to his Majesty, and thereby evince the cordial relations which now ex- 
ist between our countries, which is the purpose of sending the present reply. 

His Excellency S. W. AVilliams, 

Charge cV Affaires of United States, in China. 



Mr. lVi?lia?ns to Mr. Seward. 

[Extracts.] 

Xo. 4.] Legation of t.he United States, 

Peking, July 11, 1865. 

Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of several despatches 
addressed to Mr. Burlingame, among them Nos. 123, 126, and 128, enclosing 
military circulars to the United States ministers in London and Paris; of No. 
121, acknowledging receipt of rules for consular courts in China; of No. 125, 
referring to Mr. Walsh's notes upon steam communication between China and 
California ; and of No. 127, being Mr. F. W. Seward's circular of April 10 
respecting the sad accident which happened to you a few days previous, and 
from which I am happy to learn that you are likely to recover. * * * 

Since my last the mail has brought full accounts of the lamentable assassina- 
tion of our beloved President, and I have taken the telegraphic dcspatcli of the 
Secretary of War, of April 16, to Mr. C. F. Adams, at London, which appeared 
in the English papers, as containing the principal facts, and have notitied the 
Chinese government of this sad event. Prince Kung responded in a friendly 
spirit. Previous to this I had informed the Chinese officials of all the details 
then known respecting the occurrence. 

The telegraph brought the first notice to Peking via Russia in forty days, 
but nearly a fortnight elapsed before further news arrived to induce us to believe 
that such a horrid deed could have been committed in the United States. 

The contentment and joy caused by the previous niews of the fall of Rich- 
mond and the surrender of Lee's army, foretokening the cessation of arms and 
final suppression of the rebellion and restoration of the Union, were turned into 
grief and indignation at learning that the President had been thus removed. All 



42 * APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

the Americans in Pekino- alike mourned his death, and all wc could do was to 
pray that God, who had brought the nation to see the triumph of its arms 
against treason, would strengthen the national cause by leading to the adoption 
of those plans which would best uphold justice and best promote tmion. 

Tlic limits of a despatch will hardly allow me more than to add my tribute 
of admiration to the character of Mr. Lincoln. His firm and consistent main- 
tenance of the national cause, his clear understanding of the great questions at 
issue, and his unwearied efforts while enforcing the laws to deprive the conflict 
of all bitterness, were all so happily blended with a reliance on Divine guidance 
as to elevate him to a high rank among successful statesmen. His name is 
hereafter identified with the cause of emancipation, while his patriotism, integrity, 
and other virtues, and his untimely death, render him not unworthy of mention 
with William of Orange and Washington. 

1 have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant. 

S. WELLS WILLIAMS. 

lion. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State, WasJoiigton. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY, 



DENMARK, 



Mr. RaaslOjl' to Mr. Hunter. 
[Translation. J 

Damsh Leoation, 

Washington, Ajtril 17, 1865. 

Siu : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 15th 
instant, by which you inform me of the death of President Lincoln, and of the 
attempted assassination of the Secretary of State and of his son, the Assistant 
Secretary of State. 

I need not assure you of the deep and sincere grief with which I have re- 
ceived that information, but I may be allowed to add, that the feelings of my 
sovereign and of the people of Denmark will, when the news of those sad and 
terrible events shall reach them, be those of the warmest sympathy, not only 
with the immediate victims, but with the wliole deeply afflicted people of the 
United States. 

Having been informed by this same note that, pursuant to the provision of 
the Constitution of the United States, Andrew Johnson, the Vice-President, 
has formally assumed the function of President, and that the President has 
authorized you to perform the duties of Secretary of State, I beg you to accept 
the assurance of the high and distinguished consideration with which I have the 
honor to be, sir, your obedient, humble servant, 

W. RAASLOFF. 

Hon. WiLLiAiM Hunter, 

Activg Secretary of State of the United States, Washington. 



[Translation.] 

Danish Legation, 

Neiv York, May 20, 1865. 

President : I have the honor, in conformity with instructions from my gov- 
ernment which have just reached me, to tender you, in the name and on behalf 
of his Majesty, the King, my august sovereign, the assurances of profound grief 
with which his Majesty has learned the death of the late lamented President 
Lincoln by the hand of an assassin, and the murderous attempt made to take 
the life of the honorable Secretary of State. 

His Majesty, the King, as well as the whole people of Denmark, sincerely 
and earnestly sympathize with the people of the United States in their affliction 
and their mourning over the loss of a ruler whose great qualities and many 
virtues Avere fully appreciated by my countrymen. 

Be pleased to accept the expression of the warm and earnest wishes for your 
prosperity, and for the welfare of the United States, which it is my pleasant 
duty to offer to you in the name of my sovereign, who will have learned with 
sincere gratification that the great trial through which this country has had to 
pass, in consequence of the sad events to which I have alluded, has served to 
prove once more the strength of its institutions and the patriotism of its j^eople ; 
and that the prospects of this great nation were never more promising or in- 



44 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

spirin"- "reater and more general confidence than at this present moment, when 
peace*^and concord are riipidly being restored under the auspices of a wise and 
magnanimous Chief Magistrate. 

I have the honor to be, President, with the highest respect, your obedient, 
humble servant, 

W. RAASLOFF. 



Mr. Wood to Mr. Seicard. * 

[Extract.] 

Xo. 194.] Legation of the Umted States, 

Cojjcnhagen, May 1, 1865. 
Sir : There Avas but one feeling of horror here on learning the assassination 
of President Lincoln and the attempt on your life. As soon as it was author- 
itatively known, the diplomatic corps and the ministers of state called to express 
their sympathy, and the King, in a note from Mr. Blumhe, the foreign minister, 
(who is still confined to his house from illness,) feelingly expressed his ; and this 
on the day of the funeral services for the deceased Czarowitch, his intended son- 
in-law, and at which all the foreign ministers assisted. I congratulate you on 
your narrow escape. I hope I can on your son's, but the news is contradic- 
tory, and I fear the worst. 

This terrible tragedy at Washington is a natural sequence of this rebellion, 
and in keeping with the murder of Union prisoners by starvation. It is a con- 
sequence of slavery. Well if the nation now rouse to the conviction (as I have 
long since have, as you well know) that there is a class at the south, (of whom 
Booth was one,) the plotters of this rebellion, and their brigands, who must, as a 
political necessity, be expatriated, or in some way annihilated from our soil, if 
the frecdman and the northern emigrant are to dwell in peace and safety at the 
south. The future of the south demands this. * * # 

I remain, very truly, your obedient servant, 

BRADFORD R. WOOD, 

Minister Rcside?it, Sfc. 
Hon. William H. Seward. 

Secretary of State. 



Governor 'Birch to Mr. Perkins. 

Government House, 

St. Croix, June 14, 1865. 

Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication 
of the 3d instant, in wliich you has informed me of the assassination of the 
President of the United States. 

President Lincoln's sudden death has everywhere in the civilized world 
called forth a profound sympathy, and the nefiirious act, a deed in foul atrocity 
scarcely ever equalled, to which he fell a victim, has awakened a vivid horror 
and indignation. 

I am aware that these sentiments have been fully participated in in Denmark ; 
and hero in his Majesty's West India colonies, connected as they are with the 
United States by many and near interests, the tidings of the abhorrent crime 
must necessarily seize all minds. 

• "'■ ^^to' ^"'' t*^ express to you the sincere sorrow I have felt at the great calam- 
ity that has befallen the American nation. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 45 

About the same time we had received the sad intelligence of the murder of Pres- 
ident Lincoln, we also received the account of those achievements that finally 
terminated that disunion which, for more than four years, has split the United 
States ; and it has given me great joy, through every new info'mation which 
has reached us from America, to find expressed an unshaken faith in the future, 
and a full confidence in the new President, Mr, Johnson. I can, therefore, to 
the expression of my deep concern at President Lincoln's tragic fate, fully add 
the expression of my best and heartfelt wishes for the United States and Pres- 
ident Johnson's prosperity and welfare, which I beg you in behalf of your gov- 
ernment and your country to accept. 

It gives me much pleasure to know that the Hon. William H. Seward, the 
Secretary of State, and his son, Mr. F. W, Seward, the Assistant Secretary, will 
soon have completely recovered from the wounds inflicted upon them by a mur- 
derous hand, extended from the same villainous plot that destroyed the Pres- 
ident's life. 

I have the honor to be, sir, with the highest consideration, 

W. BIRCH. 

E. IL Perkins, Esq., 

Consul of the United States of America. 



46 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDEXCE. 



E C U A D i:. 



Mr. Herrera to Mr. Hassaurek. 

[Translation.] 

Quito, Mai/ 22, 1S65. 

Tlic nnclercig-nccl, minister of exterior relations of the republic of Ecuador, lias 
received and communicated to bis excellency the President your excellency's 
note of the 15th instant, in which your excellency informs the undersigned of 
the death of his excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 
who was assassinated in the city of Washington on the 14th April, and that in 
consequence of this deplorable event his excellency Andrew Johnson, Vice 
President of the United States, has succeeded to the Presidency. =" 

Such a lamentable and painful event has filled the Ecuatorian people and gov- 
ernment with the deepest grief, because of the cordial and sincere sympathies 
which they have entertained and do entertain for the powerful republic of the 
Union ; and to manifest their condolence, the government of the undersigned has 
ordered that all the officers and employes of the republic shall wear mourning 
for three days, during which time the flag of the republic shall be displayed at 
half-mast. 

The undersigned avails himself of this opportunitv, &c., &c. 

PABLO HERRERA. 

His Excellency the Mimster Resident 

Of (he United States of America. 



Mr. Herrera to Mr. Hassaiirek. 

[Translation.] 

Quito, May 22, 1S65. 

The government of the undersigned has received with deep regret the com- 
munication of your excellency, dated Guayaquil, May 15, informing the under- 
signed that on the fatal night of the 14th of April, and almost at the same hour 
when the President of the United States was assassinated, an attempt was 
rnade by an unknown individual to assassinate his excellency William H. 
Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, but that fortunately, by the 
protection of Divine Providence, his life was saved, and that, though wounded 
by the assassin, he was already considered out of danger ; also that for the time 
being the honorable William Hunter has taken charge of the department of • 
foreign relations. 

The undersigned entertains the most fervent wishes for t'-.e recovery of his 
excellency AVilliam U. Seward, and for the preservation of order and peace in 
the powerful republic of the United States. 

Availing himself of this opportunity, &c., cVc. 

... _, PABLO HERIJERA. 

His i.xcellency the Minister Resident 

Of the United States of America. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 47 

President Garcia JSlorcno to Mr. Hassaurch. 

[Translation.] 

Quito, May 22, 1S65. 
The fatal news wliicli arrived by yesterday's mail has produced a profound and 
painful impression on me. Never should I have thought that the noble country 
of Washington would be humiliated by such a black and horrible crime ; nor 
should I ever have thought that Mr. Lincoln would come to such a horrible 
end, after having served his country with such wisdom and glory under so 
critical circumstances. 

Although the minister has already Avritten to you officially to manifest to you 
the grief which we all feel for the lamentable loss the great republic has sus- 
tained, I wanted to write to you individually, as a friend and as an American, 
to unite my regret with yours and that of all righteous and honorable men. 
I am vour affectionate friend and obedient servant, 

G. GARCIA MORENO 
His Excellency F. Hassaurek, 

TJ. S. Minister Resident, ^v., Sfc, !fc. 



Mr. Hassaurek to JSIr Scicard. 
[Extract.] 
No. 155.] Legation of the United States, 

Guayaquil, May 21, 1865. 
Sir : The shocking news of the assassination of President Lincoln and the 
murderous assault on you has produced the greatest consternation here. * * * 

Enclosed you will find the proceedings of a meeting of Ameiican citizens 
held at this place on the 17th instant, to give expression to their grief and indig- 
nation. At the request of the secretary, I enclose one copy of the proceedings 
directed to you, and another to the widow of our late lamented President. 

But these feelings of grief and sorrow are not confined to the American resi- 
dents. The native population sympathizes with us most tenderly in our great 
affliction. Numerous were the visits and expressions of condolence I received 
from the authorities and prominent citizens ; and I may say that, for many 
years, no other announcement has produced such sadness here as the death of 
President Lincoln. For him a whole continent is in mourning, and his loss 
will be lamented all over the Avorld. 

1 have the honor to remain your most obedient servant, 

F. HASSAUREK. 
Hon. William H.Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



Mr. Hassaurek to Mr. Seward. 
[Extract.] 

No. 160.] Legation of the United States, 

Guayaquil, May 29, 1865. 
Sir : Besides ordering that all the officers and employes of the republic of 
Ecuador shall wear mourning for three days, during which time the Ecuadorian 
flag shall be displayed at half-mast from all the public buildings, President 
Garcia Moreno, immediately after the arrival of the horrible news of President 
Lincoln's death, at Quito, wrote me a letter of condolence. * * * 



48 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEEESPONDENCE. 

I also received letters of condolence from the minister for foreign affairs, and 
other prominent citizens of Quito. These and other manifestations wiil enable 
yon to judge what a sensation of amazement and regret Mr. Lincoln's lamenta- 
ble death has produced in Spanish America. Even those who were but luke- 
warm friends of the Union, or open sympathizers with the rebellion, are now 
loud in their condemnation of the south. 

With expre.-^sions of profound respect and consideration, I have the honor to 
remain your most obedient servant, 

F. HASSAUREK. 

Hon. William II. Skward, 

Secretary of Slate. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 49 



EGYPT. 



Mr. Hale to Mr. Seward. 

No. 25.] Agency and Consclate General of the U. S. of America, 

Ahxcmdria, Egypt, May 5, 1865. 
Sir : I have the honor to report that his highness the Pacha of Egypt, has 
seized the earliest opportunity to express to me the pain with which he has 
heard the sad tidings of the assassination of the President of the United States, 
his detestation of the abominable crime, and his sympathy for our country iu 
the grievous loss we have sustained. 

I have the honor to be, sir, most respectfully, your obedient servant, 

CHAPvLES HALE. 
Hon. William H. Seward, ^ 

Secretary of State. 



Mr. Hale to Mr. Hunter. 

No. 26.] Agency and Consulate General of the U. S. of America, 

Alexandria, May 13, 1865. 

Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your instruction under 
date of the 17th of April, with official intelligence of the foul assassination of 
the President and of the dastardly attempt, happily unsuccessful, to take the 
lives of the Secretary of State and the Assistant Secretary. 

I have already, in- my despatch No. 25, reported the cordial expression of 
sympathy which his highness the Pacha of Egypt hastened to make me, in 
an official intervicAv, immediately after the sad news was known here. 

I have since received and am daily receiving other expi'essions of the public 
feelings of all nationalities represented here, in respect for the memory of the 
late President and of confidence in the administration of the government by 
his successor. 

A special religious ceremony has been ordered by the Greek community at 
the Greek church, and one will be held at this consulate general, conducted by the 
American missionaries on the day appointed for the purpose in the President's 
proclamation. 

I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

CHARLES HALE. 

Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



FRANCE, 



Mr. Brouyn de Lkinjs to Mr. Bigcloiv. 

[Trauslation ] 

Paris, April 26, 1865. 
Sir : The telegrams published iu the evening papers inform me of the hor- 
rible crime of which Messieurs Lincoln and Seward have been the victims. I 
would not delay a moment longer to express to you our profound sympathy. 
Yours, very sincerely, 

DEOUYN DE LHUYS. 

John Bigklow, Esq., 

United States Minister, Paris. 



[Tiauslatcd from the Moniteur of March 2, 1865.] 

Communication from the government. 

The President. M. the minister president of tli^ council of state has the 
floor for the purpose of presenting a communication from the government. 
[The house becomes attentive.] 

His Excellency M. Vaitry, Minister President of the Council of State. 
Gentlemen of the senate: In pursuance of the orders of the Emperor, I have 
the honor to communicate to the senate the despatch addressed on the 28th 
of April last by M. the minister of foreign affairs to M. the charge d'affaires 
of France at Washington on the occasion of the death of President Lincoln. 
This despatch reads as follows : 

Paris, April 28, 1865. 

Sir: The news of the crime of which ^f. le President Lincoln has fallen a 
victim has caused a profound sentiment of indignation iu the imperial govern- 
ment. 

His Majesty immediately charged one of his aides-de-camp to call upon the 
minister of the United States to request him to transmit the expression of this 
sentiment to Mr. Johnson, now invested with the presidency. I myself desired 
by the despatch which I addressed you under date of yesterday, to acquaint 
you without delay of the painful emotion which we have experienced, and it 
becomes my duty to-day, in conformity with the views of the Emperor, to render 
a merited Innnage to the great citizen whose loss the United States now deplores. 

Elevated to the chief magistracy of the republic by the suffrage of his country, 
M. Abraham Lincoln exhibited in the exercise of the power placed in his hands 
the most substantial qualities. In him firmness of character w^as allied with 
elevation of principle, aud his vigorous soul never wavered before fhe redoubtable 
trials reserved for his government. 

At 1 lie moment when an atrocious crime removed him from the mission which 
befulhllid with a religious sentiment of duty, he was convinced that the triumph 
of his pohcy was definitively assured. His recent proclamations are stamped 
with the sentiments of moderation with which he was inspired in resolutely pro- 
ceeding to the task of reorganizing the Union and consolidating peace. The 
supriiiie satitfaetiou of accomplishing this work has not been granted him; but 
in re\-iewmg these testimonials of his exalted wisdom, as well as the examples 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 51 

of good sense, of courage, and of patriotism which he has given, history will 
not hesitate to place him in the rank of citizens who have the most lionored 
their countiy. 

By order of the Emperor, I transmit this despatch to IM. the minister of 
state, who is charged to commnnicate it to the senate and the corps legislatif. 
France will unanimously associate itself with the sentiments of his Majesty. 

t Receive, &c. 

DROUYN DE LHUYS. 

M. De Geofroy, 

Charge d' AQ aires of France, at Washington. 

I do not think, gentlemen of the senate, that this communication needs any 
commentary ; it explains itself. I trust the senate will share the feelings of 
which the despatch which I have had the honor of reading contains the ready 
expression. In uniting together to brand with reprobation a horrible crime, the 
Emperor, the great bodies of the state, and France in its totality will give to 
the republic of the United States a fresh testimony of their sincere sympathy. 
[Loud approbation.] 

The President. Gentlemen: In acknowledging the communication just 
made by M. the minister, I beg the senate will permit me to express in its name, 
a sentiment which, in its unanimity and energy, is equally felt by all. The 
senate felt a deep emotion at the news of the crime committed against the 
illustrious head of an allied nation. Mr. Lincoln, placed since 1861 at the head 
of the American nation, had passed through the most afflicting trials that could 
befall a government founded on liberty. It was at the moment when victory 
presented itself, not as a signal of conquests, but as the means of reconciliation, 
that a crime still obscure ^n its causes, destroyed the existence of that citizen, 
])laced so high by the choice of his countrymen. Mr. Lincoln fell at the 
moment when he thought he was at the point of arriving at the term of the 
misfortunes by which his country was afflicted,' and when he indulged in the 
hope of seeing it soon reconstituted and flourishing. The senate, which has 
always deplored the civil war, detests still more that implacable hatred which 
is its fruit, and which disgraces politics by assassination. There can therefore 
be but one voice in this body, to join in the ideas expressed by order of tlie 
Emperor, in the name of a generous policy and of humanity. [Approbation.] 

I propose to the senate to decree that a copy of the minutes of the present 
sitting be officially transmitted to the minister of state. [Loud and prolonged 
approbation ] 



rTrauslatc'cl from the Mouitenr of May 2, 1SG5,] 
Corps Legislatif — Sitting of Monday, May 1. 

President Schneider. M. the minister of state has the floor to transmit a 
communication from the government. [The assembly becomes very attentive 
and silent.] 

His Excellency M. Rouher, Minister of State. Gentlemen : An odious crime 
has plunged in mourning a people composed of our allies and friends. The 
news of that ddious act has produced throughout the civilized world a sentiment 
of indignation and horror. [Assent.] 

Mr. Abraham Lincoln has displayed in the afflicting struggle which convulses 
his country that calm firmness and that invincible energy which belong to 
strong minds, and are a necessary condition for the accomplishment of great 
duties. [Repeated assent.] . 

After the victory he had shown himself generous, moderate, and conciliate jry. 



62 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEEESPONDENCE. 

[Hear, hear.] He was anxious to at ouce terminate tlie civil war and restore 
to America, by means of peace, her splendor and prosperity. [Hear, hear.] 

'I'he first chastisement that Providence inflicts on crime is to render it pow- 
erless to retard the march of good. [Repeated assent.] The deep emotion and 
elevated sympathies which aie being displayed in Europe will be received by 
the American people as a consolation and an encouragement. The work of ap- 
peasement commenced by a great citizen will be completed by the national will. 
[Hear, hear.] The Emperor's government has sent to Washington the expres- 
sion of a legitimate homage to the memory of an illustrious statesmau torn 
from the government of the States by an execrable assassination. 

Hy his Majesty's order I have the honor to communicate to the legislative 
body the despatch addressed by the minister of foreign afiliirs to our repre- 
sonative at \yashington. It is thus worded : [For the despatch see note from 
]\Ir. Drouyn de Lhuys to Mr. do Geofroy. The reading was frequently inter- 
ru])ted by expressions of approbation and by applause.] 

This des])atch, gentlemen, does not call for any comment. The Emperor, 
the public bodies, and France, from one end to the other, are unanimous in 
their sentiments of reprobation for a detestable crime, in their homage to a great 
political character, victim of the most criminal passions, and in tueir ardent 
wishes for the re-establishment of harmony and concord among the great and 
patriotic American nation. [Unanimous assent.J 

. President Schxeider. Gentlemen : I wish to be the interpreter of your 
thought in publicly expressing the grief and indignation which we have all 
felt on learning the news of the bloody death of President Lincoln. That 
execrable crime has revolted all that is noble in the heart of France. Nowhere 
hns more profound or more universal emotion been felt than in our country. 
We therefore heartily join in the sentiments and sympathies which have been 
manifested by the government. [Yes, yes.] 

Having been called to the direction of public afiairs at an ever-memorable 
crisis, Mr. Abraham Lincoln has always proved himself fully equal to his difH- 
cult mission. After having shown his immovable firmness in the struggle, he 
seemed by the wisdom of his language and of his views destined to bring 
about a fruitful and durable reconciliation between the sons of America. [Hear, 
hear.] 

His last acts worthily crown the life of an honest man and a good citizen. 
Let us hope that his spirit and his sentiments may survive him, and inspire 
the American people with pacific and generous resolutions. [Approbation.] 

France has deplored the bloody struggles which have afflicted humanity and 
civilization. She ardently desires the re-establishment of peace in the midst 
of that great nation, her ally and her friend. [Hear, hear.] 

May our prayers be heard, and may Providence put an end to these painful 
trials. [Unanimous approbation] 

The legislative body acknowledges the receipt of the commudication just 
mride to it by the government, and demands that an extract of the minutes of 
the sitting shall be officially addressed to the minister of state. [General marks 
of assent.! 



[Translation.] 
Aft( 



After the meeting of the deputies of the opposition, which took place April 
30, the iollmving letter was addressed to M. Schneider, vice-president of the 
h-gislative chambers : 

.Air. I'RKSiuENT: In presence of the misfortune which has just fallen upon 
the American republic, and seeing the demonstrations of foreign parliaments 
wliicli liave taken place, we cannot Qonceal our astonishment that we have not 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 



53 



been called together in a public pitting, and wc beg of yon, sir, to satisfy tlie 
legitimate sentiment which we express to you. 

Be pleased to accept, Mr. President, the expression of our high consideration. 

JULES FAVRE. JULES SIMON. 

OARNOT. PELLETAN. 

ERNEST PICARD. GARNIER. 

ERNEST PAGES. JOSEPH MAGUIN. 

HERRON. LANJIINAIS. 

GUEROULT. BEATS BIZOIN. 

BETHMOUT. DORIAN. 



[Translation.] 

Address of the dcjmties of the left to Mr. Bigeloiv, viinister of the United 

States at Paris. 
United from the bottom of our hearts with the American citizens, we desire 
to express to them our admiration of the great people who have destroyed the 
last vestiges of slavery, and for LincolTi, the glorious martyr to duty. 



JULES, FAVRE. 

CARNOT. 

GARNIER. 

LANJUINAIS. 

BETHMOUT, 

ERNEST PICARD. 

GUEROULT. 

ALEX. BONNEAU. 

J. LABBE. 

H. ]\[ALOT. 

ARMAND JOUSSENEL. 

ED. POMPERY. 

FAURAY. 

LOUIS NOIR, 

COUTANT. 

DR. MOUTANIER, 

AZEVEDO. 

J. VINET. 

CAUCHOT. 

PFLUGER, Pere. 

E. CLARAC. 

F. DARBADIE. 
H. PERRA. 

J. BACHEREAU. 

G. BOTH, frf Strashourg.^ 
SOISSONS. 

€. MAZANDIER. 
A. A. MADIXIER. 
DINET. 

A. ROUSSEAU. 
A. BACHEREAU. 
E. MARTINOT. 
J. LEROUX. 
J. E. GRAND. 
J. LEELEREG. 
H. PFEIFFER. 
HEROLD. 



JULES SIMON. 

PELLETAN. 

ERNEST PAGES. 

BLAIS BIZOIN. 

JOSEPH MAGUIN. 

DORIAN. 

HERRON. 

A. MALE SPINE. 

C. SAUVESTRE. 

A. MERAY. 

J. J. BLANC- 

E. GUERIN. 

FERRARL 

J. M. CAYLA. 

PAUGIN. 

VICTOR MUNIER. 

FRANCISQUE SARCEY. 

MANN. 

FOLLENFAUT. 

E. HUET. 

DAVEZAO. 

V. B. VIGNIER. 

BARAGUET. 

L. TISON. 

A. SIMOUNIN. 

H. BARCLAY. 

LEGBAND, (Hub.) 

CII. BONNEAU. 

GH. PIGUENOT. 

L. LAZARE. 

OLIVE. 

A. GILLOT. 

A. COGUERET. 

G. PERRIN. 

II. GAUTER. 

DREO. 

EMMANUEL ARAGO. 



54 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

M. (h Lhuys to M. cle Geofroy. 

[Translation— Communicated bj the French legation.] 

Department of Foreign Affairs, 

Faris, April 28, 1865. 

Flit : Tlic news of the crime of wliicli President Lincoln has recently become 
the victim has caused to the imperial government a profound sentiment of indigna- 
tion. 

Hi;^ Majesty immediately charged one of his aides-de-camp to repair to tlie 
residcuce of the minister of the United States, to ask him to transmit at once 
the expression of his indignation to Mr, Johnson, who is now invested with the 
presidency. I also desired, myself, by the despatch which I addressed to you 
of yesterday's date, to apprise you, without delay, of the sorrowful emotion we 
have felt, and I have, to-day, in conformity with the will of the Emperor, to render 
merited homage to the great citizen whose loss'the United States deplore. 

Elevated to the chief magistration of the republic by the suffrage of his coun- 
trymen, Abraham Lincoln had brought l^o the exercise of the powers placed in 
his hands the most substantial qualifications. Force of character was allied in 
him with loftiness of principle. Therefore, his vigorous spirit never quailed be- 
fore the terrible trials reserved for his government. At the moment when an 
atrocious crime snatclued him from the mission which he filled with the sense of 
religious duty, he enjoyed the consciousness that the triumph of his policy was 
definitively assured. 

His recent proclamations are traces of the thoughts of prudence which in- 
spired him in undertaking resolutely the task of reorganizing the Union, and 
of consolidating peace. The supreme satisfaction of accomplishing this work 
has not been accorded to him. But, in gathering up these last testimonials of 
his high Avisdom, as well as the examples of good sense, of courage, and of pa- 
triotism, Avhich lie has given, history will not hesitate to place him in the rank 
of citizens who have done most honor to their country. 

By order of the Emperor, I transmit this despatch to the minister of state, 
who is charged to communicate it to the senate and legislative body. France 
will unanimously take share in this thought of the Emperor. 

Receive, &c. 

DROUYN DE LHUYS. 
ilr. L. DE Geofroy, 

Charge d' Affaires of France, Was]iiy\gton. 

P- S. — You will please remit a copy of this despatch to the Secretary of State 
of the United States. 



Mr. Geofroy to Mr. Hunter. 
[Translation. ] 

Legation of France to the United States, 

Washington, April 16, 1865. 
.SiK : I have received the note by which you announce to me the sad events 
wlucii now afflict the people of the United States. 

\ ou please to inform me at the same time that the Vice-President, Andrew 
Jolmson, has, under the Constitution, oflicially entered into possession of the 
presKh-ney, and has authorized you, sir, to fill, until further order, the functions 
ot Secretary of State. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 55 

I only anticipate the instructions of my government in assuring you of the 
deep and painful regret with which it will learn the death of President Lincoln, 
and other outrages which accompanied that great crime. That it will take very 
lively intei-est in your calamities you cannot doubt. Please, therefore, receive 
all the condolences which I this day offer to you in its name, to which I add at 
the same time the very sincere expression of my personal feelings. 

I renew to you on this occasion the assurances of my most distinguished con- 
sideration. 

L. DE GEOFROY. 

Hon. William Hunter, Acting Sccrefart/ of State. 



[Trauslatiou.] 

Boya\-on-the-Sba, May 5, 1865. 
To the United States Minister in Paris : 

Frenchmen living upon the shores of the Atlantic have but to glance over the 
ocean, and thus feel as if they were in immediate communication with your 
country. 

The undersigned inhabitants of Boyan, for this reason, have felt more seriously 
the awful event which occurred at Washington on tln^ 14th of April last. They 
now meet to express their profound grief and deep indignation to the minister, 
the government, and the country. 

We cannot help admiring the honest and much respected Abraham Lincoln, 
who resisted the attacks of southern fanatics, and thus created four millions of 
new men. We admired his calmness in the struggle, his lenity in victory, 
taught him in his civil education, by his religious observance of the law. And 
now the miserable, depraved slaveholders, capable of all crimes, have cowardly 
deprived him of his life, and attempted that of two noble souls, Mr. Seward and 
his son, worthy colleagues and fellow-countrymen of the newly elected citizen 
President. 

With firm hopes that this horrid event will serve to strengthen the Union, we 
ask you to receive our condolence and our cordial sympathy. 

V. JOUAIN, AND FORTY OTHERS. 



[Trauslatiou. ] 

Lodge of La Franche Union, at Choisv-le-Roy, 

Depart.^ient of the Seine, t/ie 11 th of May, 1865. 
Sir: All -honest hearts were filled with indignation at the news of jN[r. Lin- 
coln's death, and earnestly execrated the fratricidal hand that felled the great 
citizen of the United States. Tell your fellow-countrymen that during this 
mortal duel between freedom and slavery we never ceased to offer up our 
prayers for the good cause. Tell our brothers of the great republic we mourn 
with them the loss of a brother whose memory will be ever dear to patriots and 
Free Masons. He honored masonry, and we ought to feel more sensibly than others 
the loss caused by the assassin's dagger, hid under the cloak of liberty. His death 
reminds us masons, living in the shadow of Kouget de I'Isle's tomb, that in 
times of great convulsions it is from the field and workshop that great men 
spring with a bound to save their countries; and the history of our two nations 
furnish many such examples. Honor also to Mr. Lincoln for the simplicity he 
brought "from his home to the palace where he exercised the great trust confided 
to him, and proved the most perfect model of a chief magistrate. This lodge 



56 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

in its last sossion decided by acclamation to make kuown to tlie brethren in 
the United States that it wears with them mourning for the hero and martyr 
whose patriotism has made him the fellow-citizen of all friends of justice and 

liberty. . i ^^ n 

From this date the name of Abraham Lincoln is mscribed on the list ot our 
members, and at each session for three months, a brother will rise at the call of 
his name, and answer: Abraham Lincoln died like a mason, to elevate humanity 
outra"-ed by slavery. At the expiration of three months we will celebrate a 
masonic funeral to his memory, inviting the brethren of all the other lodges. 

BOURGEON, Jr., 
President of the Franclie Union, 

AND TWENTY-FOUR OTHER MEMBERS OF THE LODGE. 

To the U. S, Minister. 



[Translation.] 

Chavaniac, May 2, 1865. 
Sir : I hope you will excuse me for addressing you this little note ; but you will 
certainly think it natural that a member of the Lafsiyette family should wish to 
join the citizens of the United States in their mourning. At the time the odious 
crime was committed I was absent from Paris, and Avas sick; so it was impos- 
sible to unite with some of my countrymen in their public expressions of sorrow 
for the death 6( the eminent American statesman. 

I now express all my regrets, and ask you to accept my personal esteem. 
Your obedient servant, 

OSCAR DE LAFAYETTE. 
The U. S. Minister, in Paris. 



[Translation.] 

Perfect Union Lodge, 

Ckaretite, June 1, 1865. 
Sir : The Perfect Union Masonic Lodge, Orient of Confoleus, grievously felt 
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. We were regarding in admiration, with 
great interest, the gradual development of a policy which had for its object the 
abolition of slavery for human liberty is one of the fundamental principles of 
masonic doctrine Avheu we were struck with stupor by the horrid news of the 
crime that deprived the world of one of its most honest men and most illustrious 
citizens. 

But we are consoled when we think of the strength and vitality of your insti- 
tutions, that will not leave Mr. Lincoln's great work unfinished, and we have 
unanimously decided that the testimony of our sorrow, admiration, and respect 
should be written in the golden lodge book, and transmitted to the American 
nation through its representative in Paris. 

Accept, sir, the assurance of our most distinguished sentiments. 
The Venerable A. DUCLOU. 

E. DUG HI RON, Watch7naker. 

ULKEVETIER. 

RABAUD-LARIBIERE. 

„ , , , AUDOIN, Secretary. 

ocalcd by — 

E. GIBOUIN, 

m^ -r-r r, ^^ Kecvtr of tkc Scals. 

The U. S. Minister, in Paris. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 



Mr. Talbot to Mr. Bigelow. 

[Translation.] 

Caen, Calvados, Octohcr 20, 1865. 

Sir: At the first news of the assassination of President Lincoln we had cir- 
culated the address which we send you so late to-day. 

This address was covered with the signatures of ihe most prominent persons 
of our city, and names collected from all classes of society. 

Wishing to add to the number, one of our friends took the address and 
caused it to pass from hand to hand, and finally it was mislaid for several 
mouths. 

It was impossible to think of asking for so many signatures over again, but 
happily we succeeded in finding the paper, and now hasten to send it to you. 

We think indeed that it is never too late to testify once more the sympathy 
of the French people for the American people, and to add our felicitations to 
your President Johnson upon the re-establishment of the Union in a manner at 
once so conciliating and so energetic, so firm and so lawful. 

Thus America gives to the Old World a grand and noble lesson. Among us, 
a powerful general, commanding nearly a million soldiers, would have profited 
by that crime to proclaim that it was necessary to save the republic by a dicta- 
torship, and he would at last have destroyed it for the profit of personal 
ambition. 

Willi you the Constitution has been respected with a sublime simplicity. 
Grant, Sherman, and all your generals remain simple citizens but great citizens. 

We thank them, we thank your President, and your noble American people 
for giving to us at this day the spectacle of the manly virtues of the bright 
days of the Koraan republic — to us people of the Latin race, who have now 
before our eyes only Octaviuses, without vigor*, tottering in their buskins while 
trying to play the part of worn out Csesars, amid the suppressed jeers of Europe. 

Hail, then, to Johnson, to Grant, to Sherman ! Hail to all your citizens, and 
Heaven grant that tliey may send back to France with the winds of the ocean — 
with its tempests if need be — those powerful blasts. of liberty which it sent to 
them a century ago, at its first awaking. 

We salute you fraternally. 

EDWARD TALBOT, Proprietor. 
SETE, Retired Merchant. 

Mr. Bigelow, Minister Plenipotentiary 

of the Rejmhlic of the United States, at Paris. 



[Translation. ] 



Tlie inhahitants of the city of Caen to the honorable Mr. Johnson, President of 

the United States, 

Sir : There are crimes which shock and distress not one nation only, hut the 
conscience of mankind. At the first rumors of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln 
all Europe shudders with indignation and grief. Impelled by this emotion, 
spontaneous, universal, irresistible, the public authorities themselves how with 
respect before that new-made grave. 

Why these unanimous regrets ? It was not only because, springing from the 
ranks of the people, Mr. Lincoln, by force of will, of toil, of energy, had reached 
the highest dignity of his land ; it was not only because, in the face of immense 
difiiculties, he had arranged all, smoothed all, surmounted all ; but it was, above 



58 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

all, l).'cause ho liad accompli.'^lied that enormous task witliout veiling the statue 
of'libi.Tty ; it was becaur^e he had become a great man by respecting the laws, 
and remaining an honest man. 

This is why your sorrow is the sorrow of all good men. 

But at the same time they have confidence in your institutions, and they know 
that the ci-ime which has been committed will but confirm anew their vitality 
and power. 

They intended to slay the future of a people ; they have only smitten slavery. 
A great man is dead ; a great people remains. 

It is to them that we send across the ocean our deep regrets, our fraternal sym- 
patiiics. Say to them that we love them ; tell them that we have suffered with 
their sufferings ; that we have followed with anguish the changing aspects of 
their implacable strife, and applauded their victory with the enthusiasm of hope, 
and ask them also to love us, and to love our France. 

Tell them to weep for their great citizen departed, but not to pity him ; Lincoln 
liad ))reven1ed the dismemberment cf his country, he had abolished salvery, 
he had lived enough, he could die. Dulce et decorum est pro f atria mori. 

Tell them, in fine, that humanity has never given birth but in sorrow ; that 
to just and holy causes there is need of noble martyrs, and that for the ages 
the only true crowns are the crowns of thorns, shining over Calvaries. 

Cae\, Calvados, May 10, 1865. 



[Translation. ] 



An address sent to Mr. Blgelotv l>ij M. Ed. Lahaulaye, on the i^art of the in- 
habitants of the town of Guingamp. 

Monsieur lb Mfmistue : Abraham Lincoln has just fallen a martyr to lib- 
erty. He dies in the full blaze of triumph, struck down by an assassin at the 
moment when the great republic of the United States had passed througli the 
most grievous trials, thanks to the civic virtues and the energy of their illustri- 
ous President. The undersigned, citizens resident at Guingamp, hasten, sir, to 
testify to you the feeling of aflflietiou and indignation in which this cruel event 
has j)Iunged them. They arc not uneasy about the future of your great nation, 
because they know that with a free people the fate of their institutions does not 
depend upon the life of one man, however illustrious he may be, but they do 
not the less consider it is a duty to deplore v/ith you the death of the excellent 
man whose name will be inscribgd by history by the side of that of Washing- 
ton. 

n. LEMASSON. LEMASSOTs^ Pere. 

P.LEMASSON,FiLS. • S. JERET. 

KD. GUYOMARD. G. ARGUINT. 

J. M. THOMAS. HILARY. 

G. LEl'OIJNEE. 0. DONIELL. 

LE(!U()YOT. RLE COY. 

A. BERNARD. H. LEBENAFF. 

And others. 



[Translation] 

Sir : At the terrible news now resounding throughout the whole world, the 
hearts ot all French masons are filled with sorrow. They have shed tears of 
sympathy for the glorious death of one, who, after having used the hammer, 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 59 

square, aud compass, those living implements of our immortal society, raised 
himself by his genius, his virtues, aud spotless life, to be the great chief of the 
American people. 

The most holy causes, by a necessary consecration, liave always had their 
martyrs ; and Abraham Lincoln will be reckoned as one of them, the noblest 
victim of duty. 

The New Friendship Lodge of Grasse lends its voice to the echo of universal 
regret of French free masonry. 

It does not forget that if all men are brothers, France aud America are still 
closer united by this sublime bond, and trusts that a supreme consolation will 
reach the soul of Abrahaua Lincoln. 

No ! the grand villain's crime cannot destroy the great work of the immortal 
citizen. A final peace and the abolition of slavery are the just fruits of his glo- 
rious conduct, and these rewards of his martyrdom will show the world what 
the devotion of a noble heart can do against the prejudices of ignorance. 

Receive, sir, the assurance of our most respectful consideration. 

(Signed by all the officers of the lodge ; names cannot be read ) 

A similar letter is addressed by this lodge to the Grand Lodge of New York, 
and a sealed letter to Mrs. Lincoln. 



[Translation.] 



To all the Free Mascms of the Grand Lodge of New York, hy their brothers 
the United Benefactors of Gentilhj. 

Most Illustrious Brothers : The holy cause of liberty has one martyr 
more. The secular work of emancipation of the human race began the day 
when tyranny took the place of fraternity between the strong aud the weak ; was 
continued in the Parthenon and on Calvary ; then by reform and revolution has 
finally gained a new victory in the United States, where again the blood of the 
just has been shed. It is one of the laws of human development that no change 
can be effected in the social or political order without terrible convulsions, and 
at the sacrifice of the most precious lives. A victim of his devotion to the eter- 
nal principles of justice and truth, the very illustrious brother, Abraham Lin- 
coln, has given his life for the love of his country and his fellow-creatures, thus 
setting the most noble example a masonic brother can give to his brethren — 
transiit benefaciendo ! 

The horrid crime that felled him in the hour of victory has carried pain and 
consternation into every heart. Let us mourn ! Free masonry has suifered an 
irreparable loss. Let us mourn ! For persecuted virtue only triumphs after 
long and frightful struggles, aud after most cruel sacrifices. 

But let us hope that the blood of Abraham Lincoln has not been shed in vain. 
The redeemer of the black race will hereafter be numbered among the benefac- 
tors of the human race. 

Brothers, you will complete the work of the great aud generous citizen, whose 
name will shine in history by the side of that of Washington ; the founder and 
restorer of the American Union will go down to posterity together. Courage, 
brothers, courage ! Shivery of the body is conquered ; but slavery of the soul, 
the worst kiud of servitude, yet remains. Let us face it boldly ; we in the old 
continent, you in the new. Let us struggle to destroy the ignorance and pre- 
judices that yet enslave the human mind. 

Our zeal in effecting the complete emancipation of the human race is the great- 
est and most worthy homage we can render to the memory of the eminent man 
whose premature aud tragic end is now deplored by all free masonry. 



60 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE, 

Brethren of tlie Grancl Lodge of New York, receive the sincere expression of 
our ardent sympathy. Let our hearts form a chain of union. B'raternity knows 
no distance ; let us stretch our hands across the Athintic. Our thought is in 
you, as yours is in us. 

Your devoted brothers of the United Benefactors. 

Honorary Venerable, LECAILLIER. 
Venerable, OAMPAGNE. 
1st W. DEGONY. Orator. 
2d W. V. FREQUDRE, Simors. 
Secretary, E PERREOHAY. 
Almoner, BOURNIR. 
Treasurer, GUENDIN. 

And many others. 



[Translation.] 



The abominable crime of Wilkes Booth has thrown into your hands all the 
duties and all the powers of the great republic of the United States. 

The Free Masons who assemble at the Orient of Gaillac (Tarn) in the Lodge 
of St. John, under the distinctive title of Orion, wish to express to you their 
eentimonts of admiration, gratitude, and regret for Lincoln, and their profound. 
Bym])athy for the government of which you are the head. 

The blood of your martyred magistrate becomes a fecundating dew to give to 
liberty a new baptism throughout the entire universe. 

Sound democracy laments Lincoln in blessing his memory. God has received 
him into glory, and his wisdom inspires you. We, the members of this lodge, 
ealute you in the name of the true children of light. 

GARY. 
P. NIGAL. 
DEMURE. 
CASSAGNES. 
PANTHE. 
And many others. 
Mr. Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States of America. 



[Translation.] 

To the senators and representatives of the American Congress: 

Gkntlemen: We, Creoles of Guadeloupe, of African descent, wish to ex- 
press the profound sorrow we feel at the loss your great republic has suffered 
in die person of its illustrious President, Abraham Lincoln. 

This event, which has shocked the civilized world and all the true friends of 
the northern cause, the cause of the freedom of an oppressed race, cannot find 
us indiffi-rent.^ Therefore we hasten to lay before you the solemn testimony of 
our sincere grief and cordial sympathy on this occasion of the ever to be regretted 
loss of the eminent statesman to whom you had intrusted the destinies of the 
Union, and to take part in the mourning of the land of Washington and Jeffer- 
son, those glorious heroes whose virtue will ever be the eulogy of posterity for 
one who will henceforward be placed by their side in the history of humanity, 
Abraham Lincoln. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 61 

Accept, gentlemen, with our regrets, the wishes we express for the prosperity 
of the American republic, and for the triumph of the great principles of liberty 
and equality. 

A. GABRIEL. 

P. GIRAUD. 

CELESTIN NICOLAS. 

F. BLANC. 

SYL. BORY. 

O. ST. .JULIEN. 

DL. DAGUIN. 

C. DUMAS. 

And many others. 



[Translatiou.] 

Lyons, Fkancb, Ma?/ 30, 1865. 

Citizen President: The republicans of Lyons were profoundly moved on 
hearing the news of the crime committed upon your illustrious predecessor, and 
a fraternal feeling inspires them with the sacred duty of sending their sad i-egrets 
to the free country of which you have the honor of being the Chief Magistrate. 
We have witnessed all the phases of the gigantic struggle sustained with so 
much energy by the much lamented Abraham Lincoln. We participated in all 
the emotions of republicans faithful to the Union, and we meet them with our 
sympathies. 

Our city, by its manufactures, is more closely united to the republic of the 
United States than any other in France, and in our feelings fur your losses we 
have still closer ties. The war has injured us by paralyzing our industry ; but 
like you, we preferred conquest to compromise, because it insured the true prin- 
ciples of universal freedom. 

We wish these expressions of our sympathy to be communicated to your 
Congress, and desire them to be made known to all the citizens of America who 
have been so brave in their duty, so invincible in their liberty. Let them know 
that in France they have brothers who appreciate their patriotic efforts, and like 
them love liberty, and understand the power of institutions that resist assassin- 
ations and oppose conspiraces. 

Honor to Mr. Lincoln! eternal regrets to his venerated memory; and may 
his glorious name become the pledge of alliance between the American republic 
and the democracy of Europe. 

Members of the committee : 

THIVOLLET, President, 
And many others. 

The President. 

P. S. — The republicans of Lyons hope soon to send an honorary banner 
dedicated to the memory of Mr. Lincoln. 

THIVOLLET. 



[Translation.] 

Lyons, April 28, 1S65. 
Permit us, the undersigned, to offer to the American people, through you, Mr. 
President, the expression of our poignant grief caused by the cowardly and 

Note. — The silk weavers of Lyons subsequently presented the United States j^overnment 
with tlie banner above referred to, woven without seam, and on which an inscription was 
splendidly embroidered iu silver. 



62 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

odiotis crime that has plunged all friends of the Union into mourning. Strangers 
to politics, wc, members of the evangelical alliance of Lyons, who have many 
frii-nd^ in your country, feel as Christians the necessity of telling you how much 
we rejoice in the triumph of your holy cause, the abolition of slavery ; but this 
triumph was crowned by martyrdom; for it we shed tears, but feel it is a great 
Ptaiu on the garments *of iniquity, though it is one more pledge of victory. 
Already during the course of your long struggle the Christians of France have 
taken the occasion to send to their brothers in America words of cordial sym- 
pathy. Our prayers were united with yours. We sighed at the thought of so 
much bloodshed, and prayed for the end of the fratricidal war. To-day our 
jiravers are heard. Millions of human beings have felt their fetters fall. We 
thank God for it. We will continue to ask aid from on high to heal so many 
wounds, to comfort so many widows and orphans, and to raise from Lincoln's 
tomb such spirits as may bless the world. The gospel makes it our duty to 
pray for princes — for those in high power — for rulers of a people, and we fulfil 
this duty towards the President of the United States. May the Lord, the author 
of all grace, endow him Avith many benedictions. 

Accept, Mr. President, the homage of our most profound respect. 
Members of the committee of the evangelical alliance of Lyons: 

S. DESCOMBAZ, 

fastor and President. 
E. MILSAM. 
DAPvDIER. 
FELIX FOY. 
Eev. C. A. CORUES. 
J. WALTHER. 
Rev. J. KIRCHOFER. 
The President of thr United States. 



[Trauslatioh.] 

To the glory of the Great Architect of the Universe. The Lodge of Toleration 
and Progress, 2ith day rf the od month, in the year of light 5S65. Wisdom, 
strength, union. 

Sir: The honest peojde of all countries are struck with horror at the crime 
to which the illustrious Abraham Lincoln has fallen a victim, and in the masonic 
lodges especially, devoted to benevolence and the relief of human suffering, the 
death of the glorious martyr has filled all hearts with profound sorrow. This 
respectable Lodge of Toleration and Progress, in the Orient of Lure, (Upper 
Saone,) at its session the 10th of May instant, requested me to forward to you 
this testimony of their sympathy for the memory of Brother Lincoln. 

Receive the moraage of my high consideration. 

The Venerable COUTHERAT, 

Notary at Lure. 

The Minister of the United States. 



[Trcanslation. ] 
L'ESCOLE DE LA MoRALE LoDGE OF LiBOURNE, 

lQ>tJi day of the od vionth, in the year of light 5865. 
Our emotions were deep on hearing the news of the crime committed upon 
the person of your President, Mr. Lincoln, our illustrious brother. The lodge 
unanimously resolved, at a called session, to wear mourning for three months, 
m token of the deep affliction caused by the loss of him who was among the 
greatest benefactors of the human race. 



SEXTBIENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 63 

Have tlie gooduess to accept this decision, and regard it as a proof of our 
deep attachment to and our feeling for the noble cause you so worthily defend. 
We have the honor to be your very humble and very devoted servants, 

AUDRIER. 

J. GALLET, Jr. 

J. iAIOlUA. M. 

CASTANET. 

PUJO. 

KREMP. 
His Excellency the MIiMSTEr 

of the United States oj America, at Paris. 



[Trauslation.] 

Macon, May 16, 1865. 
The R. L. of Comhined Arts at Macon to the President of the United States : 

The masonic lodge known by the distinctive name of Les Art Reunis 
Orient de Macon, wishing to associate itself with the universal mourning caused 
by the horrible crime committed by a wretch on ihe respected person of Presi- 
dent Lincoln, begs you to please to become to your countrymen the interpreter 
of its deep sorrow and its sympathies. 

It is for us, Eree Masons, who know no distinction of race or color — who re- 
ceive without distinction into our templos the prosperous of this world in the 
same manner as the disinherited, and who believe sincerely in human brother- 
hood — it is for us, to express aloud to your brave nation all the sorrow that ma- 
sonry has felt in learning that the worthy man twice oalled by the suffrages of 
his countrymen to preside over the destinies of your great republic, had been 
cowardly assassinated at the moment when his task seemed done. 

After such a misfortune we can only say to you, courage, brave defenders of 
the oppressed against oppression, of the wretched slave against the unpitying 
master — courage, your cause is gained ! 

The death of the glorious martyr of equality and fraternity tbat we mourn 
to-day will not hinder the accomplishment of his Avork of redemption; as the 
genius of Voltaire has survived his profaned remains, the spirit of Lincoln will 
survive his mutilated body. 

As for yourself, Mr. President, may you be his worthy continuation — finish 
breaking the chains of the poor slave — this new brother you have to protect, 
to instruct, and to love. 

Please to receive, Mr. President, the assurance of our svm[)athies. 

Ti;e Venerable (in function) F. MARTINELLE, 

The Second fiS) Supervisor. 
The First Supervisor, VINCAUX, M. 

The Venerable ad vitam. Leger IS, COliFFAKD, FiLS. 
The Orator, FRAUEN GUERIN. 
^'"'■^'^ OF THE Ti^ Keeper of Seals and Stamp, BERTHELON. 



By order of the lodge 



DAVID. 



The Secretary, Bertraxt. 

VICTOR JAMES, 6?. 1 Exjj. VICTOR^ M. 

LAMP.ERT. JAXVIER. 

MAUDELEIN MOULET. GAMBER. 

LAURENT. E. LOISOT, Sergeant Major. 

BREMONT. G. BORGIA. 



64 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COKRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

To the glory of the Great Arrliiiect of the Universe. Under the auspices of the 
Grand Order of.Frar^e, Order of Melz, this 10th May, 1865, of the vulgar 
era, and St. John's Lodge, all under the title of The Friends of Truth. 

To the Ambassador of the United States. 

Ekspeitkd Sir : At a time when exclamations of condemnation arise in all 
part? of the world against the horrid crime of which President Lincoln has been 
the victim, free masonry would be derelict to its duty if it did not raise its 
voice in expression of profound grief for his death, sympathy with the adversa- 
ries of slavery, and its esteem and admiration for the great and good man, so 
great a loss to the American Union. 

The members of the lodge of The Friends of Truth, in Metz, decided, in their 
session of the eighth of this month, that the banner of their lodge should be 
draped in black for a month, as mourning for and in honor of the memory ot 
President Lincoln, who, by his death, the result of his devotion to a holy cause, 
has gained a glorious place in history; and that an address, signed by the five 
dignitaries, should be sent to you in expression of the participation of the Metz 
lodge in the universal mourning for the loss of the good man, who, by his up- 
rightness, his loyalty, his public and private virtues, his devotion, and his be- 
nevolence, carries to his grave the great regrets and profound esteem of all good 
people. 

Uoping the address may be favorably received, we beg you will accept the 
most respectful homage of the members of the Metz lodge. 

THIERY, W. M. 

P. MESSE, >S. Warden. 

JANON, J. Warde?i. 

CARRE RE, Orator. 

INCIENSUr, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 
M0NTAUBAx\ AND ToULOUSE, May 3, 1865. 

Sir : We appear, in our two-fold capacity, as members of the French Pro- 
testant church and as correspondents of the London Society for the Abolition 
of Slavery, to express to you our profound and painful sympathy, felt on hear- 
ing of the atrocious crime committed on the person of your honorable Presi- 
dent, Mr. Abraham Lincoln. 

Li him the United States has lost the most upright and the best of citizens ; the 
blacks, a wise and firm supporter of their emancipation ; and humanity a strong 
defender of order, justice, and liberty. The death of none of our contemporaries 
could have caused more regret, or produced a more universal mourning ; and 
this homage has been well deserved, for Abraham Lincoln, next to Washington, 
will leave to history a name the most worthy of respect. He knew how to 
reconcile moderation with the maintenance of right, and the sentiments of a faith- 
ful Christian with the highest virtues of the citizen. 

AV e bow to the mysterious ways of Providence, and we hope that this event, 
sad as it is, may tend, in the hands of iiim who can bring good from evil, to 
hasten the re-establishment of the great American Union, and to remove the last 
romaiiinig obstacles to the complete emancipation of the slaves. 

TI'c conscientious portion of humanity had already declared for the north, be- 
cau,-e It upheld a just and holy cause, audit will become bolder advocates after 
this hoiTid crime that has soiled southern partisans ; and we are happy in think- 
ing that the greater part of the rebels themselves will wash their hands of this 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 65 

stain, and hasten to recognize tlic legitimate aiitliority of their country and its 
proper laws. 

Have the kindness, sir, to be our interpreter of our sympathies to Mrs. Lin- 
coln and to the American nation, and accept for yourself the expression of our 
respectful and devoted sentiments. 

G. DE FELICE, D. D., 
Prqfcsso?- of Theology at Mimtauhan. 
FRANK COURTOIS, 

Banl-er in Toulouse. 
ARMAN COUTOIS, 

Banker in Toulouse. 
Although I do not belong to the committee for slave emancipation, I am 
happy to join in the sentiments expressed by my friends in tlu! preceding letter, 
and take pleasure in embracing this occasion to manifest my profound affection 
for the American people. 

LAFORGUE, 
President of the Toulouse Consistory. 
The United States Minister, Pans. 



[Translation.] 
Lodge of St. John of Jerusalem to the United States Minister at Paris. 

Nancy, May 24, 1865. 

Sir: If the savage crime perpetrated upon your illustrious President has ex- 
cited the indignation of all civilized nations, much more sensibly has it been 
felt by the gi-eat masonic association that gloried in calling Mr. Lincoln one of 
its children. 

Sprung from the people, he won the highest position in his country by his 
industry, merit, and intelligence, and honored it by his deeds. Unwavering in 
the teirible struggle, in his gentleness he forgot and pardoned in the; hour of 
victory ; and, like a truly great man, by his persevering energy united a nation 
dismembered by egotism and ambition ; and by severing the chains of slavery, 
had the honor of restoring to the human race one branch of the family too long 
neglected. His glory is now united to that of George Washington and Benja- 
min Franklin, his immortal countrymen. The Free Masons belonging to the 
Lodge of St. John of Jerusalem, at Nancy, join in the universal mourning, and 
request you to assure the brethren in America their regrets are shared, and 
that we feel in all its bitterness the grief of the heroic citizens of the Union. 
They bow with profound respect before the sorrow of Mrs. Lincoln. 

Accept the expression of our most respectful sentiments. 

LA FLIZE, the Venerahle. 
B. TISSERANl), S. W. 



By order of the secretary : 



[Translation.] 



G. THIEBAULT, J. W. ' 
ED, LAUMANC, Orator. 

L. FRANK. 



NiMBS, May 3, 18G5. 



To the United States Minister in Paris: 

We have the honor of transmitting to you in this envelope the address of our 
house, on the occasion of the death of the great American citizen, whom we and 
the whole world lament. 
5 A 



66 APrENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

We join in tliis universal nianifet-talion of sorrow, and ask you to send our 
honiJigf to its address. 

lleceive the respectful greeting of your very liuniblo servants, 

^ L0U16 & CASIMIR DIDETT, 

Fat/ier and son, hat munufacturers in Nimes. 



[Translation.] 

Madam Li.xcola : Will you have the goodness, madam, to receive the ex- 
pression of our sincere regret, and permit us to lament with you the immense 
loss which you have just experienced in the person of the greatest and most 
honest citizen in the universe. 

Yes, we deeply lament the loss of the man who, sprung from the laboring class, 
has, by li:s intelligence, energy, and virtue, earned the glory of crealiug e(|Liality 
in his country by the abolition of slavery. 

Let all America accept the wishes wh.ch we sincerely feel for the prosperity 
of her noble country ; and let the fam ly of that great man believe in our affec- 
tionate sentiments, with M'hich we have the honor to be your devoted servants. 
(Here follo\V thirty-three signatures.) 



Nice, France, May 1, 1865. 
To his Excellency Andrew Johnson, Presidtnt of the United States: 

The undersigned, Americans residing at Nice, desire to express to you the 
profound sorrow they feel in hearing of the abominable crime which has de- 
prived the United States of the pure and noble-hearted Abraham Lincoln. 

Their faith remains unshaken, however, that under God's protection, the 
republic, already victorious over a wicked rebellion, will come out of its trials 
purer and stronger than it ever has been, and they earnestly pray that God 
may bless and sustain you to complete the great work so faithfully carried on 
by your lamented predecessor. 

Mrs. JOHN WURTS, New York. 

Mrs. jAiMES LESLEY, Philadelphia. 

Mrs. JAMES LESLEY, Jr., Phdadelphia. 

li. M. DEL CASTILLO, Louisiana. 

Mrs. JANE II. ELWOOD, New York. 

FRANK W. ELWOOD, New York. 

Mrs. E. C. KINNEY\ 

ALBERT DA13AD1E, Philadelphia, 

Mrs. F. A. DEPAU, Philadelphia. 

COUNTESS BOUXHOWDEN, Bordentown, N.J. 

JULIA P. PILATTE, Virginia. 

CHARLES 0. HALL, Massachussetts. 

Mrs. CHARLES O. HALL, Massachussetts. 



Mr. Bi gel 010 to Mr. Seacard. 

^0- ^56.] Legation of the United States, 

Paris, April 28, 1865. 
Sir : An aide-de-camp of the Emperor called early yesterday morning at the 
legation, officially to testify the horror and sorrow which his Majesty expe- 
rienced on learning the crime which had just deprived the United States of its 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 67 

Presiflpnt. On the recoipt of the first repni-t, his Mnjesty had refused to credit 
it, but a second despatch later in the evening left no room to doubt its correct- 
ness. It was then too late to send to the legation, but the aide-de-camp Avas 
instructed to come at an early hour the next morning to express the sentiments 
of his Majt'sty, and to request, on behalf of the Emperor, that I would transmit 
an expression of them to the Vice President. 

It is my duty to add my conviction that his Majesty, in the communication 
which he has requested me to make, is but a faithful interpreter of the senti- 
ments of his subjects, who have received the intelligence with a unanimous 
expression of horror for the crime and of sympathy for its victims. 

You will find some of the evidence of this in the journals which I send you. 

I have been occupied most of the afternoon in receiving deputations from 
students and others, who have called to testify their sorrow and sympathy. 
Unfortunately, their feelings were so demonstrative in some instances as to 
prov 'ke the intervention of the police, who would only allow them in very 
limited numbers through the streets. One of the delegations told me that 
there were three thousand of them who would have wished to have united in 
a formal expression of their feelings, if the police had not stopped them. I 
am sorry to hear that some have been sent to prison in consequence of an 
intemperate expression of their feelings. I can now count sixteen policemen 
from my window patrolling about in the neighborhood, who occasionally stop 
persons calling to see me, and in some instances, I am told, send them away. 

I had no idea that Mr. Lincoln had such a hold upon the heart of the young 
gentlemen of France, or that his loss would be so properly appreciated. 

I have received many letters of condolence already from distinguished citizens, 
of which I send copies of two ; the first from his excellency Drouyn de Lhuys 
and the second from his Imperial Highness Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte. 

I must reserve for another mail the expression of my own feelings under a 
dispensation which has almost paralyzed me, and which yet seems to me like 
the revelations of a troubled dream. I hope this may find you recovering from 
your wnunds, and mercifully sustained under the great trials with which God 
has been pleased to visit you and yours. 

I am, sir, with great respect, your veiy obedient servant, 

JOHN BIGELOW, 

Hon. "William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State, S^x., c^c, ^r. 



[Extract.] • 

Mr. Bigelow to Mr. Seward. 

No. 87.] Legation of the Umteu States, 

Paris, May 3, 1865. 

Sir : His excellency the minister of foreign affairs wa,s kind enough, on 
Saturday last, the ^9th of April, to read, and at the same time to hand me, a 
copy of a communication which he had made, by order of the Emperor, to the 
French minister at Washington in reference to our recent national bereavement. 
His excellency also intVumed me that it would be communicated to both of the 
legislative branches of the government on the JMonday following. It would 
have been communicated on the day it was shown to inc if the corps legislatif 
had been in session. 

As I had been notified, his excellency Mr. Vuitry, minister president of the 
council of state, at the opening of the senate yesterday, and by order of the 
Emperor, read the despatch tu which I have referred, and added that he hoped 



GS ArPEXDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COKEESPONDENCE. 

the monitors of the senate would unite in the sentiments which the Emperor* 
lad chai-i^ed liim to testify to them. , . . , r .1 

The president of the senate, M. Troplong, replymg m the name of the 
as^eiiihly to the commissioner of the government, declared that the senate 
shared entirely the views of the Emperor ; that it had been struck with the 
game sorrow and even indignation when it heard of the attempt made upon the 
person of a citizen borne to the supreme power by the free choice of his 
countrv; that this sorrow could only be increased by the recollection of the 
noble "^sentiments of moderation and of conciliation manifested in the recent 
proclamation of President Lincoln. 

The president, Troplong, then proposed, and the senate unanimously voted, 
its adhesion to the sentiments of the despatch to the French minister at 
"Washington in the usual form. 

The same communication was simultaneously submitted to the corpi? legis- 
latif by his excellency Monsieur Eouher, minister of state, with a few im- 
pressive remarks. The vice-president, Schneider, interpreting the feelings of 
the assembly-, expressed its horror at the crime which had been thus brought 
to their notice, and announced that the corps legislatif shared completely the 
sentiments of the government. * * * * * 

I am, sir, with great respect, your very obedient servant, 

JOHN BIGELOW. 

Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State, S^-c., Sfc, SjV 



Mr. Bigelow to M) . Seward 
[Extract.] 

No. 90.] Legation of the Umted States, 

Paris, May 10, 1865. 
Sir : At my suggestion a meeting was held at this legation on Tuesday, the 
2d instant, which appointed a committee of nine to prepare an address that 
should express the feelings inspired among them by the horrible crimes perpe- 
trated at the seat of government on the night of the 14th of April. 

On Tuesday, the 9lh instant, the committee, at the legation and in the pres- 
ence of a large concourse of our country people, pi'esented me the address, which 
they had ]#reparcd in compliance with their instructions, and which was signed 
by several hundred Americans. * * * * * 

You will find also that the address and reply have been deemed worthy of the 
hospitality of the Moniteur of this morning, a grace which will probably insure 
their general circulation throughout France. 

It would have been more satisfactory to our colony here, because more in ac- 
cordance with our national usages, to have held a public meeting, in the exercises 
of which there could have been a more general participation ; but, in view of the 
profound excitement produced throughout France by the events which would 
constitute the pretext for holding such a meeting, I did not think proper to give 
to such a dt'monstration any encouragement. A funeral service, conducted by 
the respective^ pastors, was held in both the American chapels here on different 
days, and both had an overflowing attendance. 

The expressions of sympathy which reach me daily from every quarter are 
to me, as an American, of the most gratifying, I might indeed say of the most 
thitlering character. The press of the metropolis shows sufficiently how over- 
whelming is the public sentiment. Among innumerable written testimonials of 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 69 

?vmpathy, I have received some from public bodies and from groups of people 
wliicli I propose to seud you as soon as I have euoiigh copying force liberated 
to prepare them. 

I am, sir, with great respect, your very obedient servant, 

JOHN BIGELOW. 
nou. William H. Seward, 

iSccretarij of Hate, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Bigdoiv to Mr. Seward. 

No. 109.] Legation of the United States, 

Paris, May 31, 1SG5. 

Sir : Among the manifold testimonials of sympathy elicited by the assassin- 
ation of our late Piesident, some have seemed worthy of being transmitted to 
Washington to be read, and, perhaps, placed among the archives of the govern- 
ment ; others have other destinations, for reaching which the facilities of the 
State Department are more or lest requisite. I transmit them in a body, 
trusting that you will give them, respectively, their proper direction. 

I have divided them into three categories : the first categoiy consists of eleven 
letters addressed to Mrs. Lincoln ; the second category consists of twenty-nine 
communications from masonic lodges, three addressed to President Johnson, 
eighteen to the United States minister at Paris, and eight to American lodges ; 
the third category consists of four letters and addresses to heads of the govern- 
ment, and of twenty-eight to the United States minister at Paris — making in all 
seventy-two enclosures. 

Though these form but a small proportion, numerically, of the testimonials of 
sympathy which have been already addressed to me by the people of France, and 
a still smaller proportion of those yet to be expected, they will sufiice to show 
not only how profoundly the nation was shocked by the dreadful crime which 
terminated President Lincoln's earthly career, but how deep a hold he had 
taken upon the respect and affections of the French people. It is difficult to 
exaggerate the enthusiasm which his name inspires among the masses of Europe 
at this moment — an enthusiasm before which the ruling classes, however little 
disposed to waste compliments upon anything tainted with republicanism, are 
obliged to incline. I think it is generally conceded that the death of no man 
has ever occurred that awakened such prompt and universal sympathy at once 
among his own country people and among foreign nations. There can be no 
better evidence that the world is advancing in civilization than this unprece- 
dented and spontaneous homage to the virtues of Mr. Lincoln. It shows that 
the moral standard of nations has been greatly exalted within the memory of 
living men. It does not deserve to be reckoned among the secondary achieve- 
ments of our people during the last four years to have furnished the world with 
such a striking demonstration of this gratifying trut,h. 

I am, sir, with great respect, your very obedient servant, 

JOHN BIGELOW. 

Hon. WiLLiAiM H. Seward, 

Sec7etary of State. 



[Trauslation. ] 

Paris, Afril 26, 1S65. 

Sir : I believe I am fulfilling a duty, but a very painful one, in begging you 
to accept the expression of the profound arHiction i feel in hearing of the death 
of President Lincoln. The sympathy with which that great man has honored 



70 ArrEXDix to diplomatic correspondence. 

my father's iromoiy, increases my profound regret. This regret shall be 
eh-nrd hv all uobh; hearts in all countries; and the glorious name of Lincoln, 
Etaiuling by the side of Washington's, shall be the everlasting honor of your 

great niuiblic. . . 

With great respect and cordial fraternity, I have the honor to be, sir, your 

very obedient servant, _ 

PIERRE NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. 

;Mr. BitiKLOW, 

United States Minister in Paris. 



[Translation.] 

Paris, May ], 1'865. 

Cni/KN ]\riMSTER : President Lincoln has fallen by the assassin's pistol; 
the representative of a democracy of noble and consistent virtues has fallen Iq 
the hour of his triumph — has fallen at a happy time, after a hundred battles, as 
calm iu victory as he w as firm in defeat, and, like a new AVashihgton, has saved 
the great republic. 

A glorious and enviable death ! Lincoln died a victim of his great idea, that 
of safety to his ccmntry and liberty for all. He belonged to the race of strong 
men; he is now numbered among the martyrs. 

Let America know that all enthusiasm is not extinct in the youth of France; 
the blow that destroyed Lincoln still agitates their hearts. 

American democracy has lost only one of its greatest citizens ; in that land 
of liberty, if a hero falls, whether he be named Washington or Lincoln, the 
country is not lost; its destinies depend not on a single man; the living virtue 
of democracy is iu itself. 

We must not be concerned ; we are sure, in spite of what has happened, ia 
spite of traitor Davis, whose malign influence has been exorcised by the great 
and good man, that the patriotic idea of a country in peril, the idea of Grant, 
Sheridan, and Sherman, supported by liberty, will finish the work begun by 
Abraham Lincoln. 

Be assured, that the bloody drama of which America has just been the 
scene, awakens the warmest sympathies of the youth of France. 

May the double crime that has just laid President Lincoln in the tomb, and- 
Mr. Seward upon a painful bed of sickness, be soon avenged by the complete 
establishment of the American Union. 

Li the name of the young men of France. The selected reporters. 

ETIENNE HANAU, 

No. 28, Prince IStreet. 



3[r. BlliKLOW, 

U/iitcd States Mirdstcr i?i Paris. 



y. MARCHAL 



[Translation.] 

Clkiment Friendship Lodge, 

Paris, Maij 14, 1S65. 
Sir : Impressed with profound grief for the death of Abraham Lincoln, this 
lodge has unanimously decided to assume mourning for the space of three months. 
Pursuant to this vote, taken at the session on the 4th of May, instant, it was 
decreed as follows : 

^1 he banner shall remain draped in mourning three months; 
The olficers shall wear crape on their insignia ; 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 71 

A mortnary salvo sliall be fired at each session. 

Pleasp remit to your countryinea this expression of onr regret for the immense 
loss we have all sustained. 

We masons mourn him, not only as a brother, but as a friend of the whole 
human race. His name will live, not only as the syml'ol of the abtdition of 
slavery, but it will remain as the highest expression of that spirit of justice 
which is the foundation of every social edifice. 

Four years of rude experience and terrible vicissitudes could not stagger his 
faith in the progress of human liberty and in the justice of the principle of the 
equality of races. 

As right and victory coincided, not an unjust act tarnished the holy cause 
during his patriotic life. Lincoln's first thought was the mason's motto : fra- 
ternity. His last act was pardon, forgetfulness. 

People of the American Union, may his generous blood be the last to flow in the 
saintly cause of liberty ! Be assured the great soul of him who was your chief 
will rejoice if, vising his clemency after victory, you Avill cause the spirit of in- 
tegrity, of which he has set the example, to prevail throughout the entire land. 

Please, sir, make known our sentiments of condolence to the bereaved widow 
and family of the great citiz'n whom we all regret. 

Accept the assurance of our high consideration. 

JBERINGER, 
^Faster of t/te Clement Frienclshij^ Lodge. 

By order of the lodge : 

CHOTARD, CJiif Secretary. 

Mr. BlGELOW, 

(Jiiiled States Minister in Paris. 



[Translation.] 

Oriental Loucje of Paris, 

May 8, 1865, (common era.) 

Sir : The lodge entitled Triumphant Friends, truly interpreting the fraternal 
feelings which should animate all Free Masons, requests you to transmit to the 
American people the expression of profound sorrow at the horrible assassination 
of ]\[r. Abraham Lincoln. 

As a worthy expression of regret, the lodge has decided to drape its banner 
in mourning fin- three months. It sincerely desires the prosperity of your coun- 
try, the abolition of slavery, and the reign of liberty. 

Please accept, sir, for yourself and your fellow-citizens, the expression of our 
profound sympathy. 

For the Lodge of Triumphant Friends, 

MOTARD, TF. M., 

Ko. 15 Avenue Clignancoiirt. 

TJie United Sta'fes Minister, Paris. 



[Translation.] 

To the glory of the Great Architect of the Vniversc. In the name and under the 
aMsjnce.<. (f the Grand Order of France. Cltajiter of Mars and the Arts. 
Union, strength, tvisdom. 

Orient of Paris, 
May 11, 1865, (common era.) 
To the Minister of the United States of America, greeting : 

Sir: The sad misfortune which has recently happened to the great American 
republic has vividly impressed us, and we meet, for the first time since the hor- 



72 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

rid crime of the 14tli of April, to protest most sincerely against the flagitious 
tendeiu-ic.'^ of that monstrous moral aberration, suggested by some sinister doc- 
trine, which would make an act of heroism and devotion out of a political as- 
saairiiialioii. But, for the honor of humanity, we behold with pride that ener- 
getic expressions of condemnation have arisen from all quarters against this 
insane act, this revolting doctrine. 

And now, sir, sufter us to express the profound sympathy we feel for a people 
that have destroyed slavery, the great social evil, and for the illustrious citizen 
who, amidst the"^hardest tnals, has ever been true to the regenerative mission he 
accepted. 

Happy tlie country that gives birth to such men, and glory to the institutions 
in which such powerful individualities can be developed without danger to the 
nation. They are the true representatives of God upon the earth, who have 
such a comprehension of his justice; and of them it maybe said, they are sent 
by Providence, the messiahs of civilization and progress. The work wliich they 
accomplish exalts them so high that they cannot be termed citizens of any par- 
ticuhir country, for they are citizens of all ; and though one single nation may 
claim them, their name belongs to all humanity and their death becomes an uni- 
versal mourning. For this reason every lover of liberty has the right to weep 
with you over the premature death of Abraham Lincoln. But a .stronger bond, 
a more intimate union, than the common tie united us particularly to his great 
heart. 

Abraham Lincoln was our brother. Let us not be astonished then that he 
persevered so courageously in that moral work, the emancipation of the blacks, 
in the name of the grand })riiiciple of human dignity, which he understood so 
well. Like us, "he knew^ that all men are equal, all brothers, whatever their 
race ; and that there is nothing true but liberty, equality, fraternity, and justice. 

Be then, dear sir, our interpreter with the people of the Union. Tell them 
that wc share their grief, that we participate in their hopes, and that we pray 
for peace over the entire land of America. 

Bear our condolence to the bereaved family that has purchased the freedom 
of your beautiful and g-reat country with the blood of such a mighty sacrifice. 
May the testimony of respect and sincere sympathy which reaches her from so 
many alleviate the heaviness of her incomparable sorrow. 

The Lodge of Mars and the Arts, in solemn meditation, fired a funeral salute 
in honor of the ilhistritms dead, and decreed that the lodge banner should be 
draped in mourning of crape for the space of three mouths. 

Accept the assurance of our distinguished sentiments. 

LEON RICHER. 

Adopted in solemn session, the 11th of May, 1865. 

FELIX GUILLON, Secretary. 



[Tianslatiou.] 

Union, .soUdity, strength, fraternity. Scotch Lodge, No. 146, The Right Line. 
Extract from the minutes of tlie session of April 29, 1865, of the lodge called 
The Straight Line. 

The Free Masons of this lodge, in the Orient of Paris, unanimously decide to 
send an address to the citizen Vice-President, of the United States, in expres- 
sion of the profound indignation of all true friends of liberty and human merit 
at tlie odious crime that has deprived a great nation of one of her most noble 
sons. 

'J he name of Abraham Lincoln is indelibly impressed in the memory of all 
men ; and the Free Masons of the Right Lme express a wish that his blood, in 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 73 

flowing for the linman race, may give life to the germ of liberty, tliat liberty 
to which Abraham Liucolii devoted his life, and fur which he died. 

The brethren of the llight Line, moreover, give expression to the confidence 
they have in the prosperity of the great republic that has fought so bravely for 
the abolition of slavery. 

NENE, Secretary. 

This is an authentic extract. 



[Translation.] 
Sovereign Chapter of the Friends of the Country, 

Paris, May 24, 1865. 

Sir : The Sovereign Chapter of the Friends of the Country, in the valley of 
Paris, expresses its cordial sympathy with the American people, and participates 
in the numerous manifestations of sorrow which have come from all parts of the 
Avorld on account of the event that deprived them of their Chief Magistrate. 

Immortal homage to the large heart that has inscribed the principle of human 
liberty upon the Constitution of the country by the abolition of slavery. Grloiy 
to our brother, Lincoln, Avho practiced the virtues inculcated by our order, and 
whom masonry is proud to number among the number of her children. 

Please send our tribute of respectful sorrow to the President of the American 
Union and to the family of the illustrious deceased. 

Accept the assurance of our most distinguished consideration, 

A. H. MORIN, 
For the Sovereign iJluvpter. 

By order : 

GRLHAN, Secretary. 

The Minister of tlie JJnited States of Afnerica, Paris. 



LTranslation.] 

From the lodge called JJ Avenir to the Ambassador of the United States. 

Paris, May 25, 1865. 
Sir : We fulfil a painful duty in expressing to you the profound emotion we 
feel and the bitter regret we have for the death of brother, Abraham Lincoln. 
Though born in an humble and modest condition, he raised himself to the high- 
est rank in the republic by his perseverance in good, by the superiority of his 
character, and by tlie excellence of his principles. By the votes of the north 
he was twice elected President. To him was reserved the glory of substan- 
tiating the dogma of human liberty upon the ruins of expiring slavery, and of 
effacing the shame that veiled the face of society for so many centuries. Diir- 
ing- the war that has been rending America, we admired the unwavering firmness 
of his design, the loftiness of his views, the disinterestedness of his spirit, his 
prudence in danger, his moderation in victory ; and when the Atlantic's waves 
cast the astounding news upon our shores, we uttered a deep cry of desolation 
and despair. . 

Rest in thy tomb, sublime and immortal dead ! Posterity Avill proclaim that 
you overcame the hydra of servitude, and crowned the triumph of liberty with 
the martyrdom of your Hie. 

Receive, sir, the assurance our most distinguished sentiments. 

Gl'ILLET, the Venerable. 

A. FAUZAIS, 1st Warden. 

ANTOINE BLATU, Secretary. 

PAUL MARITAIN, Speaker. 

CHARLES DORIOT, Keeper of the Seals. 



74 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

Scotch Masonic Lodge La Prevoyance, No. 88, Orient of Paris. 
[Translation.] 

To the United States Minister at Paris. 

Sru : Tlie "•uiltr hand that struck Mr. Abraham Lincoln to glut the ven- 
poaiicc of an unrelenting fanaticism selected the noblest and most glorious de- 
fender of the three principles all humanity is endeavoring to realize, namely : 
liberty, equality, and fraternity. The Masonic Lodge La Prevoyance, in obe- 
dience to the Supreme Council of Paris, asks you to transmit to the people of 
the United States the expression of sorrow and indignation felt by all its mem- 
bers on the reception of the news of the horrible crime. 

We hope the blood of the great citizen who willed and proclaimed equality 
of races in his country will be the last spilled in such a glorious cause and 
that the crime will have the effect of fecundating the germ of liberty and fra- 
ternity already planted in the soil. 

President Lincoln died for his country and for humanity ; and our lodge 
would be pleased to see all nations join in the erection of a monument to his 
meniorv in one of the public squares of New York. 

Accept the assurances of our symnathy with the great nation you represent. 

'j. A. HUPyr, Ven'h. 
H. CHANDELIER, 1*^ Warden. 
REBIEPvRE, 2d Warden. 
D. PARENT, Secretary. 
L. QUANQUIN, Orqtor. 
By order : 

DESGARDINS, Keeper of tJie Seals. 



Saint Jolin''s Lodge, No. 147. T//e Heroes rf Humanity. Extract froin the 
minutes of the working-book. 

[Translation. ] 

OiUENT OF Paris, May 20, 1865. 

Sir : All free masonry mourns the death of the President, Abraham Lincoln, 
and this lodge also regrets the loss of a man who was not only an honor to our 
order, but the firmest support of your young republic. 

We lament the death of the great citizen, the chosen spirit who trampled the 
prejudices of ancient routine under his feet and undertook the defence of the 
ojjpressed, devoting his entire life to the abolition of slavery. An indefatigable 
worker, impressed with the greatness of his cause, he spared no sacrifice to ac- 
complish hi? mission. He was struck down at the moment of victory, and his 
blood confirms the work of freedom. A true martyr to liberty, he could yet 
pardon his murderer. 

Assure his widow, Ids children, and all your citizens of our whole sympathy; 
tinui only can assuage their grief, and his spirit will be their protection. 

Accept the assurance of our affectionate sentiments. 

A. BAILLEUX. 

I'y order of the lodge : 

JULES GONJAT. 
Mr. P)i(.Ei.i)W, 

United States Minister at Paris. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 75 



The Ancient Accepted ScotrJi Rite. Universi terrarum orhis summi arcltitec- 
toris gloria ah ingeniis. Ordo ah cJiao. 

[Trausliitiou.] 

Paris, May 17, 1865. 
To tJie Minister of tlie United States. 

Sir : As interpreter of the sentiments of Scotch masonry in France, I must 
express to you the ju«t indignation and profound sorrow felt by all our lodges 
on hearing of the odious crime which has deprived North America of her illus- 
trious Prej'ident, Mr. Lincoln, whom we had the honor to count among our 
brothers. He had done his duty, hard and difficult as it was, and all that re- 
mained for him to accomplish was easy and agreeable. The world saw in him 
the repairer of all the evils produced by the most sanguinary of civil wars. His 
Avords of clemency and benevolence, coming spontaneously fiom his heart, were 
eagerly acceptfQ by the Avorld ; and the Scotch masons, whose thoughts and 
acts are directed by the spirit of charity, join in the same hope of all generous 
souls. The blow that felled one man has wounded a whole nation and deprived 
it of its greatest glory; and, though it has disturbed our happy predictions, we 
still hope his spirit Avill rule in the councils of liis successor. 

Have the kindness to convey to your new President the expi-ession of our 
fraternal sorrow, and to make known to the unhappy Avidow our participation 
in her misfortune. May she find some consolation in the expressions of sym- 
pathy that reach her from all quarters of the globe. 

We thank you. in advance for the favors expected, and ask you to accept the 
expression of the sentiments with which we have the honor to he, &c., 

VIENNET, 

Grand Commander of the Scotch Rite, and Monhcr rf the French Academy. 



[Trauslation. ] 

Lodge of Henry the Fourth, 

Pans, May 15, 1865. 

Sir : It is with feelings of profound grief that this lodge heard of the crime 
that strikes all Europe with consternation. At their first meeting, after paying 
a just tribute of regret for the martyr of a holy cause, they unanimously re- 
solved to address a testimonial of their sympathy to you, the representative of 
a great nation, the most generous and free on the globe, and which has been so 
cruelly tried. 

While we express horror at the assassination, we confess admiration for your 
institutions, which sustain you in this terrible catastrophe. Cjr :>d will not suffer 
the blood of the just to be spilled in vain. Abraham Lincoln's work will not 
perish with him ; the total abolition of slavery was his inspiration, and it will 
ever be a venerable crown of glory to his memory. It is the only thing that 
affords consolation for the irreparable loss ; and you will finish the good work 
worthy of a people who are determined to maintain the highest rank by acts of 
civilization and humanity. Progress is your motto, your supreme law, and the 
assassin's dagger cannot arrest it ; you understand it, and your magnanimous 
nation will take a noble revenge for the death of Abraham Lincoln by fulfilling 
the dream of his life. 



76 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

"With this token of mourning sadtloning our hearts, accept the seutimeuts of 
rc^Doctful esleera we have for you and the nation you represent. 
^ J. POULAIN, 

ACOVEY. 
P. DUBOE, 
J. LAVERRIERE, 
BERTIN, 
Delegates of Lodge of Henry the Fourth. 
Mr. J. BiGKLOW. 



[Translation.] 
Peksrverance Lodge, Orient of Paris, May 15, 1865. 

PiR : The members of this lodge rejoice in the restoration of the Am rican 
Union, while they lament the loss of the great man Avho gave so many proofs 
of his devotion to progress. 

His cowardly assassination has filled us with sorrow, for he was dear to us 
for more than one reason. Has any living man practiced so well the humane 
principles inculcated by free masonry? And who is more deserving of the re- 
grets of their brethren ? 

We ask you to be our interpreter to the President of the Union in the ex- 
pression of our regrets and sympathies, and in the hope that the great nation of 
the United States will prosper, in spite of traitors and assassins; for prinpiples 
outlive men. 

In its session of the 6th instant this lodge ordered a triple mourning salute 
in memory of Brother Lincoln, and resolved to drape their banner in mourning 
for the space of three months. The resolution was unanimous. 

Receive the expression of our most distinguished consideration. 

The Venerable, A. H. MOZIRY, 

For Perseverance Lodge. 

Mr. BiGELOW, 

United Stales Minister in Paris. 



[Translation. ] 

Sir: The respectable lodge. Admirers of the Universe, Orient of Paris, joining 
in the sentiments expressed by the whole fraternity in France, begs you to re- 
ceive their regrets at the horrible crime that has taken from a great nation its 
first citizen, and added to the martyr list of humanity the pure and glorious 
name of Abraham Lincoln. 

The respectable lodge has decided that a salute shall be given in sign of 
mourning, for ten years, on the anniversary of the mournful event. 

This iirst tribute paid to the memory of Brother Abraham Lincoln, the lodge 
expresses its confidence in the eminent qualities of his successor Mr. Johnson, 
and is pleased to see in his love of justice the qualities of heart that augur a 
peaceable administration. 

The lodge requests you to be the interpreter of its sentiments to the great 
American nation. 

LEBARE. 

JMr. BiGKLuw, U. S. Minister, Paris. 



[Tninslatiou.] 

The Scotch Hive, Paris, May 26, 1865. 
SiK : Free masonry is moved with just indignation at the atrocious crime that 
bus deprived it of oue of its most illustrious representatives, and has already 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 77 

expressed its reprobation of the act ; nor can the Scotch Hive remain mute on 
such an occasion ; it met expressly to protest against political assassination, and 
to transmit to brethren beyond the sea, as well as to the inconsolable widow, 
their condolence for^ the loss of the eminent American citizen and the zealous 
mason who has proclaimed the great masonic principles of liberty, equality, and 
fraternity. 

It was therefore decided unanimously that the lodge banner should be draped 
in mourning for three months, and that at each session a salvo should be given in 
honor and to the memory of the very illnstrioUvS brother, Abraham Lincoln. 

Accept the assurance of the distinguished and fraternal sentiments of all the 
members of the Scotch Hive. 

Venerable, T. ELIOT, H. RAFIN, 

G. LECREUX, BISSON, 

BOSSUS, G. DUEER, 

CHENEVAUX, H. BAUVIER, 

CAUX, ARCHAMBAUD, 

Delegates. 
United States Minister, Paris. 



[Trausliition.] 

The Ijodge of St. John of Jerusalem to the Grand Lodge of New York. 

Excellent AND Illustrious Brothers: At the sound of the sad news 
that has filled the world, the hearts of all French masons were filled with grief. 
They shed tears of sympathy for the glorious death of one who had handled 
the hammer, square, and compass, the living insignia of our immortal society, 
and then arose to the head of the American people by his genius, his virtues, 
and his spotless life. The holiest causes have always had their martyrs, as a 
necessary kind of consecration ; and Abraham Lincoln is one of these, the noblest 
victim of his duty. 

This lodge mingles its regrets with the other lodges of Frencii free masonry. 
It d^es not forget that if all people are brothers, those of France and America 
are more so than any others ; and we hope this will give supreme consolation to 
the soul of Abraham Lincoln. 

No, a villain's crime cannot destroy the immortal work of the great citizen. A 
final peace and the abolishment of slavery — the just fruits of his glorious acts, a 
worthy recompense of his martyrdom — will show the world once more what the 
devotion of a noble heart can do against the fanaticism of ignorance. 
We are, &c., 

Z. NURSE. 

E. CHIRI. 

LANTRIX. 

AGRULLY, Keeper of the Seals. 



[Trausliition.] 

Homage rendered to the remains of Mr. Lincoln hy Harmony Lodge. 

To their brethren in America : 

Lincoln is dead ! The body of the victim of a mad assassin has disappeared 
from the surface of the earth, but his spirit is immortal. This spirit soars above 
the tomb where rest the mortal remains of one who was — 

"a man, a ruler, and a saj^e ; 

A truly worthy model of the age." 



78 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

"While angry discussions are disturbing a continent, a simple, unknown man, 
who earns Ins daily bread by the honest labor of his hands, is studying to im- 
prove his mind in the silent hours while others are reposing ; suddenly he springs 
into light, and Lincoln is raised to the supreme rank. 

He owns the virtues of a philosopher; the love of humanity is his strength; 
Lis sharpest weapon is persuasion. 

A love for his country was a crown for which he gave his life, which he 
offered as a sacrifice to his people. 

Now wondering Europe knows his name. Low jesters deride him no more ; 
pride-corrupted individuals taunt him no more with poverty ; infemous enemies 
of progress bend before the Titan, to whom nature gave the figure of a giant, and 
God the spirit of a hero, who became the regenerator of his people. 

His blood spilt in America by the base assassin's hand will fertilize the con- 
tinent of Europe. The assassin was the representative of the enemies of pro- 
gress. 

Lincoln's name is now defended hy all nations, and the example of his vii tues 
is sealed by his blood upon the frontispiece of the temple of nations. 

Venerable, LE HALLE. 

ARMEXAULT. 
LEBORGNE. 

And many others. 
By the unanimous authority ot Harmony Lodge. 

LEBESQUE, Keeper of the Seals. 



Lictler addressed to the editor of Temps, 

[Trauslatiou.] 

Mr. Editor : The indescribable act which has just torn from us F** Abra- 
ham Lincoln, member of the Grand Lodge of New York and President of the 
republic of the United States of America, has profoundly afflicted all Frenchmen. 
Thus the members of the Lodge Saint Pierre des Acacias, at their sitting on 
Thursday, the 27th of April last, testified the profound grief they felt by a pe- 
culiar demonstration (en tlrant une triple batterie de deuil) in memory of that 
noble victim. Every one thought that the blood of Lincoln would be the con- 
secration of the principles of liberalism, so courageously and so nobly explained 
and upheld by that great citizen. 

The members of the lodge Saint Pierre des Acacias Avill wear mourning for 
three months for the death of their brother, Abraham Lincoln. 
Have the goodness to accept, &c., 

J. HAART, Yen. ** d'Honncur. 
HI MET, Yen.** Titulaire. 
LOUIS REDEN, Orateur. 
RICHARD, \st Survcillant. 
PAULOMIER, 2d Survcillant. 
E. BRAS, Secretaire. „ 



Address- of (lie Lodge of tlie Fraternity of the People, in the east of Paris, to the 
American Free Masons, on the occasion of the death of Mr. Lincoln. 

r Translation,] 
The Loge la Frateruite des Peuples has profoundly felt the great grief which 
has agitat. d the world on the receipt of the news of the horrible outrage to 
which 1 ^=* Lmcoln has fallen a victim. F** of America, the masons of France 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 79 

lament the invparable loss of the virtuous citizen, of the great politician ; but 
they know that with them and by tiieni slavery will be annihilated, and that 
the sacred cause of liberty will shine forth in a great triiim|)h which is jit hand, 
a glorious conipeusatiou for the deep grief of this sad period. 

E. DENISE, Ven. **. 



[TrausUitiou.] 

Scotch Louob, No. 146, the Rujht Linr, 

Paris, Mcnj 13, 1865, 

Citizen President : The crime by which Abraham Lincoln has perished 
deprives humanity of a glorious example, the United States of an eminent magis- 
trate, and masonry of a brother. 

The fratricidal war which has made thousands of victims, was deplored by the 
entire world wiih indignation ; the murder of one man strikes the moral univei'se 
with stupor, liut it is a sign that illuminates the abyss. Religious seutimeuts, 
social and political principles, unite in producing a deep emotion in every human 
heart ; it is at hrst a feeling of grief, but becomes by time and reflection a source 
of great inslruction. 

Glory to the man whose death joins religions, nations, and individuals in one 
common mourning. Glory to the nation whose trials are admired by the uni- 
verse, whose destiny is beyond the reach of human passions. 

Citizen President, you have united the national strength in otie patriotic bond. 
All good men, all upright souls are with you. The United States are aiding 
you, and the universe is looking on. 

GAUTRIN, Venerahle. 

Dk. henry RUELLE. 
G. RAMIER. 

By order of the Secretary : 

MENOT. 



[Translation.] 

Paris, June 12, 1865. 
Sir : In remitting through your hands the eulogies and funeral orations which 
the superior grand honorary conservator and the grand president of the masonic 
order of Misraim have dedicated to the memory of President Lincoln, the sove- 
reign grand council general is happy, through me, to express their feelings of 
sympathy for a great people, of admiration for a great citizen, of their attachment 
to an admirable principle. 

President Lincoln's death was a calamity, the cessation of war is a blessing, 
and President Johnson's administration may be of great service to humanity. 

Let national law have its eourse, and teach wicked men that they cannot shed 
innocent blood in vain. Let them be condemned if justice demands it, and let 
Europe leai-n, let the civilized world know, that with strength and right there may 
be magnanimity and clemency to pardon, where there has only been injury and 
hatred. 

Such are the feelings of this lodge for their worthy brethren in America. 
With great respect and high consideration, I am your humble servant, 

GIRAULT, Grand President, 
The United States Minister. 



80 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPOXDENCE. 

[Translation.] 
The allocution delivered hy M. Massol , president of tlie Loge Renaissance. 

MM * * r. F. * * : I propose to you a manifestation of regret for the late 
i\rr. Lincoln. I have nothing to say about his death ; it is well known to you all, 
as well as his life. Let it suffice for me to remind you that it was after having 
gone throus^h all the graduations of labor that he attained to the most eminent 
post to which a man can aspire, that of president of a great nation of free men. 

Lincoln will be hereafter a gre'it type of humanity, of honor, of courage, and 
loyaltv. He is one of the purest and most fjiithful expressions of democracy. 
Histoiv, indeed, will tell with what good sense, what firmness, what moderation 
he has known how to direct the affairs of the Union under the most difticult cir- 
cumstances, without exceptional laws, without having recourse to dictatorial 
power, preserving the preponderance of the civil power, aided in so doing, it must 
be said, by the republican virtue of such generals as Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan. 

Lincoln is the veritable emulation of Washington, if he has not surpassed him. 
However that may be, they are two names inseparable in the memory not only 
of Americans, but of men in all countries. 

If Washington founded the Union, Lincoln firmly maintained it. 

If Washington assured the liberty of his fellow-citizens, Lincoln has endowed 
a portion of the human family with that liberty. He has forever closed the 
hideous sore of slavery. 

If Washington laid the foundations of the true form of democracy, Lincoln haa 
made it possible throughout the world. He made the ideal for all. 

To A¥asliington and Lincoln — one sprung from the ranks of ihe aristocracy, 
the other of the humblest extraction — is owing the firm settlement of that univer- 
sal confederation of which free masonry has long been the model according to 
philosophical views. 

All the virtues possessed by Lincoln are masonic virtues, symbolized in our 
degrees of initiation. 

Wiieu an apprentice, he purged his mind of all the subversive passions, which 
was an indispensable preparation for the good conduct of life. 

As a companion, he had learned to live orderly by labor, and a scrupulous ob- 
servance of right and justice, a course which was marked out by rule, square, and 
compasses. 

Finally, like Hiram, he succumbed to the blows of an outrageous pride for 
having remained inflexible in the discharge of his duty. He is the moral man 
par excel! oicp. 

Is that all ] No, M * * F * * ; that sample of honesty, above all temptation; 
that loyalty, courage, moderation, sense of justice; that inflexibility of per- 
sistence in the right road — all these qualities were enhanced in him by an 
admirable simplicity and goodness, and that was his characteristic trait. 

Indeed, his public life was terminated by an appeal to fraternity, coricord, 
and peace, addressed to the conquered rebels, and in proclaiming the political 
rights of the men of color whom he had freed. Tills is, in my view, his highest 
honor. A working man himself, he showed what the government ought to do 
for men of that class : abolish all servitude, and modify the institutions after 
the requirements of justice, while liberty never failed to be respected. 

And now, M * * F * *, however painful may be this death, it will alter nothing 
in the destinies of the United States. The people who have the happiness to 
govern themselves are not at the mercy of events like these, even though the 
most distinguished and useful among them fall. They experience no humiliating 
fears. Moreover, if the slave owners were already conquered, the blow of the 
14th April ruined them forever in public opinion, and in the conscience of the 
people. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMrATIIY. 81 

Confidence, then, and hope. Only let the memory of Lincoln, of that citizen 
of the world, remain in each of us as an incentive to emulation, as a model and 
a guide. This grandeur in simplicity must not die. Let it always therefore be 
present to our minds, -and may it become fruitful. 



[Translation.] 

Lo(Jgc of St. Augustus, the beneficent, to tlic Grand Lodge of New YorJc. 

In a solemn session on the 21st of April last, our lodge expressed its sympa- 
thies for the United States. It decreed to wear mourning for three mouths in 
Mr. Lincoln's memory, and to send funds to purchase tools and clothing for the 
colored freedmen. 

We have always been for your cause, dear brethren, because it is that of hu- 
manity. The curse of excommunication is now taken from the blacks. Lincoln 
has followed Washington. 

No threatening cloud now hangs over that glorious country, justly called the 
Republic of the United States. Its coat of arms has now no bar sinister to dis- 
figure it. We mourn over the heroic victim of the struggle that has ended so 
gloriously. Mothers are shedding their last tears ; entire families are ruined ; 
widows are deranged Avith grief; orphans seek with hagard eyes those whom 
they called their parents ; all are mourning. 

Terrible hate has separated provinces, families, and citizens. Men who used 
to give their hands turned to take each other's hearts, and hundreds of thou- 
sands of their pale bodies repose under the earth that has been fecundated with 
their generous blood. Let us mourn. 

This dividing gulf has at last been filled up by the body of a great man. 
Alas ! you had to make the greatest sacrifice. Abraham Lincoln was struck by 
a madman ; a master-piece of nature has been destroyed by a horrid being, the 
vilest piece of nature's work. 

Your sublime cause has had the sublimest martyr. Let us lament him. But 
he who came into the world, like Jesus of Bethlehem, to take away its sins, has 
not given his life in vain for the good of his countrymen. Slavery is dead, as 
well as Lincoln, and is now reposing in its final tomb. With its mortal memory 
human dignity is raised to immortality. The ancient institution may leave its 
traces here and there in savagfe lands, but slavery will soon disappear from the 
face of the earth, and the spirit of the great martyr will aid in its destruction. 

And you, dear brothers, will imitate the example of the model man, that has 
been left for the good of the world. His head and heart were perfect. First 
the son of a laboring man, he was an apprentice ; then he became a journeyman, 
and last a master, thus realizing our masonic symbols. lie learned, he loved, he 
worked, he suffered, he persevered. Glory be to his memory forever ! 

In the work of emanci])atiou, his intelligence has been shown in traits of fire ; 
his heart is protected by the halo of martyrdom. One can do good by imitating 
Lincoln, and more good by circulating his biography, which is a second gospel- 
It began in America, and will spread abroad in the world. 

Accept, dear brethren, the expression of our most fraternal sentiments. 

Venerable, DELABY. 
1st Warden, JACQUIN. 
2d Warden, BEAUGRAND. 

uOBLOT, Keeper of fJie Seals. 
A CARETTE, Orator. 
L. DIZIER, Secretary. 



82 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

Address of the French Commitfee of Emancipation to the President of the 
United States, May, 1865. 

Paris, Maij 1, 1865. 

A committee is formerl in Paris under the title of the French Committee of 
Emancipation, for the purjiose of corresponding with the societies founded in 
America, England, and other countries, to aid the entire abolition of slavery, the 
education and assistance of the freed families, and the publication of all facts 
connected with that great cause of humanity. 

The committee is provisionally composed of the Duke de Broglie, former 
president of the committee of 1843 for the abolition of slavery; Guizot, of the 
Frencli Academy, honorary president; Laboulaye, of the institute, president; 
Augnstin Cochin, of the institute, secretary ; Audley, Prince de Broglie, of the 
French Academy ; Leopold de Gaillard; Charles Graumont, farmer member of 
the ccmimittee of 1848; Leon Lavedan, Henry Martin, CTuillaumc Monod, Count 
de ]\Iontalembert, of the French Academy; Henry Morcau, E. de Pressense, 
H. Wallon, of the institute; Cornells de Witt. 

The first act of this committee was the presentation of the following address : 

To Andrew JohnsoTi., President of the United States of America : 

Mr. Pkeside.n'T: The undersigned, faithful friends of the United States, sons 
of the French nation who fought for the independence of your nation, permit 
themselves to address to you the expression of the sentiments produced in their 
soul hy the horrid crime which has placed in your hands the functions of Abra- 
ham Lincoln and the care of his memory. 

He did not die in battle among the soldiers of the Union ; he perished by the 
hand of an assassin. He is dead, but his country still lives, and his death may 
be beneficial to it if the United States, suppressing the horrors of the iirst emo- 
tion, will lament their President, imitate him, and listen to him still, instead of 
avenging him. 

We French have also experienced civil war ; more than once have we seen 
the most noble and innocent victims sink under unexpected blows in the midst 
of sanguinary struggles. The hand of a murderer has always perpetrated these 
acts. Crimes are isolated, glories are national. The guilty man seals his own 
fiUe as well as that of his victim. Leaving the assassin in the shade of his ig- 
nominy, let us tliink only of the dead, and let us repeat the sentence that must 
have been the supreme wish of his soul, "May my blood be the last that is 
shed." 

Punish the guilty, punish those monsters, hateful alike to all parties, who 
murder men by the side of their wives and attack the sick in their beds, but do 
not suffer indignation to seek revenge afar. 

The only vengeance worthy of Abraham Lincoln is the purificaiion of con- 
science, the return of opinion, the melancholy glory shed upon his name, and 
especially the energetic union of his successor with his ministers, his generals, 
and the representatives of the people to finish the work that he began so nobly. 

History will perform its part. We will show his soul in no pompous language, 
but in the simple praise of his life and of his words, or rather by his acts and' by his 
language. 

A simple smile pervaded Europe in the autumn of 1860, when it w.is heard 
that an obscure lawyer from the little town of Springfield, in the State of Illinois, 
was seated m the place of the great Washington, and that he had left his modest 
mansion to advocate three causes : the integrity of the national territory, the 
supreiiiacy ot the Constitution, the limitation and perhaps the suppression of 
•slavery. ILe smile Avas broader Avhen we learned that this President, once a 



SENTIMENTS OF COXDOLEXCE AND SYMPATHY. 8o 

cai'pentev, a boatman, and a clerk, bad to cany on "n'ar, to trinmpb over tbe evil 
designs of Europe, to quell domestic dissensions, and to contend witb military, 
financial, and political difficulties all at tbe same time. 

In fact, be was neitber tinancier, nor general, nor director, nor diplomatist, 
nor seaman ; be was only a man of tbe people, bonest, religious, modest, and 
determined; wbo bad read uorbing but tbe Bible and tbe Life of Wasliington 
before be was twenty-five years of age; wbo bad known no otber scbool tliau 
tbat of life; bad no instructor but labor, no protector but liberty. 

It is bard to comprebend in Europe, in spite of our love of equality, bow a 
mau can reacb tbe bigbest rank witbout protection, and bow be can sustain bim- 
self witbout pride. We cannot see tbe power an bonest man finds in tbe two 
great weapons — conscience and patience. Tbese qualities formed tbe wbole 
strengtb of Mr. Lincoln. It was bis secret. 

On tbe morning of the lltb of February, 1861, a few friends attended bim to 
tbe railway station in Springfield. He started after bis election, alone and witb- 
out an escort, to be inaugurated as President. 

" My friends," said lie, "no one not in my position can appreciate tbe sadness 
I feel at tbis parting. To tbis people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived 
more than a quarter of a century. Here my children were born, and here one 
of them lies buried. A duty devolves upon me wbicli is greater perhaps than 
tbat which has devolved upon any other man since the days of Washington. He 
never would have succeeded except for tbe aid of Divine Providence, upon wbicb 
he at all times relied. I feel tbat I cannot succeed without tbe same Divine aid 
Avhich sustained bim, and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for 
support : and I hope you, my friends, will pray tbat I may receive tbat Divine 
assistance, witbout which I cannot succeed, but v/itb which success is certain." 

He wbo pronounced tbis touching farewell had not yet been inaugurated, and 
the south Avas already in arms. 

Federal electors were chosen on tbe 6tb of November, 1860,. and the majority 
(ISO out of 303) were favorable to Lincoln. South Carolina raised the standard 
of revolt on the 20th of December. On the lltb of January, 1861, the governor 
of tbat State ordered tbe commander of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, to surren- 
der. Major Anderson, commander of tbe fort, consulted the new President on 
tbe 6tb of February, and answered, " If you beseige me, if you begin tbe civil 
war, tlie rcsponsihilitii ivill rest upon ymi" 

Calm and firm, in spite of tbese provocations, tbe President in bis first mes- 
ppge (4tb of ilarcb, 1861) addressed to the insurgents these words, which clearly 
show the origin and true causes of tbe war. 

"In your bands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is tbe 
momentous issue of civil war. Tbe government will not assail you ; you can 
have no conflict witbout being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oatb 
registered in heaven to destroy the government ; Avbile I shall have tbe most 
solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. 

" One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be ex- 
tended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended ; and. 
tbis is tbe only substantial dispute. 

" I'bysically speaking, we cannot se{>;irate; we cannot remoA'e our respective 
sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. If the 
minority will not acquiesce, tbe majority must; there must be submission on 
the one side or tbe otber. If a minorit}'' secede, another minority will secede 
from them, and thus cause ruin. Plainly tbe central idea of secession is the 
essence of anarchy." 

Tbese words were uttered on the 4tb of ]\[arch, and on the 12tb of April, at 
four o'clock in tbe morning, tbe first cannon was fired by tbe south. I'resident 
Lincoln believed so little in tbe long continuation of tbe war, that on the loth 
of April he only called out seventy-five thousand men to arms ; but be Avas so 



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• 



firmlv rt'Siolvcil to inaintain tlie Constitution, and to interpret it in favor of hu- 
man liberty, tljat in passin,!,^ through Philadelpliia a short time before his inau- 
guration, • •v'cn in the liall wliere the Declaration of Independence was signed 
in 1776, he paid: 

" I have often inquired what great principle or idea it was that kept this con- 
federacy so k)ng together. It wjis not the mere matter of the separation of the 
colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence, which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but I hope to 
the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time 
the weight woidd be lifted from the shoulders of all men. Can the country be 
paved on this basis 1 If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men 
in the world if I can help to save it; but if it cannot be saved without giving 
up that principle, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. 
1 am ready to live for this principle, or, if God so ordains it, to die for it." 

He Avas assassinated ; but the war is over, the Union exists, slavery is de- 
stroyed ; and before he fell, Mr. Lincoln entered the rebel capital, and on the 
morning of his death he publicly eulogized the brave adversary, Robert Lee, 
whom his brave generals had just conquered, thus honoring him who had sur- 
rendered his arms. 

He lived to raise the national Union colors in Eichmond just four years from 
the day when, invited to raise the national standard on Independence Hall, he 
said : 

"Besides this, our friends had provided a magnificent flag. I had to raise it; 
and when it went up, I was pleased that it went to its place by the strength of 
my own feeble arm ; when the cord was pulled and it flaunted in the bright 
glovt'ing sunshine of the morning, I hoped it was a propitious omen. I was the 
humble instrument in its elevation; the people had made it, and arranged the 
machinery for its hoisting; and if I can have the same generous co-operation of 
the people of the nation, I think the flag of our country may yet be kept flaunt-, 
ing gloriously." 

After having laid aside the emblems of his power, in the midst of war and in 
the face of calumny, to submit to a new election, at the moment of his second 
inauguration on the 4th of March, 1865, he pronounced these memorable words, 
which have become a solemn testament : 

'• Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war 
may soon pass away; yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth 
jiiled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequitted toil shall be 
suidv, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid with an- 
other drawn by the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must 
be said, ' The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.' 

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, Avith firmness in the right, as 
God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we arc in, to 
hind up tke nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, 
and for his widow and orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just 
and la-ting peace among ourselves and with all nations." 

Admirable words, and well worthy of him who wrote again, at the end of his 
message of the 1st of December, 1S62, in Avhich, after delaying, waiting, sufter- 
ing tor two years, he finally resolved to propose the abolition of slavery : 

"Fellow-citizens, we cannot avoid history; the severe trial we are now un- 
(lergonig will stamp us with honor or dishonor to the latest generation." 

Lpon you, Mr. President, has the guardianship of that honor and the heritage ' 
<'l that great man devolved. Like him, you were a working-man ; like him, 
you have gamed bread, knoAvledge, esteem, and power, by the sweat of your 
hrow; hke lum, you bravely defended the Union in the Senate; like him, you 
liate slavery ; like him, you are surrounded by great ministers, great generals, 
lliat hate would have laid with him in death. It is your duty to enter into the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYilPATIIY. • 85 

sentiments of Abraham Lincoln, and to fini.sh the work of force by conciliation. 

Peace, amnesty, union, liberty, new posterity ! These were certainly the de- 
signs of Mr. Lincoln. Such are the vows of the civilized world. Be generous 
in victory, after having been inflexible in contest. 

Europe did not expect to see a commercial people become warlike, without 
tlie military spirit lapsing into despotism. Europe did not expect to see four 
millions of poor slaves resist the temptation to revolt, and twice save a country 
that persecuted tbem, by furnishing it brave soldiers, and exciting an external in- 
tei'est, an emotion of opinion which probably prevented inten.ded interventions. 
Europe did not expect to see the north, caught unprepared, conq^uet the south, 
so brave and well provided. 

But spare us more surprises, and console us for the length and the calamities 
of the war by a prompt, solid and generous peace among all the citizens of that 
nation to which has been given the beautiful name of The Union. Tlie future 
will say that Washington founded it, that Lincoln and you rebuilt it. May his 
blood be the last shed ! 



[Translation.] 

Citizen Ambassador : At the news of the horrid death of one whom two 
worlds admired yesterday, and lament to-day, the young men of the schools 
extend the expression of their grief to the United States representative. 
We openly proclaim our sympathy for the brave defender of that great cause of 
justice, called in America, emancipation of slaves, in Europe, liberation of the 
oppressed. 

In President Lincoln, we weep for a fellov/ citizen ; for no country is shut up 
now; and our country is that where there are neither masters nor slaves; where 
every man is free, or is fighting to become free. 

We are the fellow citizens of John Brown, of Abraham Lincoln, and of 3Ir. 
Seward. We young people, to whom the future belongs, must have the courage 
to found a true democracy ; and we will have to look beyond the ocean to learn 
how a people who have made themselves free can preserve their freedom. 

He who died was a citizen of that republic, where the great mon are not con- 
querors who violate the rights and privileges of the people, but the founders and 
guardians of their independence, like Washington and Lincoln. 

Honesty and simplicity, energy in their struggles, moderation in victory, 
respect for liberty, always and everywhere ; these are the admirable qualities of 
Lincoln, of all of the elect of the American people. How magnificent compared 
with the meanness of those elect of God, whom ignorant or servile historians 
adduce as worthy examples in our old Europe. 

To murder such men is to kill the law itself In a republic, where laws are 
made by a free people, all those Avho are intrusted Avith the administration of 
the laws, and those who take a solemn oath to obey them, and never violate 
them, these men are sacred; to kill them is to commit the most detestable of 
crimes, and such murderers are termed assassins, as their victims, like Lincoln 
and Seward, are called martyrs of justice and liberty. 

The President of the great republic is dead, but the republic itself shall live 
for ever. 

In the name of those who composed the meeting. 

A. REY, 
Student of Medicine. 



86 * APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

Peniiit ns to present to your excellcucy, as members of the international com- 
mittee of the Darien Canal Company, the expression of our warmest sympathy 
anil profound sentiments of sadness, on account of President Lincoln's death. 
JIany of us have lived in the gi-cat republic ^ they know the country and are 
devoted to your cause. They lament the great man who is no more. 

AVe must also say, on this sad occasion, that we will never forget the marks 
of benevolence we have always had from your government, and particularly 
from Mr. Dayton, your lamented predecessor, up to the last moments of his 
existence. 

Accept the expression of our respectful sentiments. 

Members of the company for the obtaining of the American canal through 
the Isthmus of Darien. 

MOUGEL BEY, 
president, Aumale Street, No. 10. 
CROCHARD. 
E. FORTIN. 
CH. DU BREIL, 

Marquis of Rays. 
CH. DU BREIL, 

Marquis of Rays. 
For Count Amphernet and Emile de Solminihac, N, CORDIER. 

B. DE CASTRO. 
His Excellency Mr. Bigelow, 

Minister of the United /States of Ameri^ca, in Paris. 



[Trauslation.] 

Paris, May 1, 18'35. 
In its session of the 2Sth of April last, the general committee of the national 
union for commerce and manufactures, passed, by acclamation, the following 
resolution, moved by its president : 

'• The general committee, interpreting the sentiments of the society it repre- 
sents, before proceeding to regular work, express their profound sympathy for 
the American people, and join in their regrets for the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, 
President of the United States. We feel a horror at the odious crime of which 
the illustrious man has been a victim." 

We have the honof of transmitting to you our annual circular, which shows 
our association to have among its members forty-two mayors and about four 
thousand merchants. 

Accept the assurance of the high consideration with which we have the 
honor to be your very humble servants, 

ALLAIN NIQUET, 
President of the General Committee of the Union. 
PASCAL BONNIN, 

Director. 
The Umteu States Minister. 



[Trauslatiou.] 

Paris, May 2, 1865. 
Sill : Instruments as we are to works of reconciliation and peace, we cannot 
remain silent at this event that has excited the indignation and sorrow of all 
civilized nations. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 87 

We no^y come in our turn to pay a tribute of admiration to the memory of 
that great and good man who has so nobly served the cause of humanity, and 
to express the profound regret we feel at the death of Abraham Lincoln, the 
noble martyr of duty. As his existence was an honor to our age, so every co- 
temporary laments his exit from this world. 

Honor to the country that produces such paragons for modern society. They 
are the glory of labor and religion in their most liberal forms, of all virtues that 
are the bases of liberty and public prosperity. 

With such citizens it is not astonishing that America pursues the realization 
of the principles contained in its immortal Declaration of Independence : "We 
hold these truths to be self-evident : that all men are created equal ; that they 
are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights ; that among 
these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." 

Accept the expression of our sentiments of high consideration and cordial 
sympathy. 

HENRY CARLE, 46 School street, 

WITH 10 OTHERS, 

hi the name of the Universal Religious Alliance. 
Mr. Bigelow, 

United States Minister in Pans. 



Copy of an extract of the proceedings cf a conference of the pastors, ministers 

and elders of the national churches of Fraiicc. 

[Triiiislatiou.] 

Paris, May 9, 18G5. 
The pastors, ministers and elders of the two national churches of France, 
(Reformed Church and Church of the Confession of Augsburg,) united in con- 
ference on the occasion of the annual religious meeting, and justly moved at the 
catastrophe which has taken away from the United Stales their pious and wise 
President, experience the need of expressing to their brethren of the United 
States their profound horror at the assassination of their glorious President, 
and at the attempt on the life of his eminent minister, Mr. Seward, and their 
hopes that the great citizen who presided over the destinies of America may 
have, in his successor, a worthy follower of his generous and Christian enter- 
prise. 

This expression of their sincere sympathy will be presented to his excel- 
lency the minister of the United States at Paris by the president, the vice-pres- 
ident, and the secretaries of the conference. 

Paris, April 27, 1SG5. 
A true copy : 

H. BLAWE, 
One of the Secretaries. 
His Excellency the Minister of the United States of America. 



Letter addressed to madam, the ^cid.ow of the late President of the United 
States, and sent to the care of the United States Minister at Paris. 

[Trauslatiou.] 

Paris, Aprd 27, 1865. 

Madam : We learn with stupor the horrible crime which has plunged in 
mourning your family and all the people of the United States, and which has 
changed rudely into lamentations the song of triumph and thanksgivings. The 
name of Abraham Lincoln embodied, in our estimation, one of the greatest 
causes with which heart can be inspired, and it is just at the moment 



88 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Avlicn tliat cause is crowned with victory, after a cruel struggle, that be to 
whom the triumph is mainly due, perishes, the victim of an unaccountable 
fanaticism. Only this Avas wanting to complete the horrors of slavery, the 
consecration of victory, and the glory of the defender of liberty. Madam, we 
do not seek to console you with the idea of the glory henceforth attached to 
the name of your husband, Avhom future ages will rank, as we do now, among 
the beneffictors of the human race. But directing your attention, as well as 
our own, to something higher, let us adore the mysterious will of God who has 
deio-ned to make of Abraham Lincoln one of those powerful workers that he 
employs in the accomplishment of his designs, and who has allowed him to be 
taken away from this world after the gloom and labor of the combat. We as- 
sociate ourselves from the bottom of the heart in your grief, which is not only 
a national mourning but extends throughout humanity. 

We pray God to console you as He alone can do, and show you, by faith, 
him whom we mourn in that eternal glory of the kingdom of Heaven, where 
God gathers all his children, illustrious or obscure, around Jesus Christ, who 
gave his life to save the world. We pray that the indignation excited by the 
horrible act may not change the thoughts of charity which ought to crown the 
work of emancipation. May God uow finish that work, and confer his bene- 
dictions on the people of the United States, who have been so cruelly tried, and 
on you, madam, whose grief we share, and on the many thousand souls who 
have each borne their tribute of sufiering in this violent intestine commotion of 
the country. 

In tlie name of the conference of pastors, ministers of the Holy Evangel, and 
tlie members of the consistories of the two national churches of France, (Re- 
formed Church and Church of the Confession of Augsburg.) 

L. VALETTE, Pastor, 

President of the Conference. 
DE CONNICH, Vice-President. 
CAHOUS, Pastor, Secretary. 
H. BLAWE, Minister, 

H. E. Secretary. 

His Excellency the Mimster ef the United States. 



[Translation.] 

Mr. Presidknt : The Constitution of your country has forever put Amer- 
ican democracy beyond the possibility of being affected by the violence done to 
persons. Where liberty reigns, where the laAV alone governs, the first magis- 
trates may perish Avithout shaking or even threatening the institutions. Regret 
and indignation may agitate the people, they cannot be seized with fear. We 
know that these are the holy conditions enjoyed by the people of the United 
States by reason of their institutions. 

Permit us, however, to express the grief we feel at the death of the citizen 
who has just fallen a victim to assassination. Abraham Lincoln will be la- 
mented as he has been admired by the French democracy. What finer model, 
indeed, can we have than that great man of the people — that laborious man, 
sprung from the humblest ranks, and coming to be the first magistrate of his 
country, and remaining the faithful servant of the laws 1 

Tell the people of the Union, Mr. President, that we associate ourselves with 
then- sorrow as we participate in their hopes. Slavery is dead ; liberty will 
never die ; and the triumph of the great republic is assured. 

(Here follow the names of the editors of the four papers : the editor in chief 
(>t the lemps, being A. Nofftzer ; of the Opinion Nationale, A. Guerault; the 
Aveun- National, A. Peyrat ; and the Siecle, L. Haviu.) 

PuE.'<iuBAT Johnson. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMrATIIY. 89 

[Trauslation.] 

Paris, Ju7ie 9, 1S65. 

Sir : I was struck witli Iiorrov when I heard tlie news of Mr. Lincoln's 
death. The ilhistrious genius and worthy magi3trat(^ did not live to enjoy the 
glory of hi.s gicat deeds, 'i'he abominable crime of his death ought to be 
avenged. Justice will be done, but unfortunately the most guilty will not re- 
ceive it ; but they will Avither like the weeds in barren fields. His memory 
will be venerated by all nations living ; and generations to be born will yield 
him homage. Rash assassins have spilled a precious blood ; but it will cry 
aloud from earth for vengeance, and its voice will be heard afar. 

ilorrid slavery is no more. Europe rejoices at it ; let the world rejoice. A 
new order of events will rise, and men will be blessed whose hopes had almost 
vanished. The black has a right to enjoy liberty as well as life; and now he 
has it in America. 

May the successor of the deceased be worthy of his place, and finish the 
labor to be done ; then the world will chant a chorus of gloria in excclsis, in 
2>opulo supremo. Amen. 

Accept the expression of my highest consideration. 

* IMBERT, Ex-Frofcssor, ^:. 

Mr. Johnson, 

President oj" the United States. 



J. C. Lnsinc to Messrs. Seward. 

[Trauslation.] 

Pari^, May 25, 18G5. 

Gentlemen : There are names which explain the condition of a country, and 
j\[r. Lincoln's is one of them. The illustrious citizen who protested against 
slavery and assassination has fallen a victim to fanaticism. 

In dedicating this day a sj)rig of anemone to the memory of your glorious 
martyr, thus joining in the prayers of thousands, be assured that my h(^art also 
protests against assassination, whatever may be its motive, and particitlarly 
against that of which you yourselves, together with your friends, came near be- 
ing the victims. 

Mr. Lincoln placed entire confidence in you, gentlemen, and you may believe 
that a poor French workingman feels intense satisfaction in your speedy re- 
covery, because he sees in it a determination on your part to finish the task be- 
gun by President Lincoln, and to attend more devotedly to the cause of the 
slaves liberated by your blood and his. 

May peace hereafter preside over your noble efforts. 

J. C. LUSINE, 
A^o. 2G, Bernard street, Paris. 

(Enclosed is a printed sonnet taken from the Phare de la Loire, May 2, 1SG5, 
entitled : IJn Ramcau d" Immortelle.) 



[Extrait du Phare do la Loire du 2 Mai, 1865.1 

UN RAMEAU D'IMMORTELLE. 
Lincoln, grand citoyen, fils de la liberte, 
Intcgro magistrat, vertu digne d'llomdre; 
Toi qui n'onblias point ton berceau ni ta mere, 
Gloire de I'Ameriquc ct de I'liumanite ! 



90 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Ton devoir est rempli : Ton ombre avec fierte 
Voir I'esclavage en vain queter un yictimaire, 
II u'a pris que ton corps; le crime est ephemere... 
Ton oeuvre a toi s'envole a I'immortalite ! 

Aussi, comme unc fenime au fruit de ses entrailles, 
Le Sud au Nord uni pleure h. tes funerailles : 
Ton sang dicte la pais au peuple fier geant ! 

Rc^ois done, 6 martyr de la liberie sainte, 

Des travailleurs Fraii9ais dans le deuil et laplainte : 

Un rameau d'imniortelle h travers I'ocean ! 

J. C. LUSINE, 
Employt, ancien ouvrier relieur. 
28 AVKIL, 1865. 



JTfred Monocl, lawyer at the council of State. 
[Translation.] 

Paris, Ajtril 27, 1865. 

I will express to yoii without delay tlie very sincere and profound sorrow at 
the news of the horrid catastrophe that I'eached us to-day. 

The loss of a man like Lincoln is a cause of mourning f Dr all in the world who 
have at heart the trium|)h of liberty and democracy. 

Mr. Seward's death is a blow almost as terrible. 

Allow me to inform you of a fact you will certainly be glad to learn. The 
different religious Protestant societies are now holding their public annual con- 
ferences. The Evangelic Society assembled yesterday evening. The Rever- 
end William 3Ionad announced the horrid news to the astounded assembly in 
tliese terms : 

" The terrible manifestation of wickedness of which we have heard to-day 
has struck us all wilh consternation. 

" President Lincoln has been assassinated. 

" We cannot give fidl expi-ession to our feelings at such a loss. We are not 
discouraged ; it is even the abolition of slavery that God has sealed with Lin- 
coln's purest blood. 

" Let it be known to our brethren in the United States that we mourn with 
Uiem their greatest citizen. 

" John Brown, Abraham Lincoln ! both weie martyrs to a holy cause. 

"John lirown was the first, God grant that Lincoln may be the last !" 

Accept the homage of my very sincere and respectful devotion. 

A. MONOD. 

TiiK Umted States Minister. 



[Translation.] 

Paris, May 3, 1865. 

Abraham Lincoln fell a victim to the most execrable crime known, at the very 
moincnt the Union was saved by his firmness, patriotic energy, and moderation. 

The Sunday Courier boasts of being the first among French newspapers to 
embrace tin; American cause from its beginning, and to advocate the ideas to 
which Mr. Lincoln miide himself a martyr ; and to-day we express the profound 
grief his unexi.ected death has caused us. 

This great citizen belonged not only to America, but to the entire human 
family ; and his death is felt by all those of old Europe who believe in liberty, 
law, and justice, 

■\\ hen the northern armies entered Pdchmond, we felt that the last rampart 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 91 

of slavery liad fallen, and we rejoiced in tlie victory; now we ask tlie riglit to 
participate in your monraing. 

If Amei'ica wants this good man's memory to be handed down to future gen- 
erations in a monument of marble, we will be the first to cont:ibute our bumble 
aid, as we were the fir^t to bedp the glorious cause in our journal. 
Accept tbe assurance of our respectful and devoted sentiments. 

PH. TARGET, 
E. VILLETARD, 
Rcsjwnsihle Editors of the Sunday Courier. 
The Umteu States Mlmster, 



TO THE MEMORY OF MR. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 

President of the republic of tlie United States of America, May, 1865. 

[Translation. ] 

The works of Satan fill the earth with pain ; 

The world is now mourning' one of his wicked deeds. 

Who has not heard of his last exploit? 

The news is carried \>j the tolling of a bell. 

Public welfare now demands that we be all united ; 

Let feelings of Jealousy be laid aside ; 

We only think of saving our country. 

Free and noble children of America! 

The liero of the great republic is no more ; 

He who, when in danger, saved its flag ! 

Washington will receive him as a brother, 

But the world will mourn him more than Washington. 

The universe will sing a hymn, 

And say he went down as a martyr to the tomb. 

When the madman in his fury struck the sage, 

The human race was shocked with horror and remorse. 

Why should just men tolerate such fiends among them ? 

If such meu were less common now, in France, 

We would ne'er regret so many crimes. 

God cries in his anger, vengeance; 

Justice wants another bloody sacrifice. 

And Lincoln fell, the victim of innocence. 

Like Christ, like Brown, he was a martyr. 

He died to save his couutry and to free the blacks. 

Now his holy reign is over. 

Forget him not, ye generous sons of Ham. 

Let us now look up to heaven, 
And ask his innnortal soul. 
Freed from the trammels of the flesh, 
If his work was not perfect. 
The world moves on, aiid men rejoice 
Tliat freedom is restored to all. 
Some may not bless him now ; 
But ere they die they '11 see the good he did, 
And praise him. 

AUGUSTE L'ALLOUX, 
Former interpreter of Dii Petti Thouars, Briuit and Hamlin, 

Bachelor of Arta, professor of English, first primary 
free teacher, '66 Chaussic du Maine, Paris. 



92 APrENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

34 Taitbout Street, April 29, 18^5. 

Dkar Sir: I sliould have written to you sooner in expression of my feel- 
ino-s nt the horrid news, but I was sick when I first received it; yet, sick as I 
was, I lectured last Thursday, on Franklin, at the Conservatory of Arts and 
Trades, and spoke of President Lincoln. Never in my life, as a professor, 
have I found so much sympathy. The audience applauded three times with 
great enthusiasm, not for the speaker, hut for the noble victim of a base assas- 
sination. You should see how general the excitemeiit is in Paris; it is much 
greater than I expected. Cochin, Broglie, and myself are drawing up an ad- 
dress, which I ani sure will be signed by the most important men in France. 

What more can we do ? If I can be of any service to you, dispose of me, 
and consider me one of your best friends. 

Do not take the trouble to answer this unless you have some important 
communication to make, for you must have many letters to write ; but when 
you write to Washington, assure Mr. Seward how much I am interested in 
his situation, and that I wish his speedy recovery. Mr. Seward is now more 
necessary to America and to the whole world. Adieu. 
Your very devoted, 

ED. LABOULAYE. 



[Translation.] 

Paris, May 20, 1865. 
Sir : I have the honor of sending you with this letter several copies of an 
ode I have composed in honor of Abraham Lincoln, and two letters, one for 
the widow of the great man, and the other for Mr. Johnson, now President of 
the United States. 

I shall be infinitely obliged to you if you will send them to their destina- 
tions in the shortest possible time. 

You will also do me the favor to fix a day Avhen I can have a brief inter- 
view with you. 

Accept my sympathy for your glorious country, and the assurance of my 
most distinguished consideration. 

PAUL THOUZERY. 
To Mr. Big K LOW, 

Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States oj America. 



[Translation.] 

Paris, May 20, 1865. 
Mr. President : To one whom Abraham Lincoln loved and associated 
with him in his great work, I send an ode addressed to the memory of that 
great man. 

_ May my verses find an echo in every American heart! May your worthy 
citizens aid you in the labor you have undertaken ! You only were worthy 
to succeed Lincoln. 

The ode 1 scud you to-day will prove, I hope, that the sympathy of the 
world is with you. 

To eulogize the dead in presence of the living is honoring the latter, by 
showing them that we confide in their genius and in their impartiality. 
I am, with respect, Mr. President, your humble admirer, 

^ „ ^ PAUL THOUZERY. 

lo Mr. JoH\so\, 

Fresident of the United States of America. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 93 



A ABEAHAM LINCOLN. 

ODE. 

I. 

Oui, ce n'est que trop vrai, la i'atale nonrelle, 
Dout eflt voulu douter notre raisou rebelle, 
S'est confirmee, et tout nous pieut sou affieux sort ; 
Et les peuples treuiblauts, dans I'un et I'autre moude 
Sentant leur coeur saisi d'uue douleur profonde 
Disent en pleurs : Lincoln est mort ! 

II est mort, ce heros dip^ue des temps antiques 
Que ue puis-je aujourd'luii, dans des cliants homeriques, 
Apprendre a I'univers quels fureiit ses bienfaits, 
Eappeler ses vertus, parler de sa sagesse ; 
II vous a surpasses, vieux Nestors de la Grece ! 
J'en veux pour preuve ses hauts faits. 

II est mort, mais du moins son oeuvre est immortelle ; 
Sa gloire, desormais, rayonnera plus belle, 
Comme le Christ, il a gravi son Golgotha, 
Et son sang repandu sur un nouveau Calvaire, 
Pollen delicieux, fera germer sur terre, 
Les reves d'or, qu'il eufauta. 

II est mort, avec lui p6rira I'esclavage, 
Son martyre a nos yenx en est uu diviu gage. 
Son V03U le plus ardent aiusi s'aceomplira : 
Des bords de I'Oreuoque, au rivage du Tibre 
Et du Tage a 1' Indus, tout homme sera libre ; 
Au grand livrc chacun lira ! 

II est mort, mais du moins sa tache fut complcite, 
II est mort sur la breche, ainsi qu'un noble athlete ; 
Quand on a bien vecu, qu'importe le trepas ? 
Pour le peuseur, mourir, u'est-cc dune pas renaitre ? 
C'est est transfigurer, devenir uu autre etre, 
PuisqiTe I'ame ne perit pas! 



O toi dout ravcugle furie, 
A seme la terre de deuil, 
Wilkes Booth, traitre a la patrie, 
A genoux, devant ce cercueil. 
Heros d'un drame epouvantable, 
Maudissant ta haine execrable, 
Vieus courber ta fete coupable, 
Devant ces restes adores, 
Viens ecouter la plaiute amere 
Qui, de tous les points de la terre, 
Monte vers la celeste sphere, 
Sortaut de nos coeursjitterres. 
Ton audace egala ta rage, 
Mais ton projet avortera. 



94 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Et rAmorklue, avec courage, 
Toiijours vers son but marchera. 
En vain, tu frappas ta victime, 
Sache-le bien, jamais lo crime 
Ne'poun-a rendre legitime 
Le plus odieux des desseins ; 
Et ton nom, maudit-d'age en age, 
Par riuimauite qu'il outrage 
Sera cloue, sur une page, 
Au pilori des assassins. 

in. 

Et toi noble martyr que le monde revere, 
Toi, qui des opprimcs voulais etre le p^re, 
En vain tu succombas sous le plomb meurtrier, 
Ton nom, le plus grand nom, de toute rcpublique, 
Rayonnera toujours au front de I'Amerique 
Comme un spleudide bouclier. 

Quelle ctoile jamais fut pareille a la tienne? 
Comme Franklin, issu de race plebeienne. 
Parti des derniers rangs, fils de ta volont6, 
Tu moutas, tu montas jus(iues au rang supreme, 
Puis Justice et Devoir tuvent ton diademe, 
Et ton sceptre, la Libertk. 

Comme Jolrn Brown, ce Christ de I'humanite noire 
Tu brilleras sans cesse, au zenith de I'histoire, 
Lcs siecles a venir encor te beniront, 
Et, plus vil fut celui qui t'arracha la vie, 
Plus belles, dcsormais, malgre I'infdmo envie, 
Tcs ceuvres 6tincellerout. 

Dors en paix, dors en paix dans tes langes funebres, 
La raison, chaque jour, dissipe les tenu^bres 
Que repandaient sur nous I'ignorauce et I'orgueil ; 
De ces rudes fleaux nous chasserons la race, 
Et nos fils heureux, en niarchaut sur ta trace, 
Ne rencontreront mil ecueil. 



Salut, saint a vous, martyrs de la pcns6o, 
Chacun de vous travaille a I'ceuvre commenc^e, 
Et de la mcme foi vous dressez les autels ; 
Depuis celui qui prit, sans trembler, la cigue, 
Chacun de vous ressent quclque douleur aigue, 
Salut, vous etes immortels ! 

Oui par vous notre terre oil tout se renouvelle 

Verra regner un jour la paix irniverselle, 

L'amour entre ses fils mettra I'egalite ! 

Et i'homme comprenant enfin le grand dictamo, 

Seutira tressaillir et resonner son ame 

An grand nom dc fraternity ! 

PAUL THOUZERY. 
AvKiL, 18G5. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY, 95 

[Translation.] 

9 Villa St. Michel, (Batignollks,) 

Paris, May 17, 1865. 
Tlic triumph of the federal cause, or rather of justice, in America made every 
heart friendly to liberty palpitate with joy. Why sliould sorrow come in such 
a tragic manner to change the sentiments of harmony and concord that seemed 
to surround this generous successor of Washington at a time when his modera- 
tion and tranquil virtues promised a perpetuity of peace? What a grand and 
noble duty he had to perform after what he had done already with such calm 
energy. In sacrificing such a man. blind passion, we have no doubt, consecrated 
his memory while it conquered and killed forever the worst of causes. Such 
are the sentiments I have endeavored to express in the language of my adopted 
country in lionor of that beautiful American repulilic of which I woukl like to 
have the gh:>ry of being a citizen, and to the eminent magistrate for whom the 
world now mourns. 

You will honor me much, sir, by accepting the dedication of this ode, and 
bestowing upon its author a benevolent regard. 

I have the honor to be, with the most profound respect, your very humble 
and obedient servant, 

F. CAMPADELLT, 
Ex- Lieutenant of Italian Volunteers. 
Hon, Mr. BiGELOW, 

United Slates Minister at Paris. 



ODE. 

Abraham Lincoln, ou le trioinphe de V Union Americaine, dSdii a Vhonorahle Monsieur Bigelow, 

Ministre dcs Etals Unis. 

Le monde gomissait de cette lutte immense 

Oil s'exaltait I'orgiicil et I'insigne demcnce 

D'olygarques brisant le pacte d'Union, 

Facte saci"6, portaut en sa puissante seve 

Des destins que n'ont pas k'S conquetes du glaive 

Pour conduire a sou but la graude nation. 

De Washington pour eux loeuvro serait chimere — 

Quand ce beros vengea la liberte, sa mere, 

Coutre les oppresseurs d'un moudo en sou berceau, 

Afin do lui donner sa base legitime, 

II groupa sans effort, par un lien iutime, 

Des Etats frateruels sous un meme drapeau. 

Et ce labeur, scelle dii sang de tant de braves, 

Fonde par la vertu, pure de ces entraves 

Que I'ambition forge au profit des tyrans, 

A constamment flenri pros d'un sicicle prosp&re, 

Donnant a TUnivcrs rexeniple salutaire 

Du saint respect des lois qui fait Ics peuples grands. 

Si I'Europe se plait h se faire uno idolc 

De tout usurpateur sans frein qui les imniole, 

Dictant pour toiUe loi sa seule volont6, 

Sur ce sol geuereux, innnense champ d'asile, 

Conviant riiomme fort h le rendro fertile, 

Le premier fruit vital est dans la liberte. 



96 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

L^, cc n'cst pas en vain que tout mortel I'implore ; 
Du faible die est le droit, et le puissant s'honore 
Dc toujours maintenir sou niveau respecte. 
Alors, chez lui, talents, geuie, bonneur, fortune, 
Au lieu d'etre un danger pour la cause commune, 
Sont les gages certains de sa prosperite. 

Aussi, quelle grandeur au vieux monde ineonnue 
L'Ameriquc atteignait, depuis la bienvenue 
De I'cre oil Washington vint aiErmer ses droits ! 
La Maison-Blauche a vu sans garde pretorienue, 
Sans licteurs, sans I'eclat de la pompe ancienne, 
Des magistrats plus grands et plus fiers que des rois. 

Droit uioderne, salut ! Et voila ton prodige ! 
Palais de la vertu, salut ! car ton prestige 
Ne vient pas d'un pouvoir par la force visui-pe : 
Quicouque en tes lambris pense, agit ou respire, 
N'est grand qu'en subissaut et maintenant I'empire 
Des lois qui font I'honneur d'un peuple emancipe. 

Eb quoi ! des heritiers de ce plan magnifique 
Oii se developpait la grande Republique 
Ont ose le briser, sous le pretexte vain 
De cette liberte qui serait leur victirae, 
Si, triomphaut avec I'eselavage, leur crime ! 
lis lui faisaient subir un affront souverain! 

Mais le droit s'est lev^ dans sa virile force : 

Tout un peuple a fletri cet inf^me divorce 

Que pour eux seuls revaieut d'orgueilleus citoyens ; 

Et, saisissant le fer contre la ligue impie, 

II a vaincu — laissant toute baiue asscfupie 

Quaud out mis I'arme bas ses aveugles soutiens. 

Gloire, bonneur a Lincoln ! bomme d'une foi pure, 
/ Qui porta le fardeau si grand, sans dictature, 

Sans violation du temple saint des lois ; 
Honneur a, ces guerriers loyaux, vaillants et fermes, 
Qui des rebellions ont pu francbir les termes. 
Sans jamais imprimer de tacbe c\ leurs exploits ! 

lis atteignaient dejd I'beure de la Concorde — 
Amerique ! c'etait un eloquent exorde 
Pour la deuiocratie en marcbe d'avenir — 
Que p(.'uvcnt desormais les sopbismes n^fastes 
Dont se parent encor les tyrans et les castes, 
Quaud devant eux surgit I'ombre de ton martyr ! 

O crime ! 5. trabison ! dans tou revers supreme 

Tu glisses dans le sang et I'ignoble blaspheme — 

En vouant pour jamais a rimmortalite 

Uu champion du droit clement, dont la grande dme 

Est I'auguste rachat de ce tribut infame 

Qu'unc race payait a la fatalite ! 

F. CAMPADELLI, 

T, .... Ex-Lieutenant des Volontaircs Italiens, 

Paris, cc \cr Mm, Ic^Go. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 97 

[Trauslatiou.] 

Paris, June 7, 18G5. 

]\[osT Illustrious Exckllp',\cy : I have tlie houoi- of seuding you a copy 
if my letter to Mrs. Lincoln and the illustrious nation whose destinies are in- 
trusted to your hands. You will see in it the faithful expression of my senti- 
ments for the c^reat statesman Abraham Lincoln. You will find, at the same 
time, an antidote to the plag-ue which threatens America by the crime of t)x. 
Blackburn. 

I do not doubt but the papers will make knoAvn this remedy by publication, 
and thus snatch from certain death thousands of victims, if the dreadful plague 
should break out. 

!May God give you the light to lead the great nation of the United States to 
its highest destiny, is my most cordial wish for you, whom Providence has 
called to the eminent post of President. 

Deign to accept the humble homage of the distinguished sentiments with 
which I have the honor to be your excellency's very humble and most obedient 
servant, 

J. II. TRIES. 

The Pkbside.nt. 



[Tianslatiou.] 

May 3, 1S65. 

MoxsiKUR LB MixiSTRK : Abraham Lincoln has fallen a victim to the most 
execrable outrage at the moment when the re-establishment of the Union was 
assured, thanks to his own firmness, energetic patriotism, and moderation. 

The Oourrier du Demanche, among all the French journals, mny boast of the 
honor of having been from the first day of the struggle, and without hesitation, 
the defender of the views for which Lincoln has lost his life; and we come to-day 
to express to you the profound grief which all ray brother editors feel at the 
death of this great citizen. 

It was not only to America but to the whole of humanity that he belonged. 
The l)low •which fell upon Lincoln has been felt by all those who in our old 
Europe believe in liberty, in law, and justice. It was but a few days ago, when 
the armies of the north entered Richmond, we felt, on thinking that the last 
rampart of slavery had fallen, all the joys of victory. AVe now ask of you, 
to-day, the right of taking part in your mourning. 

Does America desire that marble shall transmit to future generations the mem- 
ory of that good man, who steadfastly remained, in spite of the most fearful 
trials to which the head of a government could be exposed, the faithful servant 
of the laws. If your country will consecrate his glorious memory by a monu- 
ment worthy of it, we should claim the honor of being foremost in this act of 
gratitifde, as we have been the first to Avelcome the double election of this ever 
illustrious victim. 

Receive, sir, the assurance of oitr profound respect. 

P. TARGET. 

E. YILLELARD. 



[Trauslatiuu.] 

The editor in chief of the journal. The Europe, has addressed the following 
letter to MM. Harvin Peyrat, Guerault, ami Nefftzer, editors in chief of the 
Seicle, the Aveuir Nationale, and the Opinion Nationale : 

May 2. 

"Gentlemen and Dear Confreres : By the side of that experience — those 
lessons and examples which have been left to the Avorld by the life and death 



98 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

of Alji-aliain Lincoln — must be placed that great feeling which is alone capable 
of ijre.sidin"- over the universal renovation, the feeling of joint responsibilitj. 

" Yes, before the death of the great republican citizen the hearts of all free 
men have been united in the same sadness, the same convictions, the same hopes. 

" I will, therefore, dear confreres, send you, in the name of the editors and 
printers of the republican journal, The Europe, the most sympathatic in your 
address, to citizen-President Johnson. 

" It is not so much the feeling of regret which unites us around the tomb of 
Abraham Lincoln as the joy of placing there the cable which will henceforth 
connect European democracy with American institutions. 
" Sincerely yours, 

"GREGORY GANESCO." 



[Translation.] 

Paris, April 27, 1865. 

General Count Faubert, former minister plenipotentiary from Hayti to Rome, 
and his son, Fenelon Faubert, secretary of the Haytian legation to Madrid, pre- 
sent to the United States minister plenipotentiary in Paris the expression of 
their sincere sympathy, and the horror they felt on hearing the news of the double 
assassination of President Lincoln and Mr. Seward, Secretary of State. 

The United States Minister PLi^MPOTENTiARY 

near the court of the TuiUerics. 



An address from French JVest Indian colonists in Paris to citizen John Bige- 
low. Envoy Extraordinanj and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United 
States of America at Paris. 

[Translation.] 

Citizen : Only a few days ago the glorious news of the final triumph of 
emancipation reached us, and we, children of the Franco- American colonies, 
devoted to your cause, were in the midst of our rejoicing when the terrible news 
of President Lincoln's death came to trouble our mirth. 

Abraham Lincoln, the illustrious President of the great republic, thebenefiic- 
tor of humanity, is no more. He has fallen a victim of his devotion to liberty, 
pierced by a slaveholder's dagger. 

If we rejoice with you in your victories, we must also mourn with you the 
immense loss to the republic and to humanity. But we fear not for the cause 
of the Union and the universal abolition of slavery. An odious crime has been 
committed in vain ; it has failed in its aim. Abraham Lincoln died a martyr to 
liberty, with a halo of glory purer than any that ever crowned a statesman, and 
his works shall live after him. 

The providential mission of the United States fortunately does not depend 
upon the life of a single man, and the liberty begun by Abraham Lincoln, we 
are sure, will produce worthy successors of him who was brave in war, mag- 
nanmious in victory, and who will ever live to be the first in the hearts of the 
whole world. 

We have the honor to be your very humble and devoted servants, 

A. MICHELY, Guyana. 
E. GUERIN, Guadeloupe. 
^ E. LAtOUNIE, Martinique. 

A.\D 17 OTHERS, fro7n Guyana and the French Antilles. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SY:MrATHY. 99 

From the legation of II. I. M. the Shnh of Persia, at Paris, to the United 

States Minister. 

[Translutiou.] 

Paris, May 9, 1865. 
I have just received a telegram from Teheran, expressive of the horror felt 
by the government of his imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia at the ilews of 
the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. 

I am requested by him to express to you his great regrets on this occasion , 
and to ask you to transmit them to your new I'resident. 
Accept the assurance of my very high consideration 

SULEYMAN RIIAX, 

Persian Charge d' Affaires. 
His Excellency Mr. Bigelow, 

United States Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary, i^-c, S^-c, S^'c. 



Tu his Excellency John Bigelow, Envoy Extraordinary 

Sir : We have learned with the most ])rofound emotions that our beloved 
late Chief Magistrate is no more; that at the height of his fame and usefulness 
he has been stricken down by an assassin's hand. Our joy over the nation's 
deliverance from the horrors of civil war is turned into mourning, by an event 
shocking to humanity, and lamented by every friend of liberty and law. 

Separated as we are, temporarily, from our native land, and stantling amid the 
hospitable altars of a people associated with our most cherished traditions, our 
hearts impel us to give some expression, through you, of our sorrow and our 
sympathy. 

We beg to assure you that we share the grief that fills the hearts of our 
countrymen at home, and mourn witli them the loss of the illustrious citizen, 
the wise magistrate, the just, pure, and good man. 

Yet, while we mourn this incalculable loss, we would gratefully remember 
that Providence which spared him to his country until he had successfully 
guided ns so near the end of the strife. 

His firmness, his justice, ever tempered with mercy, his faitli in the dignity 
and rights of man, and his absorbing patriotism, were the inspirations of his 
official life, and, under God, have afforded us the happy vision of approaching 
peace and a restored Union. 

Four years ago he was wholly unknown to the world at large, and, except in 
his own State, had yet to win the confidence of his fellow-citizens. To-day, 
after an ordeal as severe as ever tested ability and character, he is universally 
accepted as one of the few born to shape the best destinies of States, and to 
make the most powerful impress for good upon the fortunes of the human race 

If it was not reserved for him to create a nation, he was called most conspic- 
uously to aid in preserving one against the most formidable armed conspiracy 
ever aimed at the life of a State. 

If, in the completeness of our institutions, it was not his office to add to the 
safeguards of liberty for his own race, it will be his undying glory to have 
lifted four millions of a feeble and long unbefriended people from bondage to 
the dignity of personal freedom. 

The rights of humanity at last are vindicated, and our country is relieved of 
its great reproach. 

Already the world is claiming for itself this last martyr to the cause of 
freedom, and Abraham Lincoln lias taken his place among the moral constella- 
tions which shall impart light and life to all coming generations. 

We would here gratefully remember ^.the words of sympathy for our coun- 
try, and of respect for the fallen, uttered with -united voice by the rulers and 



100 AITENDIK TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

people of Europe. "\Ve believe this event, which all humanity mourns, will 
stren'Mlien the tie of friendship which should ever unite the brotherhood of 

States. 

We would not in this address say more of the assassin than express our 
abhorrence of his dreadful crime, but we lovingly remember that the last utter- 
ances of him we mourn were words of clemency toAvard the defeated enemies 
of his country : " With charity to all, and malice for none," he was superior to 
reven"-e. "Peace and union!" These secured, there was little place in his 
heart for the severities of justice. 

It was this gentleness, united to an integrity and unselfishness of character 
never surpassed, that won the hearts of his countrymen. AVe mouru not only 
the ^Magistrate we revered, but the friend we loved. 

It is not for us to scrutinize the dealings of a just God ; we bow before his 
dispensations when least intelligible to human wisdom. But in sealing with 
his blood the Avork to which he was called, Mr. Lincoln has, Ave believe, been 
the means of placing upon more imperishable foundations the unity, the glory, 
and the beneiicent power of our beloved country. And if there be inspiration 
in high example, Ave know that his wise and upright policy in all our domestic 
and foreign relations Avill be an additional guarantee for peace, charity, and 
justice, throughout the civilized Avorld. 

We beg to assure you, and through you Mrs. Lincoln and her family, of our 
deep sympatliy in this their hour of alHiction. We know how inadequate is 
all human consolation, but it is grateful to us to assure the bereaved that we 
mourn with them their irreparable loss. 

To the honored Secretary of State, Mr. Seward, whose death Avas also pur- 
posed, and the Assistant Secretary, Mr. Frederick W. Seward, and their fami- 
lies, Ave Avish also to express our sympathies, in view of their great perils and 
sufferings. 

We deem it fitting to express to our distinguished felloAV-citizen who sircceeds 
to the Chief IMagistracy our sense of the trying circumstances under which he 
is called to his new trust. We find in the record of his long and useful public 
career the basis of the most perfect confidence in his ability, his justice, and 
his patriotism. 

We beg you, sir, to assure our fellow-countrymen, and the more immediate 
sufTerers by the terrible tragedy, and the President, of these our most heartfelt 
sentiments. 

We haA'e the honor, sir, to be, very respectfully, vour obedient servants, 

N. M. BEOKWITH, 

JAMES 0. PUTNAM^ 

JAMES PHALEN, 

WILLIAM C. EMMET, 

THOMAS W. EVANS, M. D., 

PtOBERT M. MASON, 

RICHARD M. HOE, 

JOHNSTON LIVINGSTONE, Committee. 

AXD SOME TAVO HUiN'DRED OTHERS. 

Paris, May 4, 18Go. 



Ilfphj of Mr. Bi gel 010. 

GjiNTLEMEN: I respect and share the emotions which have inspired this 
address. I t^hall have a melancholy satisfaction in communicating it to those 
whose stricken hearts have the first claim to its consolations. 

Ihe crnne which has provoked this impressive demonstration from tlie loyal 
Aiiitricans in 1 ans is one which unites all the elements of human depravity in 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMFATIIY. 101 

their ]aro:est proportions. Its victims are nniong those whose loss at the pres- 
ent moment the whole civilized world would most unanimously dt^plore. Upon 
us, his compatriots, who knew best what a rare collection of public and private 
virtues went down into the grave with Abraham Lincoln, this blow has fallen 
with peculiar severity, and I thank you for the faithful elonueuce with which 
you have interpreted our common sorrow. 

But no crime was ever committed that was not an involuntary homage to 
virtue. The war between the principles of good and evil is always waging; 
and if the Lamb that took away the sins of the Avorld had to bear his testi- 
mony upon the cross, why should he who proclaimed deliverance to a race of 
bondmen be safe from the treacherous hand of the assassin ? How more appro- 
priately could our great national reproach ultimate itself? Was it more than 
historic justice to mark the grave of chattel slavery in the United States by a 
crime that Avas never perpetrated, whatever the pretence, except in the interests 
of slavery ? 

Those who, like myself, are accustomed to search for the hand of God in the 
phenomena of human life, cannot but feel, as, after much reflection, I am led to 
feel, that our ])eople were never nearer to Him than at the dreadful moment 
when Ave seemed, humanly speaking, most deserted. What revelations that 
crime has made ; Avhat lessons it has taught, and will teach ; w^bat prejudices 
it has corrected ; what hostilities it has suspended ; what sympathies it has 
awakened! They are in everyone's mind; they are on everyone's tongue. 
Even here in a foreign land, and where Avhat we most cherish in our political 
institutions may be supposed to be but imperfectly comprehended, Avhat Amer- 
ican has not been surprised and comforted by the spontaneous and universal 
demonstrations of sympathy which our i>ational bereavement has elicited from 
all ])arties, and from every class, from the humblest and from the most exalted? 
b^uch a tribute was never paid to our country before; such homage was never 
paid to any other American. And Avhy to Mr. Lincoln ? Because his death, 
and the time and manner of it, seem to have rendered his whole public career 
luminous, and to make it clear to the most distant observers that our late Pres- 
idi'ut, inspired by a love which made all men his brothers, had been building 
wiser than they knew; that he had been fighting the fight of humanity, of jus- 
tice, and of civilization ; and, finally, that he had been summoned hence to 
receive a crown of triumph more enduring than that which was pr«-paring for 
him here. 

It is not too much to say that during the long four years of our bloody strug- 
gle with this rebellion the world made less progress in comprehending its bale- 
ful origin and purposes, and the common interest of humanity in resisting it, 
than has been made during the brief interval which has elapsed since this dread- 
ful tragedy. By the hand of an assassin that simple-hearted and single-minded 
patriot has been transfigured, and has taken his place in history as the imper- 
sonation of a cause Avhich heniceforth it Avill be blasphemy to assail. 

I was never so proud of being an American as when I learned with what 
comparative unanimity my countrymen put the seal of their approbation upon 
all the sacrifices he had invited them to make by re-electing hinr to the Presi- 
dency. Nor Avas I ever moie proud of being a man than since I have learned 
by his death hoAv, during all his troubled administration, his public and private 
virtues have been secretly but steadily graving thems(dves upon the hearts of 
manknid. My heart goes out more than ever to our brothers in foreign lands-. 
Avho have shown such readiness to lessen the burden of our great affliclion hy 
sharing it with us. 

I desire to join Avith all my heart in your expressions of sympathy for those 
Avhose grief is yet too poignant to be assuaged by such considerations as these;. 
May God sustain them, and in his OAvn good time re\'eal to them the sih^er lin- 
ing Avhich ahvaya lies concealed in the folds of the darkest clouds. 



102 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COKRESPONDENCE. 

And, while weoping Avith those that weep, you do well to rejoice with those 
wlio rejoice that God in his mercy shortened the arm that w^is lifted against 
our venerable and illnstrions secretary of State and his noble sons. Had they 
too been swept into a martyr's grave, then, indeed, had assassination triumphed. 
But, thanks be to God, they still live, and in them lives on our lamented Presi- 
dent. In their trials, in their disappointments, in their plans, in their hopes, in 
their triumphs, the late President and Mr. Seward were one. In Mr. Seward's 
esca])e the murderer of the President is deprived of every advantage that could 
possibly have tempered the remorse by which, for the remaining hours of his 
■wretched life, he must have been tormented. Swift justice has already overtaken 
him, and he is now where we have no occasion to follow him, either witli our 
wrath or with our commiseration. 

I had occasion, some three years ago, to Avarn Jlr. Seward of plots matiiring 
then against the lives of leading loyal statesmen in different cities of our repub- 
lic, intelligence of which had reached me here. His reply has acquired, from 
recent events, such a painful interest that I feel justified by the present occa- 
sion in reading it to you : 

"Departimrnt of State, 

" Washington, July 15, 1862. 
****** 

" There is no doubt that from a period anterior to the breaking out of the 
insurrection, plots and conspiracies for purposes of assassination have been fre- 
quently formed and organized. And it is not unlikely that such an one as has 
been reported to you is now in agitation among the insurgents. If it be so, it 
need furnish no ground for anxiety. Assassination is not an American practice 
or habit, and one so vicious and so desperate cannot be engrafted into our polit- 
ical system. 

" This conviction of mine has steadily gained strength since the civil war be- 
gan. Every day's experience confirms it. The President, during the heated 
season, occupies a country house near the Soldiers' Home, two or three miles 
from the city. He goes to and from that place on horseback, night and morn- 
ing, unguarded. I go there, unattended, at all hours, by daylight and moon- 
light, by starlight and without any light," 

****** 

You will remark in these lines that same hopeful, confiding nature thatthink- 
eth no evil ; that inextinguishable reliance on the good sense and manly iij- 
stincts of his country-people, which has sustained him, and through him, in a 
great degree, the nation during four long years of trial which required, if any 
ever did, statesmen that walked by faith, and not by sight. 

Among the many marvellous results of this great tragedy there is still one to 
which, 1 am sure, you will pardon an allusion. 

Ihe fatal ball that raised Abraham Lincoln tp the glory of a martyr, dis- 
charged a debt of gratitude to Andrew Johnson, for which nothing short of the 
liighest national honors would suffice. Among the statesmen now living it 
■would be difficult to name one who, according to his opportunity, has placed his 
country under gnsater obligations than the constitutional successor of President 
Lincoln. AVith some experience of almost every condition of social life, he has 
passed through every grade of public distinction in the United States, from the 
lowest to the very liighest, and he never quitted any public trust except for one 
of greater honor and responsibility. That could never be said of an ordinary 
man, Jlr. Johnson has now entered upon new and unprecedented trials. I 
share fully your confidence in his ability to meet them all. It should be a mat- 
ter of congratulation with us, in this hour of national afliiction, that the mantle 
of our lamented Piesident should have fallen upon the ample shoulders of a 
.statesman so experienced, so upright, and so meritorious as Andrew Johnson. 



SENTIMENTS OP CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 103 

A. L. G. D. G. A. D. L. U. 

I [Traaslation.] 

Ordeu of Pau, May IS, 1S6<3. 

To His Excellency Amhassador of the United States: 

The regrets of the whole world accompanied Abraham Lincoln when he fell, 
triumphant, from the murderer's bullet. His admirable good sense, his inviola- 
ble rcf^pect for the laws, his regard for the liberty and dignity of the people who 
had trusted their destiny to him, his unwavering faith injustice and truth, have 
made him one of the most noble cdiaracters of modern times. In the first rank 
of great men, history will point him out as one of those rare modern examples 
of true patriotism, placing its strength in the practice of civil virtues. By this 
murder the assassin has not gained his end. He has taken a precious life, but 
he has not destroyed the existence of the American people ; they, by their in- 
stitutions and the practice of liberty, are beyond the reach of such human 
events. 

This lodge, the cradle of Henry the Fourth, at Pau, under the sad circum- 
stances, regrets the great citizen, and has the greatest confidence in the great 
republic of the United States. 

A. LACOSTE. 

FELIX ARRLl. 

A. BIVOT. 

A. DUMOULON. 

A. VERUIN. 

E. GENERSE. 

P. ETCUEBARTER. 



To Ills Excellency the Minister of tlie Uniled States at Paris: 

Sir : The undersigned, residents and visitors at Pau, forgetting their politi- 
cal dissensions before such a national calamity as the dastardly murder of the 
late President, Abraham Lincoln, beg leave most respectfully to convey to your 
excellency the expression of their horror and indignation at so criminal an act. 

They earnestly wish, moreover, through the medium of your excellency, to 
add the testimony of their sympathy, in common with their own countrymen and 
all the civilized world. 

They have the honor to be, most respectfully, your obedient servants. 

E. RORRUN GRAVES. CHAS. RUSH, Vice-Admiral B. 21. S. 

A. G. VAN ZANDT. W. H. BEYTU, R. A. B. M. S. 

P. M( CARTY. ARTHUR NUGENT, R. J. A. 

THOS. McCARTY. FRANCIS P. BLAIR RIGGS. 

PRESCOTT HALL WARD. WILLIAM CORCORAN RIGGS. 

JNO. A. POST. ' A. S. DANIELL. 

EUGENE CRUGER. J. D. OGDEN. 

AUSTIN L. S. MAIN. J. M. WRIGHT. 

MUSGRAVE HENRYS iV.8.F.a GEORGE TALBOT BAGOT. 
C. 0. SHEATFIELD, Major General. 



[Trauslatiou.] 

Reformed Church of France, Consistory of Pons, 

Pons, May 2, IS65. 

I propose to sign the address which my colleagues, now in conference at 
Paris, have had the honor to send to you for Mrs. Lincoln. 

I join in the sympathetic regrets of that missive, from the bottom of my heart, 



lot ArPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPOXDENCE. 

Avitli eood wislies to Mrs. Lincoln, and to the people of the United States, in the 
great cau^e of'Iibertv that ^Tr. Lincoln has carried through so victoriously. 

Our .«oul.s were chilled -when the fatal news reached ns ; our hearts sank to 
Lear of a man avIio was extending the olive branch to the conquered, from the 
soldier to the couimander-iu chief, being shot by a miserable fanatic. 

We reo-ret to se(! your great nation lose that halo of glory — respect for the elect 
of tin; people. Your former Presidents could mingle among crowds of people 
without a shade of danger ; now, as with us in Europe, you must protect them 
by a li('d"-e of bayonets. Let us hope that it may not be so; that this political 
crime will remain solitary and alone in the history of your republic ; so that in 
tlie future, as in the past, you may teach Europe due respect for the represen- 
tative of sovereign power. 

"We have the firm conviction that the death of your President will not prevent 
you from liberating the last of your slaves ; yet with that respect for the con- 
quered, and that great charity of which Mr. Lincoln has given you such a good 
example, may God help you to finish the work, and shed his benedictions upon 
the peoi'le of the United States. 

I have the honor to be your very humble and most devoted servant, 

BARTHE, 
Pastor and Prcsidc?ii of tJ/e Consistory of Pons. 

Mr. BiGELOW, Minister Plenipotentiary 

of the United States to France. 



The Friends nf Perfect Union Lodge to the United States Amhassador in Paris. 

f Translation. ] 

Pkrpignan, May 31, 1S65. 
Sir: At its session on the 12th instant the Friends of Perfect Union Lodge 
fired a triple battery of mourning to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the late 
illustrious President of the United States. 

We have the honor of sending you, with this, an extract of the minutes of the 
session on the 12th, and a cantata composed -for the occasion by two members 
of the lodge. 

We respectfully request you to have the kindness to transmit these docu- 
ments to ]\L-s. Lincoln through the Grand Lodge of New York. 
With great respect, your very iiUmble and obedient servants, 

Oflicers of the lodge : BOUlvGUET, VcneraUe. 

RAYNAL, Senior Warden. 
PtOLLAND, Junior Warden, 
HERXCOE, Orator. 
MERIE, O. de Seals. 
C. THOUBERT, Secretary. 



E.rlract from the uwrling IwoJc of the lodge of the Friends of Perfect Union. 
Session of the I2th rf May, 1865. 

[Trauslatiou.] 

The members being called to order, the master speaks : 

"Dkar Brothers: An illustrious mason, a great citizen, the very dear 
brother Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, fell by the pistol of 
an assassin on tlie 14th of April last. 

" A keeper of tlocks, a laborer, a woodman, a lawyer. Brother Lincoln grew 
up to work, a self-made man. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 105 

" He abolished slavery. Honor to tlie memory of tliat good man wlio has 
been of such signal service to the cause of humanity. 

"Let us give, then, a triple battery of mourning to the memory of our very 
illustrious brother, Abraham Lincoln." 

Brother Yallarino then sang an anthem, composed by Brother Mercadier, and 
sot to music by Brother Coll, a member of the lodge. 

Brother ]\[ercadier then speaks : 

'' May the song you have just heard bear beyond the ocean the expression 
of our profound regrets, ^lay our afHiction, mingled with that of the world, 
temper the sorrow of the widow and children of the great citizen who has given 
his life for liberty. 

" In destroying the last vestiges of slavery, he finished the task begun more 
than eighteen hundred years ago, by the Just Man, who was crucified for wish- 
ing to free the human race. 

"Lincoln's was a great mission upon this earth, and he has most nobly ful- 
filled it. May he live forever in all hearts ! May his noble figure beam in the 
future and serve as a beacon to all friends of humanity. 

" L("t us then, my brethren, give a triple salute of joy, in honor of the great, 
firm, glorious, and immortal Abraham Lincoln !" 

It was unanimously decided that the banner of the lodge should be veiled in a 
mourning of crape for seven days; and that an extract of the minutes of this 
session sliiaild be sent to the Grand Lodge of the State (;f New York, with the 
request to have it sent to the widow of the very illustrious brother, Abraham 
Liucoln. BOURGUET, the Venerable. 

D. RAYNAL. 
J. MERIE. 
A. IK )LL AND. 
C. THOUBERT, Secretary. 



Lodge of ilie Frknds of Perfect Unio7i to Mrs. Liincoln. 
[Translation.! 

Madam: Some misfortunes are irreparable, and for which there is no conso- 
lation; these have fallen to your lot, and the world deplores it. 

These are not then vain efforts of comfort we exteud to you, but simply the 
humble tribute of the profound regrets that weigh down our hearts. If the pure 
and holy life of your great husband made him the favorite of a great nation, his 
death has rendered him immortal. 

The liberator of slaves had to be a martyr! Was not the Nazarene cruci- 
fied ? 

Lincoln is now surrounded by a halo of glory that ages can never efface ; his 
name will be forever blessed. 

Be resigned, madam, to the inscrutable decrees of Providence, who needed a 
great soul to accomplish its designs, and fixed upon the man most suited to its 
purpose. 

We remain, madam, with the most profound respect, yoitr very devoted ser- 
vants. 

The oflScers of the lodge: BOURGUET, the Venerable. 
D. RAYXAL, 1st Warden.. 
A. ROLL AND, 2d Warden. 
A. TJ1E1{0DKE, Orator. 
C. THOUBERT, Secretary. 
J. MERIE, Keeper ef the Seals. 



lOG ArrENDIX to DirLOMAXIC COERESPOXDEXCE. 

Lod"e of the Friends of Perfect Union to tlie Grand Lodge of the State of 

New York. 

[TraBslation.] 

Perpig.\aiv, France, May 31, 1865. 
Very Dkar Brethren : All friends of Immanity slnidclered with hon-orwlicn 
they heard of the death of the illustrious Lincoln ; and the world sympathizes 
with the p-eat nation that trusted hiin with their destinies. 

Our lodge takes part in your affliction, and that of the family of the lamented 
President, 

We ask you, brothers, to be the interpreters of our regrets to the inconsolable 
widow, by transmitting to her the enclosed pieces to her husband's memory. 
Accept our fraternal salutations. 

BOURGUET, the Venerable. 

D. RAYNAL. 

A. ROLLAND. 

C. TUOUBERT, Secretary. 

J. MERIE, Keeper of the Seals. 



IX TOKEN OF RESPECT. 
[Translation from Latin verses.] 
From humble parentage ami low degree 
Lincoln ascended to the highest rank ; 
None ever had a harder task than he. 
It was perfected — him alone we thank. 

Did the assassin think to kill a name, 

Or hand his own down to posterity ? 
One will wear the laiu'el Avreath of fame, 

The other be condemned to infamy. 

Cpesar was killed by Brutus, 

Yet Rome did not cease to be ; 
Lincoln by Booth, and yet the 

Slaves in all America are free ! 
RiETi, Maxj, 1SG5. F. B. 



Royal Scotch Lodge the Elect of St. Stejditn. Courage, Charity, Discretion. 

[Translation.] 

Sir : The Lodge of the Elect, at St. Stephen's on the Loire, has unanimously 
decreed to wear full mourning in memory of the death of Abraham Lincoln, the 
American patriot and martyr of human emancipation ; and to make known to 
you the deep sorrow it felt at the news of the crime of which the illustrious 
President of your free America has been the unfortunate victim. 

The five officers of this lodge are glad to communicate these fticts, so conso- 
nant to their own feelings. 

Accept this evidence of our regrets and sympathy, and of our respectful good 
wishes. 

G. L. MAREOHAL, Venerahle. 

FREYNET, Warden. 

E. BESSY", Kcej^er of the Seals 

AYMARD, Orator. 

M. LIART, Secretary. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 107 



[Transliitioii. ] 

Lodge of Good rAixH, 
St. Gennahi-oi-Laijc, JSIay 15, 1865, (common era.) 

The Masonic Lodge of Good Fait.li, on hearing of the odious crime that de- 
prived the United States government of its illustrious President, Abraham Lin- 
cohi, experienced the same sorrow felt by the whole world. French free masonry- 
does not meddle Avith political passions ; but as a body of enlightened men it 
professes those great principles of humanity that your regretted President prac- 
ticed with so much skill and success. 

The abolishment of slavery, the great work so long desired by civilized nations, 
the sacred design of the wisdom and justice of all governments, was prosecuted 
with tact and ingenuity by your predecessor, for which he has aright to not only 
the gratitude of his own nation, but to the homage of everyb(;dy who recog- 
nized in him the honorable rejiresentative of the liberal ideas adopted by the 
human race in this age of progress. This spirit recoils before no obstacle, but 
in its onward march crushes tyranny, intolerance, and prejudice. 

No, this assassination cannot destroy the great fundamental principles of uni- 
versal morality. Martyrs may fall under the cruel blows of blind fanaticism, 
but truth will rise more radiant and triumphant out of the darkness where igno- 
rance and obstinacy sought to bury it. As ardent propagandists of masonic 
faith, which is one day to unite all men, we will escape all future imminent 
dangers. 

In completing the noble task of your predecessor you will be sustained in the 
sacred duty by our good wishes and our prayers in the accomplishment of this 
liuraane labor. 

Under these iinexpected circumstances the Lodge of Good Faith adopts your 
ideas of universal happiness, and is proud to say it joins you, heart and soul, in 
the symjiathctic bonds of love for the public good. 

Our wishes will be satisfied if you deign to receive, at this solemn moment, 
the respectful homage of our fraternal sentiments, and the assurance of our pro- 
found and sincere affection. 

PERROT, VmeraUe. 
P. FONTAINE. 
]\rAYER. 
DAjMBRINE. 

And many others. 

The'PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED StATES. 



Address sent to Madcnti Linroln by a great majority of tlic students of the 
Faculty of Protestant Theology at Strasbourg. 

[Translation.] 

Strasbourg, May 5, 1865. 

AFadam : The undersigned, students of the Faculty of Protestant Theology 
at Strasbourg, identify themselves with the great sorrow caused by the crime 
of which Pi-esident Lincoln has been the victim for having re-established the 
Union and destroyed slavery. 

They knnw that even should the powers of evil triumph momentarily in the 
world, ( hrist will reign in the end, and with Ilim justice and liberty. 

Receive, &c., in the name of the subscribers. 

E. L. PRUVOT. 



108 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPOXDEXCE. 

[Translatiou. J 

Strasbourg, May 9, 1865. 
Abraliam Lincoln's life was a long homage paid by that honest man to the 
rights and liberties of the people who elected him. His death is a public calam- 
ity, deplored by all those who believe iu the providential mission of the repub- 
lic 'of the United States. But they are comforted in remembering that no pri- 
vate misf(3rtuue, however great it may be, can prevail against a cause founded 
on justice, or against institutions based upon liberty. 

The inhabitants of Strasbourg, signing this address, have the honor of asking 
vou to accept the expression of their sentiments of profound condolence for the 
death of Abraham Lincoln. 

A. SCHMIDT, Frof. of ThvoJogy. 

CH. GEROLDE. 

A. SOHALLER, ikZm?>/'fr. 

BOUVARD, Proprietor. 

V. GEISTOD. 

C. F. SCHMIDT. 

And many others. 
Mr. BiGELOW, United States Minister in Paris. 



Address of tlie worTiing classes of Tarare. 
[Translation.] 

Tarare, May 4, 1865. 

The working classes of Tarare, profoundly moved by the death of the illus- 
trious citizen Lincoln, President of the great American republic, the equal of 
Washington, associate themselves, heart and soul, with the addresses of the stu- 
dents and the four journals of Paris — addresses so conformable with the true 
sentiments of liberty, justice, and hope, and stamped with so grievous a sym- 
pathy. 

LAGANTE. 
DEMANGE. 
BOST- 
C AY 

EAUXANT. 
V. JAY. 
And some thirty others. 



[Translation.] 

Tours, May 17, 1865. 

Sir: I hope the address of the democrats of Tours will have a favorable 
reception from you. 

It was hard to obtain 208 signatures in a city where there is only one news- 
paper, where the press only speaks the official language of the prefecture, where 
liberty is limited by policemen and public functionaries, and where democracy's 
warmest partisans are among the common people. 

Our document will reach you after passing through the soiled hands of our 
hardy workmen, who cannot leave the sheet of paper spotless, whereon they 
have put their hearts with the signature of their hands to express their sym- 
pathy for your great republic. 

^ It is not you, a representative of a coiTutry where labor leads to the highest 
dignities of the nation, that will disdain our address because it carries the visi- 
ble impress of hands devoted to work. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 109 

These are the hands that will bi-cak, in this conntiy, all the bonds and fetters 

that are put on liberty, under the specious pretext of measuring and regulating 

its gait ; these are the hands that will shake most cordially those of your citizens. 

Accept the assurance of our sympathetic sentiments for you and your country. 

ARMAND RIVIEllE, 

Clievre St., Ko. 12. 
Mr. Big BLOW, 

Minister Plenijwtcntiarn of tJie V^nitcd States to France. 



[Translation.] 

The democrats of the city of Tours applauded the victories gained by the 
Union over the partisans of slavery. They always hailed with joy the triumph 
of the great cause of humanity, so bravely sustained by your Lincolns, Grants, 
Sheridans, Shermans, and Sewards. But joy gave place to grief Avheu they 
heard that a madman had murdered the President of your republic, the great 
citizen, who, like Washington, had no other ambition than the good of his coun- 
try and of humanity, who sought to make no pedestal but of his civil virtues and 
the respect for the laws of his country. 

As precious as were the lives of Abraham Liucoln and of Seward, treacher- 
ously assassinated by the fanaticism of slavery at bay, your republic is fixed 
upon such a solid basis that neither the poniards nor revolvers of monsters, 
though they deprive it of the best citizens, can destroy it or arrest the progress 
of its glorious humanitary conquests. 

Tell your valiant and true citizens that wherever true democrats are found 
their hearts have felt the blow giveu to your country, and those of Tours will 
be happy to transmit beyond the sea their fraternal salutation to the great people 
who have severed the last chains of slavery, and have held so high and so firmly 
the banner of liberty. 

A. Bt I VIE RE, Laivycr. PIMBERT. 

AL. B(3UDR()D. L. DESMOULIXS, M. D. 

MALERAT, Merchant. DESTOUR, Retired Ca^jtain. 

GROGNARD. BREAU. 

AXD 200 MORE. 



To the United States Minister at Paris. 

[Translation.] 

The undersigned join in the same sentiment to reprove and condemn with all 
their might and deplore Avith all their soul the nameless crime that has taken 
from the AV(jrld and from great America the greatest of men and the most 
honest of citizens. 

Tell the people you have the honor to re[U"esent, that from this central jiart of 
France, the country of Lafayette and ]Mirabeau, hearts beat full of hope, though 
oppressed by the weight of deep grief, and confidence in the future of your 
country, made great and imiierishablc by liberty. 

ARMAND I^AZILL. 
LOUIS GRENOUILLER. 
A. THIOR. 
L. PENOTT. 
COLIN. 
GOES. 
And one iil\\dki:;d and fifty others. 
ViERZON, Ai»il 21, 1865. 



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EXTRACTS FROM THE PRESS OF PARIS. 
[Translatiou. ] 



[From the Avenir National, April 27, 1865.] 

The tf'lc^^rapli brings us disastrotis news, and which will certainly give cause 
for mourning throughout the whole of Europe. President Lincolu has been 
assassinated. The great citizen has fallen a martyr to his cause, but to a 
triumphant cause. The death of a citizen, however great and illustrious he 
may be, can in no way compromise the destinies of a people surrounded with 
democratic and free institutions. 

But if it can be safely said that the triumph of the people of the United 
States cannot possibly become a question owing to the death of Abraham Lin- 
coln, one cannot help feeling a certain degree of apprehension from the disap- 
pearance from the arena of politics of him who, with the prestige and authority 
of spotless patriotism, might have served as moderator amongst his fellow- 
citizcuii, carried away by the exultation of victory. 



[From the Avenir National, April 28, 1865.] 

Abraham Lincoln receives his reward — the only one doubtless which he 
"would be ambitious to obtain if any ambition whatever could have entered the 
heart of that great citizen. The old and the new worlds are mourning for his 
death. 

What is particularly striking in the effect produced here by this unexpected 
intelligence, and which it is important to note, is the conviction universally 
entertained that tho death of a man, however great he may be, can neither 
disturb public affairs, nor shake the institutions of the American republic. 
Among a people really free, there are no men who are indispensable, nor men 
Ijrovidentially raised up. There are citizens; so much the better for that people 
if these citizens are great, devoted and honest like Lincoln ; but, as there, it is 
the institutions which make the men; the grandeur of a citizen has never any- 
thing detrimental in it to the happiness of the nation. 

With the theory of providential men we begin with Washington, but we 
never know with whom we shall end ; with the theory which designates men 
for the institutions, and which makes especially the greatest of them the pillars 
of the land, a commencement is made with Washington to end with Lincoln, 
or rather not to end thus. The list goes on from one honest man to another ; 
from one good citizen to another good citizen. We see Andrew Johnson installed 
President, twelve hours after the death of Lincolu, bowing to the national 
ropre^eiitatives, speaking not of his rights, but of his duties, and declaring that 
he will faithfully perform them. 

The government of the United States is the freest, the mildest, and at the 
same time the strongest on the face of the earth, and what especially distin- 
guishes the United States is not so much the courage with which they achieved 
their independence, as the wisdom with which they have constituted their 
liberty. That a people driven to extremities should overturn their oppressors 
is the most common thing in history; what is more rare is to see a people 
pufhciently energetic to assert their rights, vigilant and firm enough to preserve 
them. 1^0 conquer liberty, to lose it, to possess it and not know how to enjoy 
It— that IS to say, to be ignorant of the way to be free — such has been the 
spectacle afforded more than once by European democracy. 

But k) consolidate liberty after having acquired it, to seek the guarantee of 
hherty in vigorous institutions, to form around it the impenetrable rampart of 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. Ill 

good la\v3, preserving it in tliis way from its own erratic courses, that is a secret 
which antiquity never learnt, which Europe knows but little, and which the 
new world has revealed to the old. 

It is in tidelity to principles that the guarantee of liberty is found; they are 
the light which in great political crises is a guide to men who preside over the 
destinies of nations, and it is because he has been devoted to liberty, even to 
martyrdom, that Lincoln is lamented in the two worlds, and that he has, as we 
said three days ago, his appointed place by the side of Washington. 

We acknowledge that he Avas not what is called a man of genius ; and far 
from regretting it, we must rejoice at it, for it proves what can be done, even 
without great talents, by loftiness and firmness of character, political honesty, 
and devotedness to the cause of justice and liberty. 

A. PEYRAT. 



[From tLe Aveuir National, April 29, 1865.] 

Many of our friends, faithful interpreters of liberal and democratic opinion, 
call upon us to open a subscription to erect a monument to Abraham Lincoln. 

Men like Lincoln, of whatever country they may be, are the glory of their 
time, and it is befitting, for the interests and the honor of democracy, that a 
monument should bear witness to posterity of the admiration and gratitude of 
the cotemporaries. Reverence for those to whom liberty was dear, and by 
whom its interests have been promoted, is a proof of the maturity and morality 
of nations. 

We join, then, without reserve, in the wishes of our friends ; and if we con- 
sulted only our feelings, we would immediately open the subscription. But 
unless better advised, we believe that the initiative in this case ought to be 
left to the United States. They will take it beyond all doubt, and the whole 
of democratic France will associate herself with the homage rendered by his 
fellow-citizens to the upright man, who in a crisis where so many passions 
were let loose, and liberty Avas menaced with so many dangers, gave to the 
world a rare example of moderation and respect for the laws. 

The Avenir National will then o])en a subscription at its offices, and will in- 
scribe its name at the head of the first list. 

A. PEYRAT. 



[From tLe Avenir National, May 1, 1805.] 

The northern cause is a cause doubly French ; it is French by the traditions 
of our international policy; it is especially so by the identity of our principles 
and interests. Thus, France, who sees all the parliaments spontaneously ad- 
dressing to the United States an evidence of their sympathy, is astonished at 
the silence of the legislative chambei'S. This astonishment is well expressed 
in the letter addressed to Mr. Schneider, and will be approved without reserve. 

As for the address, there is much reason to fear that it will not obtain the 
same approbation. Under circumstances like these, an address signed by the 
deputies of the left must be a political act. Now a simple testimony of grief 
and sym[)athy is not a political act. 

Jjincoln represented the cause of democracy in the largest and the most 
universal acceptation of the word. That cause is our cause, as much as it is 
that of the United States. This is what the address of the deputies ought to 
have said, or said nothing at all. It should have expressed the sentiments 
which M. Pelletan expressed, when he spoke at the close of the discussion on 
the address. That which the chamber, agitated and fatigued, was unwilling to 
listen to, is precisely that which ought to have been embodied in their address. 



112 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Such as it is, tliis atl dross may be signed by everybody without distinction of 
opinion, for tlie excellent reason that no opinion is either expressed or implied 

in it. ■ 1 1 T 

It is a manifestation without meaumg, an act without character ; and we 

believe tliat the address of the deputies on this occasion ought not to have been 

destitute of these qualities. 

A. PEYRAT. 



[From the Avcnir National, May 3, 18G5.] 

The speech of Isl. Rouher and the despatch of M. Drouyn de Lhuys, which 
we published yesterday ; the speech of M. Troplong, and the address of the 
journals, which we publish to-day, are a striking and unmistakable testimony of 
the sympathy of France with the United States. The address of the four 
journals adds nothing to what they have already said, each one individually, 
since the day when they learned the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. We 
might, therefore, appear to be useless as well as to have come late ; but our 
confreres thought that a collective manifestation would give more force to the 
expression of our common sentiments, and we have not hesitated to identify 
ourselves with it. Under circumstances so solemn, it cannot be too often repeated, 
in every variety of tone, that the triumph of the north is the triumph of 
democracy ; and we cannot express in too strong a manner to the United States 
the gratitude we owe them for the examples and lessons they have given us. 

The United States have performed two great services, oiie to liberty, the other 
to human dignity. 

It was a very old axiom of a very old school of publicists, that the durable 
establishment of a democratic government was not possible in a country of great 
extent and with a numerous population. 

The United States extend over a territory thirteen or fourteen times as large 
as France ; they have a population of thirty-five millions, and from the most 
moderate calculations, and v/ithout taking into account the constantly increasing 
emigration. North America, before the end of the present century, will contain 
from seventy to eighty millions, united by everything that can make a people 
great and strong — commerce, industry, the form of government, and the configu- 
ration of the territory. 

What dominates in this country, to which so great a past promises so brilliant 
a future, is not only the republic, it is the greatest democracy and the most abso- 
lute which ever existed. And not only has this democracy endured from 17 87, 
but it has not ceased a single day to enlarge itself and to gather strength. " I 
know nothing so annoying," said Joseph de Maistre, " as the praises lavished 
on this infant in swaddling clothes ; let it grow." The infant has grown ; it is 
now the mo^^t powerful republic that has ever appeared, a people with Avhich 
Europe has for a long time had extensive dealings, and who shares with her the 
empire of the seas. 

Democracy, in its conception and affiliation, in the most radical spirit, is, there- 
fore, not incompatible with great extent of territory, or the power and duration 
of a great government. This has been demonstrated on the other side of the 
Atlantic, and that is the service which the United States have rendered to Hb- 
erty. 

They have reuderc.'d another equally important to human dignity, in showing 
that the citizen has become among them great and powerful, precisely because 
he has been little governed ; they have proved that the real grandeur of the 
State depends upon the high personal qualities of the individuals. In our old 
societies power put the man in tutelage, or rather the man put himself in that 
position in the hands of the government, whom he looked to for everything he 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 113 

wanted in life, and for solutions which no government, whether monarchical or 
republican, could give. 

The United States, on the contrary, have granted to public power just what 
it is fit that that power should possess, neither more nor less. There the gov- 
ernment meddles neither with religion nor education, nor with morals. It does 
not, under the pretence of protection, hinder anything, impose restraints upon 
any one, or cause destruction of any kind. In demanding of governments what 
it is not in their power to confer, we have multiplied problems and rendered the 
solutions impossible. The United States have solved almost everything, be- 
cause they have simplified eveiything. 

The fundamental principle of society in the United States is, that each draws 
his own cnnclusions and acts in an independent manner. The citizen has entire 
liberty of action; but this liberty is granted to him at his own risk and peril. 
" Go ahead ; depend only upon yourself." Such is the motto of the American ; 
and this motto, applied as well to political as to private life, has made a great 
people and great citizens. This is the service that the United States has ren- 
dered to human dignity. 

We should look in vain elsewhere for such examples, such lessons, for so val- 
uable a subject of political observation ; we cannot borrow everything from a 
people, and there are many things in America which are unsuitable to Europe. 
But that which we should avail ourselves of everywhere is experience, because 
experience, being applicable to things in general as well as to fundamental mat- 
ters of policy, is independent of the latitude and divergencies of institutions, 
and teaches us to distinguish what forms the essence of a free government from 
that which is purely French, English, or American. 

Now what in all countries constitutes the essence of a free government is the 
feeling of dignity and personal valor which urges the man to make his way in 
the world without direction and assistance — to struggle alone, with the help of 
his intelligence and labor, against the trials of public and private life. Conse- 
quently, whoever desires not only to be free, but worthy of freedom, must act 
upon the American motto — " Go ahead ; depend upon yourself." 

A. PEYRAT. 



[From the Avenir Natiorical, May 4, 1865.] 

The telegraphic despatches, the journals, and our private correspondence 
speak only of the dt-monstrations in all parts of Europe to express the grief 
caused by the death of President Lincoln. 

These demonstrations acquire by their imposing unanimity great political sig- 
nificancy ; they show how extremely popular the ideas of liberty and equality 
have become, as they are represented by the United States. Ov^er the ashes of 
the President of the American republic the whole of Europe has come to con- 
fess her democratic faith. 

This movement has been so general, so active, and so spontaneous that gov- 
ernments have joined with the people in the expression of their sympathies for 
the- United States and their horror at the assassination. The court of Rome 
alone has remained silent. ***** 

A. GAIFFE. 



[From the Constitutiounel, April 29, 18G5.] 

The horrible outrages committed in the United States have excited in France 
and throughout Europe a unanimous feeling of sorrow and indignation. All 
differences of political opinion vanifjh before assassination, and all honorable 
8 A 



114 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

poople, however they may be divided upon the questiong of the day, feel the same 
horror.' The death of Mr. Lincohi is a cause of mourning for all civilization. 

Mr. Lincoln owed solely to himself, to his labor and liis merit, his gradual 
elevation to political honors, and to the highest post in the country, that of Chief 
Ma<'-istrate. Whatever opinion may be entertained as to the conduct of the fed- 
eral government, people are generally agreed, in America and in Europe, to 
render homage to the excellent and distinguished qualities of the President. 
Everybody recognized in him an upright character, honest intentions, and prac- 
tical shrewdness, wliich was often his safest guide in that crisis in the midst of 
which he had been called to power, and which vv^as one of the most terrible crises 
that a nation had ever had to go through. 

But what will reflect most honor, perhaps, upon the memory of Mr. Lin 
coin is moderation. Such were the kindly dispositions, the equitable and con- 
ciliatory views, which lie manifested at the moment when victory declared itself 
in favor of the federal cause, and a few days bef ire the commission of the crime 
which so suddenly and so cruelly terminated his career, Mr. Lincoln was evi- 
dently inclined to treat the confederates less as a conquered people than as 
brothers and fellow-citizens whom it was necessary by all means to appease 
and bring back within the Union. He was wiser in that respect than certain 
sections of the Unionist party, whose impetuosities he had some difficulty in re- 
straining. 

The last speech of Mr. Lincoln is a summary of these generous sentiments ; 
and his la»t thoughts were probably more patriotic and humane than any that 
he had expressed. Mr. Lincoln believed conciliation to be possible, and he in- 
dulged "the hope of a just peace." A just peace ! That expression, which 
embodies an entire policy, might be engraved upon his tomb. 

PAULIN LIMAYRAC. 



[From the Constitutionnel, May 2, 1865.] 

An important communication was made yesterday to the senate and legisla- 
tive chambers. 

The re])ort of the sitting of the legislative chambers is now before our readers; 
that of the senate we will publish to-morrow. 

The communication i-efers to a despatch addressed by the minister of foreign 
affairs to our representative at "Washington, to apprise him of the sentiments of 
the imperial government on learning of the horrible crime committed in the 
United States. 

France is a country of noble feelings and generous thoughts ; in this direction 
no nation goes before it ; here all countries follow France ; everybody knows 
that on the first news of the assassination of President Lincoln and of the Sec- 
retary of State, Mr. Seward, the Emperor charged one of his aides-de-camp to 
express to the minister of the United States the affliction and horror which these 
abominable outrages occasioned him. 

To-day his excellency M. Rouher, in the admirable language of a statesman 
and an honest man, stamped with infamy, and in the most indelible manner, 
the crime tliat had been committed, and showed that its first punishment was 
its impotency. The reading of the despatch of M. Drouyn de Lhuys did not 
make a less powerful impression. It was impossible that a noble policy should 
meet with more faithful and more eloquent interpreters. Thus the observations 
of the minister of state and the despatch of the minister of foreign affairs have 
obtained the unanimous approbation of the legislative chamber. The language 
of Mr. President Schneider is not less noteworthy, and it may be said that this 
sitting will send across the Atlantic the thoughts of the Emperor and the voice 
of France. 

PAULIN LIMAYRAC. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 115 

[From the Epoque, April 28, 1865.] 
ABKAHAM LINCOLN. 

Yesterday, in the first moment of stupor, we would almost doubt the news ; 
to-day there is no possible room for doubt. The President of the United States 
has been assassinated, and Abraham Lincoln is dead. After five years of con- 
stant and persevering efforts in the cause of the Union, he has fallen at tlie very 
moment of his triumph. The restorer of the American country — the destroyer 
of slavery — has paid for his victory with his blood. His life revealed the vir- 
tues of the citizen — virtues claimed by the government of a republic — and his 
death makes him one of the greatest men of his time. 

(Here follows an account of the life and public services of Mr. Lincoln.) 

This is not the moment to revert to tlie severance which followed his election — 
to that four years' struggle from which, thanks to the perseverance of Lin- 
coln, the north has just come out a conqueror — and which is a signal proof that 
patience and integrity, united to a firm and settled conviction, are, in a free 
country, the three instruments of victory. The north was convinced of it, for 
it re-elected Lincoln President, and the first year of this new presidency was 
signalized by the final triumph of the federation. 

The honor of Lincnln is not only that he conquered, but that he conquered 
without ever departing from the republican forms, without one single infraction 
of the laws of his country. When every temptation was offered to him — when 
certain violent measures even were demanded by the situation — he still thought 
he could do without them, and, in fact, he did know how to dispense with every 
measure of a dictatorial character. He took his stand upon legality, and never 
lent himself to an exceptional or arbitrary act. 

In a word, Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer — he was the living law. To say 
this of a man who has ruled over a republic, and who has governed it in the 
midst of a crisis such as that which has just passed over the United States, is 
to give him the highest praise that can be accorded to a powerful citizyu in a 
free country. 

Such is the man who has just perished. Just and firm in his government, 
simple and almost patriarchal in his private life, always moderate and loyal, he 
has been struck down at the moment when, having re-established the Union by 
his energy, he was cementing it by his clemency. He will be admired and 
recorded hi history as the restorer of the Union, and will be likened to that 
great man by whom it was founded. 

When his assassin took flight he is said to have exclaimed, " Sic semper 
tyrannisV^ God grant that the American government may never have any 
other but such tyrants as he. 

A. CLAYEAU. 



fFrom the Epoque, April 29, 1865.] 

From despatches received to-day we see that hopes are still entertained that 
Mr. Seward will survive the wounds which he has received. That would be 
the most fortunate circumstance that could happen to the Union. The most 
eminent man in the republican party — the friend and habitual counsellor of Mr. 
Lincoln — retaining his position as the most influential member of the cabinet, 
would there maintain the traditions which constituted the power of the 
American government during the four critical years through which it has Just 
passed, and which are still alone capable of averting the new dangers with 
which it is threatened. 

JOSEPH PERUIN. 



116 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[From the Epoque, May 3, 1865.] 

AYlicn Ave regretted a few days ago the indifference (not to say more) shown 
by the legislative chamber towards the United States in the discussion on the 
address, we were far from foreseeing that this indifference would so quickly 
give place to an expansive and enthusiastic sympathy. Whatever may be the 
feeling of indignation excited in everybody by the crime which has just been 
perpetrated in Washington, that crime changes nothing in the way of policy; 
and the partisans of the south, while deploring the kind of stain which has been 
impressed upon their cause, appear to have no reason to abandon it. 

Now, we cannot help observing that in the sitting which took place yesterday 
in the legislative chamber, the government, the majority, and the opposition 
agreed )iot only to execrate an odious crime, not only to deplore the death of an 
excellent man, but to evince their sympathies for the American republic, and to 
express their wishes for the durable re-establishment of the Union. 

We can give no other interpretation to the language of the minister of state, 
in the name of the government, and that of Mr. Schneider, in the name of the 
chamber. We point out especially to our readers in the speech of M. Rouher 
two passages significant in themselves, and the purport of which is made still 
more emjihatic by the accent in which the minister delivered them : 

"The iiist punishment which God inflicts on crime is to render it powerless- 
to retard the ])r ogress of good. 

"The profound emotion and high sympathy which are manifested in Europe 
will be received by the American people as a consolation and an encouragement. 
The work of appeasing the passions, commenced by a great citizen, will be 
finished by the will of the nati( in. ***** 

"The Emperor, the public authorities, and the whole of France are unanimous 
in the reprobation of a detestable outrage, in their homage to a great political 
illustration, the victim to the most criminal passions, in their ardent wishes for 
the re-establishment of harmony and concord in the bosom of the great and 
patriotic American nation." 

Mr. Schneider was not less explicit. 

The applause of the Chamber proved to the minister of state and the presi- 
dent that their sentiments were now universally shared. The same deputies, 
who exclaimed So 7nueli the icorse ! when Mr. Pelletan announced the taking 
of Richmond, cried "Very good!" when Mr. Rouher expressed his wishes in 
behalf of the American union, which could not be accomplished without the fall 
of that city. 

For the rest, the Americans are receiving at this moment, on all sides, marks 
of sympathy as lively as they were unexpected ; and it is known that the two 
English houses of Parliament occasion them a surprise analogous to that which 
has just come from the French legislative chambers. 

It remains to ascertain how the Americans will receive the marks of sympathy 
which are now lavished upon them, and ivhether they will not have some 
recollection of somewhat different sentiments, which were lately exhibited 
towards them — we will not exactly say by the two governments of France 
*«d England, but at least by the principal organs, in which one is accustomed 
to look for the views and feelings of the government. 

JOSEPH PERRIN. 



[From La Franco, April 28, 1865.] 
TFIE ASSASSINATION OF MR. LINCOLN. 



The news of ihe odious outrage to which the President of the United States 
Has just tullen a victim has caused a profound sensation throughout Europe. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 117 

A conspiracy was evidently organized to assassinate the supreme heads and 
principal functionaries of North America. Mr. Seward has heen struck in his 
bed. General Grant and Mr. Stanton were marked for the hand of the assas- 
sin, and accident alone has saved them. 

Public opinion will everywhere protest with equal indignation against the 
fanatics who would dishonor, if it were possible, the party to which they 
belong, and the cause they pretend to defend. 

But it would be unreasonable to throw upon the entire South the responsibility 
of these abominable crimes. It cannot be that an act of fanaticism should 
serve as a pretext for rigorous reprisals against the innocent. Nothing can 
diminish the horror inspired by this crfme ; but nothing should be suffered to 
exaggerate resentment to such a point as to lead to useless vengeance. 



[From The France, April 30, 1865.] 

All the European governments have hastened to manifest the indignation with 
which they have heard of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, and to send to 
Washington the expression of their grief and sympathy. 

This horrible outrage has provoked similar manifestations in all the parlia- 
ments of Europe now sitting at Turin, London and Berlin. 

We have reason to believe that the French chambers will not fail to take 
part publicly in the expression of that feeling with which the whole country is 
animated. 



[From The France, May 1, 1865.] 

The legislative chambers will assemble to-morrow at a public sitting. The 
Mouiteur annoxiaces that a communication from the government will then be pre- 
sented to them. 

It is thought that the government intends to communicate to the chambers 
the letter addressed by the Erapei-or to the government of Washington, on the 
occasion of the death of Mr. Lincoln, and that thus the legislative body will 
have an opportunity of expressing their feelings of sympathy for the govern- 
ment and the American people. 

A RENAULD. 



Mr. Drouyn de Lhuys, minister of foreign affairs, wrote to the minister of the 
United States, on the same day when the news of the assassination reached 
Paris, a letter expressive of the liveliest sympathy and of the deepest grief. 

Mr. Bigelow on his return to Brest, where he had been to be present at the 
inauguration of the railway, hastened to go in person and thank the minister 
for this demonstration, as cordial as it was spontaneous. 



No light whatever has yet been thrown upon the odious outrage to which 
Mr. Lincoln has ftillen a victim. The assassins have not been arrested, and it 
is impossible to say Avhat motives led to the crime, nor with what party it is 
identified. It is certain that among the southerners, as among the northerners, 
the same feeling of indignation has arisen against the authors of this abomi- 
nable crime. The letters of Mr. Masou, in London, and Mr. Slidell, in Paris 



118 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

are certainly the true expression of every sensible and honest man among the 
confoderates. 

We said, in announcing the death of Mr. Lincoln, that it was necessary 
carefully to prevent a feeling of vengeance against the South becoming the 
result of the legitimate emotion everywhere caused by the assassination of the 
President of the United States. The cause of the confederates has nothing to 
do with these savage acts, and justice will not confound in this way the inno- 
cent with the guilty. 

Well, we say it with regret, many Paris journals appear desirous of including 
in the same anathemas the assassins of Mr. Lincoln and the valiant defenders 
of the independence of the South ; aifd American despatches speak of the ex- 
citement of the northern populations who utter the unjust cry of " Vengeance 
against the South." 

Not vengeance, but justice ; not passion, but reason ; not fanaticism, but 
moderation and equity ! 

This is what the French press ought to say to the American people if it 
would preserve the traditions of generosity and civilized grandeur which every- 
where characterize the policy of France. 

A PAULIN. 



[From La France, May 3, 18G5.] 
MODERATION IS VICTORY. 

The great bodies of the state have nobly associated themselves with the 
profound emotion with which the views of the tragic death of Mr. Lincoln has 
been everywhere received. Everybody will applaud the elegant language in 
which the minister of state yesterday branded with infamy the political assassin, 
and glorified the eminent man whom North America has just lost. 

President Troplong, in the senate, and Vice-President Schneider, in the 
legislative chamber, expressed in the best manner what were the unanimoias 
sentiments of the two chambers ; in the same way M. Drouyn de Lhuys, in the 
important despatch addressed by him to our charge d'aff^xires at Washington, 
represented with great fidelity the sympathetic regrets of the Emperor and the 
feeling of the public mind. 

These official manifestations will convey to the American people the loyal 
expression of our sympathy for the friendly nation whose independence the 
arms of France assisted to acliieve, and whose grandeur is dear to us ; but these 
manifestations carry with them at the same time advice, and hopes and wishes 
of a just and legitimate character. 

In tiie universal emotion which the assassination of Mr. Lincoln gives rise to, 
there is no doubt a natural feeling at an act of savage fanaticism which excites 
the indignation of every honest conscience; but there is also much grief at the 
disa])pearance from the scene of events, at the moment when his presence 
appeared to be most needed, of the man who could best maintain the policy 
ot the Lnited States in the line of moderation and justice, which is much more 
desirable after victory than when hostilities are pending. 

Mr. Lincoln showed himself sincerely animated, during the last few days of 
his^ lite, with a spirit of wise conciliation, which was the best augury for the 
definitive pacification of the Union. 

Well, the words of condolence which the representatives of France are send- 
ing at this moment to the United States are a special encouragement to persevere 
m the policy of peace and clemency upon which President Lincoln had so 
visibly entered. 

That language tells the American people that the best w\ay to honor the 
memory of him Avhom they now lament, is to immolate upon the altar of the 



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common country lit\tred, passion, and useless revenge, and to bold out to the 
beaten Soutb a fraternal band. 

Will this appeal be beard? Everytbing urges it npon tbe good sense and 
patriotism of tbe United States. Four years of civil war bave left sutHcieut 
ruin to repair, sufficient disasters to make good, sufficient wounds to beal — tbat 
all good citizens sbould courageou,sly apply tbemselves to tbe work, in order 
to return to tbe American republic tbe material prosperity and moral greatness 
wbicb sbe formerly possessed. 

Tbat is a policy worthy of a great nation ; it is the only one tbat can be 
advised by tbe generous and civilized voice of France. 

We could liave wished that, on the part of the friends of tbe North, as among 
the friends of the South, this advice of concord and humanity sbould come iu 
every variety of form from beyond the Atlantic. 

Up to the present time, let us say it with regret, we have not found tbe 
expression of it in tbe addi-esses which tbe organs of advanced democracy, and 
even many Paris journals, have signed and sent to Washington. 

Certainly we approve the sentiments which tbe members and journals of tbe 
opposition manifest with so much warmth ; but if tbey joined with ns in urging 
moderation in victory, forgetfulness of tbe past, and the re-establisbment of 
peace on tbe basis of justice and right, would tbey not do something worthy of 
tbe civilization of tbe nineteenth century, and of tbe great policy of our time. 

J. COHEN. 



[From the Gazette de France, April 28, 1865.] 

Another political assassination ! The horrible doctrine wbicb found in the 
old world pupils and adepts has crossed tbe sea. Tbe New World has nothing 
to envy in tbe Old iu this respect. There are in Washington, on tbat ground 
of liberty, men who, imbued witb examples drawn from our saddest annals, 
take tbe poinard or revolver and assassinate tbe beads of a government, simply 
because they detest it, using words formulated after the fisbion of a regular 
judgment. It is related tbat the assassin of Mr. Lincoln exclaimed : Sic semper 
tyraimrs ! This pretentious phrase, and wbicb indicates a preconceived intention 
to produce effect, is itself a revelation. 

An American of tbe North or of tbe Soutb, who bad made up bis mind to com- 
mit so horrible a crime, would never have thought of displaying this theatrical 
exhibition, and parading a Latin quotation under circumstances so terrible. 
One sees there a fanatical adept from that school Avhich has made tbe assassin 
a political medium, wbicb procbdras tbe holiness of insurrection, and makes a 
man the judge of the bead of tbe state, and tbe executioner under tbe warrant 
wbicb be has delivered against him. 

These assassins Avould recoil from a crime against one in their own station of 
life; but they have no hesitation in attempting the life of a sovereign — of a 
man who is the representative of a policy. Sir. semper tyrannis ! exclaimed 
Booth over the body of bis victim. On reading this kind of sentence, wbicb 
woitld be ridiculous if it were not odious by the act wbicb it seemed to have 
inspired, it is easy to understand tbat in bis own mind be thought be was per- 
forming tbe part of a great citizen. It is like an echo of tlie homage done by 
Garibaldi at Naples, on tbe day when be decreed to Agesilas Milano the title 
of "The Country's Martyr." Bootb bad to speak Latiil to make himself re- 
cognized in the land of liberty, where he accomplished bis crime. He had to 
speak tbe language of Brutus to reveal bis origin, and to show plainly tbat he 
belonged, by tbe nature of tbe deed, to tbe Old World. There is only one feeling 
tbrougbout all France against this odious assassination, wbicb counts three 



120 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDEXCE. 

victims ; unfortunately the public conscience is too often moved by events of 

What will be the consequences of the death of Mr. Lincoln, and of that of 
Mr. Seward ? It is necessary to knows first of all, how the Americans inter- 
i)ret thii< odious act. If, in their an,^er and excitement, they desire that the re- 
sponsibility of the abominable deeds of the assassins should, in the general 
opinion, weigh upon the whole of a valorous and chivalric nation, incalculable 
evils may be the result. If, on the contrary, taking a more just view of things, 
tliey consider that the heinousness of the crime should fall only on the heads of 
the o-uilty parties, the death of Mr. Lincoln wnll not plunge the country into a 
new^civil war, which would not be long before it degenerated into complete an- 
archy. But will the friends of Mr. Lincoln have sufiicient wnsdom to render 
this last homage to the political idea of the President of the United States ? 
They ongl)t to have, out of respect to the memory even of him whom they so 
properly lament. 
^ GU STAVE JANICOT. 



ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

This crime, as may be supposed, has produced unutterable emotion and pro- 
found indignation in the United States. It is the first outrage committed 
against the federal authorities since the American republic was founded. Amer- 
ica had not been previously dishonored by a political assassination. 

Mr. Lincoln died a martyr for the cause ot the Union, and it is impossible to 
foresee what will be the consequences of his death, under the present circum- 
stances, as critical as they are solemn. By his firmness, by his good sense, and 
also, let us say, by the moderation Avith which he showed himself to be animated, 
especially since the decisive victory gained over the confederates, it is probable 
that Mr. Lincoln would have succeeded in mastering the situation, in calming 
excited passions, in jiacifying the South, and in reconstituting the Union on 
conditions honorable to all. The task before him was full of difficulties, but 
everything encouraged the hope that he would solve that which stood in the 
way of [lacification as successfully as he had surmounted the obstacles and dan- 
gers of war. The workman was more than ever necessary for the work which 
had to lie carried out to a successful issue. He alone, perhaps, was able to in- 
spire the southern States with sufiicient confidence to treat of their submission 
Avith a feeling of security, for he had determined to hold out to them a friendly 
hand. He had so determined because he proposed to himself no other object 
than to restore the federal edifice on the basis of perfect equality, such as had 
been founded by Washington and Jeff"erson, the fiithers of the American repub- 
lic, and he renewed the engagement to do so three days before he fell from the 
ball of an assassin. It is certain that at that hour he alone had sufficient au- 
tliority and iiifiuence to restrain the party to whom he owed his elevation to 
the presidency, and to bring it back to less hostile feelings towards the South, 
wliich that ]>arty desired to punish for its rebellion by treating it as a conquered 
country. Therefore, it is to be feared that in him the United States have lost 
more than an honest and able President. It is to be feared that the passions, 
instead ot being calmed, wnll be excited afresh ; that hatreds will be still more 
embittered ; and that the South, seeing that it has henceforth to do Avith piti- 
less conqueror:?, Avill be guided only by despair, and renew the struggle. The 
Avorst sohition that could be arrived at Avould be that Avhich imposed on the 
South dishonoral)le conditions, and placed it in a state of inferiority and subjec- 
tion to the North. The South might now, in consequence of exhaustion, bear 
the Aveight of these two chains, but it would not submit to them without impa- 
tieuce and anger, with the firm resolution to break them asunder as soon as 



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they recovered their strength. The sliadow of the Union thus huilt up again 
woukl be constantly threatened with dissohition. The United States woukl 
exhaust their strength in the efforts to maintain it, without being able to suc- 
ceed. 

To establish a durable and advantageous reconciliation, an appeal must be 
made to concord : the North must make up its mind to otler to the South, not 
the hand of revenge, but a fraternal hand. It is necessary that the treaty of 
peace should be ratified by unmistakeable evidence of a peaceful and forgiving 
disposition. That was Mr. Lincoln's ambition ; and Mr. Lincoln was equal to 
that patriotic task. 

A. ESCANDE. 



[From the Gazette de France, April 30, 1865.] 
POLITICAL LETTER TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE GAZETTE DE FRANCE, APRIL 29. 

My Dear Friend : What frightful news this is about the assassinations in 
America. If the chief victim was not the worthiest of Washington's successors, 
we should have to ask ourselves whether the horrible event of the night of the 
14th of April really took place on the other side of the Allantic. What! in an 
open theatre, by the side of his wife ; in the midst of an enthu.*iastic and 
grateful population ; on the morrow of the greatest siiccess which the Union has 
ever obtained since its foundation, this excellent man — this great and honest citi- 
zen, Abraham Lincoln — killed by a shot from the revolver of a fanatic. The as- 
sassin, a comedian, jumping on to the stage, and brandishing the classic dagger, 
exclaiming to the afirighted public the stupid phrase, i''ic semper tyrannis ! 
No, really — and you are right in saying so — that is not American. I remember 
but one assassination adorned with a Latin quotation, but it took place in Florence, 
and in the sixteenth century. Lorenzino treacherously killed his cousin, Alex- 
andre de Medicis, who was in reality a tyrant, and left in writing near the body 
the line of Virgil on Brutus : V'mcet amor j^afrue laudisquc immensa cujfulo ! 
To tell you what I really think, the great want of fame, of which the poet speaks, 
has been, I believe, the real incentive to these savage deeds. In this way the 
public is found to be an involuntary accomplice. Perhaps it is our duty to re- 
mind the public of it on the occasion of every fresh attempt to acquire favor 
by the perpetration of a crime. At all events, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin 
of the President, and the accomplice, who at the same time stabbed the Prime 
Minister, Mr. Seward, may be sure that they will never find apologists, although 
they may take their place in the gallery of historical assassins. Like Ravaillac, 
they killed in the bud the hope of an entire people, and perhaps destroyed the 
peace of a whole continent. Like Louvel, Fieschi, and Orsini, they have, be- 
sides shedding innocent blood, sacrificed the life and honor of the cause they 
desired to save. AVho, I ask, will dare to undertake their defence ? If the 
whole of Europe has condemned them — if the North rises up in indigna- 
tion — what will not the South do, more cruelly afflicted by the crime com- 
mitted, in spite of her, in her name, than by the taking of Kichmond and the 
capitulation of Lee? 

Moreover, it would be just — it would be providential, if the tragic denouement 
served at k-ast to bring back to a greater sense of equity — I do not say of favor — 
the feeling of our country respecting the quarrel which for four years has 
stained America with blood. How far we are removed from tha period when 
the young noblesse of France, represented by the Laf'ayettes, the Kochambeaus, 
the Castries, the Noailles, the Bmglies, the Segurs, the Chastellaxes, and so 
many others, crossed the seas to defend, against the attacks of England, the in- 
dependence of some millions of Quakers and Methodists. At the present day, 
on the contrary, the prejudices against America proceed from the English jour- 



122 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

iials, and are acccptod, without dispute, by the public of France. Because cer- 
tain agents of the United States (all of the south, be it said, by the way) were 
able, before the presidency of Mr. Lincoln, to alienate themselves from the cabi- 
nets to which they were accredited ; because numerous piratical expeditions — 
all southern — had gone to brave Spain at Cuba, and England at Canada ; be- 
cause the evident interest of these same southern States, which has already 
taken Texas from Mexico, would be immediately to oppose their intervention to 
ours in that unfortunate country ; because President Monroe (a southerner, and 
appointed by the south) determined, forty-five years ago, that America should 
remain to the Americans, and that Europe should never be permitted to inter- 
fere in any way whatever with her affairs ; because, in short, the people of 
"Washington are too apt to assume the heirs of the New World, claiming a right 
to disdain the Old, is that any reason to forget all principles of policy, and to 
labor with England for the dismemberment of that great republic which we have 
contributed so greatly to create — of that great navy, which would be for us so 
natural and so powerful an ally 1 The worst of it would be, that the Ameri- 
cans would discern, under this systematic hostility to the maintenance of the 
Union, a vague fear, unavowed and unavoidable, of witnessing the success of 
the experiment of liberty without anarchy, and of democracy without Cajsarism, 
of which the United States has afforded us, up to the present time, the seductive 
spectacle. 

We must have the courage to acknowledge that, in this direction, as well as 
many others, public opinion has gone back. Drawn towards the United States 
by the lingering idea of her monarchy, and the first bound of her revolution, she 
has seen herself led on to an imitation of ancient Rome by the splendors and 
despotism of the first empire. Washington and Napoleon belonged to history 
within a few years of each other. I defy any one to admire, at one and the 
same time, the simple graudenr of the liberator of America, and the theatrical 
genius of the dominator of Europe. 

However that may be, the foundation of the American republic is a part of 
our history and national policy — not less gloriously so than the crusades, or the 
struggle between the house of France and that of Austria. It should remain 
for us a mouarchical tradition, and of the brightest epoch, since it dates from 
Louis XV"I, and from '89. On this ground I venture to say that no journal has 
been more directly identified with the republic than the Gazette de France. 

But, I shall be asked, cannot America be respected without sacrificing the 
South to the North 1 Ought we to forget Louisiana was French up to the epoch 
when the First Consul sold that beautiful province for eighty millions 1 Do we 
not know that slavery was the pretext and not the cause of the war which has 
just been brought to a close? 

You will doubtless recollect that admirable passage in Tocqueville's book, 
where he describes, from the quarter-deck of his steamer, the two banks of the 
Ohio, one of them belonging to the slave States, the other to the free States. 
On the left bank there are few habitations, and but little going on ; some ne- 
groes going and coming, carrying on the work of cultivation indolently and dis- 
interestedly ; many forests not yet turned to account, and the activity of nature 
substituted for that of man. On the right bank, on the contrary, are farms, 
villages, magazines in great numbers, a variety of crops — everywhere life and 
industry, and the willing application of manual labor. Well, up to within late 
years, the government of the Union was on the left bank of the Ohio, and it 
was because the elections of 1860 made it pass to the right bank that civil war 
broke out. The cause of the South, as we have often said, is that of the feeble 
and oppressed, and that, we feel sure, is the reason that has procured the South 
so many partisans. Let us be understood. It has never been denied that the 
southern confederation was inferior to its rival, not certainly in bravery, but in 
the numerical strength of its armies and resources. The northern States reckon 



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from thirteen to fourteen millions of inliabitants. The seceded States only be- 
tween six and seven millions, not taking- into account the slave population. It 
is not less true, that out of eighteen Presidents who have succeeded Washington, 
twelve were chosen from among the southerners — slave owners. It is equally 
true, too, that nearly all the Secretaries of State, charged with the foreign rela- 
tions, of the Pi(n-?idents of the Senate, of the Speakers in the Chamber, and the 
Attorney Generals, of the foreign ministers, were also slave owners. * 

Ho w is this apparent anomaly to be explained ? In two ways, as it seems to me : 
one, a general reason, the ot^er speciah The first is, because the rich planters of 
the slave States formed in the republic a kind of aristocracy of men of leisure and 
study, whose aptitudes made them writers, orators, statesmen ; and the military 
professiondevelopeditself with more facility among them than among the busy and 
laborious populations of the North. The second is, that the maintaining inviola- 
ble what they called their " particular inst'tution," was confounded by them with 
the defence of their own existence, while to declare war upon them would only be 
to the people of the other States an afiair of pure reform in a day an abuse of 
many ages duration; but he was one of those Christians who see in the negro a 
brother more oppressed and despised than any other, and that was sufhcient for 
the South to discern immediately that it had no other resource than an appeal to 
force. Far from feeling themselves suiBciently strong to resist the North, the 
slave States were obliged to gain over, one by one, all the States to their " par- 
ticular institution," eitlier by substituting slave labor for free labor in the newly 
formed States, or by making themselves recognized over the whole territory of 
the Union, by establishing the right of pursuit of the fugitive negro doctrine, 
about which they were far from coming to an agreement among themselves. 
Thus slavery, vigorously upheld on one side, was feebly contested on the other. 
Only this odious interest was a matter of life and death for a part of the Union, 
and whenever the abolitionists exclaimed against slavery in the Congress they 
were answered with the threats of immediate separation; and scarcely had Mr. 
Lincoln been elected President, when the South drove out the federal garrison 
from Fort Sumter, and fired the first shot of the civil war. 

Lincoln, however, was not like General Fremont, who was one of these ene- 
mies to slavery Avho think to give an account of the progress of this propagandism. 
It is sufhcient to state that when the war broke out there were fifteen States 
where slavery was established, and seventeen free States, and that the negro 
population which only numbered from 300, OUO to 400,000 when Washington, 
dying, pronounced the manumission of those of Mount Vernon, now reckons from 
three to four millions. It will be seen whether it is the North which threatened 
the South, and if it was not time to stop this gangrene of slavery, which by de- 
grees would have gained over all the wholesome members of the great American 
republic. 

Abraham Lincoln was the worthy instrument chosen by Providence to com- 
mence this great work. God grant that it may be continued in the same spirit 
of moderation and justice! God grant that in that country blood may not be 
answered with blood, and that a private crime may not be invoked as an excuse 
for public crimes. "Yet, if God wills," said Lincoln on the 4th of March last, 
when he took possession of the Presidency for the second time, which was so 
soon to terminate in his martyrdom, " that it continue until all the wealth piled 
by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, 
and until every drop of blood drawn Avitli the lash shall be paid by another 
drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be 
said, ' The judgments of the Lord are true and righteoiis altogether.' 

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; Avith firmness in the right, 



*Fov full detail.s on thi.s subject, see the practical and instructive book of M. Cochin, on 
the "Abolitiou of Slavery." 



124 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

as Gofl gives us to see the riglit, let na strive on to fiuisU the work we are in ; 
to bind u|) tlic nation's Avonnds ; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, 
and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a 
just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations." 

Do you know any government in Europe who can speak such language as 
this, and a people who are worthy of listening to it? That, however, is the 
laiiguao-e of real power and true liberty. No funeral oration can attain to the 
simple and religious eloquence of these words, which will remain as the political 
bequest of Abraham Lincoln. Who among us would think of pitying him? 
A public man, he enters, by the death which he has received in the full work of 
pacification after victory, into that body of the elite of the historic army which 
M. Guizot once called the battalion of Plutarch. A Christian, he has just as- 
cended before the throne of the final Judge, accompanied by the souls of four 
millions of slaves created, like ours, in the image of God, and who have been 
endowed with freedom by a word from him. 

LEOPOLD DE GATLLARD. 



[From the Gazette de France, May 5, 1865.] 

The lodges of Free Masonry are at work; with the symbolical mallet and 
trowel they make manifestations in honor of Lincoln, for Abraham Lincoln was 
a member of the Grand Lodge of New York. Whether they are produced in 
the form of harangues uttered in the workshop, or as addresses sent to RR * * 
FF * *, of America, these manifestations are all preceded by a special formality 
peculiar to these mournful occasions, a " hatterie de dcuil,'' followed by a 
" hatterie allcgrcsse " The lodges thereby declare that F** Lincoln has fallen, 
like Hiram, from the blows of the enemies to duty, and hey proclaim him for- 
ever honorable, because he has forever consolidated, by his life and death, the 
foundation laid by Washington, " of that universal confederation of peoples of 
which Freemasonry has for a long time been the model in the order of 
philosophy." 

They also celebrate F** Lincoln ; and this is b:;'tter, because he has known 
how to direct the aifairs of the Union in the most difficult circumstances, with- 
out exceptional laws, without having recourse to dictatorial power, and being 
able to preserve the preponderance of the civil power. * * 

AUBREZ FOUCAULT. 



fFrom the Journal des Debats, April 23, 1865.] 

Fresh details have been received of the horrible crime of which 3Ir. Lincoln, 
Mr. Seward, and his son have just fallen victims. This triple assassination, 
it is asserted, is connected with a vast conspiracy against the principal heads 
of the government of the United States. We must needs hope that there is 
some exaggeration in this news, and that the abominable deed" which has ex- 
cited one universal feeling of horror is the work of some isolated fanatic. If 
it were otherwise, all humanity would be immeasurably afflicted. The United 
States have sustained an irreparable loss, and we must go back to Washington 
to find a citizen who has done the great American republic so much service as 
the noble and unfortunate President who has just fallen by the hand of a 
miserable assassin. 

Mr. Lincoln was born in IS09. He was not an old man, and yet it can be 
affirmed that no career of a statesman was ever better fulfilled. In him were 



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found, if not tlie brilliant qualities which are perhaps thought too much of in 
Europe, those solid virtues of a citizen, and that strong good sense, which 
seem to be peculiar to the American race. History, in fact, will tell with 
what firmness, and, at the same time, with what moderation, he knew how to 
direct the policy of the Union in circumstances of the greatest difficulty ; and 
without having recourse to exceptional laws, without arming himself with dic- 
tatorial power, he passed victoriously through a crisis in which his country 
might have been destroyed ; and it was at the very moment when, at last, he 
was effecting the great object of his patriotic exertions, when he was about to 
witness the reconstruction of the American country in all its integrity, that 
this great citizen was carried off by a pi'emature and bloody death. Fate 
sometimes deals those blind and cruel blows which hll with consternation and 
grief all those for whom patriotism and virtue are not mere idle words. Amer- 
ica will revere the memory of Lincoln equally with that of Washington ; these 
two names will be written together in her gratitude ; for if the one founded the 
Union, the other saved it from destruction. 

Men ask themselves now what will be the political consequences of the death 
of the President of the United States 1 "We do not think that the situation of 
affairs will be sensibly modified by this catastrophe. Certainly it is far from 
our intentipn to make the cause of the South responsible for the crime ot" a few 
fanatics, but it is not the less true that the horror inspired by an act so atro- 
cious can have no other effect than to lessen the sympathies which the seces- 
sionists have met with in Europe. Already materially overcome, or very 
nearly so, thej' are made to sustain a moral defeat. What is most to be 
feared is lest the North in its exasperation should allow itself to be drawn into 
a system of reprisals, or at least that the sentiments of conciliation, of which it 
began to give the secessionists proofs, would give place to feelings of an op- 
posite nature, and that it would take advantage of its victory to impose hard 
conditions upon the South. However, we have too much confidence in the 
good sense of the North to entertain any serious apprehensions on this head. 
Its legitimate indignation will not make it deviate from the line of moderation 
and prudence which it has pursued up to the present time. It will understand 
that the best way to do honor to the memory of Mr. Lincoln is not to wander 
away from the political traditions of this great statesman. 

Like the French press, the press of England is unanimous in the expression 
of horror which is felt at the assassination of the President of the United 
States. An address of condolence has been presented to the American minis- 
ter by the members cf the House of Commons. — Leading Article. 



fFrom the Journal des Debats, April 29, 18^.] 

The Index, of London, publishes a letter, addressed to the Times by Mr. 
Mason, representative of the southern States in England. This letter is a reply 
to the despatch of Mr. Stanton, Secretary of War, to Mr. Adams, on the subject 
of the assassination of the President of the United States. We can easily un- 
derstand that Mr. Mason should desire to exculpate his party from all complicity 
in so abominable a crime; but we cannot help lamenting the violent tone of his 
letter. This was not the moment to give himself up to bitter recriminations ; 
and every one will be of opinion that the observations by which Mr. Mason en- 
deavors to invalidate certahi assertiuns made by Mr. Stanton, would had much 
more weight had they been of a more moderate character. The sad impression 
produced upon all minds by the murder of Mr. Lincolu will put the language of 
tha representative of the South in a light all the more unfavorable. — Editorial. 



126 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

On learniiif the terrible calamity which has just snatched from the republic 
of the Uuited States its best citizen, our mind was immediately carried back be- 
yond the last four years to that sad moment when the news of the election of 
Mr. Lincoln and the outbreak of the civil war came across the Atlantic almost 
gimultaneou^;ly. Then every one among us took sides — each of us enrolled him- 
eclf morally in one of the two armies, according to his habits of thought and the 
beikt of his inclination. A great many Frenchmen have, in the midst of our 
barren revolutions, and after numberless deceptions, contracted a kind of general 
aversion to democracy, and in the eyes of those Frenchmen, who are now in a 
frame of mind exactly the reverse to that of their forefathers rushing to the help 
of the American republic, the probable fall of that same republic was not an un- 
welcome event. Others again, the friends of democracy, but of a democracy ' 
disciplined, guided by a single master, or rather personified in one head, saw with 
not less pleasure the approach of a dissolution which would confirm their theo- 
ries, and demonstrate once more that democracy can only exist at the price of 
liberty. Fashion, the spirit of imitation, our supposed interest in the Mexican 
enterprise, came in aid of these sentiments, and the South was so little wanting 
in partisans among us, that hardly a fortnight ago the news of the taking of 
Ilichmoiul was received with an exclamation of regret in the midst even of the 
legislative chambers. 

(Xo'i'E. — See the last sitting on the discussion of the address, and the cry of 
"So much the worse," reported in the Moniteur of the 16th of April.) 

On the other hand, the political instinct which made enlightened Frenchmen 
interested in the maintenance of the American power more and more necessary 
to the equilibrium of the world — the desire to see a great democratic State sur- 
mount the terrible trials, and continue to give an example of the most perfect 
liberty, united with the most absolute equality — the need, in short, of lodging 
somewliere a sympathy, an admiration, and a hope which were but little stim- 
ulated in the Old World, assured the cause of the North a nvmiber of friends, 
jealous of maintaining the political traditions of France, and the liberal spirit of 
our country. We ourselves were of that number, and we still remember the un- 
easiness Avith which we awaited the first words of that President, then unknown, 
upon whom a heavy task had fallen, and from whose advent to power might be 
dated the ruin or regeneration of his country. All we knew was, that he had 
sprung from the humblest walks of life ; that his youth had been spent in manual 
labor; that he had been shepherd, carpenter, farmer, rail-layer; that he was self- 
taught, then raised by degrees in his town, his county, and his State, until he 
became the candidate of a great party, and was elected by the majority of his 
fellow-citizens. What, however, was this favorite of democracy? Might not 
his elevation have been due even to his imperfections 1 Was it not to be feared 
that this election was one of those errors in the choice of men to which demo- 
cratic societies are so liable, and which are so fatal to them '/ But as soon as 
Mr. Lincoln arrived at Washington, having encountered many dangers, and been 
already threatened with the knife of the assassin, as soon as he spoke, all our 
doubts and fears were dissipated ; and it seemed to us that fate itself had pro- 
nounced, in favor of the good cause, since, in such an emergency, it had given to 
the country an honest man. 

He was in fact an honest man, giving to the word its full meaning, or rather 
the sublime sense which belongs to it, when honesty has to contend with the 
aeverest trials which can agitate states, and with events which have an influence 
on the fote of the world. Very different in this respect from most of the great 
men whom it is agreed at the present day to admire. Mr. Lincoln had but one 
object in view from the day of his election to that of his death, namely, the 
fulfilment of his duty, and liis imagination never carried him beyond it. The 
idea of doing more or anything else than his duty never entered his plain and 
upright mind. It is a common error on this side of the Atlantic to praise or 



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blame Mr. Lincoln for having undertaken spontaneously the aholition of slavery, 
and having plunged his country into war to abolish it. It was to know him 
vwj little to attribute such conduct to him, or even such designs. Undoubtedly 
Mr. Lincoln loudly condemned the injustice of slavery; and while deploring not 
long ago the duration of the great struggle, he said that it was, perhaps, in the 
order of Providence that civil war should cause as much blood to flow by the 
sword as had been shed by the lash, and that it should destroy as much wealth 
as had been produced by the labor extorted from man by the iniquitous violence 
of man. But Mr. Lincoln never confounded his feelings with his duty, not 
looked upon that duty in any other light than as tending to the well-being of the 
republic whose destinies had been committed to his hands. There is no doubt 
tliat he felt a lively joy the day when the necessities of the war commanded him, 
rather than permitted him, to decree the abolition of slavery, and he thanked 
God for being the instrument of such an act. But he did not hasten on that 
event by a day or an hour ; and this noble desire was only second to another 
ardent wish, because the performance of his duty — that is to say, the welfare of 
the United States — was foremost in all the aspirations of his heart. 

Such was this plain and great, good man ; and if it is desired to estimate the 
value of a man of this kind to a nation in danger, only conceive that the United 
States, mstead of finding at their head a resolute servant, devoted to duty, had 
fallen into other hands. Let us suppose that, instead of consulting only the clear 
and strong voice of conscience and honor, Mr. Lincoln had asked himself, like a 
profound philosopher, on which side preponderates the chances of this civil war; 
if the American Union was not in fact too large to hold together; if geography 
and the philosophy of history did not decree its dissolution ; if Jefferson Davis 
were not, after all, the instrument of this great change, and the man expressly 
sent to accomplish it — such reasonings, supported by a few defeats, (and defeats 
were not wanting,) would very quickly have persuaded Mr. Lincoln that, in 
resigning himself to peace and the dissolution of the republic, he was simply 
acting in obedience to destiny. These are the roads in which a man may travel 
when he looks for rules of conduct elsewhere than in his conscience. 13ut Mr. 
Lincoln was as far removed from these subtleties as light is from darkness. He 
had the good fortune to be religious; but his religion ranged itself by the side of 
his duly. He did not think that God could hold another language to him than 
that of his conscience; and if he regarded the reverses of honest men as trials, 
it was because he always believed that God was with them. 

So nothing could shake him. He supported both patiently and ably the ill- 
will of Europe; he saw without alarm the armies of the republic losing courap-e 
or dispersing; he saw without fear and anger his capital filled with traitors; 
he carried on recruiting in the middle of New York when the city was on fire. 
He repelled all idea of a dictatorship; submitted himself, at the period fixed by 
law, to the popular election, and taking his burden willingly upon him, set out 
on his road, and took no account of obstacles. A sense of duty has this ex- 
traordinary advantage in it, that the chances of life cannot affect it. 

He approached at last the termination of so many trials. Guided by the 
instinct of an upright heart, and seconded by the able counsels of that minister 
who had the honor of being attacked at the same time with himself, and whose 
death appeared to be ec(ually necessary to the enemies of his country, Mr. 
Lincoln had eventually thwarted by victory the blind and lamentable enter- 
prise undertaken by the authors of the civil war, and of which his generous 
moderation was about to be employed in effacing the recollection. He could 
display with some degree of pride aloft and triumphant that Union flag which 
had been twice intrusted to him, and which he had preserved through so many 
perils. It is at the moment that he is struck that the unforeseen blow resounds 
so grievously in the hearts of all honest men in the Old as in the New World. 
The Romans have held in pious reverence the memory of a certain Fabius 



128 ArrENDix to diplomatic correspondence. 

Dor?o, who, (luring the sioge of Rome by the Gauls, passed slowly through the 
eueiny's lines, carrying with him respectfully the necessaiy offerings for a 
sacritice, which was to be offered in a day and at a place fixed. It is in a very 
similar manner that this honest man has pursued his course for more than four 
years, holdiu"- religiously in his hands as a sacred deposit the threatened ex- 
istence of his country. Less fortunate than Fabius Dorso, he has fallen at the 
very foot of the altar, and covered it with his blood. But his work was done, 
and the spectacle of a rescued republic was what he could look upon with con- 
solation when his eyes were closing in death. Moreover, he has not lived alone 
for his country, since he leaves to every one in the world to whom liberty and 
iu>ticc are dear a great remembrance and a pure example. 

PREVOST PARADOL. 



[From the Journal cles Debats, May 3, 1865.] 

We cannot but identify ourselves with the sentiments so warmly expressed 
by Mr. Rouher, in the speech delivered by him yesterday in the legislative 
chamber, and with those of M. Drouyn de Lhuys and xMessrs. Rouher and 
Vuitry, one to the legislative chamber, the other to the senate. We feel only 
one regret, which is that the French government has been so tardy in publicly 
proclaiming that honest Abraham Lincoln had devoted his life to the defence 
of a just cause, and that he served it with as much moderation as patriotic zeal. 
The acclamation with which the legislative chamber welcomed the words of M. 
Rouher says plainly enough what is the opinion of France on this subject. 

Tlie crime to which Mr. Lincoln has fallen a victim has put an end to the 
hesitations of England as well as those of France. The House of Lords unani- 
mously adopted the address to the Queen proposed by Earl Russell. In the 
House of Commons, Sir Gleorge Grey and Mr. Disraeli did full justice to the 
patient heroism which the north displayed, and still displays in the midst of 
such cruel trials. Sir George Grey, speaking in the name of the crown, said in 
substance that " if the sympathies of the English people were at first divided, 
they Avere ranged on the side of the North as soon as the news was received 
of the horrible atrocities committed at Washington." 

F. CAMUS. 



[From the Journal des Debats, May 4, 1865.] 

It is well to die ; that is a reflection we cannot help making on reading the 
funeral oration of Abraham Lincoln, such as was pronounced on the Ist of May 
by Earl Russell in the House of Lords. If the good citizen and the honest 
excellent man whom America laments has waited a long time for a little justice 
at the hands of tin; English ministers, the justice now due to him is so much the 
more striking as it has been slow. 

^ No fear appears to be entertained in North America about the conseqiiences 
of the murder of Lincoln. Certainly, some alarm and perturbation were felt 
at first; here the northern soldiers wanted to massacre the prisoners of the south; 
there old soldiers of the south, enrolled under northern banners, attempted to 
revolt; elsewhere the mob desired to burn the ofiices of the journals of the 
democratic party. All these movements were veiy quickly and very easily 
put down. The taking of Mobile, moreover, was another blow dealt to the 
cause of the South. The murder of Lincoln has aggravated the difficulty of 
treating with the South, and done nothing to embarrass the victory of the 
Nwth. "^ 

F. CAMUS. 



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[From the Joiirual Jes Debats, May 8, 1865.] 

The grief and horror caus^cd by the murder of Lincoln cannot hut be more 
deeply felt when we think of the touching and truly religious language in which, 
a month before his death, this good man thanked his fellow-citizens for his 
re-election. Lincoln felt nothing of the intoxication of triumph; victory in- 
spired him with no other feeling than the satisfaction arising from the conscious- 
ness of duty having been performed and justice satisfied. On taking possession 
for the second time of the supreme magistracy of the republic he said : "Neither 
party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already 
attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, 
or even before, the conflict it'self should cease. Eacb looked for an easier 
triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same 
Bible, and pray to the same God, and each invoke His aid against the other. 
It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance 
in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us juflge 
not, that we be not judged". The prayers of both could not be answered ; that 
of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. 
' Woe unto the world because of offences ! for it must needs be that offences 
come ; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.' If we shall sup- 
pose that Amei'ican slavery is one of those offences which, in the Providence 
of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His a})pointed 
time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South 
this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we 
discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers 
in a living God always ascribe to him ? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we 
pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God 
wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred 
and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every droop of blood 
draw-n with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was 
said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, ' The judgments of the 
Lord are true and righteous altogether.' " These were nearly the last words — 
the norissima verba of Abridiam Lincoln — and man may meet his God with 
calmness when a violent death snatches him from this world with sentiments 

like these. 

******** 

JOHN LEMOINE. 



[From The Monde, April 27, 1805.] 

"We have no desire to pronounce a precipitate judgment; what is to be wished 
for the sake of honor and humanity is, that this odious outrage may have been 
the work of some isolated fanatic. It would be too sad a spectacle to see a 
lost cause replying by assassination to the magnanimity of its conquerors. 

It may be affirmed, moreover, that this odious deed is also a useless crime. 
Jlr. Liricoln dies surrounded with the purest glory that ever crowned a states- 
man; but his work will survive him, and the greatest victory of liberty will 
not liave been won in vain. The mission designed by Providence for the 
United States does not depend upon the life of one man, and that liberty which 
created Mr. Lincoln, and which he has served so well, will infallibly raise up 
worthy successors to him. 

EUSTASE IVAMBERT. 
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130 ArPEXDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COFtRESPOXDENCE. 



[From the Opinion Xatiocale, April 28, 1865.] 

It is witli profoTiiid grief tliat Ave yesterday received the uews of the abominable 
crime which has so suddenly extinguished in the United States a noble and 
precious life. 

President Lincoln was one of those men who do honor to their country, to 
the a"-e in which they live, and to all humanity. The American republic never 
produced a better, a greater citizen. 

]Mr. Lincoln was the embodiment of dnty. He knew bnt one road—the 
right line — and to admirable perseverance he joined a loftiness of view, a cor- 
rectness of judgment, a moderation, a generosity of sentiment which inspired 
respect, commanded admiration, and elicited sympathy. 

Mr. Seward, Avhose life we still hope will be preserved, is himself a man of 
integrity — a remarkable politician — a diplomatist of skill and tact, altogether 
exceptionable, which he has proved under circumstances peculiarly difficult, in 
warding off from his country the constantly threatening danger of foreign 
complications. 

One thing only can console us in this heavy misfortune : the crime will remain 
an abortive one. The Union, re-established by President Lincoln, will be free 
from all attacks after the last and decisive victories of Grant and his generals. 
"We will say more. It is in the uatui-e of these frightful outrages against moral 
and social order to recall men to the wh(desome appreciation of things, to the 
necessity of concord, and the importance of fraternity ; and the assassination 
of Mr. Lincoln will lead to the more speedy return to the Union of the de- 
fenders of the secessionists' cause, who are in a state of alarm and consternation 
at a crime of which they are innocent, but which was none the less committed 
in the name of their cause. 

It is true that on the 6th of April Mr. Jefferson Davis published a proclama- 
tion in which he declared his intention to carry on the war; but this manifest 
was previous to the surrender of Lee and his army, and the valiant general who 
laid down his arms in order to avoid a perfectly useless shedding of blood, morally 
obliged Mr. Davis to give up a struggle which henceforward could hold out no 
possible hope of success. 

If he persisted it would prove that passion had the mastery of his reason, 
and that pride goes for much in that iU-understood patriotism which has done 
nothing but heap disasters upon disasters and ruin upon ruin. 

If, besides, the conduct of General Lee had not enlightened Mr. Jefferson 
Davis, the blood which has ju>t flowed at Washington under the steel of 
assassins, Avould, no doubt, bring him to his senees, if it were only to ward off an 
accusation which would not fail to be made, that of having seen in the crime of 
the assassins an unexpected piece of good fortune, and having sought to turn it 
to account in resuscitating a ruined cause. 

In another column will be found some circumstantial details of the great 
assassination, and we devote a special article to the policy of President Lincoln. 

The emotion caused by the death of Mr. Lincoln has been immense in Eng- 
land, and the London journals manifest with energy the horror with which this 
frightful outrage has inspired them. 

An address of condolence has been presented to the American minister by 
the members of the house of commons. Business has been suspended at the 
exchange and in the markets ; and the most enthusiastic partisans of the 
secessionist cause have themselves expressed the most intense indignation. — 
Editorial. 



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MR. LINCOLN. 

The odious crirae of which the President of the United States has just he- 
come the victim will be felt as a public misfortune throughout the whole of the 
civilized world. Mr. Lincoln had had that rare good fortune, for a statesman, 
to attain to power by the idea of which he had become the personification, and 
of having been able to bring to a close the immense task Avhich events, much 
moi'e than his own will, had imposed upon him; an abolitionist by conviction, 
but, above all, a practical and experienced man, he would not, perhaps, have 
taken the initiative in the formidable question of slavery, if the precipitation of 
the South had not found in the elevation of Mr. Lincoln to the presidential chair 
a cause or a pretext for an insurrection which had been long premeditated. 
Provoked by an open revolt, which permitted him neither to Ml back nor to 
think of a compromise, Mr. Lincoln accepted without hesitation the heavy 
responsibility which had fallen upon him. Without allowing himself to be 
discouraged by the first reverses, he applied himself with invincible tenacity to 
create, to organize everything that he wanted — men, generals, an army. The 
immensity of the pecuniary sacrifices, the mediocrity of the first generals whom 
he found at hand, the brilliant successes of his adversaries, the thi'eatening sym- 
])athies of Europe, nothing stopped him, nothing made him go on faster than 
his own wisdom counselled him to do. It is to be remarked, too, that abolitionist 
as he was, he decided to proclaim the abolition of sla/ery with a sort of hesi- 
tation peculiar to resolute characters, who do not easily make up their minds 
to go forward, precisely because they know that they will not recede. 

At length, after four years' exertions, victory crowned his policy ; his fellow- 
citizens, full of confidence in him, conferred upon him a second time the power of 
the presidency. Skilful generals, whom the war had brought to the surface, 
reduced and disarmed the insurrection. Then this firm and intractable man, 
who could never be brought to negotiate with insurrection, appeared in a fresh 
light, and showed hWnself as though he were disarmed by victory. The most 
noble sentiments of conciliation, a kind of chivalric delicacy which disguises 
from the conquered the bitterness of defeat, an anxious solicitude to reconstruct 
the Union, with the help even of those who had broken away from it, burst forth 
spontaneously in the language of the conqueror of a new type, and impressed 
upon him a character of modest grandeur and superior morality which is refresh- 
ing to the mind, and makes one feel proud and honored to belong to human 
nature. The attitude of Mr Lincoln during the last days of his life, and his 
language with regard to the southern States, form, with the correspondence so 
heroically simple exchanged between Grant and Lee, a characteristic picture 
of which the New World has a right to be proud. 

The intention which guided the arm of the assassin of Lincoln appears also 
to have inspired the outrage of which Mr. Seward and his son have been the 
A'ictims ; it appears, even if reliance can be placed upon the summary details 
which comprise all the information that has at present come to hand, on this 
melancholy subject, that it is only by a fortunate accident, that Grant, and the 
Minister of War, ]\[r. Stanton, have escaped an attempt of the same kind. 

So painful an experience of the furious jiassions left upon the mind after the 
defeat of the South, will urge upon the principal civil and military heads of the 
Union a system of personal precautions, the necessity for which is only too 
grievously demonstrated. Let us hope that it will occasion no other modifica- 
tion of the generous policy inaugurated by Lincoln, and which will be for his 
fellow-citizens the best and most prolific portion of their inheritance. 

As for Europe it Avill feel acutely the premature death of the great and good 
man whom America has just lost. His firmness, moderation and patriotism, 
sincere and without ostentation, were a pledge that, entirely absorbed with the 
desire of healing the deep wounds inflicted by civil war, he would not divert 



132 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORKESPONDENCE, 

attention -n-itli foreign broils ao as to render the American people careless of 
tlioir«internal reorganization. 

The death of Lincoln puts everything in a state of uncertainty. Until now, 
Vice-President Johnson, whom this melancholy accident has invested with 
jiower, was the object of certain prejudices, which it is asserted have no foun- 
dation. Do not let us be in a hurry to judge the matter. Responsibility carries 
aloTi" with it much deliberation and caution ; and then the force of public 
opinion, the power of democracy, that sound collective sense which comes from 
the midst of a free population, always well informed upon public affairs, and 
watched over by an unshackled press, and accustomed to decide upon their 
own interests, all this assures us that the fate of the great American repub- 
lic cannot be endangered by the death of its chief magistrate, were he a supe- 
rior,* or a great man. There are, in the depths of democracy, valuable reserves 
of character and unknown talents, which necessity will raise to the surface. 
We are afflicted with the death of President Lincoln, but it throws us into no 
uneasiness. And again, why should we grieve 1 Since we are all born to die, 
who could dream of so desirable a death 't 

Have not the duties of Lincoln's career been fulfilled? Is not his work 
finished 1 And does not this triumphant death lend a tragic brilliancy to the 
sober and masculine virtues of this worthy successor of Washington? 

E. BE GUERAULT. 



The slave rebellion has closed, with a triple assassination, the terrible con- 
flict which it has sustained for four years with the Washington government. It 
was not sufficient for it to have caused rivers of blood to flow on the fields of 
battle. It demanded, even after the war, still more victims. It has immolated 
Mr. Lincoln, the gTcat citizen ; a man as conciliatory as he was energetic ; the 
head of the State, who, finding himself confronted with the most terrible civil 
war related in history, has shown how, at one and the same time, to save his 
country and solve the most difficult social problem of mod'ern times. 

The crime was not, unfortunately, the act of a madman, but the result of a 
conspiracy, plotted by the envenomed partisans of slavery. At the moment 
when one of the assassins, Wilkes Booth, struck down Mr. Lincoln at the 
theatre, another stabbed the Secretary of State, Mr, William H. Seward, and 
his son, Frederick Seward, at their own residence. This is the intelligence sent 
by the Secretary of War, Mr. Stanton, and communicated yesterday to tlie 
London journals by Mr. Francis Adams. 

Abraham Lincoln, William Henry Seward, and Frederick Seward have been 
assassinated. 

In the presence of these corpses, which will long dwell in our thoughts, be- 
fore these tombs, which have scarcely closed over them, it is well that de- 
mocracy should utter a word of fraternity. 

Great reforms have not been accomplished but at the price of the lives of 
the reformers. 
^ The freedom of the blacks has been prefaced with the execution of John 
Ijiown, and the epilogue is the assassination of Lincoln. That is the order. 
Conquered reactions protest by the use of hemlock, the dagger, the funeral 
pile, and the gibbet. 

Tr^*i^^\'i^ always be thus so long as the dogma of the inviolability of human 
lite shall not have penetrated all consciences. 

After John Brown, the scaffold ceased to appear to be a legitimate resort. 
After Lnicoln, political assassination, the old Spartan doctrine of the sic semper 
liiravius remains irredeemably condemned. Who will profit by the abomi- 
nable act ? Wdl the South ? Certainly not ! The South was only conquered, 
now It IS dishonored. But it is the great republic now consecrated by mar- 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 133 

tyrdom. It is tlie black race redeemed by tbe blood of tlie just, and it is 
e32)ecially the inviolability of human life that v.'ill be benefitted by the deed. 
No more scaftolds ! No more tyrannicide ! It is time that the eastern doc- 
trine of the redemption of blood should cease to receive the consecration of 
history. 

J. LABBE. 



[From the Opinion Nationale, April 30, 1S65.J 

The funeral service, which we yesterday announced at the end of our Bul- 
letin, took place to-day, at 12 o'clock, in the Episcopal cliapel, in Hue Bayard, 
beino^ celebrated by the Rev. M. Lampson. 

The chapel was hvmg with black, and ornamented with flags and escutcheons, 
with the colors of the United States. 

The attendance was numerous, and were impressed with a deep sense of the 
solemnity of the occasion. Among the French persons present were the fol- 
lowing deputies : MM. Berryer, Jules FavTe, Eugene Pelletan, Jules Simon, 
Garnier Pages, Ernest Picard, General Franconniere, aide-de-camp of Prince 
Napoleon, and a great many lawyers, writers, and journalists, among whom 
were MM. Henri Martin, Cremieux, A de la Page Floquet, Degauve, 
Deuucques, Andre Pasquet, Dreo, &c. 

• This mournful ceremony had nothing in it of a political or official character, 
and was exclusively religious. 



[From the Opinion Nationale, May 1, 1865.] 

We are assured that Mr. W. IT. Seward is out of danger, and America may 
still reckon upon the services of this skilful diplomatist, who is at the same 
time an honest man. 

It has been remarked that the federal securities have experienced no depre- 
ciation in the different markets of the United States. Such is the power of 
democratic institutions, when they are founded upon ripe judgments, and upon 
the energy of religious sentiment, which no incident, how lamentable soever, is 
able to shake by compromising the national credit and the public wealth. 



[From tlie Fresse, April 2S, 1865.] 
A DISHONORED CAUSE. 

How blind are those assassins who take up arms at the instigation of po- 
litical hatred ! They think they strike the cause which they detest, but it is 
their own cause which they injure and which they dishonor, the idiots! 

What has been accomplished by the fatal shot by which President Lincoln 
lost his life? It has abridged by some years, by some months, by some 
weeks, perhaps by some days only, the existence of Abraham Lincoln, who 
might have been earned off by an illness, or an accident, as a few days before 
Mr. Seward was nearly killed by a fall from a carriage, but the blow which 
has deprived Mr. Lincoln of life has assured him immortality. 

Some hours less in a lifetime! What are they? Can they be put in the 
balance with succeeding ages in posterity? 

The history of the republic of the United States counts fourteen Presidents. 
The names of the greater part of them are already forgotten, but there are 
three names which will never die, those of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. 



134 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPOXDENCE. 

Tli.it of \Va^liiii"-ton, personifying the lofty disinterestedness which refused 
tlie crown ; of Jefferson, personifying power made inustrious by respect for 
lilierty ; of Lincohi, personifying the devotedness of a ican who dies for having 
given freedom to millions of men. 

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln will have a withering effect upon 
Jefferson JJavis, if, with the impulse of indignation, shame, and grief, the first 
act of the president of the Confederate States be not to protest, in the name of 
the cause which he defended, against this new appendage to war, which, if it 
became o-eneral, would descend from collective to individual murder — to the 
usurping executioner, constituting himself an avenger of faithless victory. 
"War was wanting in the process by which this boasted crime might become 
a qualified one ; so that, after having commenced war on the field of battle, 
it might be ended in the assize court ! 

Perhaps this termination was necessary in order that the eyes might cease 
to be blinded by the smoke of gunpowder, and that persons dazzled with glory 
should ask themselves what difference there was between the ball which 
mi,L;ht have struck General Grant in the theatre of war aad that which in 
another theatre struck President Liueoln. 

This is no commonplace suggestion. Let it not be said that the soldier who 
aimed at General Grant would have risked his life, and that it was not so 
with the assassin who fired the fatal shot at President Lincoln. Let the first 
continue to be called brave, but let not the second be called a coward. That 
would be neither true nor just. Wilkes Booth and his accomplices were quite 
aware that they risked their lives, and when those lives come to be taken by 
the executioner, the greatest dishonor will not rest upon the men personally, 
but on their cause, if every connexion between them and it be not, we repeat, 
spontaneously and solemnly repudiated by president Davis, basing his sub- 
mission upon the horror with which this outrage inspired him, and, as a pledge 
of the sincerity of this submission, consigning himself to voluntary banish- 
ment. 

For president Davis and those of his generals who have not laid down their 
arms there is no other honorable course to pursue. If they hesitate, they are 
not only lost but dishonored, and it will be upon them that the responsibility 
will justly fall of all the excesses which an angry populace and an irritated 
and desperate army might, but we hope would not, commit in the excitement 
of anger and indignation. 

If president Jefferson Davis does not hasten to furnish this example of 
political candor and honesty, let him reckon no longer upon the sympathies, of 
Europe, which were attached to his person and his cause. In the eyes of all 
whose conscience is not perverted by passion there will be only one malefactor 
fallen still lower than his accomplices, the assassins of Abraham Lincoln and 
Frederick Seward, and his precursor, the executioner of John Brown. 

AVhat a sorry cause was that which commenced in November, 1S59, with 
the destruction of John Brown, that glorious martyr, whose firmness never 
forsook him a single moment ; and which finished in April, 1865, by the assas- 
sination of Abraham Lincoln, that imperturbable President, who demonstrated 
that democracy had onl}- to spread open its wings to soar from the lowest 
regions to the grandest and loftiest elevations. 

Oh ! let us he believed when we say that the first who will go into mourn- 
ing for the illustrious victim of the stupid Wilkes Booth will not be the 
Americans who have the honor to belong to the north, for the woodman Lin- 
coln has his successor naturally designated in the tanner Grant ; it is those 
who have the misfortune to belong to the south, since the assassination has 
changed into opprobrium the prestige which at one time attached to their 
cause. 

EMILE DE GIRARDIN. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 135 



[From tlie Presse, May 1, 1865.] 

Let us note, to the honor of our old Europe, that it has been grievously 
■wounded by the blow that has fallen upon Lincoln. The Emperor has sent one 
of his aides-de-camp to Mr. Bigelow, requesting the minister totransmitto Wash- 
ington the expression of his sympathy for the deceased President, and the hor- 
ror he feels at the crime which has been committed. The English I'arliament 
will to-morrow vote an address to the government and people of America. The 
Italian Parliament has already voted an address, proposed by M. Crispi, and the 
flag-staff which bore the Italian colors on the Carignan palace was draped 
with crape; at Brussels an immense meeting was held, to send across the Atlan- 
tic the sympathies of the Belgian people. Finally, at Berlin, the Chamber of 
Deputies had a solemn manifestation, and M. de Bismai'ck wrote a letter to the 
new President, expressive of the sentiments of the people and government of 
Prussia. 

Thus, across the Atlantic, the Old and New "Worlds extend the hand to each 
other over the coffin of Abraham Lincoln. Extreme views and the most diver- 
gent opinions meet around this tomb — it is because Lincoln was the personifica- 
tion of energy in the struggle, and wisdom in power ; moderation in view of 
defeat, and conscience in the face of liberty. 

GEORGES JAUBERT. 



[From Le Pays, April irf, ISGo. J 
MR. LI.\COL\. 

President Lincoln has fallen under the ball of an assassin, at the moment 
whin the rare honor of a re-election crowned with eclat his political life — at 
the moment when victory pronounced definitively for the arms of the North. 

We are not among those who have approved of everything that has been done 
in Mr. Lincoln's administration. We have never hesitated to speak the truth 
about him, however severe it may appear to have been. Upo i points to which 
a portion of the French press gave a blind admiration, we ourselves, with candor 
and firmness under the loyal impulse of our conscience, observed a necessary 
reserve. 

Moi-e than once we have had occasion to censure an unfortunate choice — 
more than once to regret imprudent or illegitimate acts. Having never been the 
flatterers of Mr. Lincoln, we are, on that account, more at liberty now to declare 
that we lament from the bottom of our heart this most cruel deaih, and that we 
condemn in the strongest possible manner this detestable crime. 

Mr. Lincoln was an excellent man, and united in himself everything which 
can constitute the character of a great citizen. 

In the terrible crisis during which Providence put into bis hands the destinies 
of America, he showed an unalterable firmness, and a confidence beyond all 
praise in the rightfulness of his mission, and in the future of his cause. 

Assuredly, the American people reckon amongst the glorious list of her Presi- 
dents men who were, in intelligence, superior to Mr. Lincoln, but there were 
none who were above him in largeness of heart ; in the vigor of patriotism ; in 
tenacity of will; in the energy of the active faculties. Thus these masculine and 
simple characteristics, with the truly democratic stamp of roughness and primi- 
tive austerity, will not fail to occupy an honorable place in the history of our time. 

What will be the consequences, in a political point of view, of this bloody 
event ? That, however, is what we shall soon learn ; moreover it would seem 
to us to be impious, at this early hour of grief and' sorrow, when so much and 
such mournful news is constantly reaching us from the other side of the Atlantic. 



13G ArrEXDix to diplomatic correspondence. 

All that -we have at heart to-day is to reuder sorrowful homage to the memory 
of an honest man, struck down by an assassin in the midst of a renewed career 
and a triumphant achievement, and to address to the American nation, so cruelly 
depriN-ed of their chief, the expression of our sympathy and fi-aternal grief. 



[From La Patrie, April 28, 1865.] 
THE DEATH OF MR. LINCOLN. 

The violent death of Mr. Lincoln has thrown the mind of every one into profound 
stupefaction. Nobody knoAvs what to think of this assassination, which inA-ests 
the American question with new complications. We dare not venture to think 
that this crime is the work of a political party, and one hesitates to admit that 
private revenge can have thus encompassed in its fury two statesmen — the two 
veritabh' heads of the government of the North. 

Fatality weighs upon this unhappy country, which for four years has been 
devastated by an unjust war, and which, in the day when peace appeared to be 
possible, saw itself suddenly plunged into the most terrible eventualities. 

The first feeling inspired by such a catastrophe can be nothing but one of 
horror. Whatever may have been the motive of these assassins, there is in this 
act too much baseness not to fill the whole of Europe with indignation. But 
there is another feeling, arising from the thought of the troubles which the 
murder of ]\lr. Lincoln and bis minister may give rise to, as well in the North 
as in the South, and that feeling is one of mingled apprehension and sorrow. 

ERNEST DEEOLLE. 



[From The Patrie, May 3, 1S65.] 

Were we right in saying that not one of the manifestations, on the occasion 
of the death of Mr. Lincoln, by persons ever desirous to thrust themselves for- 
ward was equivalent to a single one of these simple and dignified measures 
taken by the government? 

The sittings held yesterday in the senate and the legislative chamber will 
answer for us. 

In the first place, there is the letter addressed by M. Drouyn de Lhuys to 
our charge d'affaires at Washington, which is as remarkable for its mode of 
expression as the depth of feeling evinced in it. Its language responds to 
public ojiinion, outraged as it is by the assassination of the 14th of April ; it is 
also the kind of language which should be held by the minister of a government 
remaining neutral in the struggle by which America was divided. 

Li the legislative chamber it was M. Itoulipr who did homage to the memory 
of Mr. Lincoln, and in the senate M. Vuitry discharged that office. Then the 
presidents of the two chambers became in eloquent terms the interpreters of the 
Bcntiments of their colleagues. 

The manifestation, therefore, was complete and truly national. MM. Rouher, 
Vuitry. Schneider, and Troplong vibrate in America with the force they deserve. 
^I. Rouher desires to see in North Americans "an allied and friendly people:" 
M. Schneider desires peace ; M. Troplong acknowledges, with truth, that 
"America has passed through more grievcms trials than ever fell to the lot of a 
country founded on liberty !" 

May the future justify the confidence of the minister of state ! May it satisfy 
the desires of M. Schneider, and may the trials spoken of by M. Troplong as 
having been endured in North America speedily cease ! That is the wish which 
we also entertain from the bottom of our hearts. 

ERNEST DREOLLE. 



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[From tbe EeTue des Deux Mondes, May 1, 1865.] 

During the last fortniglit the news from the United States has brought ns the 
greatest political consolation ■which liberal opinion has received for the last fif- 
teen years, and at the same time one of the most poignant griefs which could 
be felt by the afflicted spectators of the most tragical of human events. 

Sorrow has come at last. Mr. Lincoln, who for four years had sustained in 
the midst of diihculties and the most cruel trials that a nation could pass through 
the fortunes, imperilled on every side, of the democratic and liberal republic of 
the United States; Mr. Lincoln, who had with so much tranquil firmness of 
mind saved his country from the calamity of internal dissolution; Mr. Lincoln, 
who helped to achieve the late victories by which the integrity of the American 
republic has been assured ; Mr. Lincoln, who now caught a glimpse of the bles- 
sings of peace, and already applied his honest and scrupulous mind to the work 
of the reconciliation of parties and the re-organization of the great x\merican 
party ; Mr. Lincoln has suddenly fallen beneath the hand of an assassin, having 
been shot with a pistol. An atrocious conspiracy, designed to annihilate at 
once the genius and the arm of the American government, was to have been 
brought to bear at the same time against General Grant, Mr. Seward, and Mr. 
Lincoln, has not missed the most eminent of the victims contemplated by it, 
and has horribly succeeded in killing the President of the republic. 

One universal feeling of stupor, indignation, and affliction has followed upon 
tbe announcement of this atrocity. Europe, as the United States well know, 
has not been less sensibly affected than themselves by the crime under which 
their chief has fallen. Feelings and pre-occupations of many kinds mingle with 
our first emotions of painful surprise. We have been, as it were, thunderstruck 
by the sudden contrast which places such a catastrophe on the morrow of the 
great and decisive victories obtained by the American government. Men anx- 
iously ask one another how far the work of American reconciliation will be 
embarassed and obstructed by this loss; to what hands the supreme power is 
about to pass; what violence and what reprisals the detestable provocation of 
political assassination may probably lead to. But this astonishment, these 
doubts and fears, have been subordinate, in the conscience of European com- 
munities, to the deep-felt sympathy for the noble and generous victim. The 
general grief is spontaneously assuaged, so to speak, by the endeavors to do 
justice to the merits and virtues of Mr. Lincoln. Assuredly, in some of the great 
nations, and in several government departments of Europe, there has been little 
disposition during the last four years to be just to Mr. Lincoln and his most 
devoted colleagues. Death seems to have revealed to all eyes the real worth of 
this honest man ; it has taught the indiftVrent and the inattentive themselves 
the loss which the cause of political probity and humanity has sustained in him. 
Opinion has done ]\Ir. Lincoln wrong while living. We may say that it is now 
making solemn efforts to i epair that wrong when he is no more. 

This is a spectacle of high morality. What was the last President when the 
election carried him to supreme power, and when the civil war broke out which 
threatened the destruction of the United States? The biography of Mr. Lincoln 
was then already known; but it was not such as surround their heroes with 
the admiration of Europe, or the exclusive sympathies of refined circles. There 
was nothing brilliant in the career of the man ; none of that prestige which 
attaches to tried talent. Tlie only extraordinary thing in the life of Mr. Lin- 
coln was his elevation to tlu; highest office in the state ; and that promotion, 
even, was a cause of surprise and distrust. With the prejudices which we, in 
our old Europe, entertain, how few of us can understand how he, who began 
life as an illiterate workman, should become the enlightened head of a nation 
of thirty-five millions of souls ! We are familiar only in Europe, in political 



138 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

matters, with the slow process of education acquired by traditional classes, ad- 
ministrative supernumeraries, and by long literary culture. Old classical politi- 
cians, we doubt not that the most rapid and the most solid of educations, how 
little elegant and gracious it may be in form, is under a government freed from 
the shacklea of social conventionalisms ; that acquired in a private, laborious,' and 
strugi^ling life, united with the political life exercised in the midst of liberal 
institutions. Mr. Lincoln, then, was formerly a workman, a rail-splitter, self- 
taught, had become attorney's clerk, then an attorney, and had passed over the 
various gradations of political functions more easily than he had risen by man- 
ual labor to the exercise of a liberal profession. He came from the rude West, 
unpolished, absolutely destitute of self-sufiiciency, of the elegant manners and 
the shining qualities which accompany the practiced ^Jolitician, the fortunate 
speculator in commercial cities, the gentleman planter of the southern States. 
lie and his friends succeeded for the first time to the direction of alfairs. Power 
had long been monopolized by the southern and democratic coalition, over 
Avhom they triumphed; and it seemed that there were no statesmen known in 
America but those who had been the chiefs of this coalition. His own princi- 
ples were uot sufficiently defined and settled to enlighten public opinion as to 
his future policy. It seemed that he was to carry into the government that 
kind of hesitation and awkwardness which wei-e observed in him personally. 
It was even because there was in him something of indistinctness and confusion 
that he was preferred to candidates better known in the republican party, to 
the brilliant and adventurous General Fremont, and to the eloquent and skilful 
Mr. Seward. In a word, Mr. Lincoln was not one of those men who bring to 
the power with which they are invested a force and brilliancy acquired before- 
hand ; he belonged to that class, on the contrary, who borrow their grandeur 
and prestige from the task with which they are charged, the duties which it 
imposes upon them, and from the manner in which they fulfil those duties. 
He did not, thank God, belong to that family of great men in the Old World, of 
Avhom it has been said, "It is fortunate that Heaven has spared a number of 
them to the human race; for one man to be exalted above the human family, 
it would cost too dear to all the others." But from the first words and first 
acts of Mr. Lincoln, it was easily foreseen that he would fulfil his mission, and 
would not be found unequal to the situation. 

Mr. Lincoln appeared to take as the rule of his conduct the principle of a law 
whose observance elevates the simple and strengthens the humble. He sought 
the path which simple duty pointed out to him, that which is readily perceived 
and immediately adopted, and which is not created, so to speak, by an effort and 
a caprice of philosophical induction. Mr. Lincoln undertook the government, 
determined, according to a common expression, the beauty of w^iich his life and 
death will make us thoroughly understand, to be the slave of duty. The cir- 
cumstances amidst which he arrived at Washington in 1861 to take the presi- 
dency will not Ml to be remembered. He narrowly escaped an attempt at 
assassination. The integrity of the United States was a cause which had then 
but feeble defenders ; and the commander-in-chief, at that time, old General 
Scott, considered he had gained a great victory when he succeeded in main- 
tannng sutiicient order in the capital to make it possible for the ceremony of the 
inauguration of the new President to take place. Mr. Lincoln showed immedi- 
ately that,^ in his eyes, simple duty, direct and close at hand, was the mainstay 
of the Union and the honest performance of his duty. He drew the line indi- 
cated by this sense of duty as tight as possible. It was necessary to do away 
with every pretext put forward by those who prepared and proclaimed the sep- 
aration of the southern States. The pretext alleged by the secessi .nists was 
the design they attributed to the republican party, now in power, to impose 
upon the southern States the forcible abolition of slavery. Undoubtedly, Mr. 
Lincoln fdt the repugnance of every enlightened mind and clear conscience 



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against this institution of slavery Avliicli the fanatics of the south were not afraid, 
for so many year?, to erect into an institution of divine right; but the simph' 
duty, the direct and consequently superior duty of the President of the United 
Slates, was the preservation of the Union before laboring for abolition — to be an 
unionist before an abolitionist. Mr. Lincoln showed himself ready, if the Union 
were preserved, to give his adversaries every chance of an honorable compromise 
on the question of slavery. How much he was repi'oached for this moderation 
at the time ! Some looked upon it as a weakening of the cause of the North — 
the disavowal of the generous sympathies of the world, acquired by a govern- 
ment which undertook to carry out boldly the work of abolition ; in the eyes of 
others, it was a one-sided and perfidious policy which concealed its real object 
by mere mnnoeuvres of routine. The Avar broke out — the impetuous South 
Carolinians drove from Fort Sumter the small federal garrison, and insulted the 
stars and stripes of the national flag. This insult was deeply felt by the mass 
of the American people ; the southern States proclaimed the separation, and the 
struggle was commenced. Mr. Lincoln still resisted the strong tendencies of so 
violent a situation ; for many months he maintained th<3 cause of the Union as 
sirperior to that of the abolition, being anxious, as long as possible, to leave a 
door open to conciliation. It was more than a year afterwards, and wheir the 
fortunes of war were most unfavorable to the cause of tlie United States, that 
Mr. Lincoln resolved to decree the abolition as a war measure and a means of 
legitimate defence, but still not by way of a sovereign right which his govern- 
ment had arrogated to itself against the private rights of the southern States. 
In thus confining himself to the accomplishment of his duty within the narrowest 
limits, Mr. Lincoln (and i<: is not less honorable to his sagacity than his integ- 
rity) was satisfied that he stood upon the most national, and consequently most 
unassailable ground. The persistent carrying out of this linq, of conduct, how- 
ever, has displayed at once the wisdom and successful policy involved in it." 
Sectariarr dissensions have disappeared iir tliis large and simple policy, and 
nothing has been lost to the collateral advantages resulting from the triumph of 
the L^nion ; on the contrary, tliey have gained by remaining subordirrate to the 
clearest and most considerable of the national interests. It is evident that Mr. 
Lincoln found his mind strengthened and his conscience tranquillized by this 
close observance of the line of duty. It is proved by the course of everrts ; he 
suffered himself to be cast down by no reverse, or to be unduly elevated by any 
amount of success. The calmness of his mind was manifested in the familiarity 
of his bearing and language, in that good humor which was peculiar to him, in 
those proverbs and those innocent witticisms which often teemed in his conver- 
sation, and which the popular good sense urulerstood so correctly. A thousand 
anecdotes are told of him, and a thousand phrases, which displayed extraordinary 
self-possession in the midst of a crisis unparalleled, and a mind which always 
saw its way clear in the midst of the most confused and perilous circumstances. 
To a serene and simple firmness was added a moderation to which Iris con- 
temners and enemies of former times rrow hasten to do justice. He was never 
seen to be rash and inflated in his predictions; irritated or regretful against such 
of bis agents as had been unfortunate, endeavoring to amuse or lead away pop- 
ular sentiment by attacks directed against persons, or against the foreign gov- 
ernments, of whom America had a right to complain. By his circumspection and 
care he avoided tlie risk of augmenting the nrrrnber of the enemies, or aggravating 
the dangers which might thi-eaten his country. After the last decisive military 
successes of the North, his first thoughts and first woi-ds, like those of the man 
whom political hatred designed to send out of the world with him, ]\[r. Seward, 
were in favor of clemency and peace at home and abroad. In a very short time, 
in the space of four years, this man, whose mind and character were an enigma 
to all at the beginning of 1861, had acquired an immense ascendancy over his 
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140 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

b}^ tlie last proriiflential election, and it is confirmed by the deep and heartfelt 
erief which seized upon the people of the United States at the news of his 
tragical end. 

Keen sorrow must have its way in the imposing and touching manifestations 
Avhich surround the memory of that statesman who was faithful to his duty until 
death. All Europe has been deeply aifected. The despotic governments of the 
continent have joined in official expressions of profound regret addressed to the 
representatives of the United States. The free people of England and Italy 
participate in the movement by the demonstrations of their parliaments and their 
municipal corporations. Such a spontaneous burst of human feeling is not only 
an imposing homage rendered to a noble victim ; it is a pledge of sympathy given 
by the world to the United States ; it marks with indelible characters in the 
conscience of humanity the signification and extent of the internecine struggle 
which the republic has sustained ; it is a weighty piece of advice given to the 
American government to persevere in the road of humanity, conciliation, and 
indulgence on which Mr. Lincoln had entered ; it is in this sense of itself a great 
event. When we consider the degree of sensation everywhere excited by the 
murder of Mr. Lincoln, it seems that we have a right to hope that this sad catas- 
trophe will not be attended by those politically disastrous consequences which 
were at first apprehended. Destinies like that of Mr. Lincoln, crowned by a sort 
of martyrdom, inculcate clemency. The United States can do no better honor 
to this great victim than by remaining faithful to the spirit of his policy. The 
American people will not convert into a feeling of vengeance against the South, 
which is at their feet, the just horror with which so infamous a crime has inspired 
them. Misplaced controversies have arisen as to what were the political opinions 
of the assassin of Mr. Lincoln. If this assassin is really the man he has been 
, taken for, namely, the comedian Wilkes Booth, it is hardly possible to doubt 
that he was a violent secessionist. It is asserted, in fact, that this Booth, at the 
time of the attempt of the abolitionist, John Brown, which excited in Virginia 
some years ago an alarm so cruel in its consequences, enrolled himself in the 
troop which took Brown, and that he was one in the cortege of inexorable f matics 
who conducted the unfortunate (Kansas) i'armer to the gibbet. There would be 
a sort of ferocious fatality in the coincidence which made one of the executioners 
of Brown the pitiless murderer of Mr. Lincoln ; but whatever may have been the 
fanaticism with which the assassin was animated, it would be an odious injustice 
to treat as accomplices in the murder the populations who furnished Stonewall 
Jackson and Robert Lee, the heroic soldiers under their command. The American 
people will not commit this injustice. >i< * * * * 



[From the Siecle, April 28, 1865.] 

The American republic had triumphed over the rebellion of the slave States ; 
nothing more was required than to subdue the difficulties of peace itself The 
man who had accomplished the first of these tasks, and was on the point of 
effecting the second, Abraham Lincoln, has just fallen beneath the blow of a 
secessionist. Slavery, therefore, has its fanatics ! 

What was Lincoln before the suffrages of his fellow-citizens placed him at 
the head of the republic 1 A carpenter. Then a grocer, taking advantage of 
his brief intervals of leisure to study the law. Charged with the government 
of one of the greatest nations in the world, in a crisis the most terrible in its 
history, the cx-carpenter showed himself equal to the situation. It will be the 
same with him Avho succeeds Mr. Lincoln in so unexpected a manner, and who, 
like his predecessor, attained to the rank he occupies by the various gradations 
of labor. The great republic will pursue the course of her glorious career. 
As for the man who has just paid with his life for the place which history 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 141 

reserves for him, by tlie side of Wasliington, he goes down to the grave followed 
by the regret of tlie whole world. We should utter our own feelings of sorrow 
with greater emotion if the calm and simple figure which we have just employed 
did not arrest our pen, and impose upon us a degree of tranquillity and sim- 
plicity. 

While one of the assassins killed Mr. Lincoln, another penetrated into the 
room of Mr. Seward, who was in bed suffering from an accident reported in all 
the journals, and stabbed him repeatedly with a dagger. The son of Mr. 
Seward lost his life in endeavoring to defend his father. It was only by an 
accident that General Grant himself escaped death. On the departure of the 
mail, Mr. Seward was still living. May his life be spared to find in the esteem 
and respect of every friend of liberty some compensation for the loss which he 
has just sustained as a father and a citizen. A distinguished writer, an elo- 
quent speaker, Mr. Seward has been able to show what he was worth, as a 
statesman, under the most difficult and delicate circumstances. Thanks to him 
that northern America has been able to preserve an attitude at once calm and 
firm in the face of foreign powers, which have been nearly all either ill-disposed 



or hostile. 



TAXILE DELOED. 



A GREAT DEMOCRATIC MARTYR. 



Slavery, before expiring, has summoned up what remained to it of power and 
rage, in order to strike from behind the man by whom it was to be overthrown. 

The Satanic pride of misperverted society could not be resigned to defeat. 
It would not fall with honor, like other causes, destined to rise again. It expired 
as it had lived, by vii dating every law, human and divine. 

There is the spirit and probably the work of the famous secret association of 
the Golden Circle, which, after having for twenty years made preparations for 
the great rebellion, spread its accomplices throughout the west and the north, 
and around the chair of the President gave the signal for that impious war on 
the day when public conscience at last snatched from the slaveholders the 
government of the United States. 

On the day when the good man of whom they have just made a martyr was, 
raised to power, they endeavored to carry into efiect what had been concocted 
by treason. 

But they failed ; not succeeding in overthrowing Lincoln by the force of war 
they felled him by assassination. 

The conspiracy appeared to have been a most desperate one. In assailing 
with the President his two principal ministei's, on one of whom an attempt 
was made, and the commander-in-chief, who was saved by an unforeseen cir- 
cumstance, the murderers reckoned upon disorganizing the government of the 
republic, and imagine that they were resuscitating the rebellion. 

Their expectations will be disappointed. These sanguinary fanatics, whose 
cause is much less damaged by material superiority than by the moral power of 
the democracy, had become incapable of comprehending the nature and the 
results of the free institutions which their fathers had gloriously contributed to 
establish. We shall see a fresh example of what these institutions are able 
to effect. 

The indignation of the people will not be exhausted in a passing explosion ; 
it will become concentrated, it will be lesumed in the unanimous action, per- 
severing and invincible, of the universal will. Whoever are to be the agents, 
the instruments of this work, we may rest assured that it will be accomplished. 
The event will show that it was not dependent upon the life of one man, or 
upon several men. It will be accompli;;hed after Lincoln, as well as it was 



142 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COKKESPONDENCE. 

accompli^^lled bv liim, but Lincoln will remain tlie anstere and sacred personi- 
fication of a f>-reat epoch, the most faithful exponent of democracy. 

This man, Simple and upright, strong and prudent, raised by degrees to the 
command of a great people, and always eoual to the situation, executing 
quietly and without precipitation, and with excellent good sense, the most 
colossal undertakings, giving to the world an example of civil power in a 
republic, directing a gigantic war without for a miment compromising free 
institutiuns, or threatening them with military usurpation, dying at last at the 
moment when having conquered, he was about to pacify the country, (and God 
grant that the atrocious madman who killed him may not have destroyed with 
him the feeling of clemency, and determined upon pacification by force, instead 
of the peace which he desired !) this man will live iu the traditions of his 
country and of the world, in some sort the embodiment of the people, modern 
democracy itself. It was necessary, then, that the blood of the just should 
seal the great work of emancipation, which the blood of the just had inaugu- 
rated! The tragic history of the abolition of slavery, opened with the gibbet 
of John i3rown, will close with the assassination of Lincoln. 

And now let hin> repose by the side of Washington, as the second founder 
of the great republic ! The whole of the democracy in Europe is present in 
spirit at his funeral obsequies, in the same way, that it heartily voted for his 
re-election, and applauded the victory, in the arms of which he has fallen. 
Democracy will identify itself wholly and directly with the monument which 
America will raise to him in the capital in which he cast down slavery. 

HENRI MARTIN. 



[From the Siecle, April 30, 1S65.] 

I pause to pay a tribute of homage to the memory of that great and good 
man, Abraham Lincoln : he will have been the apostle and the martyr of free- 
dom. The cause of slavery could only be put an end to by assassination. It 
dies as it had lived, the dagger in hand. What a lost cause ! What a dishonored 
cause ! The frightful drama of Golgotha is the purchase of the disinherited. 
The blood of the just is iuvariablv the ransom of slaves. 

EDMOND TEXIER. 



[From the Siecle, May 2, 18G5.] 

We yesterday expressed our opinion that the legislative chambers had a 
great duty to perform ; we are able to state to-day that that duty has been 
nobly accomplished. The words uttered by M. Rouher, minister of state, re- 
spond to the feelings of the Avhole of France. 

The despatch of the minister of foreign affairs is written in the same spirit, 
and these two declarations corroborate each other, and perfectly agree with the 
national feeling. 

The American republic is partly the work of France. Our most eminent fel- 
low-citizens watched over it in its infancy. In troublous times it has served as 
a counterpoise to the omnipotence at sea which England pretended to exercise, 
who was then our rival but now our ally. 

When all the European parliaments had testified their sympathy with the 
United States, it would have been an anomaly if the legislative body of France 
failed to honor the martyr to progress, the firm and devoted virtuous man, who, 
in the midst of the horrors of a protracted civil war, never for a moment des- 
pau-ed of the future of the great cause of civilization, and who vigorously up- 



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lield the g;rpat principles of the American Constitution. Let lis observe that 
the president of tlie legishitive bod}^ in carrying out the wishes of the govern- 
ment with respect to these communications, gave expression to noble sentiments, 
with which the Chamber identified itself; and this unanimous concurrence is not 
the least significant sympton of the power of public opinion in our democratic 

France. 

* # * * * * * 

EMILE DE LA BEDOLLIERE. 



[From the Temps, April 27, 1865.] 

P. S. — Frightful news reaches us at the moment of going to press. President 
Lincoln has been assassinated ; and an attempt has been made u[)0u the life of 
Mr. Seward, but he survives. We wish we could doubt the correctness of 
these particulars, which, unfortunately, come to us in a form altogether atiirma- 
tive. 

We are not at all uneasy about the grandeur of the Union, nor in respect of 
American liberty. A ruined cause can never be sustained by crime, but every 
one will readily understand that the whole Union, in the south as in the north, 
is deeply wounded by the ball which has just carried off this great citizen in 
the midst of such critical circumstances. 



[From the Temps, April 23, 1865.] 

The fresh and grievous details which we receive of the lamentable tragedy at 
Washington leaves scarcely any room for the doubt we expressed yesterday. 
The assassination perpetrated on President Lincoln, on Mr. Seward, and in- 
tended for Mr. Stanton, minister of war, and probably also for General Grant, is 
indeed the result of a political plot. Araericau despatches confirm it, and it is 
the unanimous impression of the English press. We cannot help remembering, 
besides, that the passiuus which have just struck down Mr. Lincoln, conspired 
against him at the time of his first election, and that on going from Springfield 
to Washington to be installed, he was nearly being assassinated at Baltimore, in 
February, 186 L 

Let us take care, however, not to fall into a too common error, and charge 
the whole of the southern people with the execrable crime, which completes the 
dov,^nfall of their cause. No doubt there are many in the rebel States, many 
who do not repudiate with horror the atrocity of this vengeance, and majiy poli- 
ticians who do not look upon the evil as irremediable. 

How ai'e we to understand, for example, that a man like General Lee, if he 
were not bound by his word of honor, given to General Grant, if he still believed 
the struggle to be possible, would consent to resume his sword and place it again 
in the service of a cause dishonored by assassination ? The wretches who 
killed Mr. Lincoln have at the same time destroyed the South. 

It is probable that they meditated more than a simple act of vengeance. In 
their eyes, perhaps, the chief crime of 3Ir. Lincoln and Mr. Seward was not that 
they had triumphed over the South, but rather that they had proclaimed a policy 
of moderation and conciliation which would assure to the restored Union peace 
with foreign nations, and the respect of the world. To create irreconcilable 
hatred between the two sections of the Union ; to exasperate the North ; to re- 
place temperate chiefs of the States by men of an opposite character ; to sub- 
stitute passion for wisdom, and to hnrl the United States into the dangerous 
hazard peculiar to violence and anarchy — this was no doubt what they desired 



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to effect, but ill which they have not succeeded. They have misunderstood 
human nature, in taking no account of the horror which would be exciter] by 
their act, even in the south, and they have not the less misconceived the im- 
perishable destiny of the United States. We associate ourselves with the 
general grief, but we share in no way whatever the apprehensions which we per- 
ceive are attached to it. The United States will not ftiil in any of the duties 
prescribed to them by the situation of affairs. The policy which Mr. Lincoln 
and Mr. Seward have had the honor of sealing with their blood will be the 
policy of their successors; for the latter cannot deviate from it without making 
themselves the dupes and the accomplices of assassins. 

A. NEFFTZER. 



[From the Temps, May 1, 1865.] 

After having registered the prompt and spontaneous manifestations which 
have taken place in the English, Italian, and Prussian parliaments, we at last ■ 
hear something of the legislative chambers of France. 

Nobody will have any diiSculty in identifying himself with the sentiment 
manifested in this address; but we confess that we have no very clear notion 
as to what is meant by it. Do the deputies who signed it propose, as may be 
inferred from the letter which they sent at the same time to the President, to 
submit it to the Chamber ? It is certainly conceived in a manner not at all calcu- 
lated to awaken susceptibilities of any kind; but besides that, one cannot dis- 
cover how the Chamber can be affected in this way; there is no explanation of 
the extra parliamentary signatures which are attached to the address, and which 
would fnruisli a reason for its non-reception. Will they, on the contrary, after 
having made this manifestation on their own account, and simply in the quality 
of citizens, provoke a parliamentary manifestation in which they are prepared 
to join ? In that case we do not understand the double purpose to be served, 
for what has just been read is assuredly the least that the legislative chambers 
could say ; and to express our thoughts fully on this matter, we trust that if 
this assembly is called upon to pronounce, in any way, upon the event referred 
to, something more precise, emphatic and appropriate to the cirumstances, will 
result from the deliberation of the Chamber. 

A. NEFFTZER. 



[From the Temps, May 2, 1S65.] 

The succession of Lincoln has been settled without a moment's uncertainty, 
by the application pure and simple of the Constitution, the wisdom of which once 
more displays itself on the present occasion. It may be easily imagined, on the 
day after the commission of a political crime, in the midst of the difficulties of 
internal pacification, what confusion and perterbation might be occasioned by 
general elections, of which nobody could foresee the consequences. On this 
point there can be no doubt the presidential chair had scarcely been vacant a 
few^hours, when Andrew Johnson was installed at the White House, 

1 he horror of a crime which the excitements of tlie struggle could in no way 
palliate, the ])ainful feelings occasioned by the extinction of a pure glory in all 
its lustre, would at first produce a kind of stupor. No one can manifest too 
much grief for the murder of an eminent patriot, which has nothing of the effect 
ol the heroes of Franconi, but the highest praise that can be bestowed on Lincoln 
IS just this, that having arrived at the period of great trouble, he did nothing to 
make himself indispensable, and that his disappearance has nothing in it threat- 



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eniug to stability, wliich is a condition too often attached to the existence of one 
man. It would be, then, to misconceive the real grandeur of the character of 
Lincoln to dwell upon the commonplaces of funeral orations instead of giving 
ourselves up without faltering to the examination of the questions which the 
succession erives rise to. 



[From the Temps, May 4, 1865. J 

Paris, May 1, 1865. 

To THE Editor : The government and the great bodies of the state have 
solemnly testified the grief and indignation they felt at the assassination of 
President Lincoln. 

The press, it may be said, of all shades of political opinion, has gone before the 
public authorities in the spontaneous expressions of horror and regret. 

Some citizens, necessarily in small numbers, will be able to add their signa- 
tures to those of the deputies and writers who have taken the initiative in an 
address of condolence to the United States. 

But will not the people of Paris, Avhose sympathies and liberal instincts have 
been so deeply wounded by this crime, have an opportunity afforded them of 
publicly lamenting the fate of the former workman — almost one of themselves, 
who was the greatest and the purest-minded among the successors of Washing- 
ton ? The mass of the people cannot sign addresses. Would it not be a great 
satisfaction to them to find some easy mode of expressing their sentiments, such 
as the wearing some sign of mourning, for example a piece of crape, or a simple 
black ribbon — on tlie arm ? This mourning might lust a day or two, and com- 
mence, suppose, on Monday nex,t. 

Nobody, it seems to me, would think of doing any party act, much less com- 
mitting himself to any seditious proceeding in a manifestation common to all, the 
result of official manifestations, whose great moral effect would be completed by 
this demonstration. 

If you coincide with these views, sir, will you have the goodness to submit 
them to your confreres, and also to your readers? They will be well received, 
if I am not mistaken, and religiously carried out. y 

Accept, &G., 

RENE DUBAIL, 
34 Rue dii Chateau d'Edti. 



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GREAT BRITAIN AFD DEPENDENCIES. 



Earl Russell to JMr. Adams. 

Foreign Office, May 1, 1865. 

Sir : I bave liad the honor to receive your note of this day's date, officially com- 
muuicating to me the melancholy intelligence of the death by the hand of an as- 
sassin of the late President of the United States. 

When the iirst intelligence of this sad calamity reached this country I con- 
veyed to you by letter and in person the deep impression of horror and indigna- 
tion which so atrocious a crime on the President of the United States had made 
upon me and on the several members of her Majesty's government, and it only 
remains for me now, in acknowledging your letter, to acquaint you that, by the 
command of the Queen, I have directed her Majesty's minister at Washington 
to convey to the government of the United States the assurance that her Majesty 
sincerely condoles with the family of the late President, and that her Majesty's 
government and the British Parliament and the British nation are affected by a 
unanimous feehug of abhorrence of the criminal guilty of this cowardly and atro- 
cious assassination, and their sympathy with the government and people of the 
United States under the great calamity which has befallen them. 

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obetlient, 
humble servant, 

RUSSELL. 

Charles Francis Ada?,is, Esq., h^r.., ^-c, h{c. 



Karl Russell to Sir Frederick Bruce. 

Foreign Office, Ajml 28, 1865. 

Sir : It is impossible to describe the sentiments of horror and indignation 
which have been inspired by the sad intelligence from Washington. 

Her Majesty has directed me to express her sincere condolence with the 
families of the late President, and of Mr. Seward, under their present afiiictions. 

It is my duty to request that you will convey to the government of the United 
States the assurance that the government, the Parliament, and the nation are 
affected by a unanimous f^4ing of abhorrence of the criminals guilty of these 
cowardly and atrocious crimes, and sympathy for the government and people of 
the United States, thus deprived of those to whom they looked for authority in 
administration and wisdom in council. 

iSotice has been given in both houses of addresses, to be moved by minis- 
ters of the Crown, expressing in a formal shape the sentiments of sorrow and 
indignation felt by Parliament on this sad occasion. 
I am, &c., 

RUSSELL. 
Hon. 3iR Frederick Bruce, G. C. B., Sfc., Sfc, Sfc. 



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Earl Russell to Sir Frederick Bruce. 

Foreign Office, Mcit/ 6, 1865. 

Sir : In pursuance of the notice which, as I informed you in my despatch of 
the 2Sth ultimo, had heen given by her Majesty's ministers in both houses of 
Parliament, I moved in the House of Lords, on 3Ionday last, the address of the 
Queen, of vvhich I send you a copy. The motion was seconded by Lord Derby 
and agreed to, nemiue dissentiente. In the absence of Viscount Palmerston, 
who, to his great regret, was prevented by illness from being present on the oc- 
casion. Sir G. Grey, her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the home 
dejjartment, moved a similar address to the House of Commons, which motion 
was seconded by Mr. Disraeli, and Avas likewise unanimously agreed to. 

The Queen has been pleased to return to both houses the most gracious 
answer, of which I enclose a copy. 

In giving a copy of this despatch and of its enclosures to the acting secretary 
of the United States, you will say to Iiim that these addresses of the two houses 
of Parliament express the sentiments of the whole British nation, on the' deplo- 
rable assassination of the late President of the United States. 
I am, &c., 

EUSSELL. 
Hon. Sir F. Bruce, G. C. B., 5,-c., ^-c, ^v. 



ASSASSINATION OP THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. . 

Resolved, nc?nine ronfradiccnfc, That an liumble address be presented to her 
Majesty, to convey to her Majesty the expression of the deep sorrow and in- 
dignation with which this house has learned the assassination of the President 
of the United States of America, and to pray her Slajesty that, in communicat- 
ing her own sentiments on this deplorable event to the government of the 
United States, her Majesty will also be graciously pleased to express on the 
part of her faithful Commons their abhorrence of the crime, and their sympathy 
with the government and people of the United States. 

To be presented by privy councillors. 

The Queen's answer to address respecting the assassination of President 
Lincoln : 

I entirely participate in the sentiments which you have expressed to me in 
the address which I have received from you on the assassination of tlie Pre- 
sident of the United States, and I have given directions that my minister at 
Washington shall make known to the government of that country the feelings 
which you entertain in common with myself and my whole people, with regard 
to this deplorable event. 



[From the London Times of M:iy 2, 1SC5. ] 

HOUSE OF LORDS— Monday, 3Iat/ 1. 

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

Earl Russell (who was very indistinctly heard) said : My lords, I rise 
to ask your lordships to address her Majesty, praying that in any communica- 
tions which her Majesty may make to the government of the United States, 
expressing her abhorrence and regret at the great crime which has been com- 
mitted in the murder of the President of that country, her Majesty will at the 



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same time express the sorrow and indignation felt by this house at that atrocious 
deed. In this case I am sure your lordships will feel entire sympathy with her 
Majesty, who has instructed me already to express to the government of the 
United States the shock which she felt at the intelligence of the great crime 
which has been committed. [Hear, hear.] Her Majesty has also been pleased 
to write a private letter to Mrs. Lincoln [cheers] expressive of sympathy with 
that lady in her misfortune. [Cheers.] I think that your lordships will agree 
with me that in modern times there has hardly been a crime committed so 
abhorrent to the feelings of every civilized person as the one I am now alluding 
to. [Hear, hear] After the first election of Mr. Lincoln as President of the 
United States, he was re-elected to the same high position by the large majority 
of the people remaining faithful to the government of the United States, and 
he was in the discharge of the duties of his office, having borne his faculties 
meekly, at the moment when an assassin attacked him at the theatre. There 
are circumstances connected with this crime which, I think, aggravate its atro- 
city. President Lincoln was a man who, though not conspicuous before his 
election, had since displayed a character of so much integrity, so much sincerity 
and straightforwardness, and at the same time of so much kindness, that if any 
one was able to alleviate the pain 'and animosities Avhich prevailed during the 
period of civil war, I believe that Abraham Lincoln was that person. It was 
remarked of President Lincoln that he always felt disinclined to adopt harsh 
measures, and I am told that the commanders of his armies often complained 
that when they had passed a sentence which they thoiight no more than just, 
the President was always disposed to temper its severity. Such a man this 
particular epoch requires. The conduct of the armies of the United States 
was intrusted to other hands, and on the commanders fell the responsibility of 
leading the armies in the field to victory. They had been successful against 
those they had to contend with, and the moment had come when, undoubtedly, the 
responsibilities of President Lincoln were greatly increased by their success. 
But, though it was not for him to lead the armies, it would have been his to 
temper the pride of victory, to assuage the misfortunes which his adversaries 
had experienced, and especially to show, as he was well qualified to show, that 
high respect for valor on the opposite side which has been so conspicuously 
displayed. It was to be hoped that by such qualities, when the conflict of arms 
was over, the task of conciliation might have been begun, and President Lin- 
coln Avould have an authority Avhicli no one else could have had to temper that 
exasperation which always arises in the course of civil strife. [Hear, hear.] 
Upon another question the United States and the confederates will have a most 
difficult task to perform. I allude to the question of slavery, Avhich some have 
always maintained to have been the cause of the civil war. At the beginning the 
House will remember that President Lincoln declared that he had no right by the 
Constitution to interfere with slavery. At a later period he made a communica- 
tion to the commander-in-chief of the United States forces in which he proposed 
that in certain States the slaves should be entirely free ; but at a later period he 
proposed, what he had a constitutional qualification to propose, that there should 
be an alteration in the Constitution of the United States, by which compulsory 
labor should hereafter be forbidden. I remember that Lord JIacaulay once 
declared that it would have been a great blessing if the penal laws against the 
Catholics had been abolished from the time of Sir R. Walpole, though Sir R. 
Walpolc would have been mad to propose a measure for that purpose. So the 
F;.me may be said of slavery, though I believe that the United States were 
justified in delaying the time when that great alteration of the United States 
law should take place. But, whatever wo may think on these subjects, we must 
all deeply deplore that the death of President Lincoln has deprived the United 
States ot a man, a loader on this subject, who by his temper was qualified to 
propose such a measure as might have made this great change a'cceptable to 



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tliose before opposed to it, and might have preserved the peace of the great 
republic of America while undergoing that entire new organization which would 
be necessary under such circumstances. [Hear.J I think we must all feel both 
sympathy with the United States in this great affliction, and also a hope that 
he who is now, according, to the American Constitution, intrusted with the 
power of the late President, may be able both on the one subject and on the 
other — both in respect to mercy and leniency towards the conquered, and also 
with regard to the measures to be adopted for the new organization which the 
abolition of slavery will render requisite — to overcome all difficulties. I had 
some time ago, at the commencement of this contest, occasion to say that I did 
not believe that the great republic of America would perish in this war, and the 
noble lord at the head of the government had lately occasion to disclaim on the 
part of the government of this country any feeling of envy at the greatness and 
prosperity of the United States. The course which her Majesty's government 
have had to pursue during this civil war has been one of great anxiety. Diffi- 
culties have occurred to us, and difficulties have also occurred to the government 
of the United States, in maintaining the peaceful relations between the two 
countries ; but those difficulties have always been treated with temper and mod- 
eration both on this side and the other side of the Atlantic. I trust that that 
temper and moderation may continue, and I can assure this House that, as we 
have always been guided by the wish that the American government and the 
American people should settle for themselves the conflict of arms without any 
interference of ours, so likewise during the attempt that has to be made to re- 
store peace and tranquillity to America we shall equally refrain from any kind 
of interference or intervention, though we trust that the efforts to be made for 
restoring peace will be successful, and that the great republic of America will 
always flourish and enjoy the freedom it has hitherto enjoyed. [Hear, hear.] 
I have nothing to say with regard to the successor of Mr. Lincoln. Time must 
show how far he is able to conduct the difficult matters which will come 
finder his consideration with the requisite wisdom. All I can say is that, in 
the presence of the great crime which has just been committed, and of the great 
calamity which has fallen on the American nation, the Crown, the Parliament, 
and the people of this country do feel the deepest interest for the government 
and people of the United States ; for, owing to the nature of the relations 
between the two nations, the misfortunes of the United States affect us more 
than the misfortunes of any other country on the face of the globe. [Hear, 
hear.] The noble earl concluded by moving an humble address to her Majesty 
to express the sorrow and indignation of this House at the assassination of the 
President of the United States, and to pray her Majesty to communicate these 
sentiments on the part of tins House to the government of the United States. 
The Earl of Dkuby. My lords, when, upon the last occasion of our meet- 
ing, the noble earl opposite annoiuiced his intention of bringing forward the 
motion he has now submitted to the House, I ventured to express my hope that 
the government had well considered the form of the motion they were going to 
make, so that there might be nothing in the form which would in the slightest 
degiee interfere with the unanimity desirable on such an (jccasion. It would 
have been more satisfactory to me if the noble earl had entered somewhat upon 
the consideration of the question, and had informed your lordships upon what 
grounds he proposed so unusual a course — though arising, I admit, out of un- 
usual, if not unprecedented, circumstances — as that of addressing the Crown, 
and praying her Majesty to convey to a foreign government the sentiments of 
Parliament with regard to the event which has taken place. For myself, I con- 
fess that I am rather of the opinion that the more convenient and, I will not 
say the more usual, but the more regular course would have been to have 
simply moved a resolution of this, in conjunction with the other house of Par- 
liament, expressing those feelings which it is proposed by the motion to place 



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in the form of an address to the Crown. [Hear.] But I am so extremely det 
girous that there sliouki not appear to be the sliglitest difference of opinion a 
this moment [hear] that I cannot hesitate to give my assent to the form pro 
posed by the government, whatever doubt I may entertain that the form is the 
most convenient which might have been adopted. In joining in this address — 
that is to say, in expressing our sorrow and indignation at the atrocious crime 
by which the United States have been deprived of their Chief Magistrate — 
your lordships will only follow, though the event has been known so short a 
time, the universal feeling of sympathy which has been expressed from one end 
of this kingdom to the other. [Hear, hear.] And if there be in the United 
States any persons who, misled by our having abstained from expressing any 
opinion as to the conflict now going on, or even from expressing the opinion Ave 
may have formed upon the merits of the two great contending parties — if there 
be any persons who believe that there is a generally unfriendly feeling in this 
covuitry towards the citizens of the United States, I think they could hardly 
have had a more complete refutation of that opinion [cheers] conveyed in what 
I hope will be the unanimous declaration of Parliament, following the declara- 
tions which her Majesty has been pleased to make, both publicly and privately, 
to the American minister, as well as to the widow of President Lincoln, and 
again following the voluntary and spontaneous expression of opinion which has 
already proceeded from almost all the great towns and communities of this coun- 
try. [Hear, hear.] Whatever other misfortunes may have attended this atro- 
cious crime, I hope that, at least, one good effect may have resulted from it — 
namely, that the manner in which the news has been received in this country 
will satisfy the people of the Uniled States that her Majesty's subjects, one and 
all, deeply condemn the crime which has been committed, and deeply sympa- 
thize with the people of the United States in their feelings of horror at the 
assassination of their Chief Magistrate. [Hear, hear.] For the crime itselt 
there is no palliation whatever to be offered. There may be differences of 
opinion as to the merits of the two parties v.-lio are contending, the one for cnt- 
pire and the other for independence, in the United States — I follow the words 
of the noble earl opposite; but there is, there can be, no difference of opinion 
upon this point: that the holiest and the purest of all causes is desecrated and 
disgraced when an attempt is made to promote it by measures so infamous as 
this. [Hear, hear.] If it were possible to believe that the confederate authori- 
ties encouraged, sympathized with, or even did not express their abhorrence of 
this crime, I should say they had committed that which was worse than a 
crime — a gross blunder; because, in the face of the civilized world, a cause 
which required or submitted to be promoted by the crime of assassination would 
lose all sympathy and kindly feeling on the part of those who might otherwise 
be well disposed towards it. But 1 am perfectly satisfied — I am as well satis- 
fied as I can be of anything — that this detestable act of assassination is so en- 
tirely alien to the whole spirit in which the South have conducted this war, 
[cheers,] is so alien to the courageous, manly, and, at the same time, forbearing 
course which they have adopted in the struggle for everything that is dear to 
them, that I am convinced that, apart from the error of j udgment which would 
be involved in sanctioning such a crime, they cannot have been guilty of so 
great a blunder, and cannot foil to express for it their detestation, and to feel at 
the same time that no step could have been taken which could have inflicted so 
great an injury on their own cause. [Hear, hear.] I will not venture to follow 
the noble earl even into the slight discussion which he has originated with re- 
gard to the internal politics of the Uiiited States. I will not discuss the aiffi- 
culty which at the present moment is felt in the United States — the difficulty 
caused by slavery. I will not express any opinion as to the question whether 
the late defeats, serious as they are, and apparently fatal to the cause of the 
South, have produced, or are likely to lead to, an early termination of the war. 



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In whatever way tlie war may be torminatcd, it. must be the cle?ive of every 
friend of humanity that it should be terminated soon, and without further and 
unnecessary effusion of blood. But I join entirely with the noble earl in la- 
menting the loss of a man who had conducted the affairs of a great nation, under 
circumstances of great difficulty, with singular moderation and prudence, and 
who, I believe, was bent upon trying to the utmost a system as conciliatory as 
was consistent with the prosecution of the war in which the country was en- 
ensred. I as:ree that the death of such a man, in such a manner, and at such a 
time, is a subject not only for deep regret and for abhorrence of the crime by 
which he was deprived of life, but that it is also a serious misfortune, in the 
present condition of affairs, for the state over which he exercised authority and 
for the prospects of an amicable settlement. [Hear, hear.J I can only hope 
that, notwithstanding some ominous expressions which have already follen from 
him, the successor who has so unexpectedly been elevated to the high position 
filled by Mr, Lincoln may be disposed and enabled to follow the wise and ^n- 
ciliatory course which, I believe, in the prospect of success, Mr. Lincoln -had 
decided upon adopting, [Hear.] 1 am not insensible to the danger thdt pub- 
lic exasperation arising out of this act may force upon the government a less 
conciliatory and more violent course than that which Mr, Lincoln seemed to 
have m,arked out for himself; but I am satisfied that the adoption of such a 
course can only farther protract the horrors of this civil war, adding to the other 
motives of the South the most powerful of all motives — the motive of despair — 
leading the South to fight out tliis question to the bitter end, so that while the 
one side is exasperated into the desire to exterminate its opponents, they, in 
their despair, will be ready to submit to extermination, rather than accept the 
unreasonable terms of the North. [Hear, hear,] Thus in the act itself, in the 
circumstances under which this crime has been committed, and in the fatal in- 
fluences which it may exercise upon the returning prospects of peace in the 
United States, we must find reasons for deeply lamenting the occurrence which 
has taken place ; and I am quite sure that, independently of all political motives, 
but not saying that political motives do not enter into our viev/s, I am express- 
ing the universal feeling of this House and of the countiy when I say that we 
view with horror, with detestation, and with indignation the atrocious crime by 
which the life of the President of the United States has been ended. [Cheers,] 
Lord Stratford de Redcliffb. My lords: In consideration of my resi- 
dence in the United States of America — at a somewhat distant period, it is true, 
but nevertheless in the character of a British representative — I hope I may be 
allowed to offer a few words in addition to those which have been so ably and 
justly expressed on both sides of the House. I cannot pretend to make any 
addition of real importance to what has been said already with so much effect, 
and it is therefore only for the gratification of a private feeling and for the dis- 
charge, as it were, of a personal debt, that I venture to claim your lordships' 
indulgence for a few moments. The crime of assassination is so utterly revolt- 
ing to the hearts and feelings of Englishmen, that we cannot wonder at the cry 
of horror and indignation with which the death of President Lincoln has been 
received ia this country throughout the breadth and length of the land. The 
circumstances under which that atrocious crime was perpetrated could not but 
heighten the abhorrence with which the act itself is to be viewed. Whether we 
look to the private affliction caused by its commission, or to the public conse- 
quences which may flow from the catastrophe, our compassion on the one side, 
and our anxiety on the other, is naturally roused to the highest degree. It is 
not in my province to pronounce any kind of judgment on the qualities, the 
conduct, or the intentions of the late President of the United States, It would 
be unkind and unworthy not to give him credit for the best claims on our esteem 
and r(>gret. But when I figure to myself the Chief Magistrate, the temporary 
sovereign of a great nation, struck down by a sudden and dastardly blow in the 



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presence of liis astounded family, in the first moments of relaxation from the 
toils and severe anxieties of a great civil contest, and in the midst of those who 
gave him their admiring acclamations, every thought is lost in one overpov\^er- 
iug sentiment of horror and di.-:gust. [Hear, hear.] At the time of my personal 
acquaintance with America the relations between the different portions of the 
Union were such as to promise a long series of peaceful and prosperous years. 
The dreadful rupture which took place on the election of the late laimented 
President could hardly have been foreseen by the most sagaciovis and far-sighted 
politician. This country, as we all know, was seized with unfeigned astonish- 
ment and deep concern at the unexpected event ; and I must do her Majesty's 
government the justice to say that during the whole course of the war the bal- 
ance of a strict neutrahty has been maintained with the most even-handed and 
resolute sense of duty. I am slow to believe that the people of the United 
States entertain towards this country the sentiments of mistrust and animosity 
which have been sometimes attributed to them. Of this I feel sure, that no 
such hostile sentiments are entertained by the people of this country towards 
them; and, were it otherwise, I am persuaded that while on this side every 
unpleasant feeling unaffectedly merges in sympathy for the late bereavement at 
Washington, so, on the other, the expression of that sympathy, pure and deep 
as it is, cannot fail to obliterate any impressions unfavorable to us which may 
have arisen in any jDortion of the American population. The expression of our 
sympathy is not confined to numerous associations in every part of the country. 
It now assumes the more solemn character of a parliamentary condolence, con- 
firmed by the unanimous consent of both houses and crowned by the gracious 
participation of a sovereign whose sad acquaintance with sorrow is the strongest 
pledge of her sincerity. It is not for me to hazard any conjecture as to the 
cause of that atrocious crime which we all concur in lamenting, or the quarter 
whence it proceeded. But it is next to impossible that the gallant and high- 
minded leaders of the one conflicting party could have descended so low as to 
support their imperilled cause by au assassination as base as it is execi'able, 
and equally hard to conceive that those of the triumphant Union should enter- 
tain a suspicion at once so im})robable and so unlike the magnanimity they are 
called upon to display. It is rather to be hoped and expected that the terrible 
calamity which has occurred, with such awful suddenness, will sober the agitated 
passions on both sides, and render acceptable to all the expressions of sympathy 
about to be transmitted from this country to our kindred beyond the Atlantic. 
[Hear, hear.] 

The motion, having been put by the lord chancellor, was carried ncmine 
contradlcente. 



HOUSE OF COMMONS— Monday, Mmj 1, 1865. 

THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

Sir G. Grey said: I very much regret the unavoidable absence of my noble 
friend at the head of the government, la whose name the notice was given of the 
motion which it now devolves upon me to ask the House to agree to. • I feel, 
however, that it is comparatively unimportant by whom the motion is proposed, 
because I am confident that the address to the Crown which I am about to ask 
the House to agree to is one which will meet with the cordial and unanimous 
assent of all, [Cheers.] "When the news a few days ago of the assassination 
of the President of the United States, and the attempted assassination — for I 
hope that we may now confidently expect that it will not be a successful at- 
tempt — of Mr. Seward reached this country, the first impression in the mind of 
every one was that the intelligence could not be true. [Cheers.] It was hoped 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 153 

by every one that persons could not be found capable of committing a crime so 
atrocious. [Hear, bear.] When the truth was forced upon us, when we could 
no longer entertain any doubt as to the correctness of the intelligence, the feel- 
ing which succeeded was one of universal sorrow, horror, and indignation. 
[Cheers.] It Avas felt as if some great calamity had befallen ourselves, [renewed 
clieering,] for in the civil wai', the existence and the long continuance of which 
we have so sincerely deplored, it is well known that the government of this 
country, acting, as I believe, in accordance with the almost unanimous, or per- 
haps I may say, in accordance with the unanimous feeliug of this country, had 
maintained a strict and impartial neutrality. But it is notorious, and it could 
not iii a great country like this be otherwise, that different opinions have been 
entertained by different persons with regard to the questions at issue between 
the northern and southern States of America, but still I believe that the sym- 
pathies of the majority of the people of this country have been with the North. 
[Cries of "No, no," "Plear, hear," and "Question, question."] I am desirous 
oil this occasion of avoiding everything which may excite any difference of 
opinion. I may say, therefore, that in this free country different opinions have 
been entertained and different sympathies felt, and that in this free country the 
freest expression has been given, as should be the case, to those differences of 
opinion. [Hear, hear.] I am sure I shall raise no controversy when I say in 
flie presence of that great crime which has sent a thrill of horror through eveiy 
aiie who heard of it, all difference of opinion, all conflicting sympathies for a 
moment entirely vanished. [Loud cheers.] I am anxious to say at once, and 
I desire to proclaim that belief with the strongest confidence, that this atrocious 
crime was regarded by every man of influence and power in the southern States 
with the same degree of horror which it excited in every other part of the world. 
[Loud cheers.] We may, therefore — and this is all I wish to say upon this 
subject — whatever our opinions with regard to the past, and whatever our sym- 
pathies may have been — we shall all cordially unite in expressing our abhor- 
rence of that crime, and in rendering our sympathy to that nation which is now 
mourning the loss of its chosen and trustful chief, struck to the ground by the 
hand of an assissin, and that, too, at the most critical period of its history. 
[Cheers.] While lamenting that war and the loss of life which it has inevitably 
occasioned, it is impossible, whatever our opinions or our sympathies may have 
been, to withhold our admiration from the many gallant deeds performed and 
a«1:s of heroism displayed by both parties in the contest, and it is a matter for 
bitter reflection that the page of history, recording such gallant achievements 
and such heroic deeds by men who so fi-eely shed their blood on the battle-field 
in a cause which each considered right, should also be stained with the record 
of a crime such as we are now deploring. [Cheers.] At length a new era ap- 
peared to be dawning on the contest between the North and the South. The 
time had come when there was every reason to hope that that war would speedily 
be brought to a close. Victory had crowned the efforts of the statesmen and 
the armies of the federals, and most of us — all I hope — had turned with a feel- 
ing of some relief and some hope for the future from the record of sanguinary 
conflicts to that correspondence which has but recently passed between the 
generals commanding the hostile armies. [Cheers.] And when we turned to 
Mr. President Lincoln, I should have been prepared to express a hope, indeed 
an expectation — and I have reason to believe that that expectation would not 
have been disappointed — that in the hour of victory and in the use of victory 
he would have shown a wise forbearance, a generous consideration, which would 
have added tenfold lustre to the fame and reputation which he has- acquired 
fliroughout the misfortnues of this war. [Hear, hear] Unhappily the faul 
deed which has taken place has deprived Mr. Lincoln of the opportunity of thus 
adding to his well-earned fame and reputation ; but let us hope, what indeed we 
may repeat, that the good sense and right feeling of those upon whom will de- 



154 APrENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

volve tlic most arcluoiis and difficult duties in this conjuncture will lead them to 
respect the wishes and the memory of him Avhom we are all mourning, [cheers,] 
and will lead them to act in the same spirit and to follow the same counsels by 
which we have good reason to believe the conduct of Mr. Lincoln would have 
been marked had he survived to complete the work that was intrusted to him. 
fCheers.] I am only speaking the general opinion when I say that nothing 
could give greater satisfaction to this country than by means of Ibrbearauce, it 
may be of temperate conciliation, to see the union of the North and South again 
accompHs^hed, especially if it can be accomplished by common consent, freed 
from what hitherto constituted the weakness of that union — the curse and dis- 
grace of slavery, [Cheers. J I wish it Avere possible for us to convey to the 
people of the United States an adequate idea of the depth and universality of 
the feeling which this sad event has occasioned in this country, that from tlte 
highest to the lowest there has been but one feeling entertained. Her Majesty's 
minister at Washington will, in obedience to the Queen's command, convey to 
the government of tlie United States the expression of the feelings of her Majesty 
and of her government upon the deplorable event; and her Majesty, with that 
tender consideration which she has always evinced for sorrow and suffering in 
others, of whatever rank, [cheers,] has with her own hand written a letter to 
Mrs. Lincoln, [hnid cheers,] conveying the heartfelt sympathy of a widow to a 
widov/ [renewed cheers] suffering under the calamity of having lost one suddenly 
cut off. [Cheers.] From every part of this country, from every class, but one 
voice has been heard, one of abhorrence of the crime, and of sympathy for and 
interest in the country which has this great loss to mourn. The British resi- 
dents in the United States, as of course was to be expected, lost not an Lour in 
expressing their sympathy with the government of the United 'States. The people 
of our North American colonies are vieiug with each otlier in expressing the same 
sentiments. [Cheers.] And it is not only among men of the same race who 
are connected with the people of the United States by origin, language, and 
blood, that these feelings prevail, but I believe that every country in Europe is 
giving expression to the same sentiments and is sending the message to the 
government of the United States. I am sure, therefore, that I am not wrong 
in anticipating that this House will, in the name of the people of England, of 
Scotland, and of Ireland, be anxious to record their expression of the same 
sentiment, and to have it conveyed to the government of the United States. 
[Cheers ] Of this I am confident, that this House could never more fully and 
more adequately represent the feelings of the whole of the inhabitants of the 
United Kingdom than by agreeing to the address which it is now my duty to 
move, expressing to her Majesty our sorrow and indignation at the assassination 
of the President of the United States, and praying her Majesty that, in com- 
municating her own sentiments to the government of that country upon the 
deplorable event, she will express at the same time, on the part of this House, 
their abhorrence of the crime, and their sympathy with the government and the 
people of the United States in the deep affliction into which they have been 
thrown. [Loud cheers.] 

Mr. Disraeli said : There are rare instances when the sympathy of a na- 
tion approaches those tenderer feelings which are generally sup})osed to be 
peculiar to the individual, and to be the happy privilege of private life, and this 
is one. Under any circumstances we should have bewailed the catastrophe at 
VVashington ; under any circumstances we should have shuddered at the means 
by which it was accomplished. But in the character of the victim, and even 
in the accessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and inno- 
cent, that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and 
the ceremonial of diplomacy; it touches the heart of nations, and appeals to 
the domestic sentiment of mankind. [Cheers.] Whatever the various and 
Aarymg opinions in this House, and in the country generally, on the policy of 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 155 

the late President of the United States, all must agree that in one of the 
severest trials which ever tested the moral qualities of man he fulfilled his duty 
with simplicity and strength. [Cheers.] Nor is it possible for the peoyde of 
England at such a moment to forget that he sprung from the same fatherland, 
and spoke the same mother tongue. [Cheers.] When such crimes are per- 
petrated the public mind is apt to fall into gloom and perplexity, for it is 
ignorant alike of the causes and the consequences of such deeds. But it is one 
of' our duties to reassure them luider unreasoning panic and despondency. 
Assassination has never changed the history of the world. I will not refer to 
the remote past, though an accident has made the most memorable instance of 
antiquity at this moment fresh in the minds and memory of all around me. 
But even the costly sacrifice of a C;x?sar did not propitiate the inexorable 
destiny of his country. If we look to modern times, to times at least with the 
feelings of which we are familiar, and the people of which were animated and 
influenced by the same interests as ourselves, the violent deaths of two heroic 
men, Henry IV, of France, and the Prince of Orange, are conspicuous illustra- 
tions of this truth. In expressing our unaffected and profound sympathy with 
the citizens of the United States on this untimely end of their elected chief, 
let us not, therefore, sanction any feeling of depression, but rather let us ex- 
press a fervent hope that from out of the awful trials of the last four years, of 
which the least is not this violent demise, the various populations of North 
America may issue elevated and chastened, rich with the accurnulated wisdom 
and strong in the disciplined energy wliicli a young nation can only acquire in 
a protracted and perilous struggle ; then they will be enabled not merely to 
renew their career of power and prosperity, but they will renew it to contvibute 
to the general happiness of mankind. [Cheers.] It is with these feelings that 
I second the address to the Crown, [l^oad cheers.] 

The motion was then put and adopted unanimously, the announcement of 
which fact by the speaker was received with cheers. 



Mr. Burnley to Mr. Hunter. 

Wash1i\gtox, April 17, 1865. 

Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of note of the 15th in- 
stant, announcing to nie the lamented death of the President of the United 
States on the night of the 14th instant, from the effects of a pistol shot received 
at the hands of an assassin while attending the performances at the theatre, 
and the dastardly attt^mpt to assassinate, in like manner, the Secretary of State 
and his son, Mr. Frederick Seward. 

It is with feelings of the deepest regret that I have heard of these crimes ; 
a regret which will be shared by my government on reception of the sad news. 
I sincerely trust that Mr. Seward and his sou may recover from the wounds 
inflicted on them and be restored to health. 

I take this opportunity of acknowledging the announcement of the formal 
assumption of tlie functions of President by the late Vice-Presideitt Andrew 
Johnson, and of your appointment to perform, temporarily, the duties of Secre- 
tary of State. 

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your most obedient 
humble servant, 

J. HUME BURNLEY. 

Hon. W. HiM'ER, Esq., ^r., Sfc., SfC. 



156 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

Resolutiom ly tlic convener court of tlie seven incorporated trades of the city of 
Aberdeen, North Britain. 

At Aberdeen, and within the Trinity ball there, the ninth day of May, eigh- 
teen hundred and sixty-five. 

At a meeting of the convener court representing the seven incorporated trades 
of the city of Aberdeen, North Britain, the following resolutions were uuaui- 
niously adopted : 

1. That this court expresses its sorrow and indignation at the act of atrocity 
.lately committed on President Lincoln, of the United States of America, and its 

sympathy with the government and people of these States in their peculiar cir- 
cumstances, and its hope that, under Providence, the establishment of peace 
there, and harmony between them and the whole world will soon be promoted. 

2. This court cannot separate without expressing its liveliest feeling and sym- 
pathy with Mrs. Lincoln and family, and prays that the worthy example of her 
husband will prove that a straight-forward and honest course is alike honorable 
and worthy of imitation. 

Signed in name and by appointment of the meeting, and the seal of the court 
appended hereto by me, convener of said court. 

fsEAL.l ROBERT THORUSON. 



At Aberdeen, the first day of May, in the year 1865, in presence of the lord 
provost, magistrates, and council of the city of Aberdeen. 

Which day the lord provost stated that, before proceeding to the ordinary 
business, he would propose "that the council enter on their minutes an expres- 
sion of the sorrow and indignation which pervaded this city on receiving the 
intelligence that the President of the United States had been murdered, and tlie 
life of one of their most distinguished statesmen (Mr. Sevfard) endangered by 
the hands of assassins ; and also of the earnest sympathy of the council and com- 
munity with the government and people of the United States." Which pro- 
posal was unanimously agreed to ; and the council directed a copy of this reso- 
lution, under the common seal of the city, to be signed by the lord provost, and 
transmitted to the minister in this country of the United States. 

[SKA1..J ALEXANDER, 

Lord Provost of Aberdeen. 



The mayor, aldermen, and common council of the borough of Axbridge to Mr. 

Adams. 

Sir : We, the mayor, aldermen, and common- council of the borough of Ax- 
bridge, in tlie county of Somerset, beg through you, sir, to express our deep 
sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln and the American nation generally under the 
heavy and distressing bereavement which she and they have been called on to 
sustain in the brutal and cowardly assassination of Mr. President Lincoln. 

We earnestly pray, however, that the all-wise disposer of events may not 
only support Mrs. Lincoln in this the hour of her grief, but that He may, ac- 
cording to the purposes of His own gracious will, overrule for good the dire 
calamity which has thus befallen the American nation. 

Given under our corporate seal at the Town Hall, in Axbridge aforesaid, this 
sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. 

[seal.] ■^ 

His Excellency Hon. Charles Francis Adams, 

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 

United States of America, Londo?i. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 157 

Excerpt from minute of vieetivg of the tmcn council of tJte royal hvrgli of An- 
struiher Easter, in the county of Ffe, Nort/i Britain, dated 5tk May, 1865. 
Liter aha, on tlie motion of the provost, tlie conncil imanimonsly agreed to 
record tlicir abhorrence and detestation of the assassination of the President. of 
the United States, and their sympathy and condolence with the Americans 
nnder the great h^^s which they had sustained, and requested the provost to for- 
ward an excerpt from this minute to Mr. Adams, the American minister in 
London. 

Extracted by — 

MAB. F. COXOLLY, Clerk. 



To his excellency the honorable Charles Francis Adams, envoy extraordinary 
and minister qylcnipotentiary fur the United States of America : 

We, the provost, magistrates, and town council of the royal burgh of Ayr, in 
council assembled, beg to express to you, as the representative in this country 
of the government and people of the United States of America, our utter abhor- 
rence of the atrocity whereby that great people has been deprived of the services 
of their Chief Magistrate, who, after years of a most terrific struggle, approved 
himself to his countrymen by his patriotism, honesty of pm-pose, and great in- 
tegrity, who had the fullest confidence of that great nation during the most 
ci'itical period of its history, whose unwearied patience and perseverance under 
circumstances- of trial, of difficulty, and of defeat, were only matched by his 
moderation evinced in the hour of success, and whose magnanimity and forbear- 
ance made an impression here that Abraham Lincoln was a great and good man. 

We also desire to express our heartfelt sympathy and condolence with the 
government and people of the United States who have been so suddenly deprived 
of their chief magistrate at a momentouf crisis in the history of their country. 

Signed in name and by authority of the magistrates and council by me, pro- 
vost of Ayr. 

J. MAO NEILLE. 



To his excellency the honorable Charles Francis Adams, envoy extraordinary 
and minister jilenipotentiary for the United States of America. 

We, the provost, magistrates, and town council of the royal burgh of Arbroath, 
beg to convey to you, as the representative in this country of the government 
and people of the United States of America, that expression of the feelings of 
profound sorrow and indignation, with which we received the melancholy intelli- 
gence of the assassination of the President of the United States. We deeply 
sympathize with the government and people of the United States in the loss 
tliey have sustained by the death, so much to be deplored, of their late Presi- 
dent, who was so well fitted by his character and the confidence reposed in him 
to heal those divisions by which his country had been torn asunder. 

We join in expressing our best wishes for the welfare of the United States, 
aiid the hope that the termination of the war will enable them to make that rapid 
progress for which their country presents so great advantages. 

Signed in name and by appointment of the magistrates and town council of 
r -j Arbroath, and the common seal of the said burgh affixed hereto, on 

L' - J Thursday, the 25th day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. 

JOHN LUMGAIR, 
Provost and Uiif Magistrate of Arbroath. 



At a meeting of the town council of the borough of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the 
county of Lancaster, held on Wednesday, the 10th day of May, 1865, John 



158 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEEESPONDENCE. 

Gait, esquire, mayor, iu the chair, it was moved by Mr. Aldermau Mason, sec- 
onded by Mr. Councillor Wood, and resolved as follows : 

The mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Ashton-under-Lyne, in 
council assembled, having heard with profound grief of the brutal and cowardly 
assassination of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States of 
America, hereby record their feelings of horror and detestation at the malignity 
and treachery of the act which has deprived that great country of its Chief 
Magistrate ; and express their heartfelt sympathy with the people of that country 
in tlieir time of all-absorbing sorrow. 

This council beg to offer their tribute of reverence for the memory of a great 
American whose ripened experience and humane nature pre eminently fitted him 
to reconcile the animosities of a divided people, and heal the wounds of a dis- 
tracted nation. 

This coimcil fervently trust that the magnanimous policy of the late President 
may continue to guide the American people, that war and bloodshed may come 
to a speedy end, and that peace, prosperity, and happiness may again prevail. 

Tliis council also respectfully offer to Mrs. Lincoln their genuine affection and 
sympathy for her irreparable loss, and trust she may find sweet consolation in 
witnessing the grand results of the wise, unselfish, and patriotic career of her 
martyred husband. 

The corporate seal was affixed in the presence of — 

JOHN GALT, Mayor, [seal.] 
YflLLIAM MARSHALL, Town Clerk. 



Resolutions jxisscd at a meeting held hj/ the Temperance Society of Ashton-under- 

Lyne. 

^^shtOi\-under-Lyne, May 10, 1865. 

The president, vice-president, officers, and members of the Ashton-under- 
Lyne Temperance Society, in meeting assembled, have heard with profound 
grief of the brutal and cowardly assassination of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, the 
President of the United States of America, and hereby record their feelings of 
horror and detestation at the malignity and treachery of the act which has de- 
prived that great country of its Chief Magistrate, and express their heartfelt 
sympathy Avith the people of that country in their time of all-absorbing sorrow. 

This meeting beg to offer their tribute of reverence (or the memory oi a great 
ruler, whose ripened experience and humanity pre-eminently fitted to reconcile 
the animosities of a divided people and heal the wounds of a distracted nation. 
This meeting feel all the more earnest iu their attachment to Mr. Abraham 
Lincoln because he had for more than fiity years adopted and can-ied out those 
great principles of temperance and total abstinence (from all intoxicating drinks) 
for which we are contending. That, whether "he enjoyed the privacy of home, 
or sust;iined the dignities of a palace ; that, whether Jie performed the duties of 
a citizen, or the more difiicult duties of governing a great nation, he had the 
wisdom to see, and the moral courage to adopt, the great principles of temper- 
ance, truth, and progress. 

This meeting also respectfully offer to Mrs. Lincoln and family their genuine 
affection and sympathy for their irreparable loss, and trust they may find sweet 
consolation in witnessing the grand results of the wise, unselfish, and patriotic 
career of their martyred husband and father. 

Signed on behalf of the committee and society by 

]\L1RTIN PARKINSON, President. 

_^. ^ EDWIN WILLIAMSON, Vice-Presidait. 

Hid Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

Preddent of the United States of America, 

and through him to Mrs Lincoln. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 159 



Address of the Union and Emanc'ipatwn Society of Ashton-under-Lyne to Mrs. 

hincoln. 

Ashto.\-u\der-Lyne UNIO^^ and Emancipation Society, 

May 26, 1SG5. 
The sorrowful intelligence wliicli has been recently transmitted to us, an- 
nouncing the ^eath of your mucli-beloyed husband, Abraham Lincoln, has filled 
our hearts with pain and sadness. We little expected that his valuable life 
would have been so suddenly destroyed by the treacherous hand of a cowardly 
assassin, and cannot but lament the irreparable loss which has deprived you of 
a faithful protector, your children of an affectionate father, and the American 
people of a thoughtful and sagacious statesman. 

We consider the death of the late President a Avorld-wide calamity, because 
the impression made by it seems to be the strongest and most general that has 
ever appeared upon the death of a fellow-man ; and it is for this reason that 
we desire to convey to you our united expressions of grief in this severe trial of 
your aflBiction and bereavement, and also to declare our abhorrence of tlie brutal 
and horrible crime by vv'hich his life was sacrificed. 

In contemplating his character we have often felt a just admiration wliich his 
many virtues command ; but to dwell upon them here, in any particular, is un- 
necessary, and, upon this occasion, would perhaps be improper. That his loss 
bas been generally lamented cannot be wondered at, for certainly there never 
was a more just cause for universal sorrow. To lose such a man, at such a 
ditical time, so unexpectedly and so barbarously, must add to every feeling of 
regret, and make the sense of bereavement more severe and acute to all think- 
ing minds. He was snatched away in the midst of a crisis when America could 
spare him least; at a time Vhen the people hoped to be especially benefited by 
bis energy, his benevolence, and his wisdom. His ardent desire to promote the 
welfare of his fellow-men w^as conspicuously the animating motive of his active 
life His indefatigable labors to strike off the fetters which have so long boui.d 
the down-trodden negro have at length been rewarded by a glorious and tri- 
umphant victory. Millions of them are already free — free as the very breath of 
heaven ; and the accursed slave-stain, which has ever soiled tlie American ban- 
ner, will now be eradicated, and the fate of the accursed system forever sealed 
with the martyred blood of a holy Christian man. Never was he known to 
shirk the onerous duties of his responsible oflice ; in every instance we have 
found him true to his sacred oath ; even in the latest hours of his life kindness 
to his enemies was the uppermost sentiment of his generous heai"t, prompting 
the most considerate arrangements for the happiness and comfort of a great and 
mighty people. 

In conclusion, permit us to hope that tlie humble and genuine affection so 
widely entertained towards him will tend to mitigate in some degree the heavy 
bereavement of his afflicted family, consoling them with the knowledge that the 
labors of the departed are truly appreciated by thousands of earnest hearts in 
far dif^tant lands. 

Signed on behalf of the members of the Ashton-under-Lyne Union and 
Emancipation Society. 

JAMES BROADBENT, President. 

JOHN HAGUE, Vice-President. 

JOHN GLAZEBKOOK, Treasurer. 

JOB AR UN DALE, Secretary. 
Mrs. Lincoln. 



IGO APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE, 

Resolution of the Anglesey Baptist Association of Beaumaris. 

Holyhead, June 14, 1865, 
At the above association, held at the county town Beaunlaris, ou the 30th 
and 31st ultimo, it was 

Unanimously resolved,, That this association desires to express the deepest 
reo-ret at the irreparable loss which has befallen the people of the United St,ates 
by the untimely death of President Lincoln ; and in sincere condolence with 
Mrs. Lincoln on the sad event ; also to congratulate our Christian brethren in 
America on the triumph of negro emancipation. 

JOHN LEWIS, 
Chairman of the Association. 

JOHN PALMER, 
Secretary of the Association. 

His Excellency Mr. Adams, 

Ambassador of the United States, London. 



Motion of a meeting held in Bolton, on 21th April, 1 865. 

Moved by Alderman Furguson, seconded by Mr. Rigby, and carried unani- 
mously — 

That this meeting do hereby express their strongest feelings of abhorrence 
and grief at the atrociotis assassination of the President of the United States, 
and the dastardly attempt upon the life of Mr. Seward. 

Also their deep sorrow and heartfelt sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln and family. 

That the chairman be requested to forward the same to the American minister. 



BOROUGH OF BOLTON, COUNTY OF LANCASTER, ENGLAND. 

Copy cf resolution of the eovncil of the said boro7igh, unanimotisly passed at a 
meeting thereof held on the 10th day of May, 1865. 

Resolved, That this council regards with intense horror and detestation the 
diabolical assassination of President Lincoln, the twice elected Chief Magistrate 
of the United States ; and hereby records its heartfelt sympathy with his widow 
and countrymen, in their mourning for his loss and untimely end, hoping that 
their sorrow may speedily be assuaged by the return of national peace and 
prosperity. 



Resolution of the council of Brechin, 

^ At llrechin, and within the council chambers there, on the tenth day of May, 
eighteen hundred and sixty-five. 

In a meeting of the council of said city, the following resolution, moved by 
Alexander Guthrie, esquire, provost, was unanimously agreed to : 

The magistrates and councillors of the city of Brechin, in the county of For- 
far, Scotland, having heard with feelings of sorrow and indignation of the cow- 
ardly assassination of President Lincoln, resolve to express their abhorrence and 
detestation of the cold-blooded and murderous deed, and their cordial sympathy 
with tlie people of the United States, on being thus deprived of one who, by 
his honesty of purpose and patriotism, as well as steadfast adherence to what 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 161 

he considered the principles of right and justice, has left behind him a namr> that 
will long be remembered ; and the council further resolve, that a copy of this 
resolution, signed by the provost, and having the seal of the city affixed, be 
transmitted to his excellency Mr. Adams, the United States minir*ter in London, 
r ,,„ , ALEXANDER GUTHRIE, 

SEAL.J „ 



We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Berwick-upon- 
Tweed, in council assembled, in unison with all classes of her Majesty's subjects, 
beg to add our expression of horror and indignation at the unparalleled crime 
which has deprived the United States of America of their admirable President, 
and of our deep and sincere sympathy with the sorrow of that great people, 
caused by an act of such atrocity. 

Given under the common seal of the borough, at our quarterly meeting, on 

the 3d day of May, 1865. 

r T Sealed in open council this 3d day of May, 18G5. 

jSEAL.J ■*■ , 



At a meeting of the town council of the borough of Burnley, held at the 
council-room, Burnley, on the 3d day of May, 1865 — the mayor presiding — 

Ri'solred unanimously, (on motion of Mr. Alderman Coultake, seconded by 
Mr. Alderman Massey,) That this meeting, as representing the inhabitants of 
Burnley, desires to express its profound sympathy with the people of the United 
States of America, at the irreparable loss sustained by them through the death, 
by assassination, of their President, Abraham Lincoln ; and to record its abhor- 
rence of the infamous crime which has excited so much horror, as well in this 
country as throughout the United States; and that a copy of this resolution, 
signed by the town clerk, be forwarded to Mr. Adams, the American minister in 
London. 

I certify the above to be a true copy. 

[SEAL.I ^ ^- CREEKE, 

' '-' Town (JhrJc. 



At a meeting of the town council of the royal burgh of Burntisland, Scot- 
land, held on the 2d day of May, 1865, the following resolution Avas unani- 
mously agreed to, and the provost was requested to forward a copy of the same 
to his excellency the honorable Charles Francis Adnms, United States minister : 

The provost magistrates and town council of the royal burgh of Burntisland, 
in their own name, and in that of the community whose interests they represent, 
bf^'g, most respectfully, to offer to the people of America their expressions of 
deep sympathy and condolence on the occasion of the lamented death of the 
late able, high-minded, and enliglitened President of the United States, and 
desire at the same time to record their strong feelings of abhorrence and detest- 
ation of the crime by means of which the death of the President of the United 
States was accomplished. 

[seal.] 0. K. SWAIRIGHT, 

Provost of Burntisland. 



BoROT on OF Barnstaple, in tlie Connty of Devon, to \nt: 

At a quarterly meeting of the town council of this borough, held on the 10th 
day of May, 1865, it was 

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162 APrENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Vnanimou.sly resolved, That this council, in its corporate capacitj, desires 
to express its sorrow and indignation at the assassination of the President of 
the United States, and to convey the expression of its sympathy and condol- 
ence at the loss Avhich his widow and the American nation have sustained. 

That a copy of this resolution, with the corporate seal attached, be forwarded 
to the representative of the United States in this country. 

[seal.] THOMAS LAMBE WILLSHIRE, 

Mayor. 



Borough of Brecox. 

At a meeting of the town council of the chartered borough of Brecon, held 
at the Guildhall of the same borough, on Thursday, the 11th day of May, 
18G5, George Cansick, esq., mayor, in the chair, it was 

Unanimously resolved, (on motion of Mr. Alderman Thomas, seconded by 
Mr. Councillor Davis,) That this meeting desires to express its unqualified 
abhorrence of the crime by which the I'nited States of America have lost their 
President, Abraham Lincoln, and to record its sincerest sympathy with his 
widow and family, as well as with the government and people, on their irretriev- 
able loss. 

Resolved also, (on the motion of Mr. Councillor Bright, seconded by Mr. 
Councillor Prothero,) That the above resolution of sympathy be signed by tbe 
mayor on behalf of the meeting, and the common seal of the borongh be affixed, 
and that the member for the borough. Colonel Watkins, be respectfully requested 
to forward the same to the American minister in London for transmission. 

[seal.] GEORGE CAUSICK, Mayor, 



At a special meeting of the town council of the borough of Banbury, in the 
county of Oxford, held on Friday, the 5th day of May, 1S65, the mayor in 
the chair, it was 

Unanimously resolved, That this council has beard with the deepest sor- 
row and indignation of the assassination of President Lincoln, and sincerely 
sympathize with the parliament and people of the United States in the great 
loss they have sustained, by the death of so able and so good a man, and this 
council cannot thus express its feeling without adding is heartfelt sympathy 
with Mrs. Lincoln. 

That Sir Charles Douglass, member of Parliament for the borough, be 
requested to forward a copy of the above resolution to the American minister. 

fsKAL.] RICHARD EDMUNDS, Mayor. 



Address of the viayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Bridport, 

Dorset county. 
"We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Bridport, in the 
county of Dorset, in council assembled, entertaining, in common with the 
whole British people, feelings of just indignation at the unnatural and cowardly 
crime recently perpetrated, beg to offer to our American brethren our deep 
sympathy at the great loss they have sustained by the untimely death of 
President Lincoln, at a moment when his steadfest energies were apparently 
devoted to the pacification of your powerful country. We would also express 
our satisfaction at the escape of Mr. Secretary Seward from the atttempt made 
upon his life, and our hopes that before long he may be restored to his friends 
and the American nation in perfect health and vigor. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 163 

At tlie same time we would desire to unite in the common expression from 
tliis country of respectful sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln on this occasion of her 
deep and awful bereavement. 

Given under our common seal the ninth day of May, one thousand eight 
hundred and sixty -five. 

[SEAL ] HERBERT E. HOUNSELL, Mcnjor. 

Hon. Charles Fraxpis Adams, 

Minister of the United States of America. 



Guildhall, Batli, May 2, 1SG5. 

Sir : We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the city and borough of 
Bath, in council assembled, beg to join our fellow-countrymen of all classes in 
expressing our profound indignation and sorrow at the assassination of the 
President of the United States. 

At any moment, and under any circumstances, the English nation would 
have been filled with horror on hearing that a powerful ruler, trusted and be- 
loved by millions, had been struck down by the hand of violence, but that this 
act of odious wickedness has been committed now when Mr. Lincoln's life was 
so precious to himself, to his country, and to the world, is an event far more 
than commonly distressing. 

We feel, sir, that we should very imperfectly discharge our duty if we 
merely offered you our sympathy, earnest and heartfelt as it is. We are 
anxious, also, to assure you that no words of wisdom and gentleness, concilia- 
tion and peace, uttered by your late lamented President will be forgotten in 
England, or fail to secure our affectionate gratitude ; and Avhile we moiwn 
deeply with all and for all who suffer from the event, especially for her to 
whom he was bound by the tenderest ties, we yet trust that even this awful 
bereavement will be overruled for good, and that your statesmen and warriors 
maybe filled with stronger desire and greater power to overcome the diffi- 
culties in the way of peace ; and, not least, that between America and Eng- 
land there will always be the harmony and the confidence so natural in their 
near relationship, and so essential to their mutual prosperity. 

Signed on behalf of the town council of the city and borough of Bath. 

JEROM MURCH, Maijor. 

His Excellency the ]\rixiSTER 

Of the United IStatcs of America. 



Extract from the minutes of a meeting of the town council of the horovgh of 
Buckingham, held on Monday the 1st day of May, 1865. 

That this council desires to express the deep feeling of abhorrence at the 
dreadful crime committed in America by the assassination of the President of 
the United States, and its sympathy with the people of America in the sad 
and mournful event ; and, at the same time, to indulge the hope that the estab- 
lishment of a lasting peace throughout the entire republic may not be jeopard- 
ized or delayed by the awful calamity. 

GEORGE NELSON, 

Town Clerk. 



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Address of condolence from i/ic corporation of Bedford to tJie government and 
people of the United States of America. 

The mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of tlie ancient borough of Bedford, in 
quarter!}' meeting assembled, desire to convey to the government of the United 
States of America an expression of the horror and grief with which they re- 
ceived the intelligence of the atrocious assassination of President Lincoln, and 
the murderous attack upon Mr. Seward, his Secretary of State. Shocking and 
revolting as is the crime of murder at any time and under any circumstances, 
it is the more especially to be deplored in this instance, where the ruler of a 
great nation was suddenly cut off' from the people at a moment when his un- 
tiring energies, calm judgment, and conciliating disposition were most needed 
for the advantage of his countrymen, and, indeed, for the interests of tbe 
civilized world. 

Under these appalling circumstances the municipal body of this ancient 
borough offer to the government and citizens of the United States their sincere 
and heartfelt condolence, and while sympathizing with them in this their great 
hour of difficulty, they beg to express their earnest wishes and ardent hopes 
that the spirit of conciliation and desire for peace Avhicb so eminently distin- 
guished the late excellent President may now influence the councils of the 
American nation, that a secure and lasting peace may be insured, and that a 
])rosperous and glorious future may be in store for the people who have lately 
passed through so sad and grievous an ordeal. 

To the widow and family of the murdered President the municipal body 
desire to offer their sincere condolence, and to express their deepest sympathy. 
They would rejoice to be able to give words of comfort to them in this great 
affliction. 

Grievous and irreparable as is the bereavement under which the widow and 
family are now suffering, it is consoling to reflect that the best exertions and 
talents, and finally the life of the lamented President were spent in the service 
of his country. 

Given under the common seal of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of tbe 
borough of Bedford, the 11th day of May, 1865. 

[seal.] JAMES HOWARD, Mayor. 



At a meeting of the council of the borough of Bridgenorth, in the county of 
Salop, held at the Town Hall on the 12th day of May, in tbe year 1865, it was 

Vnanimotisly resolved, That this council desires to express to the President of 
tbe United States its abhorrence of the atrocious crime which has deprived the 
States of the life of their late President, and at the same time sincerely to record 
its deep and earnest sympathy with the government and people of the United 
States in this great calamity. 

Resolved, That the seal of the council be attached, and that the same be trans- 
mitted without delay to the honorable C. F. Adams, ambassador for the United 
States, resident in London. 

[SRAL.] JOHN PEPvRY, Mayor. 






At a meeting of the town council of the city of Bristol, held on the 2Sth day 
of Apiil, 18C5, on the motion of the mayor, it was 

Vnammouely resolved. That the following address be signed by the mayor 
and transmitted to the American minister in London : 



I 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 1G5 

We, tlie mayor, aldormen, and members of the town council of tlie city of 
Bristol, have heard with feelings of the deepest iadignation and horror that the 
President of the United States of America has been cruelly murdered, and we 
express our heartfelt sympathy with the American minister, and through him 
with the American people in this their time of national sorrow. 

We desire also to offer our respectful condolence to Mrs. Lincoln, under the 
overwhelming bereavement which she has sustained, and we earnestly hope that 
the sad event which has happened may be overruled by Providence to the wel- 
fare of America, and tliat the future of that great country may be one of peace, 
progress, and prosperity. 

WM. NAISH, Mayor. 



• Council House, Bristol, May 4, 1865. 

Sir : I have the honor of informing your excellency that at a largely attended 
meeting of the citizens of Bristol, over which I presided, the following resolutions 
were unanimously adopted ; and the duty having devolved upon me of forward- 
ing them to your excellency, I take leave to express my heartfelt concurrence 
in the sentiments they convey. 

I have the honor to be, sir, 

W]\r. NAISH, Mayor of Bristol. 
His Excellency Charles Francis Adams, 

United States Minister, London. 



Resolved 1, That this meeting' desires to record ts utter abhorrence of the 
diabolical crime by which the life of Mr. Lincoln, President of the United States 
of America, has been taken away, and to express its sincere condolence with 
Mrs. Lincoln, and deepest s^'mpatby with the American nation in their present 
time of national sorrow. 

Eesolrcd 2, That this meeting would convey to the American people its sin- 
cere desire that the disastrous war which has so long afflicted their country may 
speedily terminate, that the system of slavery may cease, and that their affairs 
may be so guided by Providence as to insure the permanent issue of peace, con- 
cord, and prosperity in their great couiitry. 

Resolved 3, That the right worshipful the mayor be requested, as chairman 
of this meeting, to forward a copy of these resolutions, now passed, to the Amer- 
ican minister. 



Bristol, 3Iay 1, 18G5. 

Honored Sir : We, the undersigned, teachers connected Avith the Bristol 
ragged schools, beg permission to express through you our unqualified indigna- 
tion at the brutal act which has deprived America of one of its best Presidents, 
and of the man especially adapted to the requirements of the time. 

We venture to ask that you will kindly forward our condolence to Mrs. Lin- 
coln, who has been so barbarously bereaved of her illustrious husband. 



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We earnestly pray that God will speedily restore peace to yeur united and 
groat country, and rescue it from the effects of a most wanton and wicked 



rebellion. 



JAMES SHEPPERLY, Master. 
MARTHA JAKE HARWOOD, 

Infant Mistress. 
JOHX ALLEN. 
ELIZA OXBURGH. 
LOUISA COOK. 
RICHARD WEYMAN, Tailor. 
ELIZA PALMER. 
JOSEPH PALMER. 



Hon. C. F. Adams, 

United States Minister. 



2 Great George Street, 

Bristol, April 29, 1865. 
Sir: At a meeting of the members of the Bristol Workingmen's Club and 
Institute and others, held last evening in the hall of the club premises, to propose 
a resolution of condolence with Mrs. Lincoln and the American people upon the 
great loss which they have sustained, the following resolution was unanimously 
adopted : 

"That this meeting, consisting of members of the Bristol Workingmen's Club 
and Institute and others, have heard with grief and indignation the sad intelli- 
gence of the assassination of President Lincoln ; that it desires to express its 
deep sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln in her bereavement, earnestly praying that 
the Almighty Disposer of events may support her in this her hour of trial, and 
in His own good time overrule for good the terrible calamity which has befallen 
the American nation." 

I am instructed to have it forwarded to Mr. Adams, at the Legation in London, 
for presentation through him to Mrs. Lincoln and the American people. Will 
you do me the favor to get this done, at the same time expressing to him the 
mingled feelings of indignation and sorrow which filled the hearts of those pres- 
ent, and which led them to take this early opportunity for the expression of their 
sympathy. 

I have the honor to be, sir, yours, very respectfullv, 

HUBERT THOMAS, 
President of the Club, Chairman. 
Zebena East.afan, Esq., 

United States Consul, Bristol. 



Resolution passed at a meeting held hy the Bristol Reform Union. 

Sir : We, members of the Bristol Reform L^uion, in meeting assembled, be- 
lieving it to be the duty of all public bodies to put on record an expression of 
the feelings of horror and indignation excited in every right-minded person by 
the atrocious murder of a wise, honest, and patriotic President of a great repub- 
lic, and regarding with equal detestation the cowardly assault on the chief Sec- 
retary of State, desire to convey to the President and people of the United States, 
to the bereaved widow and family of Abraham Lincoln, and to the honorable 
Mr. SeAvard and his family, the assurance of our heartfelt sorrow and sincere 
syni])athy in their profound affliction and abhorrence of the treacherous and cold 
blooded murder of their noble and illustrious President by a ruthless assassin 
the tool of a foul conspiracy. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 167 

Asr^nciated for the purpose of obtaining political rights for the unenfranchised 
millions of our own country, we feel the t-udden removal of such a man as a loss 
not only to you, but to ourselves and the world at large. Sprung from the peo- 
ple, and raised by the force of his native genius and industry to be the Chief 
Magistrate of a great and free people, he has endeared himself to all l(wers of 
liberty by his devotion to the great cause of negro emancipation, and by his 
Ciirnest desire to confer the blessings of equal rights and privileges on all, with- 
out distinction of party, creed, or color. 

While thus deeply sharing your grief and sorrow that just as the great work 
he had set himself to was approaching its consummation, his death has turned 
the hour of triumph into one of mourning, we fervently trust that his successor 
may adhere to the policy he inaugurated and tread in his footsteps, by tempering 
justice with mercy, and by advancing those glorious principles of freedom and 
progress to which he had devoted himself; and we sincerely hope that whatever 
differences of opinion, imaginary grievances, or animosities may exist on either 
side, they may not disturb the cordial amity and good feeling which ought to 
prevail between two nations so like in race, language, and religion, but that the 
common interests of humanity, the mutual dependence of the two countries, and 
tlie sympathy evoked by this sad catastrophe, from all classes of Englishmen, 
may knit more closely the bonds of Uniou and brotherhood between England 
and Ameriva. 

Signed ou behalf of the meeting. 

CHARLES MORRIS, Chairman. 

His Excellency the Minister 

of the TJnited States. 



Address of the inhabitants of the borough of Brighton. 

To the people of the United States of America : 

The address of the inhabitants of the borough of Brighton, in the county of 
Sussex, in public meeting assembled, on the 2d of May, 1SG5 : 

We, the inhabitants of Brighton, in public meeting assembled, desire to ex- 
press our utter abhorrence and indignation at the atrocious murder of Mr. Abra- 
ham Lincoln, the President of the United States, by the hand of a ruthless 
assassin, and the profound sympathy of our hearts towards those who are our 
brethren in origin, at the awful calamity which has thus befallen their great na- 
tion and stricken us with amazement and terror. 

While we recognize an overruling Providence in all things, it is beyond human 
power to fathom the depths of this mysterious dispensation at so eventful a crisis 
in your history. 

It is our confident hope and earnest prayer that America may speedily emerge 
from this sad sorrow, and all her troubles, and continue with our nation the 
happy relations of peaceful commerce for generations to come. 

Signed on behalf of the meeting. 

JOHN LEONHANDT BRIGDEN, 

Mayor of Brighton. 



Borough of Brighton, May 2, 1861. 

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Brighton, held at the 
Town Hall on Tuesday, the 2d May, 1865, for the purpose of expressing the 
sentiments of the town on the diabolical assassination of the American President, 
and of sympathy with the American nation under this fearful calamity, and to 



168 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

adopt sudi resolutions thereon as to the said meeting may appear expedient, the 
wordiipful the mayor, J. L. Brigden, esq., in the chair, it was 

Rcsolced, That this meeting regards with feelings of utter abhorrence and 
indi"-nation the atrocious murder of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, the President of the 
United States, by the hand of a ruthless assassin, and desires to express its pro- 
found sympathy toward those who are our brethren in origin at the awful calam- 
ity which has thus befallen their great nation and stricken us with amazement 
and terror. 

Rcsolced, That the deepest sympathy of this meeting be presented to Mi-s. 
Lincoln on this most calamitous event, which, while it has deprived the nation 
of the United States of its President, has rendered her a sorrowing widow under 
circumstances so cruel, lamentable, and distressing. 

JOHN LEONHANDT BRIGDEN, 

Mayor of Brighton. 



At a public meeting of the trading and working classes of Brighton, held at 
the town hall on Friday evening, the 5rh of May, 1SG5, on the assassination of 
the President of the United States — J. L. Brigden, esq., mayor, in the chair — it 
was iinanimously resolved as follows : 

That this meeting regards with feelings of utter abhorrence and indignation 
the atrocious murder of Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States, 
by the hand of a ruthless assassin, and desires to exj^ress its profound sympathy 
with those who are our brethren in origin, at the awful calamity which has thus 
befallen their great nation, and stricken us with amazement and liorror ; and 
that this meeting of working men sympathize the more deeply with the untimely 
death of Abraham Lincoln, as he was the first President elected from the work- 
ing classes to the high position of rnler of one of the mightiest nations of the 
globe; that he carried successfully the struggle of free against slave labor, and 
we confidently hope and believe that his successor, Andrew Johnson, who also 
sprang from the same class, may complete the work so nobly begun. 

That the deepest sympathy of this meeting be ^iresented to Mrs. Lincoln on 
this most calamitous event, which, whilst it has deprived the nation of the United 
States of its President, has rendered her a sorrowing widow, under circumstances 
so cruel, lamentable, and distressing. 

That the address adopted at this meeting, as well as the foregoing resolu- 
tions, be presented to his excellency Charles Francis Adams, minister of the 
United States, by the mayor of Brightnn, in conjunction with the members of 
the borough, who are hereby respectfully requested to join him therein. 

Signed on behalf of the meeting. 

JOHN LEONHANDT BRIGDEN. 
Mayor of Brighton, Sussex, Chairman. 



Brighton, May 5, 1865. 
To tJiepcojjJe of the United States of America : 

We, the working men of Brighton, in public meeting assembled, desire to ex- 
press our utter abhorrence and indignation at the atrocious murder of Mr. Abra- 
ham Lmcoln, President of the United States, by the hand of a ruthless assassin 
and the profound sympathy of our hearts towards those who are brethren in origin 
at the awful calamity which has befallen their great nation, and stricken us with 
amazement and horror. While we recognize an overruling Providence in all 
things. It is beyond human power to fathom the depths of this mysterious dis- 
pensation at so eventful a crisis in your history. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 169 

It is our confident hope and earnest prayer, that America may speedily emerge 
rom this sad sorrow, and all her troubles, and continue with our uatiou the 
happy relations of peaceful cummerce for g>.'ueratious to come. 
Signed ou behalf of the meeting. 

JOHN LEONIIAXDT BRIGDEN. 
Mayor of Brighton, Sussex, Chairman. 



Resolution passed at a nieeting held hij the hocal Board of Health of Balsall 

Heath. 

At a meetino- of the Local Board of Health for the district of Balsall Heath, 
near Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, held at their offices in Vincent 
street, Balsall Heath, aforesaid, on Wednesday, the 3d day of May, 1S65, it was 

XJnaniviously resolved, That this board desires to express its deepest sym- 
pathy with the government of the United States of America, and Mrs. Lincoln, 
in the bereavement which both have sustained by the lamented death of the late 
President, and to record its horror and detestation of the crime which has caused 



BO great a national loss. 



SAMUEL BRIGGS, 

Chair ma n 



Bournemouth, April 28, 1865. 
We, the undersigned, inhabitants of Bournemouth, have learned with the 
deepest horror and regret that the President of the United States of America 
has been deprived of life by an act of violence, and we desire to express our 
sympathy on the sad event Avith the American minister in London, as well as 
to declare our hope and confidence in the future of that great country, which, 
we trust, will continue to be associated with enlightened freedom, and peaceful 
relations with this and every other country. 

A. MORDEN BENNETT, Perpetual Curate. 

R. S. McDOWALL, M. A,, Assistant Curate of St. Feters. 

ALEX. B. ARMOUR. 

W^ILLOUGHBY W. BURSLEM, M. D. 

L. UPPLELY. 

GEORGE J. BARKER, Banker. 

CHRIST'R C. CREELES. 

FRED. W. COATES, M. D. 

WM. STEWART FALH, M. D. 

ROBT. CAIM LIPPINCOTT. 

And over one hundred other names. 
His Excellency the Hon. Charles F. Adams, 

Minister of the United States of North A?nerica, at London. 



To the President of the United States of America : 

Sir : At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the township of Bilston, it 
was 

Unanimoushj resolved, That this meeting desires to express its feelings of grief 
and abhorrence at the assassination of President Lincoln, and at the horrible 
attempt to murder ]\[r. Secretary Seward ; also to convey to the government 
and people of the United States, and to Mrs. Lincoln, the expression of their 
profound sympathy and condolence under the awful and lamentable bereavement 
which has befallen them. 

CHARLES BEARD, Chairman. 



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This address was adopted at a banquet held to congratulate the American 
government on the suj^pression of the slaveholders' rebellion. 

Barrhead, Renfrewshire, May 4, 1S65. 
Dear Sir : We cannot express tlie grief and horror which filled our hearts 
at the tidings of President Lincoln's death. But who shall say that a crime 
less atrocious than the murder of that great and good man, who, in the eyes of 
the world, stood, by character and position, the most prominent representation 
and cliampiou, in the history of this or any other age, of the cause of personal 
and national freedom, would have befitted the death, desperation of southern 
slavery ? In the light of this, its last and culminating sin, Avhich has at length 
revealed its infamous depths as a treason against all that is sacred to humanity 
and shocked the world, we bless God for the men and the measures which have 
swept tliat accursed institution away for ever. 

We congratulate your government and people on the suppression of this 
gigantic rebellion, and the successful assertion of your indissoluble unity as a 
nation, results fraught with incalculably blissful interest to every other nation, 
and especially to the sons of toil ever^'where throughout the whole earth. 

And while we would turn with tenderest sympathy to the sad, bereaved ones 
in your midst, from the home first desolated by this fearful struggle to that of 
your lamented President, and would seek to mingle our sorrow with theirs, and 
while we would weep for the innocent sufierers whose natural protectors have 
fallen in a bad cause, we cannot but hail the dawning of a future for your 
country infinitely more glorious than its past, and rejoice in it, not for your 
sake alone but for our own, and for the cause of liberty and labor in all time 
coming. 

Signed at a social meeting assembled for the purpose. 

JOSEPH M. NAB. 

ALEXANDER JOHNSTON. 

ROBERT PATRICK. 

JOHN McDERMOTT. 

THOMAS PATRICK. 

WILLIAM PATRICK. 

MATTHEW CRAIG. 

WILLIAM CRAIG. 

ANDREW CRAIG. 

JAMES BAILEY. 
And fifty other names. 
Hon. Charles Francis Adams. 



At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Bridlington and the Quay, held in 
the Town Hall, on Monday the 15th May, 1865, convened by the chief lord of 
the j\Ianor, in compliance with a requisition, numerously and respectably signed, 
the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

1st. That this meeting desires to express emphatically its feelings of horror 
and indignation at the atrocious crime by which the life of Mr. Lincoln has 
been sacrificed, and that of Mr. Seward endangered, and its warm sympathy 
with the American people in the loss they have sustained in the untimely death 
of their distinguished President. 

(]\Ioved by the Rev. J. Dickinson, independent minister; seconded by Mr. 
John Reed.) 

- 2d. That this meeting desires to convey to Mrs. Lincoln its sincere and 
earnest expression of sympathy and condolence in the heavy bereavement she 
has sustained by the sudden and untimely death of her distinguished husband. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 171 

(Moved by the Rev. J. Hodgson, Primitive Methodist minister ; seconded by- 
Mr. P. Mackley.) 

3d. That the aforesaid resolutions be forwarded by Thomas Cape, esq., chief 
lord, the chairman of this meeting, to the honorable G. F. Adams, the American 
minister, to be by him sent to the American government and to Mrs. Lincohi. 

(Moved by the Rev. Thomas Barnes, United Methodist church ; seconded by 
George Barm, esq., West Hunton House.) 

THOMAS CAPE, Chairman. 



Resolution adopted at a meeting held hy the inhahitants of the horough 

of Blackburn. 

Borough of Black burx, in the county of Laiicaster. 

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of this borough, held in the Town Hall, 
on Tuesday, the 2d day of May, 1865, the following was adopted : That this 
meeting desires to express the feelings of hoiror and indignation with which 
they have heard of the assas.sination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the 
United States of America, and of the murderous attack made upon Mr. Seward, 
Secretary of State. 

This meeting further expresses its cordial sympathy with IMrs. Lincoln, and 
the relatives of the late President, believing that her husband's name will 
remain embalmed in the future as a martyr ; and prays that an all-wise Provi- 
dence may protect and cheer the widow, who has thus lost her affectionate 
partner in life, in the service of his country. 

[seal.] WILLIAM STINES, 

Mayor and Chairman of the Meeting. 



Borough of Blackburn, in the county of Lancaster. 

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of this borough, held in the Town Hall, 
on Tuesday, the 2d day of May, 1S65, the following address was adopted : 

To Mrs. Lincoln, and family; Mr. Seward, and family; and the American 
people generally : We, the inhabitants of Blackburn, in public meeting assem- 
bled, desire to convey the deep sympathy we feel for the unfortunate position 
in which you were placed, through the assassination of President Lincoln, and 
the attack on the life of Mr. Seward. 

We deeply lament the existence of the civil war which has for four years 

'devastated your country, artd stopped your progress in the paths of peace, but in 

our regret we recognize the future greatness and prosperity of your nation. In 

all your troubles and afflictions, whether as governors, families or people, we have 

sympathized. 

It has been wisely said, that the exigency of a nation demands an able.leader 
and that God, in his providence, always sends the man for the time. 

We believe that Abraham Lincoln was the man raised up for the special work, 
and lament his horrible death by the hand of the assassin. 

We read with pleasure, that in the cabinet council, on the night the assas- 
sination took place, the flush of victory in the fall of Richmond, and the 
surrender of General Lee, did not inspire your lamented President with revenge- 
ful feelings, but that his last words weie for the reconstruction of the Union on 
conciliatory principles, in which mercy for his opponents was the leading feature. 

To the American people we send loving words, and trust that these great 
afflictions will work out an abundant harvest of liberty, whereby free institu- 
tions may be consolidated, and labor, by whomsoever performed, dignified. 
seal.] WILLIAM STOWES, 

Mayor and Chairman of the Meeting, 



172 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. i 

Resolution fassed at a meeting held at Burnham, Somersetshire. 

Honored Sir: The landenieatli resolution was uuanimously passed on 
Wednesday last, by a crowded meeting in the Union Chapel, Edith Meol, 
Burnham, Somersetshire, at the close of a lecture delivered by the Reverend J. 
S. Balraer, of Bridgewater, on " the late President Lincoln, and his assassina- 
tion," and I have now the honor, as chairman of the meeting, to forward the 
same to your excellency. 

RICHARD WILLIAMS. 

The Hon. C. F. Adams. 

" That this meeting desires to express its horror and indignation at the assas- 
sination of Abraham Lincoln, the late distinguished President of America, and 
to assure the bereaved widow, and the American people, of its deepest sympa- 
thy with them in their hour of great trial. It would further express the ardent 
prayer that America may yet come out of this struggle, trusting in God, who 
has hitherto been its helper, and that, guided by Him, it may be led to perma- 
nent peace, great prosperity and entire national freedom. 



Sir: We have heard with profound sorrow of the death of your late distin- 
guished President, and that he has fallen by the hand of an assassin, and that 
other citizens of the United States have narrowly escaped a like fate, and are 
still suffering from their wounds. We believe there is not a Christian commu- 
nity who will not, by deep and heartfelt sympathy, participate with you, and 
with your country, in an expression of grief and sorrow at this event, as well 
also of their horror and execration of the murderers. 

The inhabitants of the village of Broomfield, in the county of Essex, in Eng- 
land, have been reminded of this terrible crime when assembled for Divine wor- 
ship, and having prayed with especial reference to the calamities of the war now 
devastating your land, that Almighty God would mercifully grant peace and 
concord to all nations. 

They desire to express to your excellency their sincere condolence; and they 
farther desire their church wardens will cause this document to be forwarded to 
Mr. Adams, the American minister, for transmission to the United States. 

J. B. WHITING, Vicar. 
G. MAUNSELL, Curate. 
HENRY C. WELLS, 

Church Warden. 
THOMAS B. DAY, 

Church Warden. 
And thirty-th^ee others. 
His Excellency Andrew JotiNSON, 

President nf the United States of America. 



At a public meeting on Tuesday evening, called by the mayor, at the request of 
a large inunber of the citizens of this town, for the purpose of expressing their 
feelings of condolence in regard to the assassination of the late President of 
the United States, the mayor was called to the chair, and Mr. D. Wylie ap- 
pointed secretary. 

The Rev. ]\Ir. Poole opened the meeting with prayer ; after which the fol- 
lowing resolutions were passed : 

Moved by the Rev. J. V. Smith, A. M., seconded by D. Wylie, esq,, and 
Resolved, That we, the inhabitants of Brockville, in public meeting regularly 
assembled, hereby express unfeigned sorrow at the death, by assassination, of 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 173 

Abraliam Lincoln, late President of the United States, and our deep abliorrence 
of the crime committed, a crime at which humanity pliuddera. We also offer 
our symi)athy ■with the citizens of that nation in the great loss which they have 
thereby sustained ; and we further express our sincere condolence with the sor- 
rowing widow and family, in the heart-rending bereavement, with which, in the 
inscrutable providence of God, they have been afflicted. 

Moved by J. McMullen, esq., seconded by the Rev. Mr. Poole — 

That it being highly desirable that the citizens of Brockville should express 
by some public act, or acts, their profound symjiathy with the people of the 
United States, in the great afHiction which the allwise providence of God has 
permitted them to be subjected to, be it, therefore, 

Rcsolred hy this meeting. That all places of business in the town of Brock- 
ville shall be closed on to-morrow (Wednesday) from 12 to 2 o'clock, that being 
the period for the late lamented President Lincoln's public funeral services, 
that the bells of the town be tolled, all flags raised at half-mast, and every other 
mark of sympathy and respect shown as may be practicable. 

Moved by Lieutenant Colonel Edmonsfton, seconded by J. McMullen, esq., 
and 

Resolved, That this meeting cannot permit itself to separate without express- 
ing a hope that the melancholy death of the late President will not complicate 
the public affairs of the United States, that peace will soon happily be re.stored, 
and that the good understanding which now subsists between the governments 
of the United States and of Great Britain will remain undisturbed for all time 
to come. 

Moved by II. W. Kelly, esq., seconded by Wellington Landon, esq., and 

Besuh-cd, That the chairman of this meeting forward a copy of the above res- 
olutions to the Secretary of State, at Washington ; and also give direction that 
they be published iu each of the local journals of Brockville. 

Moved by Rev. Mr. Poole, seconded by W. II. Wilson, esq., and 

Resolved, That the chairman do now leave the chair, and that Dr. Edmond- 
ston do take the same. 

A vote of thanks was then passed to the chairman and secretary, when the 
meeting broke up. 

A. B. DANA, 

Mayor, Chairman. 
D. WYLIE, 

Secretary. 

Dated at Brockville, Canada West, this 19th day of April, 1865. 



At an adjourned meeting of the inhabitants of Belfast, held in the Music Hall, 
on Monday, the 8th day of May, 1865, the mayor in the chair, the following 
resolutions were unanimously agreed to : 

Moved by Thomas Sinclair, esq , chairman of the harbor commissioners, 
seconded by John Shelley, esq., collector of her Majesty's customs, and 

Resolved, That this meeting have heard with feelings of jjrofound sorrow, of 
the assassination of his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United. 
States, and desire to express their utmost detestation of that atrocious crime. 

Moved by James Bristow, esq., director of the Northern Bank, seconded by 
Rev. Henry Cooke, D. D. LL. D., and 

Resolved, That this meeting desires to express its sincere and deep sympathy 
with the government and people of the United States, under the severe loss 
which they have sustained in the sudden and cruel death of the President. 

Moved by Rev. James McCosh, LL. D., Professor Queen's College, seconded 
by John Hind, esq., and 



174 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

BcsoJrcd, That this meeting express its deep sympathy with the Hon. W. H. 
Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, and with his family, and their 
utter abhorrence of the brutal and murderous attack made on him and his sons, 
in his own house, while confined to a sick bed. 

Moved bv the Rev. John Macnaughton, seconded by Theobald Bushell, esq., 

' RcsolrciJ, That this meeting humbly offers its sincere and heartfelt condolence 
to ]Mrs. Lincoln, under the sore trial that has bereaved her of an honored and 
aftectionate husband, and while not wishing to intrude on the sorrow of a stricken 
heart, fervently commends her to the support and care of a gracious God. 

3lo'ved by William Mullan, esq., seconded by Thomas McChire, esq., D. L. 

J. P., and ^ -, . T 

Resolrcd, That copies of the foregoing resolutions be placed in the hands of 
the Hon C. F. Adams, the American minister, for tranmission to his Excellency 
the President of the United States, Mrs. Lincoln, and the Hon. W. H. Seward. 

JOHN LYTLE, 

Mayor of Bcljast. 
[^v.xh.\ JAMES GUTHRIE, 

Town Clerk. 



Copy of resolutions passed at an open air meeting of tlie inliahitants of Brad- 
ford, on Saturdaij, tJte 29 tU April, 1865. 

Resolved, That this meeting expresses its deep horror and detestation at the 
deed of assassination perpetrated on the person of Abraham Lincoln, President 
of the United States of America; with like feelings it also regards the attempt on 
the life of the foreign minister, Mr. Seward, and shudders Avith disgust at such 
brutal acts of low, mean, dark, cowardly atrocity, imequalled in the annals of 
history. 

Resoh-ed, That the workingmen and women of Bradford, in public meeting 
assembled, express their deep sympathy with the government and people, their 
brethren and sisters in America, in the loss they have sustained by the lamented 
death of Mr. President Lincoln. 

Resolved, That the w:orshipful the mayor, as chairman of this meeting, be 
requested to sign and forward a copy of the above resolutions to the representa- 
tives of the American government, its sorrowing people, and the bereaved wife 
and family of Mr. President Lincoln. 

CHARLES SIMON, Mayor. 



Copy of resolutions passed at a meeting of inliahitants of Bradford on ^le 2Sth 

day of April, 1865. 

Resolved, That the inhabitants of Bradford, in public meeting assembled, do 
hereby express their strongest feelings of abhorrence and grief at the atrocious 
assassination of the President of the United States of America, and also at the 
dastardly attempt upon the life of Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State. 

Resolved, That this meeting do express their deep sympathy with the Ameri- 
can people in the loss they have sustained by the cruel death of Mr. President 
Lincoln. 

CHARLES SIMON, Mayor. 



Bradford Chamber of Commerce, April 26, 1865. 
Sir: The council of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce beg most respect- 
fully to express to you, and through you to the people of the United States, 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 175 

the horror and the grief which they, in common with the whole civiUzed world, 
must feel at the news which has reached the town this day of the assassinatimi 
of President Lincoln. Just at the very moment when the arduous struggle 
which he had so gloriously conducted for the last four years was concluded in 
the field, and Avhen the world was admiring the wise and conciliatory spirit 
whitch he had shown in his endeavors to allay conflicting passions and to heal 
the wounds of his country, he was struck down by a cowardly assassin. The 
horrible event is too recent to admit of anything more tlian the mere expression 
of the most heartfelt sympathy and grief, and the council are sure that iu thus 
addressing you they only give expression to feelings which are common to their 
constituents and to the Avhole community of Bradford. 

I have the honor to remain, sir, your faithful servant, 

HENRY W. RIPLEY, President. 
JOHN DARLINGTON, Secretary. 

George J. Abbot, Esq. 



Borough of Birmingham. 

At a quarterly meeting of the council of this borough, held in the council 
chamber at the public office. Moor street, on the 4th day of May, 1865, Henry 
Wiggen, esq., mayor, in the chair, it was moved by the mayor, seconded by 
Mr. Alderman Holliday, and 

Besolred vnanimotishj, That this council desires to express to the government 
of the United States its abhorrence and detestation of the atrocious crime which 
has deprived the American nation of its chief ; that while manifesting its. horror 
at the foul deed which sacrificed the life of the President, at the moment when 
victory had crowned his efi'orts with success, this council desires to record its 
deep and earnest sympathy with the government and people of the United 
States on this great calamity. 

[seal.] henry WIGGEN, Mayor. 



Borough of Birmingham. 

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Birmingham, convened by the 
mayor and held in the Town Hall on Friday, the 28th day of April, 1865, the 
right worshipful the mayor (Henry AViggen, esq.,) iu the chair, it was moved 
by the mayor, seconded by John Jaffray, esq., and 

Bcsolved unanimously , That this meeting desires to express the deepest regret 
at the irrejiarable loss whicli the jieople of the United States of America have 
sustained by the untimely death of President Lincoln ; that this meeting regards 
with horror and detestation the crime by which the President's life was sacri- 
ficed, and that on behalf and iu the name of the inliabitants of Birmingham this 
meeting respectfully offers to the government and people of the United States 
the most sincere and earnest sympathy under the calamity which has befallen 
them. 

It was moved by the Rev. R. W. Dale, seconded by Mr. Alderman Hawkes 
and 

Resolved unanimously. That this meeting further desires to record its deep 
regret at the attempt to assassinate Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State, and ex- 
presses an earnest hope that, by the blessing of Divine Providence, his life may 
be spared to the service of his country. 

HENRY WIGGEN, Mayor, 

Chairman (f the said meeting. 



176 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

Address of" The Ladies' Negroes' Friend Society" to Mrs. Lincoln. 

Edgebaston, Birmimgham, June 16, 1S65. 
Mrs. EdmiuRl Sturge, with deep feelings of respectful sympathy for Mrs. 
Lincoln, thinks it may be of some interest to her to know that the address has 
been si"-ned by the wife and daughter of Johu Bright, esq., M. P., as well as 
the daughter of J. Angell James. 



Birmingham, Mai/ 30, 1865. 

Madam : We, the undersigned, members and friends of " The Ladies' Negroes' 
Friend Society," assembled at our fortieth annual meeting at the residence of 
the late Joseph Sturge, cannot refrain from offering you the expression of our 
deep ajid respectful sympathy at this time of your bitter sorrow. We trust in 
the conviction of our hearts that, though personally unknown to you, we may 
ask permission to share your grief, because we are associated to promote the 
same great cause of human freedom Avhich your honored and beloved and lamented, 
husband, the late President Lincoln, espoused in early life, and so religiously 
and beautifully enforced in his last message to Congress ; that we earnestly 
desire the sentiments therein contained may be engraven on the hearts of all 
who read them the world over. 

We have placed on record his sayings, so full of truth, "If slavery be not 
wrong, nothing is wrong." Thus may it be bound more closely on our con- 
sciences and memory, and stimulate us to do all that is in our power towards 
realizing the final triumph of the great anti-slavery cause to which President 
Lincoln was honored to render such vast services. In commemorating these 
services, we would tenderly remember how afflicting is the dispensation that 
through them has been allotted to you, even the surrender of a life dearer than 
your own. 

We have been comforted by the knowledge that in the representative of your 
departed husband, you had one near you, in the first hours of your "agonizing 
sorrow," who gave expression to the reflection that even from its depths God. 
could bring good to others. May our Heavenly Father, "who doeth all things 
well," supply you with his richest consolations. May you be permitted to see, 
with admiring and reverential wonder, such beneficial results as may fill your 
smitten heart with resignation and peace. Even now we implore you to take com- 
fort i'rom the fact that already blessed thoughts of peace and good will between 
the British and American people have been noimshed by the community of 
feeling awakened by our common loss. Cherishing this belief, we also cling to 
the hope that henceforth both nations will unite in carrying forward the sacred 
cause now afresh consecrated by the sacrifice of such a life. 

With heartfelt sympathy and respect, we are madam, yours, sincerely, 

LOUISA J. MORLLIET, 
MARIA CADBURY, 

Treasurers 
LTDIA EDMUND STURGE, 
ANNA MARIA HARRIS, 

Secretaries. 

Co77imittce. 

Elizabeth Brady, jr. M. A. Phipson. 

Mary Louisa May Goddard. Elizabeth T. Phipson. 

Ellen Sturge. Rebecca Piercy. 

Martha Dale. Aniaie l\Iantin. 

Marianne Gibbs. Mary Hill Thornton. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 



177 



Maria Tucker, 
Mercy Steadmaa. 
Jane Plant. 

Henrietta Wm. Morgan. 
Mary Middlemii-e. 
Hannali Perry. 
Elizabeth Gorve. 
S. R. Buckton. 

Doudecima Crowley. 

Julia A. Snepp. 
Gulielma A. VV". Baker- 
Mary George B. Lloyd, 

Sophia Sarah Taylor. 

Emma Whatrune. 

Ann Cadbury. 

Anna II. Pichardson. 

Mary W. Pollard, 

Rachel Arthur Albright 

Hester Savory Spriggs. 

Mary Elizabeth Marshall. 

8. H. Bucknian. 

Hannah Fowler. 

M. A. Hall. 

Harriet Ann Heaton. 

Sarah Lightwood. 

Ann Yates. 

M. A. Yeomans. 

Elizabeth lioAvell. 

Sarah Scottin. 

Francis Ford. 

Mary Anna Avery. 

Mary Clark. 

E. F. Taunton. 

J. B. Bullinant. 

M. G. Warren. 
Mary Booth. 
May Booth. 
Hannah J. Surge. 
Tamersin Christie. 
Sarah Southall. 
Anna J. Baker. 
Emma J. Gibbons. 
Ann ]\[ary Good rick. 
Mary Ann King. 
Sophia Seekings. 
Susan Kinjr. 
Anna Lloyd. 
Ann Snowden. 
Mary IL Pease. 
H. B. Bottomley. 
H. B. Bottomley, jr. 
Susannah Reynolds. 
Keziah Yates. 
Caroline Sargeant. 
Julia Goddard. 
Caroline Dayken. 
12 A 



Catharine Willets Thornton. 

Esther ]\L Partridge. 

Mary Kent. 

Emma Huley. 

Emma Wainwright. i 

Hannah Bolton. 

Hannah B. Smith. 

Margaret Anna Watson. 

Eleanor Sturge. 

Mary Watson. 

Elizabeth Hunt. 

Annie Chipmen. 

Sarah J. Barnard. , 

Catharine Jane Mene. 

Mary Biddle. 

Maria Jones. 

Hannah ilargaret Joseph. 

Sarah Ann James, Daughter of the 

late J. A. James. 
H. P. Ivenway. 
E. Pumphrey. 
Elizabeth K. Neele. 
Caroline Lloyd. 
Fanny Johnson. 
Susan Home Burrows. 
Mary Greviu. 
Ellen Jenncrs. 
Sarah E. Pauslu. 
Catharine Marsh. 
Annie E. Waller 
Alice Burtt. 
Maria Baker. 
Hannah Gore. 
Rebecca Fearson. 
Emma Croft. 
Elizabeih Jenkins. 
Emma Hudson. 
Mary Birch. 

Marcia Hotham Cadbury. 
Hannah Cadbury. 
Sarah E. Lord. 
Sarah Allen. 
Francis Jenkins. 
Eliza M. Sturge. 
Belsey Morris. 
M, A. S. Northouse. 
Priscilla Imprey. 
Sophia Sturge. 
Esther Sophia Wright. 
Emma Wright. 
Ellen G. Dymond. 
E. White. 
Margaret Hautin. 
Mary Ann Sraesia. 
Elizabeth Brady. 
Elizabeth Grece. 



178 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

, ^ . 1^ • „ Frauds Bay Blades. 

Marian Davies. Elizabeth R, Cabury. 

J"v mIiv.p1- Lucretia Cudbury. 

S. N. Mapplebcc. ^ 

Catbarme Ivea. J ^^.^^^^^^^ 

MavtbaGausley. Mary Ann Rose. 

Mary Garland Ann Mary Scott. 

g"^'"'l pX; Jane Baker. 

?'"'' T^ile Eliza Maria Soutball. 
Emma Eagle. 



Sarah Ileaton. 



M. Feitou. 



T T3„« M. Stockwm. 

Jane 1 ye. a o^ i 

-KT ri • c lA A. Stockwm. 

M. Fautield. f;- ^^ . 

Elizabeth Middlemire. E. 1 . Miles. _ 

Jane Goodman. Eellen P. Bright. 

Sarah Coleman. Margaret Flizabeth Bright. 

Mrs. Lincoln. 



Address of the Rcj^rescntaiU-cs of the Baptist Churches of England, on the 

death of President Lincoln. 
To his Excellency the honorable Charles ERANris Adams, envoy- extra- 
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America, at 
the court of her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen \ ictoria : 
Sir • We, the representatives of the general Baptist churches of England, at 
our annual association held this year at Birmingham, most respect ully beg 
leave to express, through you, our intense sympathy with your people on the 
occasion of. the tragic deaQi of your late honored President by 1-; f ^ ;,« -^ 
act of an assassin, and to pay our tribute of earnest and affectionate admuation 
to the memory of that great and good man, whose purity of motive firmness ot 
purpose, and kindness of heart, have endeared him to all well wishers of the 
human race. We would particularly tender our sincere condolence with hib 
widow and family under their irreparable loss; and at the same time ofter our 
heartfelt congratulations to President Johnson, and the people of the United 
States, on the termination of that dreadful conflict which has, tor four years, been 
productive of so much bloodshed and misery, and very especially because m 
this instance the restoration of peace is associated with one of the most wel- 
come and gladdening events in the history of the human race— the abolition ot 
slavery throughout your country. 

For this wc^give most hearty thanks to the Almighty Disposer of all events 
and to Him we present our fervent prayers that your great nation may, througli 
all time, enjoy the manifold blessings of unity and liberty, intelligence and 
piety, peace and prosperity. 

Signed on behalf of the association. . 

THOMASiW. MATHEWS, C;^«^ma?^, 

Pastor at Boston, in Lincolnshire. 
THOMAS BARRASS, Secretary, 

Pastor at Peterborough. 



Blaydon Local Board. 

The following resolutions were passed at a meeting held May 4, 1865: 
That this board desires to give utterance to the. feelings of griet and horror 
with which it has heard of the assassination of President Lincoln, and the mur- 
derous attack upon Mr. Seward, and to convey to Mrs. Lincoln, to President 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 179 

Johnson and his colleagues, and to the people of the United States, its profound 
sympathy and heartfelt condolence. i 

That a copy of the foregoing resolution he placed in the hands of the Hon- 
orable C- F. Adams, the American minister for transmission, to his Excel- 
lency the President of the United States, Mrs. Lincoln, and the Honorable 
"V\ illiam H. Seward. 

[L. S.j 



Borough of Bridgewater, in the county of Somerset. 

At a meeting of the council of the said borough, held at the Council House 
or Burgess Hall of the said borough, this 5th day of May, 1865, it was 

Resolved, That the council desiies to record the expression of its indignation 
and sorrow at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the late President of 
the United States of America, and its sympathy and condolence with the people 
of that country, and also with the bereaved widow, at the severe and irreparable 
loss which they have sustained. 

And 

Resolved, That the corporate seal be affixed to the foregoing resolution, and 
that the same be forwarded by the mayor to Mr. Adams for transmission to the 
United States. 

, [^- s-1 JOHN BROWNE, 

Menjoi- of Bridgewater. 



From the Bridgewater Methodist free Church 

This meeting desires to express its unfeigned regret that the triumphant course 
of the late President Lincoln should have been cut short by the hand of an 
assassin. 

This^ meeting also desire to express its deep sympathy for the American 
people in this hour of trial and conflict. Nevertheless, they venture earnestly 
to desire that, as truth is stronger than ever, the Almighty will be graciously 
pleased to overrule all things for good, and to redound to his glory. 



At a general meeting of the commissioners acting under and by virtue of 
the Bury improvement act 1846, held on the :M day of May 1865, Mr. John S. 
Walker in the chair, it was moved by Mr. Thomas Grundy, seconded by Mr. 
Thomas Roberts, and carried unanimously — 

That the commissioners, as the governing municipal body of the town of 
Bury, in the county palatine of Lancaster, desire to express their horror and 
sincere regret at the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, the late President of the 
United States of America, and to convey to the government and j)eople of the 
United States their profound sympathy in the great loss they have sustained, 
and to Mrs. Lincoln their heartfelt condolence in her cruel bereavement. 

Extracted from the minutes. 

WM. HARPER, Clerk. 



Resolutions jyassed at a meeting held hy the inhahi'ants of Bury. 

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

Public meeting at Bury — Fred. Anderton, esq., in the chair. 

Moved by the Rev. F. Howorth. seconded by Mr. J. Stockdale— 

That this meeting records with horror, indignation and abhorrence the appall- 



180 ArrENDix to diplomatic correspondence. 

ino- crime wliicli has put an end to the life of the great and good President 
Li'iK'oln, ;nid tlie attempted assassination of the chief secretary, Mr. Seward. 
:^Ioved by the Rev. AV. Roseman, seconded by Mr. William Hoylc — 
That this mceling desires to record its profound sympathy with the people 
of the United States, in this hour of national bereavement, and especially with 
the Avidow of their twice elected chief, the intensity of whose grief is increased 
by the atrocious nature of the deed which has snatched her husband from her 
side. 

]\[ovcd by the Rev. W. R. Brown, seconded by Mr. Welsby — 
That this meeting earnestly hopes that the mantle of the murdered President 
may fall upon his successor in office ; that he may be equally distinguished for 
his firmness of principle, the wisdom of his decisions, the clemency of his 
actions, and the general kindness of his heart. 
Moved by Mr. D. Thomas, seconded by Mr. William Pickstone — 
That this meeting sincerely hopes that a fraternal feeling may pervade the 
lately divided sections of the great republic ; and that its future prosperity may 
be guaranteed by the removal of slavery, the return of peace, and the develop- 
ment of the unlimited resources of the country. 

j\I(jved by the Rev. G. Fletcher, seconded by Mr. Wormald — 
That a copy of the foregoing resolutions be sent to Mr. 0. F. Adams, the 
American minister in Lor, don, with a recjuest that he will kindly forward them 
to his government at Washington. 
iMayG, 1865. 



Resolution 2)(isscd at a meeting of the KortJiern Vreshytery of Antrim. 

At a stated quarterly meeting of the Northern Presbytery of Antrim, held at 
Ballyclarc on the 6th day of July, 1865, the Rev. William Bruce, A. B., mode- 
rator, in the chair, it was 

Resolved unanimously. That at this our first meeting since the lamented 
death of the honorable Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of 
America, we feel called upon to record our detestation of the atrocious crime 
by which he was suddenly cut off in the midst of his days and his usefulness ; 
our jKirticipation in the sorrow of the members of his family under the loss 
which they have thus sustained; and our sympathy witli the people of the 
United States, deprived of a high-minded Chief Magistrate, at the very moment 
when his invincible firmness and undaunted fortitude had been rewarded with 
success more complete than usually attends on the wisest of human counsels ; 
and Avhen, from his high character, there was every reason to expect th;.t mod- 
eration in victory, and that merciful consideration towards a vanquished enemy, 
which, accompanying the glorious emancipation of the slave, would have for- 
ever associated the name of Lincoln with that of Washington as marking the 
introduction of a new and happy era in the history of his country. 

That we desire to express our earnest hope that the government and people 
of the United States will employ their utmost efforts to consummate their great 
victory in the manner most consistent with Christian principle, most accordant 
with the soinidest policy, and best corresponding with the dignity of a great 
and magnanimous nation. 

Signed in the name and by order of the presbytery. 

WILLIAM BRUCE, A. B., 

Moderator. 
J.SCOTT PORTER, 

Clerk. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 181 

At a mopting of the local Bi^ard of Health for the district of the town- 
ship of Barnsley, in the west riding of the county of York, held at tJic court- 
house iu Barnsley aforesaid, on Tuesday, the 9th day of May, in the year of 
our Lord 1865 — present, Alfred Badgei-, James Buckley, Thomas Cope, William 
Day, William Hopwood, Frederick Gervia Jackson, John Ostcliifc, Charles 
Newman, Joseph S. Parkinson, Charles Lacey Rodgers, James Taylor — it was 
{inter alia) 

Resulted unanimouHly, That this board, although representing but a small 
commiuiity of Englishmen, yet desires to participate in the public expression of 
horror and indignation at the crime of assassination, and especially when di- 
rected against the chief rulers of a nation. 

The recent atrocious murder of President Lincoln, and the attempted assas- 
sination of Mr. Secretary Seward, call forth our most jjrofound sympathy and 
heartfelt condolence with the government and citizens of the United States of 
America, deprived as they are, at a most momentous crisis in their history, of 
the benevolent, energetic and patriotic guidance of their late lamented Presi- 
dent. 

Signed by the above eleven members of the same local board. 

[seal.] 



Resolutions, numbered respectively 1", 2, 3, and 4, adopted unanimously at joint 
meeting of the inhabitants of the towns of Berlin and Waterloo, Canada We jt, 
held at the court-house at Berlin, on Wednesday, the 19th day of April, A 
p. 1865, in compliance with the proclamations of the reeves of aforesaid 
corporations, for the purpose of affording the citizens an opportunity of giving 
expression to their sympathy with the American people, and the bereaved family 
of the late President, as well as to manifest the deep sorrow and horror felt at 
the atrocious and appalling crime that resulted in the death of Abraham Lincoln, 
the late lamented President of the United States of America — Ward H;imiItoa 
Bowlby, esq., reeve of the town of Berlin, presiding as chairman, and Israel 
D. Bowman, esq., county clerk, acting as seci-etary. 

No. 1. 

Moved by William Jafifray, esq., postmaster, and seconded by Dougall Mc- 
Dougall, esq., county register, and 

Resolved, That this meeting of the inhabitants of the towns af Berlin and 
Waterloo, in the province of Canada, assembled on the funeral day of Abraham 
Lincoln, late President of the United States, desires, with the deepest sincerity, 
to express its heartfelt indignation at the cowardly and wanton act by which 
the President and patriot, the ruler and friend of the republic, lias been lost to 
his country, at the moment of his greatest iisefulness, and when he could have 
almost said of the great work h(; had undertaken, '' It is finished " In the 
death of Abraham Lincoln this meeting feels that, while the United States as a 
nation has lost a firm, yet merciful and amiable ruler, and the people individu- 
ally a counsellor and friend, the world at large, has been bereft at the same time 
of one whose large-hearted humanity and innate love of freedom and liberal in- 
stitutions placed him at once in the fore rank of nature's noblemen. 

No. 2. 

Moved by the Rev. Dr. Schulte, and seconded by Henry F. J. Jackson, 
esq., superintendent of schools, and 

Resolred, That this meeting tenders the American people, boAved down this day 
in overwhelming sorrow over the mortal remains of their late illustrious Chief 
Magistrate, the expression of their heartfelt sympathy at the national calamity 



182 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

with wliicb it has pleased an all-wise Providence to afflict them. That they re- 
gard the dastardly and barbarous murder of President Lincoln not only as an 
irreparable loss to the American nation in the present momentous crisis of their 
history, but as a common loss to humanity, liberty, and the brotherhood of 
mankind all the world over. 

No. 3. 

Moved by John J. Bowman, esq., editor, and seconded by the Rev. F. A. 
• Kaessman, and 

Resolrcd, That this meeting woxild desire, most respectfully and tenderly, to 
express their sympathy for Mrs. Lincoln and f^xmily, in the sore and affecting 
bereavement which, in the inscrutable dispensation of an overruling Providence, 
they have sustained, having at one fell blow, " in a moment, in the twinkling of 
au eye," been robbed of husband, parent, and friend. May He who ruletb all 
things well comfort and sustain them in this hour of their deepest grief. 

No. 4. 

Moved by John A. Mackie, esq., justice of the peace, and seconded by Henry 
S. Huber, esq., crown land agent, and 

Resolced, That a copy of the foregoing resolutions be forwarded to his excel- 
lency the governor general of British North America, respectfully requesting 
that he transmit the same to the Secretary of State of the United States of 
America. 

Certilied to be true copies. 

W. H. BOWLBY, CJiahman. 
• ISRAEL D. BOWMAN, 

Secretary. 

Dated at Berlin, county of "Waterloo, and province of Canada, this nineteenth 
day of April, A. D. 1865. • 



Resolution of the Birlccnltcad Working Men's Association. 

Glas.\evin, Balls Road, Birkenhead, 

May 3, 1865. 
Sir : I beg to communicate to you the following resolution, proposed by the 
Rev. Mr. Downe, and seconded by Mr. Graham, and which was unanimously 
carried at a large meeting of the Birkenhead Working Men's Association, held 
in the Craven Rooms here last night, and Avhich I, as chairman, was requested 
to forward to you. 

" Resolved, That this meeting views with deep concern and indignation the 
late atrocious miu-der of Mr. Lincoln, the able and popular President of the 
United States of America, and expresses its sympathy with the great American 
people in the present crisis of their affairs." 

In addition to this unanimous expression of the feelings of those present at the 
meeting, I may be permitted to add that I myself cordially respond to the senti- 
ments expressed, and view with deep grief the melancholy end and sad loss of 
one whom 1 regarded as a just and good man, and a wise and merciful ruler, 
and that I hope it may please God to dispel the dark cloud that this event has 
cast over the American nation, and out of the present evil to bring forth future 
and lasting good, for the welfare and happiness of our afflicted kinsmen. 
1 have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient servant, 

ROBERT GEORGE KELLEY. 

I. II. Dudley, Esq , 

American Con^nl, 'Liverpool. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLP:XCE AND SYMPATHY. 18t 



Go\'ER\MENT House, Tsassau, 

May 1, 1S65. 

Sir : I cannot doubt that the government and people of the United States 
■will be gratified at learning that in the Bah^inias, as, 1 believe, throughout her 
Majesty's dominions, the atrocious act which has struck down their late President, 
at so critical a peiiod of the national affairs, and at a moment of such intense 
interest to himself and the nation, is viewed with the utmost abhorrence and de- 
testation, and that it has aroused the liveliest sympathy for the widow and family 
of the late Mr. Lincoln, and for the nation, thus cruelly robbed of its Chief Magis- 
trate, whom it had so lately delighted to honor by a triumphant re-election to 
his exalted post. • 

2. It is, therefore, a great satisfaction to me that I am able to add to the per- 
sonal expression of my own sentiments of regret and sympathy on this mourn- 
ful occasion, two resolutions, in original, passed unanimously in the legisLitive 
council and house of assembly of this colony, now in session, which 1 request 
you will have the goodness to lay before the new President in such a manner as 
you may think most fitting, together with the enclosed copy of my message to 
the two houses, which led to this hearty, and, I believe, thoroughly sincere re- 
sponse. 

X lltlVG &SC. occ 

KAWSON W. RAWSON, Governor. 

P. S. — I add a copy of a notice which I issued upon the receipt of the intel- 
ligence. 



"Whereas, while the house considers itself bound, in general, to abstain from 
the expression of any opinion on subjects relating to foreign nations, yet, view- 
ing the lamentable occurrence by which the Chief Magistrate of a friendly 
power has been struck down by the hand of an assassin, as constituting an ex- 
ceptionable state of circumstances, calling as well for an expression of sympathy 
towards the bereaved fomily and nation of the victim as of abhorrence of the 
crime — 

Resolved, nemine contradicente, That this house has with deep regret heard 
of the act of atrocity by which the late President of the United States was sud- 
denly deprived of life, and the house hereby tenders to the family of the de- 
ceased President and to the people of the United States this expression of 
sincere sympathy at the calamitous event. 

That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to his excellency the governor, 
with a request that he will forward the same to the British minister at Wash- 
ington, to be communicated as he may think proper to the authorities of the 
United States. 

Extract from the minutes of the house of the 27th of April, 18G5. 

G. C. ANDERSON, Sj^eaher. 
« 

Resolved unanimously, That the legislative council deeply, laments the death 
of IMr. Lincoln, late President of the United States, and sympathizes profoundly 
with his ffimily and with a kindred and Iriendly nation, deprived of its Chi(;f 
Magistrate in so melancholy a manner by a detestable and monstrous crime, of 
which the board of council cannot adequately express its condemnation and 
horrea'. 

By order of the board. 

W. H. DOYLE, President. 

CoL'NCTL Chambkr May 1, 1865. 



184 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

Lieutenant Governor Hamley to CM. Alien, Esq, U. S. C. 

Mount Langton, Aj^ril 26, 1865. 
Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge your communication of yesterday, 
conveying to me the shocking intelligence of the death, by assassination, of the 
President of the United States of America. Believe that I am deeply sensible 
of the magnitude of the loss which the people of the United States have sus- 
tained, and that I have read Avith interest the tribute to the late President's 
high qualities which this melancholy occasion has d"awn from you. 
I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient servant, 

W. G. HAMLEY, Lieutenant Governor. 



Government Secretary's Office, 

British Guiana, May 22, 1865. 
Sir : The governor directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your official 
communication of this day's date, announcing the death of his Excellency Abra- 
ham Lincoln, late President of the United States of America, and I am to con- 
vey to you the expression of his very deep regret on the occasion. 
I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient, humble servant, 

WALTER HOWARD WARE, 

Actuig Government Secretary. 
P. W. FiGGELMESV, Esq., 

United States Consul, Deincrara. 



Lord Monck to Sir F. Bruce. 

Qdebec, April 17, 1865, 

Sir : The intelligence of the perpetration of the atrocious outrage by which 
the United States has been deprived of their Chief Magistrate has filled all 
classes of the community in this province with awe and horror. 

Immediately that I received a confirmation of the sad news, I gave directions, 
in conjunction with the lieutenant general commanding her Majesty's troops in 
this province, that at all civil and military stations the flags should be hoisted 
half mast high. 

I shall feel much obliged if you will take a fitting opportunity of communi- 
cating to the Secretary of State of the United States^ on the part of the govern- 
ment and people of this province, their deep feeling of abhorrence of the crime 
which has been committed, and their profound spmpathy with the government 
and citizens of the United States at the loss which they have sustained. 
I have, &c., 

MONCK. 

Honorable Sir F. Bruce, G. C. B., Sfc 



Bengal Chamber of Commerce, 

Calcutta, June 3, 1865, 
Sra : As chairman of a general meeting of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce 
held this day, I have the honor to place in your hands a copy of a. resolution 
unanmionsly adopted by the meeting, and to request you will have the good- 
ness to transmit the same to the Secretary of State of the government of the 
United States. 



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The resolution records the horror with Avhich the commercial community of 
this city view the assassination of the late President of the United States, their 
sympathy in the calamity which the American nation has suffered by the la- 
mented death of their eminent Chief Magistate, and their earnest hope that the 
long-continued war may be happily terminated by an early restoration of peace, 
lasting and prosperous. 

1 have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient servant, 

BULLEK 
Nathaniel P. Jacobs, Esq., 

Consul General for the United States of America. 



Resolution passed at a meeting held by the Bengal Chamher of Coimncrce. 

Resolved, That this meeting desires to place on record the horror Avith which 
they, in common with all ranks and classes of her Majesty's subjects, view the 
assassination of the late Mr. Lincoln, President of the United States of America; 
the deep sympathy which they feel for the people of that couijtry under the 
great national calamity which this event has brought upon them; and their 
earnest hope that the war from which they have suffered so severely niay soon 
be brought to a close, and be followed by peace, lasting and prosperous. 

A true copy : 

BULLEN. 



Meeting of the American community. 

The American merchants and ship-masters of Calcutta assembled, to the 
number of thirty or forty, at the counting-house of Messrs. Atkinson, Tilton & 
Co., on Wednesday afternoon, June 7, to do honor to the memory of their de- 
ceased President, Lincoln. The meeting was opened by the appointment of the 
American consul general for India, Nathaniel P. Jacobs, esq., to preside, and of 
tlie reverend Mr. Dall as secretary. 

A committee was then appointed to draft resolutions embodying the sense of 
the meeting. It consisted of Messrs. Eldridge, "Whitney, Dall, Hamlin, and 
Knowles. The following were, after a brief conference in the committee-room, 
presented, and received a unanimous approval : 

Resolved, That we, Americans of Calcutta, India, desire to add our testimony 
of respect and of sorrow to that which has been, and is now being, expressed in 
various parts of the world for Abraham Lincoln, the justly honored and beloved 
President of the United States of America, murdered while on duty, martyred 
in the hour of the triumph of his arduous and successful labors for us and for 
humanity. We mourn, in his death, the nnreturning departure of a true patriot, 
ruler, and friend. 

Resolved, That with our grief is mingled a grateful and deep satisfaction at 
the general outburst of sympathy in this our national bereavement, and at the 
expression of fellow-feeling which seems to come to our native land from every 
region in which Christianity has found a home or a mission. 

Resolved, That we recognize the hand of the Ruler of all nations in the loss 
■which we have sustained ; and while, to us, the blow comes with double force 
at this particular time when his wisdom and abilities were peculiarly needed, 
we bow to the Divine will, and doubt not that God's protecting hand will be 
extended to our suffering country, and that goodwill come out of what now 
seems to its an irreparable loss. 

Resolved, That, in these expressions of sorrow, we specially desire to rcmem. 



186 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEFtESPONDENCE. 

ber the widow and fomilj of our Late President, and fo convey to them, as to onr 
fellow-countrymen, our earnest sympathy at the calamity which has beflilien 
them. 

Resok-cd, That, as a token of our present relation to the deceased, and out of 
respect to liis memory, we will wear crape on the left arm for the next thirty 
days; and that the masters of American ships in port be requested to set their 
colors at half maalt for one week from this date. 

Resolred, That a copy of these resolutions be handed to the consul geneml' 
of the United States ot America for British India, with the request that he will 
have them transmitted to the proper authorities at home. 

F. F. Wills, esq., moved that the resolutions, as now read, be accepted and 
adopted as au expression of American feeling in Calcutta; and, on the second- 
iti"- of Mr. II. B. Goodwin, they were carried unanimously, and the meeting was 
dissolved. 



Special general meeting of the justices of the peace for the toicn of Calcutta, 
held on Tuesday, the l^th June, 1865. 

Present, the chairman and vice-chairman, Hon. W. S. Seton-Karr, Colonel 
Nicolls, 11. E., and fifty-five others. 

The honorable W. S. Seton-Karr proposed the following resolution: 

That the justices for the town of Calcutta, in meeting, view with the utmost 
abhorrence the diabolical act which has deprived the United States of America 
of their President. 

The resolution being seconded by Baboo-Ramanath-Tagore, was carried 
unanimously. 

Mr. J. li. Ferguson then moved the following resolution: 

That the justices desire to express their deep sympathy for the v/idow and 
the children of the late President, and for the American people, under the loss 
they have sustained. 

The resolution was seconded by Dr. Brougham, and carried unanimously. 

Mr. Remfry then moved — 

That these resolutions be communicated to the consul general for the United 
States in this city, with a request that he will transmit the same to the widow 
of the late President and to the American government. 

The resolution being seconded by Mr. J. B. Roberts, was carried unanimously. 

True copy : 

V. H. SCHALCH, 
Chairman to the Justices of the Peace. 



Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea. 

Resolved, That we, the vestry of the parish of Chelsea, representing about 
seventy thousand inhabitants, having heard with the deepest horror and indig- 
nation of the death of the President of the United States of America by the 
hand of a dastardly assassin, desire to express" to the American minister, and 
through him to the American people, our heartfelt sympathy with them in this 
their time of national sorrow. 

We further desire to record our deep sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln under the 
sudden and overwhelming bereavement which she has sustained, and we ear- 
hestly hope that this sad and appalling event may be overruled by Providence 
to the welhue of America, and that the future of that great country may be one 
of peace and prosperity. 

5Uppeu Cortland Place. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 187 

Resolutions at a meeting of the inhahitants of Camden town. 
No. 1. 

That this meeting desires to gire utterance to the feelings of grief and horror 
with which it has heard of the assi^ssinatiun of the late President Lincoln and 
the murderous attack upon Mr. Seward, and to convey to Mrs. Ijincoln, the 
United States government and ^people, an expression of its profound sympathy 
and heartfelt condolence. 

On behalf of a public meeting of the iuhabitauts of Camden town, held in 
Caradeu Hall, Friday evening, May 5, 1S65. 

No. 2. 

That this meeting hails with delight the prospect of returning peace in 
America and the total abolition of slavery. 

On behalf of a public meeting of the inhabitants of Camden town, held in 
Camden Hall, Friday evening, May 5, 1865. 

No. 3. 

That copies of the foregoing resolutions be placed in the hands of the honor- 
able C. F. Adams, the American minister, for transmission to his Excellency 
the President of the United States, to Mrs. Lincoln, and the honorable W, H. 
Seward. 

On behalf of a public meeting of the inhabitants of Camden town, held iu 
Camden Hall, Friday evening, May 5, 1865. 

DUGALD CAMEPtON, 

Chairman. 
Raymond Javeny, 

Secretary. 



Resolutions at a meeting held hy the inhahitants of Chatham. 

At a large and influential meeting of the inhabitants of Chatham, held in the 
lecture hall, on Tuesday, the 16th May, at the close of an earnest and eloquent 
address by Henry Vincent, esq., of Loudon, " On the rise and fall of the slave- 
holders' rebellion against moral obligations and human freedom, to the culmi- 
nating crime, the murder of honest President Lincoln," Henry Everest, esq., 
justice of the peace, iu the chair, the following resolution was moved by tho 
reverend G. L. Herman, and seconded by S. Steele, esq., justice of the peace, 
and carried unanimously : 

U'hat this meeting expresses its affectionate sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln, tho 
American people and their government, under the sad loss they have sustained 
by the atrocious murder of the late illustrious President Lincoln, but at tho 
same time offers its warm congratulations that the crime of a vile assassin has 
not arrested the progress of the republic towards a complete and full victory 
over all its opponents, and it most earnestly rejoices in prospect of the speedy 
restoration of the Union and in the complete destruction of negro slavery. 

Signed on behalf of the meeting : 

HENRY EVEREST, 

Chairman. 



188 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COKEESPONDENCE. 

Resolutions passed at a meeting held at West Cramlington, Northumherland, 
Saturday, May 20, 1865. 

That this meeting desires to convey to Mrs. Lincoln, President Johnson, Mr. 
Seward, and the people of the United States, the expression of its utter abhor- 
rence of the assassination of President Lincoln, its condolence for the loss sus- 
tained, and its heartfelt hope that peace and freedom may bless forever the land 
of promise in the west. 

That the Hon. Charles Francis Adams, United States ambassador in London, 
be respectfully requested to transmit to Mrs. Lmcolu, President Johnson, and 
the Hon. William H. Seward, copies of the foregoing resolutions. 



Excerpt from minutes of meeting of the tovm council of the royal hurgli of 
Crail, in the county of Fife, Scotland, dated eighth day of May, eighteen 
hundred and sixty five. 

Inter alia, the council expressed their detestation and abhorrence of the atro- 
cious assassination of the President of the United States and the attempts to 
assassinate the Secretary, and also their s^^mpathy -jvith the American govern- 
ment and people under the calamity which has befallen them; and the provost 
was requested to communicate this expression of the feelings of the coiuicil in 
the proper quarter. 

Extracted from the minutes by — 

MAT. F. CONOLLT, Clerk. 



At a quarterly meeting of the council of the city of Chester, held the third day 
of May, 1865, it was moved by the right worshipful the mayor, Robert Frost, 
esquire, seconded by Mr. Councillor Henry Ford, and 

Resolved unanimously, That this council desh-es, before proceeding to the 
business of the day, to express its horror and indignation at the assassination of 
President Lincoln, and at the atrocious attempt made on the life of the Hon. 
William H. Seward, and to convey to Mrs. Lincoln and the people of the United 
States its deep sympathy and condolence with them in their bereavement. 

It was moved by the right worshipful the mayor, Robert Frost, esquire, sec- 
onded by Mr. Alderman John Trevor, and 

Resolved vnanimously. That copies of the foregoing resolution, under the com- 
mon seal of the city, be forwarded to the United States minister, in London, for 
transmission to his Excellency the President of the United States, Mrs. Lincoln, 
and the Hon. William H. Seward. 

Given under the common seal of the city of Chester, this fifth day of May, 
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. 

[seal.] R. frost, Mayor, 



To his excellency the minister of the United States of America: 
Sir : We, the mayor, aldermen, and councillors of the borough of Chippenham, 

in the county of Wilts, in council assembled, beg to join our fellow-countrymen 

in expressing our profound indignation and sorrow at the assassination of the 

President of the United States. 

At any moment and under any circumstances the English nation would have 

been filled with horror on hearing that a powerful rtiler, trusted and beloved by 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 189 

millions, had been struck down by the hand of violence; but that this act of 
odious wickedness has been committed now, when Mr. Lincoln's life was so 
precious to himself, to his country, and to the world, is an event far more than 
commonly distressing. 

We feel anxious, sir, to assure you, not only of our earnest and heartfelt sym- 
pathy, but that every sentiment of wisdom and gentleness, conciliation and 
peace, uttered by your late lamented President, will be deeply treasured in Eng- 
land, and will not fail to secure our aflPectionate gratitude. And while we mourn 
with all, and for all who suffer from the event, especially for her to whom he 
was bound by the tenderest ties, we yet trust that even this awful bereavement 
will be overruled for good — that your statesmen and warriors may be filled with 
stronger desire and with greater power to overcome the difficvilties in the way of 
peace; and not least, that between America and England there will always be 
the harmony and the confidence so natural in their near relationship, and so 
essential to their mutual prosperity. 

Signed on behalf of the town council of the borough of Chippenham. 

[seal.] JOHN WILSON, M. A., Mayor. 

Chippenham, Wilts, May 9, 1S65. 



At a quarterly meeting of the mayor, aldermen, and common councillors of the 
borough of Cardigan, held the ninth day of May, 1S65, it was 

Resolved imanimously, That we, the mayor, aldermen, and councillors of the 
borough of Cardigan, in council assembled, desire to give expression to the feel- 
ii)";s of horror and indignation with which we have heard of the atrocious assas- 
sination of President Lincoln and the murderous attack upon Mr. Secretary 
Seward and his sons, and beg to convey to Mrs. Lincoln and the American 
people an expression of our profound sympathy and heartfelt condolence at the 
irreparable loss which they have sustained. 

Signed in behalf of the members of the corporation of Cardigan by — 

UICH. W. JENKINS, Mayor. 



That the corporation of Carnarvon desires to record its detestation of the 
atrocious crime peri3etrated by the cruel murder of the President of America, 
and to express its deep sympathy Avith the people who have been suddenly 
deprived of their Chief Magistrate by the hand of a cowardly assassin. 

That copies of this resolution, signed by the mayor, be forwarded to his 
excellency the American minister. 

[seal.] LLEWELYN TURNER, Mayor. 



City and Borough of Canterbury and County of the same, 

April 27, 1865. 
At a special meeting of the council held at the Guildhall, on Thursday, the 
27th day of April, 1865, present the mayor in the chair, the following resolution 
was unanimously adopted by acclamation : 

We, the mayor, aldermen, and councillors of the metropolitical city of Can- 
terbury, have learned with startling surprise and deep regret of the death of the 
President of the United States by the hand of a cowardly assassin; and we 



190 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

desire to express our syrnpalliy witli the American miiuster in London, and 
throiifli him witli his country at large, at this mournful event, which deprives 
them of their Chief Magistrate, and the w^orld of one of the greatest friends to 

humanity. 

By order: Kev. WILLIAM FLINT, 

[seal.] Town Cleric. 



Resolution passed at a meeting of tlic town council of the horongh of Cork. 

At an assembly of the town council of the borough of Cork, held on Mon- 
day, the 1st May, 1865, the right worshipful Charles J. Cantillon, mayor, in 
the chair, on motion of Councillor Lyons, seconded by Alderman Casey, 
it was — 

Unanimously resolved^ That this council desire to express the deepest regret 
at the great loss which the people of the United States have sustained by the 
untimely death of President Abraham Lincoln ; that this council view with feel- 
ings of horror the atrocious crime by which the President's life w^as sacrificed, 
and desire respectfully to offer to the government and people of the United 
Slates the sincerest expression of profound sympathy. 

That copies of this resolution, signed by the mayor and countersigned by the 
town clerk, be sent to the American minister in London, with a request that he 
will transmit one to the Secretary of State at Washington, and the other to 
Mrs. Lincoln. 

CHARLES J. CANTILLLON, 

Mayor of Cork. 
ANDREW CASEY, Jr., 

Town Clerk. 



At a meeting of the town council of the borough of Congleton, in the county 
of Chester, held on Wednesday, the 3d day of May, 1865, the following resolu- 
tion was unanimously passed, on motion of the mayor, seconded by Mr. Alder- 
man Had field — 

■ That this council hereby expresses its feelings of extreme sorrow and indigna- 
tion at the dastardly and «ruel assassination of President Lincoln, and desires 
hereby to show its sympathy Avith our kindred people, who have been so sud- 
denly deprived of the head of their government, at a time 'so critical and in a 
manner so atrocious. 

BEXJ. RAD LEY. MaT/or. 

CHRIS. MOORHOUSE, Town Clerk. 



At a public meeting of the inhabitants of , the borough of Congleton, in the 
county of Chester, held on Wednesday, the 3d day of May, 1865, Benjamin ' 
Radley, esq., the mayor of the borough, in the chair, the following resolutions 
were unanimously passed : 

1. That this meeting desires to express its heartfelt sympathy with the gov- 
ernment and people of the United States in their present calamity and its abhor- 
rence of the atrocious crimes by which the late President has been deprived of 
life and the i epublic has been bereft of a ruler of patriotic integrity and large- 
hearted beneficence, and by which his principal minister has almost fallen under 
a dastardly assassin Avhile lying on the bed of sickness ; and that it is the earnest 
desu-e of the meeting that these cruel and disastrous events may be overruled 





SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPA^THY. 191 

by Providence for good in drawing together, in stricter accord tlian ever before, 
the sympathies and affections of the great Anglo-Saxon race. 

2. Tliat this meeting wishes most respectfully to convey to Mrs. Lincoln and 
her family the deepest sympathy of the inhabitants of this borough in tiie.ir 
affliction, which they trust may be in some degree alleviated by the knowledge 
that it is shared by the princes and peoples of the whole civilized world, and 
especially by the Queen and people of this kindred nation. 

BEN J. RADLEY, Chairman. 



Resolution passed at a meeting held at Cardiff. 

The following resolution was passed unanimouslyat a public meeting in Car- 
diff, on the 12th of June, 1S65, after a lecture delivered by the Eev. J. B. Bal- 
mer, of Bridgewater, on the late President Lincoln and his assassination: 

" That this meeting desires to express its horror and indignation at the assas- 
sination of Abraham Lincoln, the late distinguished President of America, and 
to assure the bereaved widow and the American people of its deepest sympathy 
with them in this hour of great trial. It would further express the ardent prayer 
that America may yet come out of this struggle trusting in God, who has hith- 
erto been its helper, and that guided by Him, it may be led to permanent peace, 
great prosperity, and entire national freedom." 



Charles Edward Burch, 

Consul for the United States oj" America at Cardiff: 
We, the tindersigned, the merchants, brokers, and others at this port, beg 
to convey to you our sympathy, indignation, and horror at the assassination of 
Mr. Lincoln, the President of the United States. We feel that his loss Avill be 
deplored not only by the British nation, but throughout the civilized Avorld, and 
we sincerely trust and believe that the great nation you represent will be able 
to bear with dignity, and that its future progress will in no way be impeded by, 
the great and irreparable loss it has sustained. 
Dated this 29th day of April, 1865. 

JOHN PRIDE, Mayor. 
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, 
Al del man and, Justice oJ' the Peace. 
D. HOWELL, 

Treasurer of St. John's, Cardiff. 
SAMUEL NASH. 
SYDNEY D. JENKINS. 
THOS. HODGE. 
JOHN WILLIAMS. 
JOSEPH ELLIOTT. 
J. H. WILSON. 

And some fifty others. 



Besohiion passed at a meeting held by the council of the city of Coventry. 

City of Covdntry. 
At a meeting of the council of the city of Coventry held at the justice room, 
St. Mary's Hall, in the said city, on Tuesday, the 9th day of ilay, 1SG5, Robert 
Harvey Minster, esq., mayor, presiding, it v/as — 



192 API^NDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEEESPONDENCE. 

Resolved unanimously, That this council, on this first occasion of its meeting 
since the receipt of the intelligence from America of the deplorable assassination 
of President Lincoln, desires to express its cordial sympathy with the govern- 
ment and people of the United States of America under that great calamity, 
and its horror at the detestable crime. 

That this council also desires to express its feelings of deep and respectful 
sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln in her loss of a husband whose rare virtues under 
the most trying circumstances the civilized world had learned to recognize and 
admire. 

* That a copy of the foregoing resolutions, under the common seal, be presented 
to the American minister in London. 

In testimony whereof the common seal of the said city of Coventry is here- 
unto affixed this, 9th day of May, 1865. 

[SEAL.] R. HARVEY MINSTER, 

Mayor oj" the City of Coventry. 



At a public meeting of the citizens of Coventry held at St. Mary's Hall, in 
the said city, on Thursday, the 4th day of May, 1865, Robert Harvey Minster, 
esquire, mayor, presiding, it was — 

Unanimoushi resolved, That the citizens of Coventry, in public meeting as- 
sembled, do hereby wish to convey to the American people their grief and horror 
at the atrocious and cowardly assassination of Abraham Lincoln, their single- 
minded, kind-hearted, and noble President, and their deep sympathy with the 
government under the loss of one whose firm, mild, and conciliatory character 
had won the respect and admiration of both friends and enemies. 

That the mayor be requested to transmit to the American minister the reso- 
lution just passed. 

R. HARVEY MINSTER, 

Mayor of Coventry, 



Borovgli of Caynhridge. 

At a council holden at the Guildhall there on Tuesday, the 2d day of May, 
1865, Swann Hurrell, esq., mayor, it was unanimously — 

Resolved, That this council takes the earliest opportunity of declaring that it 
participates in the general feeling of horror and indignation at themurder of the 
President of the United States of America, and desires to convey to the govern- 
ment and people of that country its sympathy on this sad occasion, and to tender 
to the afflicted widow an assurance of most respectful and heartfelt condolence. 

Ordered, That a copy of the foregoing resolution be transmitted to the hon- 
orable Charles Francis Adams, minister of the United States in London. 

C. H. COOPER, Town Clerk. 



Tlie Chancellor of Camhridge to Mr. Adams. 

Devonshire House, May 12, 1865. 
Sir : It is my agreeable duty, as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 
to transmit to your excellency the enclosed letter, expressing the indignation of 
the university at the assassination of President Lincoln, and its sympathy with 
your coimtrymen on the loss they have sustained. 

1 have the honor to be, sir, your excellency's most obedient servant, 

DEVONSHIRE. 



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Address to Jiis excellency the Hon. Charles Francis Adams, ntinister of the 
United States of America at the court of her Majcsly the Quce/i if Great 
Britain and Ireland. 

Sir: "Wc, the chancellor, masters, and scholars of the University of Cara- 
bricigc, desire to assure you, as the representative in this country of the United 
States of America, that we cordially share those sentiments of indignation and 
abhorrence which have been called forth throughout England by the intelligence 
of the assassination of President Lincoln. Removed, as we are, from the arena 
of political discussion, we still cannot forbear to say that crimes of this nature 
are essentially opposed to the interests of peace and civilization. The circnm- 
stances of peculiar atrocity which characterized the murder of President Lin- 
coln must ever stigmatize it as a most foul blot on the history of our times. 

AVc beg leave to request your excellency to make known in some suitable 
manner to your countrymen this respectful tribute of our sympathy and condol- 
ence with them on the great loss which they have sustained. 
r 1 Given under our common seal, in our senate house at Cambridge, 

^ •' thi.s 11th day of May, in the year of our Lord 1865. 



Jjorovgh of Colchester. 

At a meeting of the council of the said borough, held on the 3d day of M;-;y 
1865, the following resolution was unanimously passed : 

That the council of this ancient borough desire to unite with all classes of 
British subjects in expressing their utter detestation of the atrocious crime by 
which the United States have been deprived of the life and services of their 
true-hearted and able President and citizen, Abraham Lincoln ; and the council, 
ou behalf of themselves and of the inhabitants of the borough of Colchester au 
large, would respectfully oiJer their most sincere and heartfelt sympathy and 
condolence to Mrs. Lincoln in her deep personal desolation and sorrow, and also 
to the whole of the American people and their government under their over- 
whelming national bereavement. 

[seal.] 



To his Excellency Andrew Joiixsox, President of the United States : 

Sir : At a public meeting, held in the public hall, Colchester, Essex, Eng- 
land, on Thursday evening, ]May 4th, 18G5, it was — 

Resolved, That this meeting has heard with the profoundest regret the sad 
and mournful news of the assassination of President Lincoln, a man whose life 
was of such great value, not only to the American people, but to all free people 
everywhere, and desires to express its sincerest sympathy and condolence with 
the government and people of the United States in the distressing bereavement 
they have sustained, and their deep abhorrence of the diabolical deed by which 
so precious a life has been sacrificed. 

It nevertheless desires to express its firm conviction that the work begun 
and so nobly carried on by Abraham Lincoln, in connexion with slavery, can 
never be undone, and it trusts that you, his successor, will effect the work, both 
of the extinction of slavery and the reconstruction of the Union. 

That this meeting desires to express its gratitude to Divine Providence that 
the attempted assassination of Mr. Seward has not been successful, and hopes 
that he will be spared to render valuable service in the utter extinction of sla- 
very and the complete reconstruction of the Union. 
1."^ A 



194 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

That this meeting desires to express its heartfelt sympathy and condolence 
wiili rilrsi. Lincohi in the distressing bereavement she has sustained, and also 
its deep abhorrence of the deed which has so suddenly removed her lamented 
husband. 

Signed, on behalf of the meeting, by the chairman, 

THOMAS CATCHPOOL, 

Justice of the Peace. 



Resohition passed at a meeting held by the council of the city of Carlisle. 

At a meeting of the council of the city of Carlisle, held at the town hall, on 
Tuesday, the 9th of May, 1865, Thomas Naiisom, esq., mayor, in the chair — 

Resoh-cd, That this council views with feelings of the utmost horror the 
atrocious crime by the commission of which the people of the United States of 
America have been deprived of their Chief Magistrate, and it desires to tender 
to the government and people of the said States, and also to the afflicted widow 
and family of the late President, its sincere sympathy and condolence, under 
the great calamity which has befallen them and the grievous loss they have 
sustained. 

By order : JOHN KANCON, Town Clerk. 



At a meeting called by the mayor of the city of Carlisle, to express sympa- 
thy with Mrs. Lincoln and the American people, held in the Athenajum, on 
Monday, the 15th day of May, 1 865, Caleb Hodgson, esq., deputy mayor, in the 
chair — 

Resolved, That this meeting regards with feelings of detestation and horror 
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States ; the 
attempted murder of Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, and of his two sons ; and 
desires to express its profound sympathy for Mrs. Lincoln, who has been cruelly 
bereft of a devoted husband, for her children, who have lost an honored father, 
and for the people of the United States, who have been deprived, at a critical 
moment of their career, of a wise, humane and noble ruler. 

Moved by Robert Ferguson, esq. ; seconded by the Dean of Carlisle ; sup- 
ported by Rev. J. E. Hargraves. 

Resolved, That this meeting tenders its best wishes to Andrew Johnson, the 
new President, and earnestly hopes that, with the blessing of God, he may be 
enabled to carry out the enlightened policy of his predecessor, and lead the 
great country over whose destinies he has been unexpectedly called upon to 
preside, on the way of peace, prosperity and freedom. 

]Moved by Rev. W. A. Wrigley, seconded by Mr. Corwin, supported by Mr; 
.John Hargraves. 

CALEB HODGSON, 

Deputy Mayor, Chairman. 



Extract from the minutes of the Grand Division of the Order of the Sons of 
Te7n pe> ancc of the inovince of Canada, (incorporated by act of provincial 
Tart lament,) at its senii-aunual session, held at Cobourg, Canada West, on 
the 2(dth day of June, 1SG5. 

Resolved, That this Grand Division has watched with much interest the 
struggle just brought to a close and successful issue in the United States, and 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 195 

that although party strife ran high, and the blood of thousand;? of her noble 
sous has stained the soil, yet we conceive that one of the mightiest achieve- 
ments in the world's history has occurred, namely, the liberty of her slaves. 
And whilst we rejoice at the general results to this end, we feel that we would 
fail in our duty did wc not express the deepest sorrow and commiseration in 
the calamitous event and death of President Lincohi, a gentleman in whom we 
discovered virtues of the highest order, under whose government the most 
disastrous civil war the world ever witnessed was brought almost to a success- 
ful issue, when his valuabh; life was taken by the hand of au assassin. 

Therefore, we, this Grand Division, do deeply sympathize with the executive 
government and people of the United States in their great loss ; but more par- 
ticularly would we sympathize and condole Avith Mrs. Lincoln and family in 
their irreparable loss and bereavement. The nation may lament over and de- 
plore the loss of their muchloved President, but th(^ sorrow of Mrs. Lincoln 
and family under the unhappy occurrence must be such as to demand the con- 
dolence of the civilized world. 

We furthermore record our unanimous detestation of the merciless villain 
and ap'^ociates who either directly or indirectly plotted and carried into exe- 
cution this abominable act of assassination. 

Reml ccd fartlicrmorc. That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the 
executive government of the United States at Washington, and to Mrs. Lin- 
coln aud family of the lamented President. 
Attest * 

[seal.] ' EDWARD STACY, 

Grand Scribe. 



The following resolutions were unanimously pased at the semi-annual meet- 
ing of the Grand Division Sous of Temperance of Canada East, on the 6th day 
of July, 1SG.5: 

Resolrcd, That, whilst rejoicing over the happy termination of the late de- 
structive war, we desire to record our horror and detestation for the assassina- 
tion of the late President of the United States, and do hereby tender to his 
bereaved widow and family our profound sympathy in their sorrow. 

Resolred, That while we deeply regret the loss of life and treasure occa- 
sioned by the late war, we yet rejoice in the conviction that the blood shed 
and the treasure expended has not been in vain, but, under Providence, has 
resulted in the overthrow of that sum of all villany, slavery, and the estab- 
lishment of freedom to a hitherto oppressed race. 

Resolved, That we express our earnest hope that the bands of union may be 
drawn closer than ever, and that, as the result of peace, the blessings of tem- 
perance, prosperity, aud religion may be universally dilfused throughout the 
United States, 

[seal.] JOHN S. HALL, 

General Scribe. 



Resolutions j^dsscd at a jnccting held by the municipal commissioners of Cope 
Town, Wednesday. June 7, 1865. 

JJnaniinously resolved. That this board desire to convey to Walter Graham, 
esq.. United States consul residing in this city, an expression of the deep sor- 
row which the painful intelligence from Washington has inspired, of profound 



19G APrEXDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDEXCE. 

Fympatliy witli the great people who have h^st their Chief IMagistrate, and ab- 
horrence of the dastardly acts which deprived President Liucohi of life, and 
ini])c rilled the live,? of other high officers of state. 

Further resolved, That a deputation, consisting of the chairraau and vice- 
chairman of the board, be appointed to wait upon Mr. Graham and present 
him with a copy of the foregoing resolutiou. 



Rcsolution j^dssed at a meeting held ly the Chamber of Commerce of Cape 

Town. 

Chamger of Commerce, Exchange Li'ildings, 

June 13, 1865. 
Sir : I have the honor to forv.'ard the following resolution, passed at a 
special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of this city, held this day, and to 
request that you will be good enough to convey the terms thereof to your gov- 
ernment by the out-going mail : 

" The Chamber of Commerce of Cape Town desire to convey to Walter 
Graham, esq , consul for the United States in this colony, the profound regret 
with Avhich they have heard of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, esq , 
President of the United States, and beg to offer their sincere condolence on 
the sad calamity, and to express their deep detestation of the atrocious nature 
of the crime which has so suddenly deprived the American nation of its ruler." 
I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient servant, 

THOMAS WATSON, 

Vice-President. 
Walter Graham, Esq., 

United States Consul, Cape of Good Hope. 



To his excellency C. F. Adams, American minister in London : 

The memorial and address of the provost magistrates and town council of 
Cupar, Fife, in Scotland, showeth that your memorialists, forming the corpora- 
tion of Cupar, the head burgh of the county town of Fife, in common with the 
entire body of their fellow citizens, and of the people generally throughout the 
British nation, desire to express, as they hereby do, their utter abhorrence of 
the atrocious crime by which the United Sfeates of America have been so sud- 
denly and cruelly deprived of so able and upright and (especially to the British 
nation) so friendly a Chief Magistrate and President as the late President 
Lincoln, and their sincere sympathy with the government and people of that 
gi-eat country on so sad and trying an occasion. 

Signed, in name and by appointment of the memorialists, by 

WILLIAM CAGAN, 
Provost of Cupar, Fife. 

Cupar, Fife, May 4. 



Address of the cmnruissioners of supply of the county of Ffc, Scotland. 

Cupar, Fife, May 1, 1865. 
Sir: We, the commissioners of supply of the county of Fife, Scotland, in 
annual general meeting assembled, desire very respectfully to convey through 
your excellency, to the government and people of the United States of Amer- 






SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 197 

ica, tlie horror, indignation, and sorrow with which we have heard of the atro- 
cious acts of assassination of Avhich the city of Washington lias recently been 
the scene, and particularly our grief at the lamented death of President Lincoln 
by the hands of an assassin. 

In the extremely painful and trying circumstances into which the govern- 
ment and people of the United States have, by such a sudden and unexpected 
calamity, been brought, we beg, in common with the people of this country, 
most warmly to tender them our profound sympathy and regard. 

We beg also respectfully to re quest your excellency to accept, on behalf of 
Mrs. Lincoln and the family of the late lamented President, our heartfelt sym- 
pathy for her and them in the midst of their deep sufferings, and to express 
our earnest prayer that Divine help and consolation may be abundantly granted 
to them. 

We have the honor to be your excellency's most obedient servants. 

Signed in name and by appointment of the meeting. 

WllYTE MELVILLE, 
Convener of the County of Fife. 
His excellency Charles Francis Adams, Esq., 

Minister of the United States of America, London. 



Cape Coast Castle, 
Salt Pond Road No. 3, July 12, 1S65. 

Sir : I am convinced that you will not refuse to accept the expression of 
African feeling to which the enclosed letter bears witness, and which I am 
charged to convey to you in behalf of my countrymen. 

I have the honor to be, sir, \o\xx obedient servant, 

S. M. GOOD. 
Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State, 



To Mr. Seward. — Letter from Africa. 

Cape Coast, Gold Coast of Africa, 

July 10, 1S65. 

Sir : We, the undersigned, representing the natives of this part of Africa, 
as well as persons of African race resident here, desire to show, by the expres- 
sion of our sorrow for the death of President Lincoln and our hearty abhor- 
rence of the manner in which that death was brought about, that we are able 
to appreciate the benefits that our race has derived from the results of events 
that have occurred during the administration of that great and good man. 

During this administration it has pleased God to bring about the emancipa- 
tion of millions of unfortunate persons of our race and color held in bondage. 
We rejoice in this, we are thankful to Providence, we bless those who achieved 
such a result, and we hope for better days for Africa. 

We beg to assure llie American people ihat all true sons of Africa will mourn 
for the cruel and untimely fate of President Lincoln, whose destiny it was to 
be ruler over your mighty nation at a time when events took place having such 
immense importance for the children of our country. 

We most respectfully and sincerely sympathize with the bereaved widow of 
the late President, and we cannot sutliciently express our detestation of those 
cowardly and atrocious attempts which had nearly deprived America of tho 



198 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

services of the eminent statesman whom we now have the honor to address, 
and in whose return to heahh and strength all Africans are deeply interested, 
as beinjj; essentially necessary to the final accomplishment of that great work 
which has, under God's providence, been hitherto so successfully carried on. 
We are, sir, your obedient servants and well wishers, 

JOHN AGGERY, 

Kins of Cape Coast. 
■ QUOW ATTAil, 

Chief of Donusie. 
CHIEF MAYAX. 
SAMUEL WOOD, Sr., 

Int re peter to the Governor. 
CHAS. BANNESMAX, 
On behalf of the Pecj^le of ihe Eastern Districts of the 

Gold Coast of Africa. 
GEORGE SLAXK80N. 
GEO. SLAXKSON, Jr., 
0)1 behalf of ;hf People of Anarnahoe District. 
KOEEEE AFFADIE, 

King of Anamaboe. 
HENRY ARQUAH, 

King of Winnebak. 
CHAS. H. GARi3NER, 
Colo/2 ia I Echocjlviasier of Massac hv setts, U. S. A. 
JOSIAH M. ABADOO, 

On helialf of the People. 



Deal, Kent, May 6, 1865. 
Sir: At a meeting of the town council for this borough held on Wednesday, 
the 3d instant, the resolution hereunder written was unanimously carried, and 
ihat the same be presented through your good self to the government of the 
United States. 

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, 

EDWARD DREW, Toivn Clerk. 
Hon. C. F. Adams, 4r., <^r., S^-c. 

" That this council hereby express their sincere regret at the severe loss 
which the people of the United States have sustained by the untimely death 
of Bresident Lincoln ; that they regard with the utmost horror the crime by 
which the President's life was taken and sacrificed, and that on behalf and in 
the name of the inhabitants of this borough (Deal) they most respectfully offer 
the government of the United States their sincere and earnest sympathy under 
the dreadful calamity that has befallen them." 



Hon. Charles Francis Adams, 

United States Mnistcr at the Court of St. James : 

Sir : We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Dorchester, 
in the county of Dorset, in council assembled, beg to approach yom- excellency 
with an^expression of our deepest indignation and hoiror at the recent murder 
ot the President of the United States of America, and the attempted assassina- 
tion of j\Ir. Secretary Seward under circumstances of unheard of atrocity, and 
we desire through you to offer to Mrs. Lincoln oin- respectful and heartfelt con- 
dolence under her sad and awful bereavement ; to Mr. Seward our sincere con- 



SENTBIEXTS OF COXDOLEXCE AND SYMPATHY. 199 

gratulatious at bis providential escape; and to liim and the American people 
our genuine sympathy with them at the loss of a ruler of whom Americans 
were so justly proud. 

Given under the common seal of the borough of Dorchester the 2d day of 
May, 1S65. 

[SKAL.J JOHN PETTY ALDKIDGEHED, Mayor. 



We, the mayor, aldermen, and burge^^ses of the borough of Dover, in tho 
county of Kent, in council assembled, desire to record our deep regret at the 
melancholy and untimely end of the late President of the United Srates of 
America, Abraham Lincoln. We regard with horror and detestation the dia- 
bolical crime by which his life was sacrificed to the remorseless weapon of a 
dasturdly assassiil, at a time, too, when the position of the great republic over 
which the Pi'esident ruled seemed especially to require the guiding hand of one 
who had become thoroughly acquainted with the circumstances of the nation. 

We have marked with much })leasure the profound wisdom, unwearying 
assiduity, and temperate zeal which have characterized the career of the late 
President during his term of office, and through all the trying circumstances in 
which he has been placed ; and we have greatly admired the manner in Avhich 
he has used the successes of his victorious armies for the advancement of the 
cause of peace. 

We beg, therefore, respectfiilly to offer our most sincere and earnest sympathy 
to his bereaved and sorrowing widow, to his family, and to the President, gov- 
ernment, and people of the United States, under the great calamity which has 
befallen them. 

Given under our corporate seal in our council chamber this 3d day of May, 
1865. 

[seal.] W. 11. MURRAY, Mayor. 



To his excellency tlic amhassador of tlic United States of America at the court 

of London : 

The bumble address of the provost magistrates and town council of the 
royal burgh of Dumbarton, in council assembled : 

That this council, in common with all classes of their fellow-citizens, have 
heard with horror and indignation of the fmil and execrable murder of the 
President of the United States of America. 

That this council deeply sympathize with the great American republic under 
the heavy loss which it has sustained by the unexpected and untimely de- 
cease, under such revolting circumstnnces, of a ruler whose personal excellence 
and high endowments have rendered him an object of hon(;st pride to his own 
countrymen, and of just admiration to the rest of the world, and whose earnest 
endeavor to cultivate and maintain friendly relations with Great Britain jnust 
ever endear his name and memory to the people of this country. 

That this council also deeply sympathize with Mrs. Lincoln and family under 
their heavy bereavement, and earnestly pray that they may be sustained and 
supported by Him who is " the husband of the widow and the father of the 
fatherless." 

And this council requests that your excellency will kindly forward these 
their sentiments to your government. 

Signed in the name and by authority of tho provost magistrates and town 
council of the royal burgh of Dumbarton this 10th diy of May. 18G5. 

JOHN M. AUSLAND, 

Provost and Chief Magistrate.. 



200 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Exceryl from the mantldy meeting of the town council of the royal burgh of 
Dumfries, held May 5, 1S65. 

Before proceediDg to Imsiness, Provost Turner moved that this council re- 
cord an expression of the deep regret and sorrow with which they and the 
whole inhabitants of the bnrgh have learned of the death, by assassination, of 
the President of the United States of America ; that, in common with the entire 
community, the council regard with feelings of horror and indignation the cruel 
and atrocious deed, and desire to express thdr participation in the feelings of 
profound sympathy entertained by the people of this country towards the people 
of the United States under the painful and trying circumstances in which they 
are placed. 

'I'hat the council also express their deepest sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln and 
the family of the late President on account of the severe affliction with which 
they have been visited. 

This motion was sccondf d by Bailie Newhigging, and unanimously agreed 
to, and the clerk was directed to send a copy of these resolutions to the Ameri- 
can minister in London. 

Extracted by — 

WM. MAITIN, Town Clerk. 



Council Chamber, Guildhall, 

Doncastcr, May 9, 1865. 

At a public meeting of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of 
Doucaster, in the West Riding of the county of York, it was proposed by Alder- 
man Shirley, seconded by Councillor Wright, and 

Resolved unanimously. That this council desires, in its corporate capacity, to 
imire in the universal expression of indignation and sorrow at the assassination 
of the late President of the United States of America, and solemnly to record 
its horror and detestation of the treasonable and wicked act which has deprived 
that country of its chief at a time when his sei-\nces were so important. This 
council desires, also, in its corporate capacity, to convey to Mrs. Lincoln and 
her family the expression of its deepest sympathy, and sincerely to condole 
with them in their heavy bereavement. 

[seal. J Given under our corporate common seal in council assembled. 



Extract from the minutes of a sjK'cial mrrtivg of the toicn council of the city 
of Duifcrmline, held May 4, 1865. 

Before ]troceeding to the transaction of the special business for which the 
present meeting had been called, the provost took this the earliest opportunity 
of moving the adoption of the following resolutions, expressing condolence and 
sympathy with the people of the United States of America on the assassination 
of President Lincoln, viz: 

Reso/rcd, That this council do record an unanimous expression of the feel- 
nigs of profound sorrow and indignation with which they and the whole com- 
munity of the city of Dunfermline have heard of the foul assassination of Presi- 
dent Lincoln of the United States of America, and of the attempted assassination 
of Mr. Secretary Seward and his son — acts the atrocity of which is scarcely 
parallelled in the annals of political crime. 

That they sincerely sympathize with the government and people of the Ignited 
States under this great national calamity, and the peculiar and trying circum- 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 201 

stances in w hicli they have been placed by the untimely and unexpected removal 
of such an able administration ; but they earnestly hope that matters may be so 
ordered by Divine Providence that peace and tranquillity shall soon be restored 
to the United States, and that the feelings of brotherhood, amity, and good will 
Avhieh it is the earnest desire of this council should ever subsist between that 
gref.t country and England may be strengthened. 

That tlie council also sympathize most deeply with the widow and family of 
the late President in their afflicting bcrcaveniL-nt. 

That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to his excellency the minister 
of the United States in London, with a request that he will take the earliest 
opportunity of communicating the same to his government, and also to Mrjj. 
Lincoln. 

Which, being seconded by Bailie Alston, were unanimously adopted. 

Extracted from council minutes by — 

JOHN LAXDALE, Tuwn Clerk. 



Resolution passed hij tl/e mayor, altler?n<n, and hur jesses of the borough of 
Deicshury, iii council assemhhd, on the 2d day of May, 1S65. 

That this coiuicil desires to give expressions to the feelings of horror and indig'- 
nation with which it has heard of the assassination of President Lincoln, and 
the attempt upon the life of Mr. Seward ; and it also desires to convey to Mrs- 
Lincoln and the people of the United States an expression of its heartfelt sym- 
pathy and condolence ; and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the 
honorable Charles Francis Adams, the American minister, for presentation. 

Extracted from the minutes. 

CHAPtLES WALIvEK, Town Clerk. 



Resolution passed by the Chamber of Commerce, Deivsbury. 

Resolrcd, That this council expresses its utter abhorrence and detestation of 
the foul crime which has deprived a kindred nation of its President at such a 
momentous crisis in its history; and that such expression of the indignation of 
the council, together witli its sympathy, bo conveyed to the Americau consul 
at Leeds. 

The American Consul, Leeds. 



DARWIN. 



At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Darwen, Lancashire, held on Satur- 
day, April 29, 1SG5, the following resolutions were passed: 

1. That this meeting desire to express the feelings which they as English- 
men entertain in regard to the assassination of the late Abraham Lincoln, Presi- 
dent of the United States of America. They profoundly sympathize with th.e 
people of those States in the heavy calamity vvliich has befallen them by his 
sudden and lamented death, while they view with the utmost horror and detes- 
tation the atrocious crime which has so cruelly deprived his family, his country, 
find the world of his valuable life. 

2. That copies of the foregoing resolution be sent to the United States 
minister in London, with a request that he will convey one to his government 
at Washington, and one to Mrs. Lincoln. 

KALPII SIIOUROCK AStlTOxV, 

Justice (if the Peace, Chair mam. 



202 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

BOROUGH OF DERBY. 

Rcsohitions passed at a meeting held by the inhabitants of Derby. 

At a public meeting convened by tbe mayor, in the Guildhall, Derby, on 
Monday, the eighth day of May, 1865, upon the requisition of a large numher 
of the inhabitants, for the purpose of expressing indignation at the assassination 
of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States, and of condolence with 
his bereaved widow and family, as well as of sympathy with the American peo- 
ple in their present trying position, the following resolutions were passed unani- 
luously — Thomas Roe, escp, mayor, in the chair : 

Moved by the llev. W. F. Wilkinson, M. A., seconded by Herbert Ilolmes, 
esq., and supported by Josiah Lewis, esq. : 

Resolution \. That the inhabitants of Derby have heard with horror and 
indignation of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United 
Stales of America, whose genuineness of character, whose desire for peace, and 
whose faithful discharge of the duties of his high position must endear his mem- 
ory to all Amei-icaus; and whose friendly feelings towards this country will ever 
be recalled in England with melancholy interest and satisfaction. 

Moved by the Kev. E. W. Foley, I^L A., seconded by the Rev. J. Merwood, 
and supported by the Rev. William Griffith : 

Resolution 2. That Ave, the inhabitants of Derby, desire especially to express 
our deep sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln in the bereavement which this atrocious 
crime has inHicted upon her, and humbly hope that the veneration of her coun- 
trywomen, the respectful commiseration of the whole civilized world, and the 
remembi'ance of her husband's great career, in which he was never unmerciful, 
even to an enemy, may help to sustain her in her sore distress. 

Moved by the Rev. John Hyde, seconded by the Rev. W^iiliarn Jones, and 
sujjported by Frederick Longdon, esq.: 

Resolution 3. That this meeting earnestly hopes that the eminently concili- 
atory policy of the late President may not be without its due effect upon his 
countrymen, but may be carried forward by his successor to the speedy re-estab- 
lishment of peace, and the securing of prosperity to the great American nation. 

Moved by the Rev. H. Crasweller, and seconded by the Rev. J. Baxendale, : 

Resolution 4, That two copies of the resolutions passed at this meeting be 
made, and that his worship the mayor do forward them to his excellency the 
American minister in London, with the request that one copy shall be sent to 
Mrs. Lincoln, and the other to the government of the United States. 

THOMAS ROE, Mayor. 

Moved by John Flew^ker, esq., and seconded by Benjamin Wilson, esq. : 
Resolution 5. That the thanks of this meeting be given to his worship the 
mayor, for his kind compliance with the request of his fellow-townsmen in grant- 
ing the use of the Guildhall; also for consenting to preside over the meeting, 
and for the able and impartial manner in which he has discharged the duties of 
chairman on this occasion. 

JOSEPH JONES, 

Honorary Secretary. 



Resolutions 2>assed at a meeting held at the To7in Hall, Devizes. 

At a public meeting held at the Town Hall, Devizes, on Tuesday, the 9th May, 
1865, the mayor in the chair — 

Jt was moved by the Rev. S. S. Pugh, seconded by W. Brow-n, esq., and 
Resolved, That this meeting takes the earliest convenient opportunity of fol- 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 203 

lowing the example of tlie two lionees of Parliament, and of the representative 
council of certani larger towns, in expressing a deep-felt son ow at the assassi- 
nation of the President of the United States; regarding it as a crime of astound- 
ing magnitude, fraught vvith manifest evil, not only to the great commonwealth 
with which we have long held friendly relations, but in all its attendant features, 
especially in the dastardly mode of its consummation, as quite unparallch'd in 
rr.odern times; and that as Englishmen, possessing an instinctive abhorrence of 
assassination, our sympathies are in the present case peculiarly called forth by 
the circumstance that the victim of this pitiless murder w;is one whose honest 
boast it was that his origin, lau_-uage, and blood were British, and whose avowed 
sentiments as towards this country were cordially pacific. 

It was moved by R. W. Briggs, esq., LL.D., seconded by S. Wittey, esq., 
and 

Jlesoh-ed, That we warmly sympathize with the citizens of the United States, 
who are thus at a critical juncture deprived of their Chief Magistrate, and in an 
especial manner with Mrs. Lincoln, and the other members of the late Presi- 
dent's family, on the blow that has so suddenly and appallingly fallen upon them. 

It was moved by the Rev. II. Dawson, and 

Rewlvecl, That our abhorrence at the attempted assassination of the American 
Secretary of State, and his attendants, in all its atrocious and frightful incidents, 
is scarcely less than at its fellow outrage; the higher rank of the latter in the 
scale of crime being derived from its combining treason with foul murder, and 
that we hereby tender our kindliest sympathies to the honorable Mr. Seward, and 
the aftlicted members of his household. 

Moved by Edward Wayieu, esq., seconded by the Rev. S. S. Pugh, and 

Rcsolred, That we tender to the citizens of tlie United States our best wishes 
for their prosperity and happiness as a nation, sprung from the same stock as 
ourselves and following the mother country in removing from their midst the 
dark stain of slavery ; while in the enlightened sentiments so promptly and 
frankly expressed by their present President, Mr. Andrew Johnson, to her 
Majesty's minister plenipotentiary at Washington, viz : "That the friendship of 
the United States towards Great Britain is enjoined by every consideration of 
interest and sentiment," we are pleased to recognize a guarantee of that pacific 
and mutually advantageous relationship which has for so long a period marked 
the intercourse of the two countries. 

It was proposed by Mr. Hart, seconded by Mr. H. Knight, and 

Resolved, That the worshipful the mayor be requested to send a copy of the 
foregoing resolutions to Mr. Adams, to be forwarded to his government and to 
Mrs. Lincoln. 



Resolutions of tlte inJiahitanfs of DurVtngion. 

At a meeting held in the Central Hall, Darlington, on the 2d of May, 1SG5, 
and at which a large number of the inhabitants of the town were piesent, the 
Rev. Henry Kendall in the chair — 

It was moved by John Forster Clapham, esq., second, d by John Henry 
Backhouse, esq., and 

Unanimously rcsolred, That this meeting expresses to the Pi'esident and 
])eople of the United States of America its horror and detestation of the crime by 
which the late illustrious President Lincoln has been deprived of life ; and 
earnestly prays that this awful event may strengthen tlieir determination to 
uproot and utterly destroy the slave institution, and to reconstruct and conso- 
lidate their union upon the basis of free labor and political liberty. 

It was moved by Henry Fell Pease, esq., seconded by William Fothergill, 
esq , and 



204 ArPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPOXDENCE. 

Unanimously rcsolrcd, That this meeting respectfully and affectionately offers 
to the honorable ]\Irs. Lincoln its profound sympathy under her terrible afflic- 
tion, and prays Giod to cover her with the mantle of His love, and to console 



her by His all-prevailiug grace. 



HENRY IvEXDALL, Chairman. 



Darlington, May 12, 1865. 
The following resolutions were passed at a meeting of 15th Durham rifle 
volunteers on the above date : 

At a special parade of the 15th Durham rifle volunteers (Darlington) it was 
unanimously resolved — 

1st. That the officers and members have heard with horror and regret of the 
foul murder which has been perpetrated on Mr. Lincoln, the President of the 
United States, and they beg leave to tender their sympathies to Mrs. Lincoln 
and the people of the United States. 

2d. That Lieutenant Colonel Scurfield be requested to forward this expression 
of the feelings of the 15th Durham rifle volunteers to Mr. Adams, the repro- 
eentative of the United States of America in London. 

GEORGE JOHN SCURFIELD, 
Lieut. Colonel covnnanding ^th Art. Baft. D R. V., 

and Captain commanding 15th Durham R. V. 



City Hall, Town Clerk's Office, 

Dublin, May 13, 1865. 
Sir: 1 have the honor to transmit to you the accompanying resolutions una- 
nimously adopted hy the municipal council of this city, and to request that you 
will submit the same to the President and Congress of the United States at 
your earliest convenience. 

I have the honor to remain, sir, your obedient servant, 
\ W. J. HENRY, Town Clerk. 

Secretary of State, Washington. 



At a meeting of the municipal council of the city of Dublin, held in the 
council chamber, City Hall, Cork Hill, upon Monday the 1st day of May, 1865, 
the right honorable the lord mayor in the chair — 

It was moved by Alderman Atkini^on, J. P., seconded by alderman Carroll, 
and — 

JJnanimovshj rcsolrcd, That we regard with abhorrence the dreadful deed 
wliich has deprived the people of the'United States of their Chief Magistrate. 

Jloved by Councillor Devitt, seconded by Councillor Byrne, and — 
Cnammoushj rcsolrcd, That we tender to the government of the United States 
our profound sympathy Vv-ith them under so great and terrible a calamity as 
the loss of their President. 

Moved by Councillor Sullivan, seconded by Alderman Durdin, and— 

Unanim(msJy resolved, That while we abstain from the expression of any 

opinion whatever upon the fratricidal strife in which the States of America are 

unfortunately engaged, we desire to offer the tribute of our sincere respect 

and appreciat.ou of the character of the lamented deceased President Lincoln. 

[seal 1 JAMES BARRINGTON, Lord Mayor. 

- ^ ■•' W.J. HENRY, Tozm C/tr^. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 205 



City Hall, Town Clerk's Office, 

Duhlm, May 13, 1865. 

Madam: I have the honor to transmit to jou herewitli a resolution unani- 

mously adopted by the municipal council of the city of Dublin, expressive of 

their condolence and sympathy in the sad bereavement you have sustained in 

the loss of your lamented and esteemed husband, the late President Lincoln. 

1 have the honor to remain, madam, your obedient servant, 

W. J. HENRY, Totm Clerk. 
Mrs. Llxcoln, Washington. 



At a meeting of the municipal council of the city of Dublin, held in the 
council chamber, City Hall, Cork Hill, upon Monday the 1st day of May, 1865, 
the right honorable the lord mayor in the chair — 

It was moved by Councillor Warren, seconded by Councillor Draper, and — 

Unanimousljj resolved. That we ofl'or the expression of our condolence and 
sympathy to the widow and flmrily of the lamented President Lincoln, in their 
sad bL'reavement, 

r^^^ 1 JAMES BAPv RINGTOX, Zar^Z Mayor. 

\P^-^^\ W. J. HENRY, Tovm Clerk. 



35 MOLESWORTH STREET, April 28, 1865. 
To the rigJit honor ahle the "Lord Mayor : 

We, the undersigned, citizens of Dublin, request your lordship to convene a 
public meeting, at your very earliest convenience, to express our indignation 
and sorrow at the assassination of President Lincoln, and our sympathy with 
the people of the United States. 

The above was signed by Joseph Wilson, D. L., and 426 other names aad 
firms. 

Mansion House, April 28, 1865. 

In compliance with the above influentially-signed request, I hereby convene 
a meeting of the citizens of Dublin, to be held in Oak Room Mansion House, 
ou to-morrow, Saturday, April 29, at 2 o'clock. 

JOHN BARRINGTON, Lord Mayor. 



DuDLix, Ajnil 29, 1865. 

At a meeting of the citizens of Dublin, convened and presided over by the 
right houorable the lord mayor, in pursuance of a requisit on signed by a large 
number of the citizens of Dublin, and held at the Mansion House on Saturday 
the 29th April, 1865, for the purpose of expressing their iud gnation and sor- 
row at the assassination (jf President Lincoln, and their sympathy with the 
people of the Unhed States, the following resolutions were unanimously 
agreed to : 

It was proposed by the right honorable the attorney general for Ireland, 
seconded by the right honorable Joseph Napier, ex-lord chancellor of Ireland, 
tmd — 

Resolved, That v/e, the citizens of Dublin, view the atrocious assassination 
of his excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and the 



206 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPOXDEXCE. 

attack on the life of the Hon. William Henry Seward, Secretary of State, with 
feeliii''-? of in(hV'-nation and sincere sorrow. 'We feel assured that throughout 
the civilized wurld there can be but the one sentiment of horror at so revolting 
a crime, and, in common with the rest of our fellow-countrymen, we desire to 
express our deep sympathy with the people of the United States under this 
great national calamity. 

It was ])roposed by Alexander Parker, esq., J. P., seconded by Professor 
John Elliot Kairns, and — 

Resolved, That while we scarcely venture to hope that any words of ours 
can avail to alleviate grief so profound, yet we cannot forbear expressing our 
heartfelt condolence with the widow and family of the late President, and our 
trust that they may be sustained by a merciful Providence under their sad and 
awful bereavement. 

It was pioposed by Sir Robert Kane, seconded by Alderman J. B. Dillon, 
and — 

Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be signed by the right honorable 
the lord mayor and the secretaries of this meeting, on behalf of the citizens of 
Dublin, and that they be this day forwarded to Washington for presentation, 
and that copies of same be sent to the United States minister in London, in- 
forming him that we have sent them direct in order to go fonvard by the 
present mail. 

The right honorable the lord mayor having left the chair, and the earl of 
Howth being called thereto, 

It was moved by the archdeacon of Dublin, seconded by A. M. Sullivan, 
T. C, and supported by the Eev. Dr. Urvvick — 

That the marked thanks of this meeting are due and hereby given to the 
right honorable the lord mayor for his dignified conduct in the chair. 

[SEAL.J JOHN BARRINGTON, 

Lord Mayor of City of Dublin. 
THOMAS PIM, Jr., 
ALFRED AYEBB, 

Secretaries, 



Resolutions passed at a meeting of the democratic classes of Dxihlin. 

At a meeting of the democratic classes of Dublin, held in the Mechanics' 
Institute on Friday evening, the 28th day of April, 1SG5, it was, by a large 
and enthusiastic meeting, unanimously resolved : 

1 . That the scheme of assassination concocted by a gang of dastardly con- 
ppiralors, in the name of the southern cause, and partially carried into execu- 
tion on the evening of the 14th instant by the treacherous murder of Abraham 
Lincoln, America's best and greatest President since the days of Washington, 
excites our horror and indignation, and calls aloud for t'lc execration of 
mankind. 

2. That, %vhile expressing our abhorrence of the foul deed by which the 
cause of human liberty has lost one of its purest and best defenders, we con- 
fidently cherish the belief that the perpetration of a crime so horrible can have 
no other effect than to hasten the completion of Lincoln's glorious work, the 
res; oration of the Union, the extinction of slavery, and the establishment of a 
solid and durable peace. 

ISAAC S. VARIAX, Chairvian. 
WILLIAil M. STACK, Secretary. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 207 

May 4, 1865. 

At the reguLii' luontlily meetino^ of tlie Grand Lodge of Ireland, held at Free- 
masons' Hall, Dublin, on Thursday, 4th of May, 1865, the following addresa 
was unanimously adopted : 

The Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland desire to convey to the govern- 
ment of the United States of America the unanimous feeling of execration and 
horror with which they have learnt the assassination of the late President Lin- 
coln, and they beg to convey to tiie citizens of that great republic the sentiment 
of their sincere condolence on this most deplorable occurrence, as well as to the 
bereaved widow and family of the departed statesman the expression of their 
heartfelt sympathy for the grevious loss they have sustained. 

[SEA L.J LEINSTEll, Grand Master. 

Chaules Walwishv, 

Deputy Grand Secretary. 



94 Stephex's Green, Dublin, May 10, 1865. 
Sir: I have the honor to transmit to you the accompanying resolutions, 
passed at a meeting of the Wesleyan ministers and stewards of the Dublin dis- 
trict, and concurred in by the other districts in Ireland, which met at the samo 
lime. 

I have the honor to be, your excellency's very obedient servant, 

llOBERT WALLACE, 

Wesleyan Minister. 
Hi3 Excellency tLe President 

of the United States. 



8 Lower Arbev Street, Dublin, May 13, 1865. 
May it please your excellency, I have the honor to enclose to your excellency 
a copy of the resolution of sympathy adopted at our late district meeting, and 
acquiesced iu by the "Wesleyan church in this country. 

Humbly praying that "He by whom kings reign and princes decree jus- 
tice" may be your excellency's refuge and strength and bless your great 
country with peace and prosperity. 

1 have the honor to be, your excellency's most obedient servant, 

ROBERT G. JONES. 
His Excellency the President 

of the United States, Washington. 
P. S. — Enclosed is also the chairman's letter to your excellency. 



Resolutions 2^assed at tlie annual meeting of the Wesleyan ministers and steio- 
ards (f the Dublin district. 

It was moved by the Rev. Robinson Scott, D. I)., and seconded by John 
Jameson, esq., steward of the Dublin centenary. Chapel circuit, supported by 
the Rev. John F. Mathews, ex-secretary of the Irish conference, and passed 
unanimously : 

1st. Resolved, That we avail ourselves of this opportunity to expres.s oiu- utmost 
abhorrence of the atrocious and diabolical assassination of his Excellency Abra- 
ham Lincoln, late President of the United States, and of the cowardly and wicked 
attempt upon the life of the; honorable William II. Seward, Secretary of State. 
That we deeply sympathize with the President, Congress, and people of America 
iu the dire calamity by which, in a manner that scandalizes all civilized nati ins, 



208 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

they have been deprived of the great ability of him who, under God, succeeded 
in guiding the republic through a period of unprecedented difficulty in such a 
manner as to secure the admiration of the world. 

That we fervently pray not only that peace may be speedily and com- 
pletely restored, but that the noble aims of the late and present President, and 
the illustrious statesmen by whom they have been surrounded, may be fully 
realized in the utter extinction of the last vestige of slavery, without impairing 
the ability of the country to fulfil lier high mission among the nations of the 
e^rth. 

And that along with this prayer, we shall offer our fervent supplication on 
behalf of Mrs. Lincoln and family, who have sustained such sudden and irrep- 
arable loss. 

2d. Moved by the Rev. Thomas T. N. Hull, seconded by Samuel McComas, 
esq , steward of the Dublin Abbey street circuit, and supported by the Rev. 
Gibson McMillen, secretary of the Hibernian "Wesleyan Missionary Society, 
and passed unanimously : 

Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing resolution be engrossed and trans- 
mitted, as speedily as possible, to his Excellency the President of the United. 
States. 

Signed on behalf and by order of the meeting. 

ROBERT WALLACE, Chairman. 
ROBERT G. JONES, Secretary. 

Centenary Chapel, Dublin, May 2, 1865. 

We, the ministers and stewards of the Waterford district, concur in the above 
resolution. 

Signe-d by order. 

HENRY J. GILES, Chair7nan. 

ROBT. HUSTON, Secretary. 

Signed on behalf and by order of the Londonderry district. 

HUGH MOORE, Chairynan. 
JOHN OLIVER, tiecrctary. 

Signed on behalf and by order of the Belfast district. 

HENRY PRICE, Chairman. 
WILLIAM GATHER, Secretary. 

Signed on behalf and by order nf the Portadown district. 

WILLIAM P. APPLBE, L. C. D., Chairman. 
JOHN GILCHRIST, Secretary. 

Signed on behalf and by order of the Eimiskillen district. 

THOMAS MEREDITH, Chairman. 

EDW'D M. BANKS, Secretary. 
His excellency the PEiEsroENT ■ 

of the United States, Washington. 



Excerpt from minutes of meeting of the magistrates and totcn council of 
Dundee, field on the 28th day of April, 1865. 

ASSASSINATION OK THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA. 

To his excellency the ambassador to the court of Great Britain for the United 

States of America : 
^ he provost called the attention of the council to the intelligence recently 
received of the assassination of the President of the United States of North 
America, and of the attempt to murder Mr. Seward. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 209 

On the motiou of the provost, secouded by Bailie Owen, the council unani- 
mously resolved 

1. That the provost magistrates and town council have heard of the 
horrible acts of assassination in the city of "Washington with sorro'w and indig- 
nation, and unite in desiring humbly and respectfully, but in the kindest spirit, 
to represent to the government of the United States of America, and the whole 
people, their sincere sympalhy, and the sympathy of every class of the people 
of this town, yotmg and old, rich and poor, in feelings of abhorrence towards 
the miserable actors and their adherauts, wherever and whomsoever they be. 

2. When such events happen the good part of human nature asserts its sway. 
The people of the United States are part of ourselves, shares with us in a 
common ancestry; cross interesis, and chance events, and the evil part of our 
nature may create temporary estrangement and distrust, but when trouble 
comes we are all one — brethren in origin and in progress; and it is in this sprit 
■we seek to approach the people of North America, in sincere affection and good 
will and sympathy. 

3. That the provost do transmit, in the name of the magistrate atid council and 
whole people of Dundee, and under the seal of the burgh, to the representative 
of the United States in Britain, through the United States consul in this town, 
an official declaration of the feelings of sympathy and love entertained by 
this large community towards our brethren in North America, in this the hour 
of their affliction. 

4. That the provost do cause a special communication to be made to his excel- 
lency the ambassador of the desire of the council to tender, in the way which . 
the ambassador shall consider to be best suited to the circumstances, to Mrs. 
Lincoln, the widow of the President, the respectful sympathy of this corpora- 
tion and community, and their eai-nest prayer that the Almighty will be pleased 
to lighten her affliction in the way accordant with His infinite goodness and 
mercy. 

5. That there be a like communication to Mr. Seward. 

Extracted from the records of the magistrates and town council of Dimdee. 
[seal.] CHAS. OWEN, Town Clerk. 



Dundee, Coi:.\cil Chamber, Mai/ 12, 1865. 
To 7iis excellency the ambassador to the court of Great Britain for the United' 

States of America. 

At a public meeting of the magistrates, merchants, bankers, manufacturers 
and other inhabitants of the royal burgh of Dundee, in Scotland, held in the 
Town Hall, on Tuesday, the 2d day of May, in the year 1865, called by due 
public notice, the provost of the burgh in the chair, it was moved and resolved, 
without a dissenting voice, as follows : 

That the meeting unite in declaring the profound sorrow and indignation 
with which they have heard the atrocious assassination of President Lincoln, 
and of the attempted assassination of Mr. Seward and his son ; further, they 
desire to express their sincere respect for Mr. Lincoln's personal character, and 
in particular their admiration of the forbearance and moderation which he 
evinced in the hour of success ; and they would respectfully express their deep 
sympathy with the American people and with the afflicted families of the suf- 
ferers. 

It was then moved and 
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210 APPENDIX. TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Unanimously resoli-cd, That a copy of the foregoing resolution be trans- 
mitted to the United States embassy in Loudon, through their consul in Dun- 
dee. 

Signed in name and by appointment of the meeting : 

CHARLES PArvKER, 
Provost and Chief Magistrate of the Royal Burgh of Dundee. 



Meeting of American citizens in Dundee. 

At a meeting of American citizens held at the United States consulate, Dun- 
dee, on the 3d of May, 1865, Dr. Smith, consul at Dundee, on being called to., 
the chair, spoke as follows : 

The object of our present meeting, as you are aware, is to express our sorrow 
at the appalling calamity which has befallen our people and nation in the sud- 
den removal, by cowardly assassination, of our excellent and beloved Chief 
Magistrate, and at a time when that great and good man had, under God, by 
his fortitude, consistency, prudence, and sagacity, brought the nation safely and 
triumphantly through one of the most dreadful conflicts ever witnessed upon 
the earth ; also to express our detestation and abhorrence of the conduct of 
those who devised, and the tools who carried the diabolical purpose into effect, 
but too successfully, in the case of our behaved President, while we trust the 
attempt upon the worthy Secretary of State, and his son Frederick, has proved 
abortive. Ano'her object we have in view is to convey to the bereaved widow 
and orphans- our sentiments of deep sympathy and condolence under the heavy 
affliction which God, in His inscrutable wisdom, has permitted to befall them; 
also, to convey to Secretary Sewaid and bis family our sentiments of sorrow 
and sympathy with them under the great calamity which has befallen them, 
and to express our earnest desire that they may be restored to health, and their 
lives be long spared as a blessing to our beloved nation. In the circumstances, 
it will be also becoming to express our high confidence in the ability and integ- 
rity of our present Chief Magistrate, AiHlrew Johnson, whose antecedents are 
our guarantee for the future, and our assurance that, by his energetic, judicious, 
and Christian course, he will live down the vile slanders heaped upon him by 
the enemies of our great republic. 

Mr. Mackenzie having been chosen secretary, the following resolutions were 
unanimously adopted : 

" 1. Whereas we have heard with deep and heartfelt sorrow, and at the same 
time with a just indignation, of the cowardly and brutal assassination of our 
excellent and illustrious President, Abraham Lincoln, and of the dastardly 
attempt on the lives of Secretary and Assistant Secretary Seward, &c., we 
hereby tender to our sorrowing countrymen and fellow-citizens our heartfelt 
sympathy, and would desire to mingle our tears with theirs over the grave of 
tlie best and greatest citizen of our country, whose death at this critical period 
of our nation's history we feel to be a most fearful calamity. We mourn with 
them the loss of the sagacious statesman, the true patriot, and the pious Chris- 
tian, wliose name and fame will be a sweet savor in the memory of his coun- 
trymen in the ages to come. 

" 2. That we deeply sympathize with Mrs. Lincoln and her afflicted family 
in the heavy blow which has so unexpectedly deprived them of the kind hus- 
band and the fond and affectionate father, and trust that He who has heretofore 
by His heavenly grace sustained her in previous trials will continue to support 
her in this her grcjatest sorrow ; and that the affectionate remembrances of a 
great nation for him who died a martyr's death for the cause of liberty and jus- 
tice may prove a sohice to her in her widowhood. 



SENTIMEx\TS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 211 

"3. That while we deeply pyinpalliize with Mr. Seward and his family iu 
their heavy atflicrion, we congratulate the nation that the life of him who,-?e wise 
councils and prudent action have done so much for his country at home and 
abroad is likely to be yet spared ; and we would fervently pray that his inval- 
uable services may long be continued to guide his country in her path of prog- 
ress and civilization. 

" 4. That we trust speedy and condign punishment may soon overtake the 
villanous and cowardly wretches that d' 'vised, planned and carried out these 
nefarious and diabolical deeds, from which universal humanity has recoiled with 
horror. 

" 5. That we have perfect confidence in the integrity and ability of our pres- 
ent Chief Magistrate, Andrew Johnson, believing that his antecedents are suf- 
ficient guarantee of his energy, wisdom, and prudence in the future, and that 
under his leadership the nation may soon arrive at a righteous and lasting peace. 

" 6. That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded through our minister, Mr. 
Adams, signed by the chairman and secretary of this meeting." 

JAS. SMITH, Cliairman. 
JAMES M. M'KENZIE, Secretary. 

The meeting then terminated. 



At the annual meeting of the Welsh Baptist Association, in the county of Gla- 
morgan, South Wales, assembled in Dowlais, in the borough of Merthyr Tydfil, 
on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 20 and 21, 1865, representing 1.31 
separate congregations, 92 ordained ministers, 96 assistant preachers, 15,103 
members in full communion, 17,000 hearers not being communicants, 1,990 
sabbath school teachers, with 14,745 Sunday school scholars — 

Resolved unanimoushj. That the ministers and the messengers in this con- 
fe:enc" express their deep and heartfilt sympathy with the bereaved widow and 
fatherless children of the late lamented Abraham Lincoln, together with the 
whole loyal people of the American continent, on thi' occasion of the tragical 
death of the able, honest, and upright man wlio had been twice chosen by his 
fellow-men to preside over the afiairs of the nation We further view with fU- 
tense abhorrence the foul manner by which the death of so good a man and so 
just a ruler was encompassed ; but while we deeply lament the death of Abraham 
Lincoln at so important a moment in the history of America, we beg to express 
our sincere regard for, and unfiinching faith iu Andrew Johnson, his successor 
in the presidential chair, believing that his long practical experience, his honesty 
of purpose, and his firm determination to do what is right and just, will enable 
him to do more than carry out the great purposes of the late able ruler, and 
that through the instrumentality of Andrew Johnson, as Chief Magistrate, as- 
sisted by the wise and good around him, under the blessing and guidance of the 
Most High God, we shall again, and soon, see the States of America united, 
peaceful, happy and prosperous, the fetters of slavery being forever broken, 
and all men declared f. ee in name and in fixct. 

Resolved secondly. That the foregoing resolution be signed by the three 
officers of the association, in the name and on behalf of this conference, and that 
the moderator be respectfully requested to forward the same to the Hon. Francis 
Adams, the American minister in Great Ihitain, for transmission to Washington, 
United States of America. 

NATHANIEL THOMAS, Moderator. 

PHILIP JOHN, Treasurer. 

BENJAMIN EVANS, Secretary. 



212 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

To the F resident of tie 'United States of America: 

Sir : We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of tbe city of Exeter, in the 
Kino-dom of England, feeling the deepest abhorrence at the atrocious crime 
Avhicii has deprived America of her late President, Abraham Lincoln, by a cruel 
murder, desire to express that feeling to the President and people of America, ~ 
and our sorrow that such a crime should have been perpetrated. 

The sentiments which animate the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Exeter, 
influence also the government and people of England generally, and call forth 
our sympathies with a nation which has suffered such a calamity. 

We re"-ret that the murderer should have met his fate otherwise than by tlie 
hands of justice. 

•, Given under our common seal at the city of Exeter, the 10th day of 
[SEAL.J j^jj^^,^ jjj ^|-^g yg.^^, of Qu^. Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. 



Borough of Evesham, in the county of Worcester. 

At a quarterly meeting of the town councils of the borough of Evesham, 
held at the Guildhall, the 3d day of May, 1865, present : Thomas White, esq., 
mayor ; Aldermen Edge, Burlingham, and New ; Councillors Martin, Perry, 
Rodd, Collins, Allard, Bicknell, Field, Hunt, New, and Smith. 

Proposed by Mr. Mayor, seconded by Mr. Alderman Burlingham, and carried 
unanimously. That the mayor, aldermen, and councillors of this borough share 
the public sorrow and indignation of this country at the assassination of the 
President of the United States, and desire that an expression of their feelings 
be conveyed to the government and people of the United States, and an assur- 
ance of sympathy to the family of the late President ; and that our toAvn clerk 
do cause a copy of this resolution to be engrossed and forwarded to the minister 
of the United States in London. 

THOMAS WHITE, Mayor. 



Resolutions passed at a meeting held hy the provost, magistrates, and council of 

Edinhurgk. 

At Edinburgh, the second day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and 
sixty-live, which day the right honorable the lord provost, magistrates, and 
counc;l of the city of Edinburgh being in special meeting assembled, on mo- 
tion of the lord provost, it was unanimously — 

Resolved, That this council do record an expression of the sorrow with which 
they and the entire community of the city of Edinburgh have learned of the as- 
sassination of President Lincoln — an act the foul atrocity of which has excited 
the horror and indignation of the whole civilized world. That, warmly partici- 
pating in the feeling of profound sympathy entertained by the people of this 
country towards the people of the United States of America, under the circum- 
stances of unprecedented trial and dilliculty in which they are placed, the coun- 
cil desire very respectfully to offer them the expression of that sympathy, the 
spontaneity and universality of which the council trust will be accepted by the 
great people to whom it is addressed as the best evidence of the existence ia 
this country of that feeling of brotherhood which should ever hallow the rela- 
tions between the two gruat branches of the same race. That the council also 
sympathize most deeply with Mrs. Lincoln and the family of the late President 
and earne.-^tly pray that the terrible event which hag caused them so much suf- 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 213 

I'ering may, in llie liands of Ilim who in His inscrut.able providence often 
"causes the wrath of man to praise' Him," be so ordered as to facilitate the re- 
establishment of peace and order in the United States, and to strengthen feelings 
of araitj and good will towards them all over the world. 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to his excellency 
the minister of the United States, with a request that he will take the earliest 
opportunity of communicating them to his government, and to the widow of the 
late President. 

Extracted from the council record upon this and the two preceding pages by — 

J. DEXARWICK, City Clerk. 



Edinburgh, od Ma//, 18G5. 

Madam : "When the sad intelligence of the death of your great and beloved 
husband reached this city, a large and inilnential meeting of the inhabitants was 
held, at which I had the honor of presiding, to express the great and universal 
sympathy with yourself and the people of America which pervaded the whole 
community here. 

One of the resolutions adopted by the meeting was thus expressed : " That 
an address prepared in accordance with these resolutions be transmitted by the 
lord provost of Edinburgh to the American minister in London, and that his 
lordship be also requested specially to transmit along with the expression of the 
warmest sympathy of the inhabitants of Edinburgh a copy of the foregoing 
resolutions to Mrs. Lincoln." 

On the part of the inhabitants of this city, therefore, I have noAV^ the honor 
to transmit to you a copy of the resolutions referred to, and to convey to you 
an expression of the deep and universal sympathy which is felt for you in the 
sudden and heartrending trial which Providence has lately permitted to over- 
whelm you, your family, and the people of the United States of America. 

Your late husband, the President of the United States, was as much respected 
and admired here as he was beloved in his home and his country, and if, in 
such a severe affliction as yours has been, it is any consolation to possess heart- 
felt and widely spread sympathy, this consolation must be yours in great abun- 
dance, and from none more sincerely or warmly than from the people of the city 
of Edinburgh. 

I have the honor to be, madam, your most obedient, humble servant, 

CHARLES LAWSOX, 
Lord Procost and Cli'ief Magistrate of EdinbnrgJi. 



Copy of resolutions vnammoiisly adopted hy inihlir. meeting of the inliaJ)'itnnts 
of tJte city of Edinburgh, held Wednesday, '3d May, IbGo, the Right Hon- 
orable Charles Laivson,lord provost of the city of Edinburgh, in the chair. 

1. Moved by John Thomson Gordon, esquire, sheriff of the county of Edin- 
burgh, seconded by Duncan McLaren, esquire, chairman of the Chamber of Com- 
merce — 

That the inhabitants of Edinburgh have learned Avith the deepest sorrow and 
indignation of the assassination of the President of the United States of 
America. 

2. Moved by the Very Reverend Doctor Candlish, principal of the Free 
Church College at Edinburgh, seconded by Sir John McNeills, G. C. B. — 

That the inhabitants of Ldinburgh desire to express their most sincere svm- 
pathy with the government and people of the United States under their terrible 
national calamity. 



214 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

3. Moved by the Right Reverend Doctor Merrill, bishop coadjutor, seconded 
bv the Reverend William Aruot, one of the ministers of Free Church, Ediu- 
burg — 

That the inhabitants of Edinburgh having heard with similar feelings of the in- 
famous attempt on the life of Mr. Reward, iSecretary of State, warmly congrat- 
iilate the people of the United States on the failure of that attempt, and jjray 
that his life may long be spared for the benefit of his country, 

4. Moved by James Y. Simpson, esq., M. D., one of the professors of the 
University of Edinburgh, seconded by the Reverend W. H. Gray, one of the 
ministers of Edinburgh — 

That an address prepared in accordance with these resolutions be transmitted 
by the lord provost of Edinburgh to the American minister in Loudon, and that 
Iiis lordship be also requested specially to transmit along with the expression of 
the warmest sympathies of the inhabitants of Edinburgh a copy of the foregoing 
resolutions to Mrs. Lincoln. 

5. Moved by James Richardson, esq., seconded by Admiral Sir William 
Hope Johnston, K. C. B. — 

That a vote of thanks be given to the lord provost for calling the meeting 
and for his conduct in the chair. 



Edinburgh, Maij 8, 1865. 

At a special meeting of theEdinburg Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures 
held this day, it was moved by James Richardson, esq., merchant, seconded by 
George Harrison, esq., merchant, both of Edinburgh, and unanimously adopted — 

That this chamber have learned with the deepest grief and indignation of the 
assassination of President Lincoln and of the attempt on the life of Secretary 
Seward, and desire to record their admiration of the ability, honesty, and pa- 
triotism of the late President, and their warmest sympathy with the government 
and people of the United States on account of the sad affliction under which 
they are now suffering. 

It was moved by William Law, esq., merchant, and seconded by Josiah 
Li^■iDgston, esq., merchant, both of Edinburgh, and unanimously adopted — 

That an address in accordance Avith the above resolution be forwarded to the 
government of the United States through their ambassador. 

JAMES GREIG, Secretary. 



At the monthly meeting of the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society, held 
on Thursday, J\Iay 4, 1865, the following minute was adopted and recorded : 

It is with sentiments of profound grief and indignation that we have received 
the tidings of the death, by the hand of an assassin, of Abraham Lincoln, the 
noble President of the United States. 

We desire to record an expression of our sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln and 
the American people in the terrible calamity they have sustained. W^e feel as 
if a great personal loss had befallen ourselves, for we have long believed that 
tlie interests of the slave were safe in the hands of President Lincoln, and had 
fondly hoped that the cause we have so long had at heart was about to be 
brought to a triumphant issue by him who has thus suddenly been laid low. 

We the more deeply deplore this mysterious event from its occurring at a 
crisis of the nation's history, when the wise, magnanimous, and merciful policy 
ot President Lincoln was so peculiarly needed to readjust the sorely troubled 
elements of the republic, and to effect a reconciliation between the north and the 
south, with freedom for its basis. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 215 

We can only bow before tbis awful dispensation, knowing tbat tl)e Most 
Hif^h still ruletb in tbe kingdoms of men, and tbat He wbo raised up Abrabam 
Lincoln can raise up otber instruments for bis work. 

We earnestly desire tbat tbe just and generous policy initiated by tbe late 
President may be pursued by bis successor, and tbat tbe great republic may be 
again united in tbe bonds of peace, tbe plague spot of slavery (tbe true secret 
ot its past weakness) forever Aviped from its escutcbeon. 

Tben, in connexion witb tbis glorious consummation, the name of Abrabam 
Lincoln will be beld in grateful and loving remembrance by generations yet 
unborn. 

ELIZABETH PEASE NICHOL, 

President. 
AGXES LTLLIE, 
ELIZA WIGHAM, 

Secretaries. 



Hia Excellency Charles Francis Adams, 

Enroy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiari/ for the 

United IStates oj" Ainerica at the Court of Great Britain and Ireland: 

Sir : We, Jobn Wbyte Melville, esquire, of Bennocby and Strathkinness, 
most worsbipful Grand Master JLison, tbe rigbt worshipful the office-bearer, and 
tbe worshipful tbe members of tbe Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons 
of Scotland, beg leave to assure your excellency tbat tbe very sudden and atro- 
cious crime which has plunged ;be American nation into grief and mourning has 
produced a ft-eling of tbe utmost horror and indignation, not only in the masonic 
craft of Scotland, and the great Mystic family of the world, but also, we doubt 
not, tbroughout tbe enlightened jiortion of the civilized globe. 

We seize tbe earliest opportunity afforded to us of expressing these our sen- 
timents and tbe sorrow we so deeply feel at the loss sustained by tbe American 
peo])lein tbe cowardly assassination of their late President Lincoln. 

\Vbile we offer our fraternal sympathies witb tbe distress occasioned to our 
brethren of tbe United States and tbe people in general by tbis melancholy 
event, we would request your excellency to convey to Mrs. Lincoln and her 
family our sincere and beartfelt condolences on their afflicting bereavement, as- 
suring tbat lady bow deeply she has become, in ber sudden misfortune, tbe ob- 
ject of our earnest and warmest sympathy. 

Trusting it may graciously please the Great Arcbitect of tbe Universe to 
take ber and ber family into His sure keeping, and bestow upon them every 
consolation, and strengthen them to bear up against their present affliction, is tbe 
united prayer of the Freemasons of Scotland. 

Given at Freemansons' Hall, in the city of Edinburgh, in full Grand Lodge 
assembled, tbe eighth day of May, in tbe year of our Lord 18G3, and of light 
58G5. 

J. WHYTE MELVILLE, 
Grand. ALtsfcr Ma^on of Scotland. 

[seal.] WM. H. LAWRIE, 

Gra?f,d Secretary Grand Lodge of Scotland. 



216 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 



Excervt from t7>e minutes of the avnnal general meeting of the rommissioncr 
of supply for the county (f Elgin, North Britain, on the 1st day of May, 1865. 

Sir Alexander Gordon Cummino;, of Altyre and Gordonstown, Baronet, acting 
governor of the county, in the chair. 

On motion of Sir Alexander Gordon Gumming, seconded by Sir George 
M'Pherson Grant, it was 

JJnavimoushj resolved, Tliat the commissioners of supply of the county of Elgin, 
North Britain, assembled at their annual general meeting, desire to take the oppor- 
tunity of expi-essing their sympathy with the American nation, and their horror 
and detestation of the atrocious acts to which the President of the United States 
of America has fallen a victim, which is rendered the more lamentable by the 
high integrity and ability of his career, by the important and eventful crisis at 
which it occurred, and by the consideration and clemency which he had evinced 
towards the vanquished in the hour of triumph. 

Resolved further, That this resolution, signed by the chairman, be transmitted 
to his excellency the American ambassador in Loudon, with the view of its being 
lorwarded to the American government. 

ALEX. P. GORDON GUMMING, Baronet, 
Convener of County of Elgin, North Britain, Chairman. 



Borough Council Chamber, 

Emerald Hill, August 4, 1865. 

Sir : I have the honor, by desire of the council of the borough of Emerald 
Hill, to forward herewith a copy of a resolution unanimously passed by the 
rounci] at the last meeting, being an expression of the council's sympathy with 
the widow of the late and lamented President of the United States of America 
in her sore bereavement ; and also the council's deep abhorrence of the dastardly 
act which has removed from the sphere of his usefulness one of the greatest men 
of modern times, and one who no doubt, had he lived, would have restored 
America to her original tranquillity and prosperity. I am further desired to 
request the favor of your kindly forwarding the enclosed to Mrs. Lincoln by the 
first opportunity. 

1 have the honor to bo, sir, your most obedient servant, 

JOHN WHITEMAN, J. P., Mayor. 

William Blanchard, Esq., 

Consul of the United States cf America. 



Resolution unanimously passed by the council of the horovgh (f Emerald Hill, 
in the colony of Victoria, on the 2d day of August, 1865. 

Resolved, That this council place upon record an expression of its abhorrence 
of the ctuel and dastardly assassination of the late President of the United 
States of America, and its deep sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln in her bereave- 
ment; and that a copy of this resolution be conveyed to that lady through the 
American consul. 

,_^, , JOHN ¥/HITEMAN, J. P., Mayor. 

^ J JAMES EVILLE, Town Clerk. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 217 



Excerpt from the minutes of a meeting of the' vrovost magistrates and council 
of the burgh of Falkirk, held on the 3d day of' May, 1865. 

Provost Keir in the chair. It was moved by Provost Keir — 

That this meeting agrees to enter on its records an expression of deep sym- 
])athy with the government and people of the United States of America under 
the calamity which has befallen them through the assassination of President 
Lincohi, and its entire concurrence in the universal detestation with which that 
Clime is looked on in Great Britain. 

The motion was seconded by Bailie Wyse, and unanimously carried. 

Excerpted from the minutes of council by — 

IIOBEIIT HENDERSON, Town Clerk. 



Unto the government and. jx^ople of the United States of America — the address 
of the irrovost magistrates and town council of the royal burgh of Forfar, in 
Scotland. 

We beg to approach you with heartfelt regret upon the atrocious deed recently 
perpetrated, through which you have been so suddenly and cruelly bereaved of 
the Avise and patriotic counsels of your honored chief. We have watched his 
career since he was first elected President of your great country, and he has 
more and more proved that his subdued firmness and energy, steadlastness to 
truth and morality, calm and foreseeing practical wisdom and kindly forgiving 
nature, fitted him for his high office, and specially qualified him for rightly 
steering the vessel of the state in its present perilous trials. It is, therefore, 
that we, in common with our countrymen, mourn his loss. We hope and trust 
that, chastened by the sad event, and guided by and following his noble exam- 
ple, you will in this time of affliction treat tenderly with all who have departed 
from the path of loyalty, and through your clemency command the admiration 
of the civilized world, heal shattered and embittered feelings, and engender 
kindly intercourse, so long rudely dislocated. 

Signed in name and behalf of the council, in council assembled, by me, provost 
r^ T and chief magistrate of Forfar, and the seal of the burgh attached, this 
'■ "-I first day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. 

JAMES CRAIK, Jr., 
Provost and Chief Magistrate. 



At Forfar, and within the County Hall there, the 1st day of May, 1SG5, in the 
statutory general meeting of the commissioners of supply and justices of the 
peace of the county of Forfu-, of which meeting the right honorable the Earl 
of Dalhousie, K. T., G. C. B., &c., &c., lord lieutenant of Forfarshire, was chair- 
man. 

Before proceeding to the ordinary business of the meeting, the lord lieutenant 
submitted the following resolution, which was unanimously agreed to : 

The justices of the peace and commissioners of supply of the county of For- 
far, having read with horror of the tragical event which has recently occurred in 
the United States of America, by the cold-blooded and cowardly assassination 
of President Lincoln, desire to express their cordial sympathy with the people 
and government of the United States in this most grievous calamity. 

Whatever opinion may be held by individuals of their body, there is not ono 
of them who does not bear a willing tribute to the honesty of purpose and the 



218 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COKEESPONDENCE. 

patriotism of the late President, aucl Lis deep sense of the responsibility which 
lay ui)on him of maintaining the Constitution of his country unimpaired. 

The meeting desire that a coj)y of this resolution, signed by the lord lieuten- 
ant of the county, may be transmitted to his excellency Charles Francis Adams, 
the United States minister in London. 

By desire of the meeting : 

DALHOUSIE, Lord Lieut. 



Resolutions passed at a meeting held hy the inliahitants of Friockheim, Scotland. 

At a largely attended meeting held on the 4th djiy of May, 1865, of the in- 
habitants of Friockheim, county of Forftir, Scotland, called for the purpose of 
consideration of the recent tragedy in the United States of America, resulting 
in the death of President Lincoln, and the serious disablement of Secretary Wil- 
liam IL Seward, the following resolutions were unanimously passed: 

Doctor John Todd was called to the chair. 

1. Moved by Mr. Francis Patterson, quarry-master, and seconded by Mr. A. 
R. Laing, manure merchant, " That this meeting desire sincerely to sympathize 
Avith their brethren in the United States of America in the gi-eat loss which 
they have sustained by the death of President Lincoln, and to express their 
deep abhorrence at his atrocious murder." 

2. Muved by Mr. W. G. Oliver, saddler, and seconded by Mr. James Chris- 
tie, laborer, " That this meeting wish to express their heartfelt condolence with 
Mrs. Lincoln in the irreparable loss which she and her family have sustained 
in the death of her illustrious and worthy husband." 

3. Moved by Mr. John Glass, shoemaker, and seconded by Mr. John Scott, 
gas-manager, " That this meeting likewise desire to express their feeling of de- 
testation at the murderous attack upon Secretary Seward, their sympathy with 
the American government and people on this most deplorable event, and their 
heartfelt hope that he will be so far recovered at an early date as to resume the 
reins of office." 

It was agreed that a copy of these resolutions be transmitted through Mr. 
Adams, the United States representative in London, for being forwarded to the 
proper quarter. 

JOHN TODD, Chairman. 



At a special meeting of the town council of the burgh of Greenock, called by 
order of ihe provost, and held within the Council Uall there, on Friday, the 5th 
day of May, 1865, the honorable the provost in the chair — the provost having 
stated the object of the meeting, it was unanimously resolved — 

That this council, in common with all classes of their fellow-citizens, have 
heard with hormr, indignation, and profound regret, of the foul and execrable 
murder of the President of the United States of America. 

That this council deeply sympathize with the great American republic under 
the heavy loss which it has sustained by the unexpected and untimely decease, 
under such revolting circumstances, and in the midst of his illustrious career, of 
a ruler whose personal excellence and kingly endowments have rendered him 
an object .of honest pride to his own countrymen, and of just admiration to the 
rest of the world, and whose earnest endeavors to cultivate and maintain 
friendly relations with Great Britain must ever endear his name and memory to 
the people of this country 

That this council also deeply sympathize with Mrs. Lincoln and family under 
their heavy bereavement, and earnestly pray that they may be sustained and 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 219 

supported by Him " who is the husband of the widow and the father of the 
fatherless." 

That llie provost be authorized to sign the resolutions now unanimously- 
approved of by this council, and that the provost, Treasurer Fleming, and Coun- 
cillor Mortal, be requested to present the same to the American minister in Lou- 
don, with a re(juest that he will kindly forward the same to his government. 

JAMES I. GlvlERS, Provost of Greenock. 



BOROUGH OF GRANTHAM. 

Resolution passed at a meeting luld hy tlie council of the horovgJi of Grantham. 

Extract from the minutes of a quarterly meeting of the council of the said 
borough held at the Guildhall there, on Thursday, the 11th day of ^lay, 1SG5; 
present, Richard John Boyall, esq., mayor, and others : 

Resolved unanimon.sl i/, That we, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the 
borough of Grantham, in council assembled, desire to give expn.'ssion to the feel- 
ings of horror and indignation with which we have heard of the assassination of 
President Lincoln, and the murderous attack upon Mr. Seward, and beg to con- 
vey to Mrs. Lincoln, and the government and people of the United States, our 
sincere and profound sympathy and heartfelt condolence at the sad events. 

[seal.] lUCH'D JOHN BOYALL, Mcujor. 



To his Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

P resilient of the United States of America: 

Sir : We, the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the city of Gloucester, in Eng- 
land, desire to convey to the people of your great country the feelings of sor- 
row and abhorrence with which we, in common with all classes of this kingdom, 
received the lamentable intelligence of the death, by the hands of an assassin, of 
your late distinguished President, Abraham Lincoln, and of the dastardly attack 
upon the life of another officer of your government, Mr. Secretary Seward. 

While deploring with all civilizod naiions the commission of these heinous 
and detestable crimes, we would offer to the people of the United States an ex- 
pression of our sympathy and good will ; and wc; would also add our siucerest 
condolence with the widow and family of tli<! late eminent statesman. 

Given lender our common seal, the 1st day of May, 18G5. 

[seal.] W. C. tun stall, Mut/ot. 



Town Hall, Gerlong, August 22, 1865, 
Madam : I have the honor, on behalf of the town council of Geelong, in the 
colony of Victoria, Australia, to forward (through William lUaiichard, esq., the 
American consul) the accompanying address from that body, of sympathy and 
condolence with you in your deep affliction on the lamented death of your hus- 
band, the late President of the United States of America. 

I have the honor to be, ma'dam, with the most profound respect, your most 
obedient, humble servant, 

[seal.] CHARLES KEENOT, Ma>/or. 

WILLIAM WEI RE, Toivn Clerk. 
, Mrs. Lincoln, Washington, America. 



220 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Address of sympathy to Mrs. Ijincoln, on the death of her husband, the late 
President of' the United States of America, from the mayor, aldermen, coun- 
cil I ors, and burgesses of the town of Geclong, in the colony of Victoria, Aus- 
tralia. 

We, the town council of Geelong, in council assembled, hereby desire to place 
on record our abhorrence and detestation of the atrocious murder of Abraham 
Lincoln, late President of the United States of America. 

We desire also to offer our unfeigned and sincere sympathy and condolence 
to Mrs. Lincoln, in her deep affliction and great bereavement. 

Given under my hand, and the seal of the corporation of Geelong, this 22d day 
of August, in the year of our Lord 1865. 

rsE4L.] CHARLES KEENOT, Mayor. 

WILLIAM WEIKE, Town Clerk. 

Town Hall, Geelong. 



[Handbill.] 
SYMPATHY AVITH AMERICA. 

^ase assassination of the President, Abraham Ijincoln, and attempted murder 

of Mr. Seward. 

A public meeting will be held at the Town Hall, Great Bardfield, on Wed- 
nesday evening. May 3, 1865, to express its utter abhorrence of the above foul 
crimes, and to pass a resolution of condolence with Mrs. Lincoln and the people 
of the United States in their present painful position. 

Chair to be taken at eight o'clock by Erancis J. Ereelove. 

All classes are earnestly invited to attend. Admission free. 



Resolutions unanimously adopted at the above meeting: 

1st. That this meeting deeply sympathizes with the people of the United 
States in the great loss they have sustained in the sad death of their worthy 
President, Abraham Lincoln, and expresses its hori'or and indignation both at 
the foul crime which was the cause of his decease and of that which meditated 
the murder of Mr. Seward. 

2d. That this meeting records its heartfelt condolence with Mrs. Lincoln in 
her irreparable loss, and fervently hopes that she may be supported in her 
overwhelming trouble. 

Signed on behalf of the above meeting. 

ERANCIS J. EREELOVE, Chairman. 

Great Bardfield, Hay 3, 1865. 



Honorable William H. Seward, 

Secretary of the United States of America, Washington : . 

We, the inhabitants of the town of Gait, Canada West, being British subjects, 
on hearing of the base assassination of the late honored President of the United 
States, and also of the foul attempt made upon your own life and that of your 
sons, have, through our properly constituted authorities, called a public meeting 
of the inhabitants of this place, to give expression to our sense of horror at 
these acts, and to express deep sympathy with the bereaved widow and family, 
yourself and family, and your nation at large, at Avhich this address and the 
following resolutions were unanimously adopted, and we have instructed our 



SEXTDIEXTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 221 

cliairman and secretary to sign the s;.me, and to affix to tlicm the seal of our 
corporation, respectiully soliciting you to present the same to Mrs. Lincoln and 
family, and also to your nation, as expressive of our deep sympathy with them 
in this their great affliction ; and most earnestly would we pray that the day may 
never come w^hen such scenes shall be repeated ; that peace to your nation may 
soon be restored, and that the bonds of national and Christian brotherhood 
which now unite us so closely into one may never be dissolved ; that your health 
may soon be restored, and that you may long live to fill the high station you 
occupy, to assist in maintaining the unity of the nations in the bonds of peace.' 

The foregoing address was moved by the Kev. J. A. Miller, and seconded by 
"William INL'Laughliu, esq.: 

1st. Moved by the Rev. Mr. Acheson, seconded by James Young, esq , and 
resolved, that we hereby express our hearfelt indignation and horror towards the 
spirit that planned, and the monster in human form that perpetrated, the foul act 
of assassinating the late honored President of the United States. We cannot 
but regard it as a base violation of every principle of right, both human and 
divine, and as such at variance with the spirit and law of all civilized nations. 

2d. Moved by the Rev. Mr. M'Ghee, seconded by the Rev. Mr. M'Rae, and 
resolved, that in accordance with the common sympathies of our nature, and in 
the spirit of our holy Christianity, we hereby beg to present our deep sympathy 
for and condolence Avith the bereaved widow and her afflicted family in the loss 
they have sustained by the removal, especially in such a manner, of an aftectionate 
husband and a kind father. 

3d. Moved by the Rev, Mr. Campbell, seconded by James Cowan, esq., 
M. P. P., and resolved, that we also hereby beg to express our earnest sympathy 
■with the people of the United States in being thus deprived, at a critical period 
of their history, of the services of one whom they called to fill the office of Chief 
Magistrate at a time when that position was beset with most unparalleled diffi- 
culties, and yet who so conducted himself as to secure not only the confidence 
and love of his own people, but also the admiration and esteem of foreign na- 
tions, who, from his consistent character, were led to regard him as a sagacious, 
conciliatory, honest, yet firm chief ruler. 

4th. Moved by the Rev. Mr. Murdoch, seconded by William Osborne, esq., 
and resolved, that we mourn the untimely death of Abraham Lincoln as one 
honestly desirous of maintaining peace with the British nation, a firm friend of 
what is dear to us as Britons and as Christians, the cause of emancipation, and 
it is our confident hope, while it will ever be our prayer, that divine Providence 
may grant to his successor the same wise and Christian policy. 

Dated at Gait in the county of Waterloo, this seventeenth day of April, 
A. D. 1S65. 

MORRIS C LUTZ, Mayor, Chairman. 
THOMAS SPARROW, Town Clerk, ^Secretary. 



Resolutions j^Gssccl at a meeting held hy the inhabitants of Gahcay. 

Public meeting in Gafway, May, 1S65. 

At a public meeting held in the town court-house on Thursday, 4th instant, 
the follov.'ing resolutions were iniauimously adopted — 

I'homas M. Persse, esq., chairman of town commissioners, in the chair. 

Projjosed by Rev. Peter Daly, P. 1'., seconded by A O'Flaherty, esq., D.L. : 

Resoh-ed, That we, the citizens of Gal way, have heard wi li feelings of 
liorror and indignation of the atrocious murder of the President of the United 
States. Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of Mr Secretary 
Seward, and we hereby join our fellow-countrymen in offi;ring our sincere sym- 
patliy to the American people on the national bereavement they have sustanu^d. 



222 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEEESPONDENCE. 

Proposed by Professor Moffett, LL.D., seconded by R. A. Somerville, esq. : 
Resolved, That although we cannot believe our good v/ords will have much 
eflFect in soothing the sorrow of Mrs. Lincoln, yet we cannot separate without 
expressing our condolence with her on the great calamity that has befallen 
Leiself and family in the untimely end of her illustrious husband, and our hope 
that the universal sympathy of the world may in some measure assuage their 
great grief. 

Proposed by James Campbell, esq., seconded by Rev. J. D'Arcy, rector of 
Galway : 

Resolved, That copies of the foregoing resolutions, signed by the chairman 
and secretaries of this meeting, on behalf of the people of Galway, be sent to 
the American minister in London for transmission to ^Jrs. Lincoln and the United 
States government. 

THOMAS M. PERSSE, J. P., Chairman. 
JAMES CAMPBELL, 
THOMAS W.MOFFETT,LL.D., 

Honorary Secretaries. 



At Glasgow, on Tuesday, the 2d day of May, 1865, and within the Trades' 
Hall, there was held a meeting of the inhabitants called by the chief magistrate. 

The hall was filled. 

Andrew Galbraith, esq., merchant in Glasgow, moved that the acting chief 
magistrate be requested to take the chair, and that the city chamberlain be re- 
quested to act as secretary. 

The motion was carried by acclamation. 

Thereafter the seoetary read the fiillowing requisition addressed to the hon- 
orable the lord provost of the city, and signed by a large number of the leading 
citizens : 

" We, the undersigned, hereby request your lordship to call a meeting, upon 
an early day, of the inhabitants of Glasgow, for the purpose of expressing their 
abhorrence of the crime by which America has been deprived of her President, 
and their sympathy with the American people." Together with the following 
reply by the acting chief magistrate, in the necessary absence of the lord pro- 
vost, who is ill London: 

" In compliance with the foregoing requisition, I hereby call a public meeting 
to be held in the Trades' Hall, Glasgow, upon Tuesday, the 2d May, at one 
oclock, 

"ROBERT GILKISON, 

" Acting Chief Magistrate.'^ 

'•Glasgow, May 1, 1865." 

The secretary then read the following telegram, addressed to him by the lord 
provost : 

'■ Be good enough to deliver the following message to the chairman of the 
American meeting in the Trades' Hall. Please to inform the meeting that I 
much regret not being able to be present, and as lord provost of the city to join 
with the citizens in the expression of their I'eelings of abhorrence at the barbar- 
ous crime winch lias been committed in the assassination of President Lincoln 
and the attack on j\[r. Seward, grief at the national loss sustained by the 
United States of America from the death of so great and honest a President, 
and sympathy with his bereaved widow." 

The Very Reverend Thomas Barclay, D. D , principal of the University of 
Glasgow, moved the first resolution, which was seconded by Charles Gardner, 
esq., manager of the Union Bank of Scotland, as follows: 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 223 

"Wc, the citizens of Glasgow, in public meeting assemblecl, have heard with 
grief, and do licrel)y express our unmitigated horror of the crime wliich has 
suddenly deprived the United States of America of an upright and honored 
ruler." 

The resolution was carried by acclamation. 

Henry Glassford Bell, esq , one of the sheriff substitutes of the county of 
Lanark, moved the second resolution, which was seconded by Sir Andrew Orr, 
of Harviestou and Castle Campbell, as follows : 

"We embrace this opportunity of assuring the citizens of the United States 
of our deep and earnest sympathy with them under this grievous dispensation." 

The resolution was carried by acclamation. 

James Lumsden, esq., merchant, Glasgow, moved the third resolution, which 
was seconded by Walter Paterson, esq., merchant, as follows: 

"That the chairman be authorized to subscribe these resolutions in the name 
of the numerous and influential meeting; and that the secretary be requested 
to transmit them to the lord provost for presentation at the American embassy 
in London." 

The resolution was carried by acclamation. 

Signed by me in name and by appointment of the meeting, and I have caused 
r-PAT ^ *^^^ common seal of the citv of Glasgow to be hereunto afliixed, this 2d 
L^EALJ j.i^. of May, 1865. 

ROBERT GILKISON, 

Acting Ch'u'f JSIcigistrutc. 

The right honorable the Lord Belhaven and Slenton, lord li<!utenant of the 
county of Lanark, then moved that the thanks of this meeting be otiered to 
Bailie Gilkison for the promptitude and courtesy with which he called this 
meeting and occupied the chair. 

This resolution also was carried by acclamation. 

WM. W. WATSON, ChamhcrJain, 

Secretary to the meeting. 



At a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, held at Glasgow the 2Stli 
April, 1865 — present, Messrs. John M'Ewen, Henry Dunlop, James Sterling, 
James Watson, John Ramsay, James Lumsden, Walter Paterson, James A. 
Campbell, James White, John Mathieson, jr., Patrick Playfair, J. C. Bolton, 
and William M'Kinnon — I\Ir. M'Ewen in the chair — 

It was moved by the chairman, and seconded by Mr. Dunlop, that this cham- 
ber desire to record their utter abhorrence and detestation of the crime by which 
the United 'States have been so suddenly deprived of the services of their Pres- 
ident, Abraham Lincoln ; that the chamber beg to express their sincere sympathy 
with the people of the United States of America on so trying an occasion, and trust 
that the sad event may be so overruled as not to be ])rejudicial to the continued 
prosperity of the United States of America and the best interests of the nation. 

[sEAL.j JNO. i^I'EWEN, 

President. 



At Glasgow, and within the Merchants' Hall, this 3d day of May, 1865 at a 
meeting of the members of the Merchants' House, called by public advertise- 
ment for the purpose of "expressing abhorrence at th^ detest'ible crime which 



224 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

has deprived the United States of President Lincohi, and to vote an address of 
condolence to them on this niehmcholy occasion," Archibakl Orr Ewing, esq., 
lord dean of guihl, in the chair — 

The clerk read the advertisement calling the meeting, after which the lord 
dean of guild proposed the following resolution : 

That tliis house have received the intelligence of the assassination of President 
Lincoln of the United States of America with sentiments of horror and pain. 

That they desire to express their heartfelt sympathy and condolence with the 
people of the United States, who, in a manner so shocking to every feeling of 
humanity and so subversive of social order, have been suddenly deprived of their 
Chief Magistrate at a momentous crisis in the history of their country. 

That this house would record their high respect for the character of the late 
President Lincoln, and their grateful remembrance of his endeavors, at all times, 
to preserve and cultivate friendly relations with Great Britain; and they would 
express their earnest hope and prayer that the prospects of internal peace which 
had opened to the United States during the last days of Mr. Lincoln's life may 
not be materially affected by the execrable deed which has brought that life 
prematurely to an end. 

Which resolution, having been seconded by Sir James Cam2)bell, of Straca- 
thro. Was unanimously agreed to. 

It was then moved by Alexander Harvey, esq., that the lord dean of guild 
be authorized to sign the resolutions now read and approved by this house, and 
that he thereafter forward them to the United States government through the 
American minister in London. 

Which motion, having been seconded by William M'Ewen, e§q., was also 
unanimously carried. 

The lord dean of guild having declared the business of the meeting termi- 
nated, it was thereupon moved by Peter White, esq., that a vote of thanks be 
accorded to the lord dean of guild for the promptitude with which he had called 
the meeting, and for the able manner in which he had presided. 

Which motion having been earned by acclamation, the meeting separated. 

Signed and sealed with the corporation seal of the Merchants' House, in name 
r- ■] and by appointment of said house, at Glasgow, this 3d day of May, 

[SEAL.J ^gg^_ 

ARCHIBALD ORR EWING, 

Dean of Guild. 



His Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States of America : 

Sir: We, the members of the Union and Emancipation Society of Glasgow, 
desire to express through you to the great nation of which you now are chief 
our profound sorrow for the loss it has sustained through the cruel and atrocious 
assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and our utter detestation and abhoireuce of 
the foul deed which has brought this calamity upon your people. 

We mourn with your nation ; for we have long reverenced Abraham Lincoln 
as a great and good man, discharging the solemn duties intrusted to him, not 
only with high ability, but with purity of jnxrpose and simplicity of heart, and 
ever seeking righteous ends through honorable means. 

Called to power in the direst crisis of your national history, he has proved tol 
the world that high-principled integrity is practical wisdom, and that the great- 
est difficulties in the affairs of nations are best mastered by the spirit of simplest i 
nobleness. I 

We would also ask your excellency to convey our sorrowing sympathy toj 
Mrs. Lincoln, and assure her of our prayer that the Everlasting Arm may be: 



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SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 225 

outstretched to uplift and give her streugth iu her terrible bereavement, and the 
tender mercy of our Father in Heaven minister the peace which passeth' under- 
standing. 

We Avould further beg your excellency to express to Mr. Seward our indig- 
nant horror at the vile blows inflicted on him by an assassin's hand, and our 
earnest and hearty hope that he may soon be restored to his accustomed place 
in the councils of your government. 

"We believe, sir, that the universal indignation excited by these crimes which 
have disgraced humanity will bind even more closely our nation to yours, and 
that we only utter the feeling of the aroused heart of the mass of our people 
when we pray that those beneficent purpo:-es of Abraham Lincoln (which, ex- 
pressed upon the day of his death, are his last legacy to his countrymen) may 
have their happy and abundant fulfilment in a peace which shall conclude Avar 
with mercy, and, while securing freedom for those heretofore held in bondage, 
shall unite all sections and parties in one nation whose prosperous future will 
be the best monument to the memory of the great ruler over whose sad grave 
Ave mourn Avith a common sorrow. 

Signed, in behalf of the society, by — 

JAMES SINCLAIR, 

Secretary. 

Glasgow, April 28, 1SC5. 



His Excellency honorable Charles Francis Adams, 

United States Minister, Sfc., Sfc., at London : 
Sir : We, the undersigned, Americans, resident in Glasgow, have heard with 
the deepest grief, horror, and detestation, that the President of the United States 
has been deprived of life by violence. 

We beg to convey to you, as the representative of the American government 
in London, our heartfelt sympathy, on learning this sorroAvful event. We also 
ask permission to record oui- loving admiration of the stainless and heroic presi- 
dency of Abraham Lincoln, and to express our hope and confidence, that through 
the veneration inspired by his lofty \'irtue, his influence may now become more 
poAverful than ever to guide the Union, of which he was the fruit and ornament, 
to victory and peace. 

J. M. BAILEY. 

A. F. STODDARD. 

WM. COOK. 

W. B. HUGGINS. 

M. M. MOORE. 

LEWIS T. MERROR. 



At a meeting of native-born Americans, convened at the United States Con- 
sulate in GlasgOAV on the 28th instant, for the purpose of expressing their feel- 
ings Avith respect to the late distressing neAvs from the United States, J. ]\L 
Bailey, esq., consul of the United States of America, in the chair, and A. F. Stod- 
dard, secretary, it Avas unanimously resolved — 

1. Whereas Ave have heard Avitli profound sorroAv and indignation of the as- 
sassination of our honored Chief Magistrate, Abraham Lincoln, and of the das- 
tardly attempt upon the life of Mr. SeAvard, Secretary of State, Ave tender our 
deep and heartfelt sympathy and grief to our weeping countrymen at home, and 
would mingle our tears Avith theirs over the grave of one of nature's noblest sons,, 
whose loss at this critical and eventful period of our nation's history is Avholly 
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226 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDEXCE. 

irreparable. We mourn for the foil of one whose every impulse was characterized 
by pure patriotism aud unflinching devotion to the cause of liberty, and who com- 
bined in a pre-eminent degree those heavenly attributes, mercy, justice, and truth 

2. That while mourning over the great loss which has befallen our country, 
we deeply ^sympathize with Mi-s. Lincoln and her afflicted family in the heavy 
blow which they have so sixddenly and so unexpectedly sustained, and trust 
that the love of a great nation may in some degree compensate for him who has 
thus been ruthlessly snatched from their side. 

3. That while conveying to Mr. Seward and his stricken fomily our sincere 
grief and sympathy for the sad calamity which has befallen them, we earnestly 
pray that their lives may all be spared to their country. 

4. That we, in common with humanity the world over, unite in expressing 
our unmitigated abhorrence aud detestation of the vile heaiits that conceived this 
diabolical plot, and the villanous hands that executed the cowardly deeds. 

5. That v/e have confidence in the integrity and ability of Andrew Johnson, 
the present Chief Magistrate of the United States, and fondly trust that by fol- 
lowing in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor, he may, under God, speedily 
see consummated the desire of a nation's heart ; when the United States shall 
emphatically become the " land of the free," as she has proven herself on many 
a sanguinary field " the home of the brave." 

6. That th^ foregoing resolutions be signed by the chairman and secretary, 
and forwarded to our minister in London, for transmission to the President of 
the United States. 

J. :M. bailey, Chairman. 
A. F. STODDARD, Secretary. 
Glasgow, April 28, 1865. 



Resolutions of the synod of the R. P. church in Scotland. 

To the honorable Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States of America: 

Honored Sir: The following resolutions were unanimously passed at the meet- 
ing of the synod of the Reformed Presbyterian church in Scotland, held in Glas- 
gow, 10th May, 1865. As clerk to that synod, I have been instructed to for- 
ward them to you, as expressive of our sympathy with your great nation in the 
crisis through which it had been passing. 

JOHN KAY, Clerk to R. P. Synod. 

1. That this court, recognizing the duty of Christian churches to consider those 
momentous evolutions of Providence which may seriously affect the moral and 
spiritual welfare of mankind, record an expression of deep sympathy with the 
people of the United States, under the attempts made on the life of their Secre- 
tary of State, and more especially under the loss of their chief ruler. President 
Lincoln, by a foul assassination, and deplore it as an event Avhich would have 
been painful and startling under any circumstances, but which is much more dis- 
tressing from the gravity of the crisis in whieh it occurred, and from the evi- 
dence which the deceased President had given of a firm jjurpose, in combination 
with great benignity of temper — the very cpalities that seem chiefly requisite 
to meet the remaining difliculties of the American government in its efforts to 
restore peace and order and unity throughout its extensive dominions. 

2. Although this court never could regard with any feelings but the deepest 
abhorrence the attempt to rear a government with slavery as its corner-stone, 
and while due regard must be had to the interests of law aud justice, the hope id 



SENTDIE>s'TS OF COXDOLEXCE AXD SYMPATHY. 227 

confidently cberished tliat the American government will be enabled to signalize 
the reality of its success in restoring the " Union," and to give the v/orld some 
assurance of its own conscious strength, by adherence to the same magnanimous 
and merciful policy to the vanc[uished, which Abraham Lincoln would appear 
to have recommended and inaugurated. 

In name and by authority of the synod of the Reformed Presbyterian church 
in Scotland. 

^VILLTAM McLACHLIN, Moderator. 
JOHN KAY, Clerk of Synod. 



Resolutions of the Chumhcr of Commerce. 

Chamber of Commerce, Guernsey, May, 1865. 

At a general meeting held on the 2d of May, 1S65 — 

Resolved, This chamber, deeply impressed with horror at the intelligence re- 
cently received from America of the assassination of President Lincoln and others, 
thinks it a duty to publicly express its abhorrence of such dastardly crimes, the 
authors of which deserve the execration of mankind. 

The inhabitants of these Norman islands of the channel, the apex of the great 
Xorman Anglo-Saxon social edifice, venture to hope that the fratricidal struggle 
that has endured in America during a period of four years, and affording on both 
sides so many proofs of heroism and endurance, may be closed, and, uniting again, 
peace and prosperity may be restored throughout America ; and that the great 
Norman Anglo-Saxon family in all its branches throughout both hemisplieres, 
all sprung from the same race, may hereafter live in l)rotlierly union and love, 
contributing to the happiness and welfare of each and all, and giving to the 
world a bright example of concord, progress, and civilization. 

THOS. HELARY AGNEW, Secretary. 



Resolutions of sympatTiy with America, passed at a meeting of working men, and 
women, held, in the Temperance Hall, Gatcshcad-oii-Tyne, on Sunday evening, 
Mayl,\SQ5. 

Mr. George Lucas in the chair. 

]\roved by Mr. Blagburne, seconded by j\[r. Cammell, and carried unani- 
mously — 

1. That the workingmen who constitute this meeting have looked witli much 
interest upon the struggle whicli has been so long pending in America, and they 
devoutly trust it will issue in the entire ovctrthrow of slavery throughout the 
American continent. 

Moved by Mr. Wheaton, seconded by D. Rule, and carried unanimously — 

2. That the workingmen now assembled desire to express their regret that 
persons in this country have spoken and written in justification of the rebellion 
of the South, especially during tin; earlier periods of the conflict ; but they liave 
observed with much satisfaction, that as the spirit and objects of the contending 
parties have become more fully understood throughout this country, a diff'erent 
tone has prevailed ; and it is hoped the event, now so much deplored, may 
tend to cement the two nations in bonds of lasting brotherhood. 

^[oved by Mr. Tweddle, seconded by Mr. Wad.sworth, and carried unani- 
mously — 

3. That the workingmen now assembled wish to express their deep admira- 
tion of the manner in which the late President has conducted the affairs of the 



228 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COPvRESPONDENCE. 

government of America during the period of liis office, but tliey most of all ad- 
mire that spirit of wise moderation which he manifested towards the enemies of 
the Union in periods of especial difificulty and provocation. 

Moved by Mr. Thomas Rule, seconded by i\ir. Smith, and carried unani- 
mously — 

4. That the working men now congregated wish to express their utter detesta- 
tion of the diabolical crime which has deprived a wife of her husband, children 
of their father, the American commonwealth of its President, and the world of 
one of its most distinguished benefactors. 

Moved by Mr. J. B. Aiiderson, seconded by Mrs. Tweddle, and carried unan- 
imously — 

5. That the working men and women who compose this meeting desire to ex- 
press to Mrs. Lincoln their unfeigned condolence in her present affliction, and 
to direct her mind to that source of true consolation which her late husband knew 
so Avell how to value. 

Moved by Mr. Towusend, seconded by Mr. Rutherford, and carried unani- 
mously — 

6. That this meeting earnestly hopes that should events arise between Eng- 
land and America which appear of a complicated character, a wise forbearance 
may be manifested on the part of both nations, and differences be settled on the 
principles of equal justice. 

Moved by Mr. Mackin, seconded by Mr. Swanson, and carried unanimously — 

7. That the resolutions now passed be forwarded by the chairman to the Amer- 
ican minister in London, for presentation to the American commonwealth. 

GEORGE LUCAS, 
Chairman of the Meeting. 
Gatesheadom-Tyne, May 8, 1865. 



Resolution of the viayor, aldermen, and hurgesses of the borough of Huntingdon. 

At a meeting of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Hunt- 
ingdon, held in the council chamber of the said borough, this 10th day of May, 
1865, it was proposed by Mr. Foster, seconded by Mr. Charles Veasey — That 
this coimcil unanimously desires to convey to the government of the United 
States of America the sorrow and indignation felt by this council at the assas- 
sination of the late President of the United States, and their deep sympathy 
Avith the people of America at the loss sustained thereby. 

Proposed by Mr. Cooch, seconded by Mr. Foreman, and — 

Rcsolred, That a copy of the foregoing resolution be signed by the mayor, 
and the corporate seal affixed thereto, and that the same be then transmitted to 
the American minister. 

[seal.] ROBERT MARGETTS, Mayor. 



Resolution of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Hastings. 

Town Clerk's Office, 

Hastings, May 6, 1865. 

Sir : At a meeting of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, the council of the 
borough of Hastings, held on the 5th instant, it was — 

Resolved, That this council has heard with extreme horror and indignation the 
news of the assassination of the late President of the United States, and desire 
that the people of those States do understand that the people of this munici- 
pality are full of symj)athy with them, under the disgraceful act by which Pres 
ident Lincoln lost his life. 






SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 229 

At the above-named meeting- of the council of this borongli I was instructed 
to forward a copy of the resolution to the American ambassador. 
I have the honor to be your most obedient servant, 

ROBERT GROWSE, Toion Clerk. 
C. F. Adaims, Esq., American Amhassador. 



At a quarterly meeting of the council of the borough of Hertford, held ilay 
10, 1865 — present: Jasper Gripper, esq., mayor; aklevmen, Squire, Austin, and 
Young; councillors, Armstrong, Cocks, llaggar, Hancock, Neall, Pollard, Mau- 
ser, Twaddle, Wilson, and Woodhouse, M. 1). — it was unanimously — 

RcHolved, That this corporation wishes, emphatically, to express the feelings 
of indignation and grief Avith which they have heard of the atrocious acts by 
which the United States of America have been suddenly deprived of their 
President, and the life of his chief secretary endangered ; and that they recall 
with sorrowful interest the friendly feelings invariably displayed by the late 
President Lincoln toward this country. 

PHILIP LONGMORE, 

Tuivn Clerk. 



Hon. Charles F. Ada.ais, 

Minister of the United States in England: 

HoiXORED Sir: Wc, the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of Herefnd, in coun- 
cil assembled, view with ihe utmost detestation and horror the flagitious crime 
by which the life of Mr. President Lincoln has been so cruelly sacriliced, and 
desire to express the deep sympathy we entertain with the government and peo- 
ple of the United States of America under the se\'X?re calamity which this 
atrociMUs act has inflicted upon them. 

We also beg most respectfully to offer to Mrs. Lincoln our sincere condolence 
under the awful bereavement which she has sustained. 

And we are most anxious to convey to the American nation oiir sentiments 
of deep grief and indignation at the cowardly attack which has been made upon 
the life of Mr. Secretary Seward, together with our earnest hope that he may 
very soon recover from the se^'ere wounds which have been inflicted upon him. 

As the representatives of the mliabitants of this ancient city, we request that 
you will do us the favor to forward to the President of the United States, to 
Mrs. Lincoln, and to Mr. Secretary Seward these expressions of our sentiments, 
with the assurance that it is our anxious desire that no other feelings than such 
as are consonent with those above expressed will ever prevail between the 
people of this realm and those of the United States. 

Sealed with our corporate common seal, at our council chamber in the 
(Juildhall of the city of Hereford, this 2d day of May, 1865. 
[seal.] THOMAS CANN, May jr. 



Res'dution jxissed at a meeting of the mayor, aldermen, and toicn council of 

the borough of llanlcy. 

Town Clerk's Office, 
Hartley, Staffordshire, May 11, 1865. 

We, the mayor, aldermen, and town council of the borough of ILinley, have 
heard with feelings of grief and abhorrence of the foul assassination of Presi- 
dent Lincoln, and the murderous attack on Mr. Seward, and desire to convey to 



230 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Mrs. Lincoln and tlie United States government onr lieartfelt sympathy and 
earnest wishes for the prosperity of the country. 

The corporate seal of the horongh of Hauley was hereunto afi&xed this 
11th day of May, 1865, iu the presence of 
[SEAL.] EDWARD CHALLINO, Town Clerk. 



His Excellency the President 

of the United States oj" America: 

May it please your excellency, we, the provost magistrates and council of the 
burgh of Hawick, in that part of her Britannic Majesty's dominions called Scot- 
land, in public council assembled, having heard with the deepest sorrow and indig- 
nation of the assassination of President Lincoln, hasten to express to you the feel- 
ings of horror and execration with wliich such an atrocious crime is regarded by 
this whole community, and to tender our sincere sympathy and condolence with 
the government and people over whom you preside, under the terrible national 
calamity they have thereby sustained. 

May it please your excellency also to convey the deep sympathy and con- 
dolence we feel towards the widow and family of the late lamented President, 
under the sudden and overwhelming bereavement over which they have, iu an 
especial manner, been called to mourn. 

That the terrible catastrophe which has befallen your country may be merci- 
fully overruled by Him who is Governor among the nations, for the speedy 
pacification and prosperity of the American people, is the earnest prayer of youi* 
excellency's most obedient servants. 

Signed in name and by authority of the provost magistrates and council 
of the burgh of Hawick. 
[seal,] ' GEO. WILSON, Provost. 



Address to President Johnson hy the friends of union and emancipation in 

Hawick. 

Address unanimously adopted at a public meeting of the friends of union 
and emancipation, held at Hawick, Scotland, May 5, 1865: 
His Excellency, Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States of America : 

Having heard with profound sorrow of the assassination of his Excellency 
President Lincoln and the attempted assassination of the Hon. Mr. Seward, we 
tender to you this expression of our deep sense of the wickedness of the atro- 
cious crime that has been perpetrated, and of our heartfelt sympathy with the 
American people under the heavy loss they have sustained in the untimely 
close of Mr Lincoln's great career. 

While feeling deep sorrow for the death of t^liat great and good man, to whose 
inflexibility of purpose and unswerving fidelity to great principles the American 
people have been so much indebted throi;ghout the gigantic struggle in which 
they have been engaged, we cannot help expressing, at the same time, our high 
satisfaction at the recent great victories of your armies, under General Grant, 
over the confederates at Richmond and Petersburg, the capture of these cities, 
the surrender of General Lee with the shattered remnant of his once formida- 
ble rebel army, and the subsequent successes of the army under General Sher- 
man, resulting, as that brilliant scries of events does, in the entire overthrow of 
one of the most gigantic conspiracies against the rights of mankind of which 
history contains any record, and giving confident hope of the complete restora- 
tion of the Union and of the emancipation of the negro race. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 231 

We cannot doubt tlint the Pame policy which was so Ptcaclfostly and ably 
carried _<^"t by IMr. Lincoln will be continued by yourself, on whom the highest 
responsibilities! of the state have now devolved ; and we trust that ere long the 
great issues of Union and emancipation may be fully and happily consummated ; 
and that the United States, emancipated from the evil and disorganizing institu- 
tion of slavery, and from the dominating power of a slave aristocracy, may 
come out of this great crisis a yet purer", stronger, and freer nation, and that 
between her government and ours, and her people and ours, feelings of amity 
and brotherhood may ever be maintained, and that the two nations advancing 
together in righteousness, in commerce, and in moral power, may lead forward 
the nations of the world to higher conditions of prosperity, happiness, and jus- 
tice than any that have yet been attained. 

Signed in name and by authority of the meeting. 

ANDREW WAUGH, 
Chairman of the Meeting. 



Hon. M. H. Richey, ?nayor of Halifax, to United States consul. 

Mayor's Offick, 
Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 18, 1865. 

Sir : T have the honor to enclose, by request of the city council, a resolution 
passed by that body, at its session yesterday, upon receiving intelligence of the 
tragic and terrible event which has tilled with horror and lamentation the great 
nation of which you are the chief representative at this post. 

Permit me, in conveying to you this expression of sympathy on behalf of 
the city council, to add emphatically my own, as deeply sensible of the over- 
whelming grief Avhich must pervade the United States of America upon so truly 
calamitous an occurrence as the violent death of their honored President. 

I have the honor to be, sir, your most humble and most obedient servant, 

M. II. IIICHEY, Mayor. 

M. M. Jackson, Esq., 

United States Consul, ^r., S^-c., t^c. 



Extract from minutes of city council, Halifax, X. S., Aj^ril 17, 1865. 

Resolved, That this council have heard with deep regret that (he President 
of the United States has fallen a victim to the foul assassin, and they desire to 
express their sincere sympathy with the bereaved family of the illustrious de- 
ceased and the great nation of which he was- the head. 

To publicly mark their sense of regret, this body respectfully requests his 
worship the mayor will order the city Hag to be drooped over this building on 
the day of the obsequies ; and further, that his worship the mayor be requested 
to direct a copy of this resolution to be forwarded to the representative of the 
United States residing in this city. 

For and on behalf of the city council. 

J. NOXCRAGG, City Clerk. 

City Court House, April IS, 1865. 



Borough of Halifax, in the county rf York. 

At a meeting of the council of the borough of Halifax, held in tlie Town 
Hall, Hidifax, on the 3d day of May, 1865, William Irving Uoldsworth, esq., 
the worshipful the mayor, in the chair, 



232 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

It was, oil tlie motion of the major, seconded b j Mr. Alderman Ramsden — 

Resolved, That we, the mayor, aklermen, and bm-gesses of the borough of 
Halifax, in council assembled, desire to give expression to the feelings of hor- 
ror and regret with which we have heard of the assassination of President 
Lincoln, and beg to convey to Mrs. Lincoln and the United States government 
and people an expression of our sincere and. profound sympathy and heartfelt 
condolence at the sad event. 

On the motion of Mr. Alderman Collensio, seconded, by Mr. Alderman 
Dennis — 

Also resolved. That the mayor be requested to sign and affix the corporate 
common seal of the borough to a copy of the above resolution, and to trans- 
mit the same to the American minister now in London. 

[seal.] W. I. HOLDSWORTH, Mayor. 



Resolutions unaiilmousli/ passed at a public mcfting of the inhabitants of 
Halifax, in the West Riding of the countij of York, held on Thursday, the 
Uh'day of May, 1865. 

William Irving Holdsworth, esq., the worshipful the mayor, in the chair. 

Moved by John Crossley, esq., J. P., seconded by Mr. John Snowdeu, and 
supported by Mr. Thomas Scarborough — 

That we, the inhabitants of Halifax, in public meeting assembled, express 
our deep sympathy with the people of the great American republic in the loss 
they have sustained in the death, by cruel assassination, of their honorable and 
honored President, Chief Magistrate Abraham Lincoln; and we cannot shut 
out of view the atrocious political significance of the crime as evidenced by the 
fact that it was accompanied by a murderous attack upon Chief Secretary 
Seward. 

Moved by G. Buckston Browne, esq., J. P., seconded by Mr. William 
Brook, and supported by the .Rev. William Roberts — 

That we feel profound horror at the barbarous murder of President Lincoln, 
but at the same time we feel such unabated confidence in the sound principles 
on which the American Constitution is based, that we cannot doubt that even 
this afflictive dispensation of Providence will in nowise retard the final accom- 
plishment of that glorious object of tbe late President, the niter extinction of 
slavery. 

Moved by Mr. George Garfitt, seconded by Mr. Henry Ambler — 

That a copy of the foregoing resolutions, signed by the mayor, be sent to 
James Stansfeld, jr., esq., member of Parliament, with a request that he Avill 
hand the same to tlie Hon. C. F. Adams for transmission to the American 
government. 

W. I. HOLDSWORTH, Mayor. 



Haslingden, Lancashire, May, 1865. 

The following resolutions were unanimously adopted at a public meeting of 
the inhabitants of Haslingden, held in the Town Hall, Haslingden, on the 
evening of May the 3d, 1865 : 

First. That this meeting desires to give utterance to the deep feelings of 
grief and horror with which it lias heard of the assassination of President Lin- 
coln and the murderous and diabolical attack upon Mr. Seward, his Secretary 
of State. 

Secondly. That this meeting also desires to tender to Mrs. Lincoln, the 
United States government and people, an expression of its profound sympathy 



SENTIxMEXTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 233 

and heartfelt condolence iu this the hour of their affliction, and deeply lament 
that, by the hand of an assassin, the one should be bereaved of a husband and 
the other deprived of a wise and benevolent ruler. 
Signed on behalf of the meeting. 

LAURENCE WHITAKER, Jr., 

Chairman. 
His Excellency the President 

of the United States. 



Halstead, Aj)ril 29, 1865. 
His Excellency C. F. Adams, Lo?idon: 

We, the undersigned, inhabitants of Halstead, Essex, England, desire to ex- 
press our deep horror and regret that the President of the United States has 
been deprived of life by an act of violence, and our sympathy with the citizens 
of the United States in the great loss they have sustained, 

(Signed by 67 names.) 
Forwarded by R. L. Hughes, proprietor of the " Halstead Times." 



RcsoJutiuns j)assed at a meeting held by the inhabitants of Hcc.kmondwihe. 

At a meeting of the inhabitants of Heckmondwike, held on the 8th May, 
1865, at the Freemasons' Hall, convened in pursuance of public re(|uisition to 
the chairman of the local board of health, to express sympathy with the Ameri- 
can people in the greot loss they have sustained at so critical a period of their 
national history, and to express a hope that the same wise and generous policy 
which distinguished Mr. Lincoln and his government will also characterize the 
new President and his advisers; and also to express sympathy with Mrs. Lin- 
coln in her sad and deplorable loss — William Rhodes, esq., in the chair — 

It Avas moved by L. H. Frith, esq., seconded by Rev. E. Vickridge, and 

JJnanimo'usly resolved, That this meeting has heard with indignation and 
horror of the foul murder of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States 
of America, at perhaps the most critical period of his career, and at a time 
when his wise, prudent, and conciliatory conduct was commanding the admira- 
tion of the world. That we tender our deep sympathy to a brave people sud- 
denly deprived of their Chief Magistrate, and hope the murderers may speedily 
be discovered and brought to condign punishment. 

It was moved by Rev. Mark Howard, seconded by George Burnley, esq., 
and 

Unanimously resolved, That we deeply mourn the great and overwhelming 
affliction which has so suddenly fallen upon the bereaved widow and family of 
the martyred President Lincoln, and humbly offer to them such condolence as 
can be derived from sympathizing hearts in the great loss which they and the 
cause of humanity throughout the world have sustained. 

It was moved by Benjamin Rhodes, esq., seconded by Mr. Jacob Green, 
and 

Unanimously resolved, That we rejoice to hear that the cowardly and mur- 
derous attack on the life of the Hon. W. H. Seward (while lying in a helpless con- 
dition on a bed of sickness) has not proved fatal. We trust he will soon be enabled 
to resume I he duties of his important office; that President Johnson may re- 
tain hinr to assist in guiding and directing the affairs of his country, helping to 
meet and overcome every trial; that tiiey may succeed in purging their nation 
from everything that would blot its future f.ime, and preserve it in honor and 
peace with all the world. 



234 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

It was moved by Mr. W. B. Mickletliwaite, seconded by Rev. R. Bowman, 
and 

Unani?nous7i/ resolved, That this meeting avails itself of the opportunity of 
expressing sympathy with President Johnson and his advisers in their present 
perilous circiunstances, and hopes the wise and humane policy which distin- 
guished llie noble-minded Lincoln may inspire and influence them ; that they 
may prosecute the work of reconstruction so consistently begun by their illus- 
trious predecessor, until the glorious republic be rendered still more glorious 
by the total and complete extinction of slavery in every part of their 
dominions. 

It was moved by Mr. J. Leadbeater, seconded by !Mr. J. Crabtree, and 

Unanimousli/ resolved, That the chairman be authorized to sign the above 
resolutions on behalf of this meeting, and forward them to the Hon. C. F. 
Adams, the Ameiican minister in London, for transmission to his Excellency 
President Johnson, Mrs. Lincoln, and the Hon. W. H. Seward. 

WILLIAM RHODES, 

Chairman. 



Hamilton, Bermuda, May 11, 1S65. 

Resolved, That, in the opinion of this meeting, the recent barbarous assassi- 
nation of the late President of the United States of America Avas an atrocious 
outrage upon all the principles of humanity and good government, and deserves 
to be met with the just indignation and fixed abhorrence of every peaceable 
and well-ordered community. 

Proposed by his honor th(3 chief justice. Seconded by the attorney general. 

Resolved, That this meeting desires to express its sympathy with a neigh- 
boring nation, deprived by this outrage of the chief magistrate of its choice, 
and also to convey to the bereaved family and personal friends of the late 
President Lincoln a heartfelt expression of condolence with them in their deep 
affliction. 

Proposed by honorable the speaker. Seconded by Hon. M. G. Keo.n, colonial 
secretary. 

HENRY JAMES TUCKER, 

Mayor and Chairman. 



Hon. Miles Gerald Keon to C. M. Allen, Esq., U. S. C. 

Bermuda, Hamilton, Ajn-^l 28, 1865. 

Dear Sir : Although you will need no assurance of this kind for your own 
information, I can keep silence no longer, and am constrained both by my prin- 
ciples and by my feelings, (and certainly not prohibited by the commission 
which I hold from her Majesty, as one of her principal servants in this com- 
munity,) to express to you, however feebly and inadequately, the grief and 
indignation with which the horrible crime of the 14th instant has filled me. I 
trust we shall have a public meeting, at which we can attest solemnly before 
the world the sentiments which this community entertains respecting so foul 
and detestable a deed. 

I speak only the feelings everywhere paramount, nay the natural language 
of human society itself, and beyond a question in that fragment of it in which 
I am living, when I beg you to believe that the deepest reprobation of every 
man who dares to look his felloAV- creatures in the face awaits the wretch who 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 235 

Las (leprived a great iiatiou of its Cliiof Magistrate, just when he had shown 
that he was as merciful in victory as he had been stern in conflict, and at a 
moment of cruel public difficulty, by one of the most doltish and objectless, as 
well as wicked and truculent murders, that history has ever had to record. 

I have been urging all my friends to hold a meeting, and say jointly before 
the world what they are saying severally in their homes. Men of all parties, 
of all countries, can unite in this. During a struggle which could not be settled 
save by Americans, and on American principlis, some of us felt commiseration 
and sympathy for the gallant few fighting so splendidly on the defensive ; 
others for the cause of obvious political order and central authority; but all re- 
mained officially neutral. When, however. Providence has decided the conflict, 
and assassination is introduced among the factors of political science, I trust no 
British gentleman and no honest man will ever show neutrality. 

I have the honor to be, dear sir, your most obedient servant, 

MILES GERALD KEON. 

Charles M. Alle\, Esi|., 

Consul of tJie U. S. of America in Bermuda. 



Resolutions passed at a mcctinglicld bij the Alexa7idria Lodge of the G. U. O. 
of Odd Fellows, Bermuda. 

Whereas, by recent arrivals from New York, we do learn of the death of 
Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, by assassination ; 
therefore, be it 

1st. Resolred, That in this dispensation of the Divine will, our race has lost 
an invaluable friend, one who in public and private life failed not 1o do honor 
to his country, who in the support of freedom, ecpality, and the rights of man, 
fell by the hand of a ruthless assassin. 

2d. Resolved, That this meeting do hear of his untimely decease with feelings 
of deep and deserved regret, and in view of the said mournful intelligence do 
make such public demonstration of the same as is consistent with us, members 
of the fraternity of Odd Fellows. 

3d. Resolved, That the members of this lodge do on Thursday, the 4th proximo, 
at its annual celebration, appear in mourning costume, in token of respect for 
the deceased President, and that badges of mourning be continued to be worn 
by the brethren for thirty days. 

4th. Pusolvcd, That we do heartily sympathize with the worthy consul here, 
C. M. Allen, esq., and the friends of the Union, as also with Mrs. Lincoln, and 
their bereaved family abroad, in this hour of trying moment. 

5th. Resolved, That the secretary be directed to notify " Somers Pride of 
India Lodge, No. 899," and " Victoria and Albert Lodge, No. 1,027," of their 
intention in accordance with the 3d resolution, and to request a compliance of 
the same. 

6th. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the United 
States consulate at St. George's, and to the Anglo-African papers. New York, 
for publication. 

The foregoing resolutions were submitted to the meeting at Hamilton, on 
Tuesday, the 25th April, ultimo, by P. G. I\r. Brother J. T. E-ichardson, sup- 
ported by Senior G. M. Brother Joseph H. Thomas, and ably seconded by 
Brother Joseph H. Eainey, and unanimously carried by the brethren, some one 
hundred and fifty or more being present. 

^ DAVID TUCKER, 

General Secretary. 



236 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPOXDEXCE. 



Mayor's Office, Hamiltox, C. W., 

April 26, A. D. 1865. 
Sir : I have the honor, by direction of the municipal corporation of the city 
of Hamilton, Canada West, to enclose a copy of resolutions passed by that 
body on hearing the sad news of the assassination of the late President, Abra- 
ham Lincolii, and to respectfully request that you will be pleased to lay the same 
before the President. 

I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient servant, 

CHARLES MAGILL, 

Mayor of Hamilton, C. IV. 
Hon. WiLLiA.Ai H. Sewaru, 

Secretary of State. 



Resolutions j^assed hy tlie municipal corjwrat ion of tlte city of Hamilton, Canada 
West, on the l^th day of April, A. D. 1S65. 

Whereas this council having heard the melancholy news of the assassination 
of the late President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, therefore be it 

Resolved, That we, the mayor, aldermen, and commonalty of the city of Hamil- 
ton, in council assembled, deeply lament the sad occurrence, and also sincerely 
sympathize with the widow and bereaved family of the late President, and with 
the nation thus afflicted and wrongfully deprived of its Chief ^Magistrate, and we 
also feel that in thus expressing our views on this mournful siibject, and in de- 
precating the diabolical act which deprived a neighboring nation of its chief 
head, we are only giving expression to the feelings entertained by the inhabit- 
ants of this city. 

Resolved, That, as a mark of respect to the deceased President, the mayor be 
instructed to request the citizens to close their respective places of business du- 
ring the time the funeral obsequies are being performed, which will take place 
on Wednesday, the 19th instant, between the hours of twelve o'clock-noon and 
two p. m., and that the city bells toll during these hours. 

[seal.] CHARLES MAGILL, 

Mayor of Hamilton, C. IV. 



Resolutions of tlie Huddersfield Cltamher of Commerce. 

Chamber of Commerce, 

Huddersfield, May 1, 1865. 

Extract from proceedings of special meeting of council, May 1, 1865 : 

Moved by W. R. Haigh, esq., vice-president, seconded by T. Cresswell, esq., 
and 

Resolved mianimously. That this chamber desires to record the expression of 
its profound sympathy and condolence with the government and citizens of the 
United States of America on the occasion of the recent assassination of Presi- 
dent Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of Mr. Secretary Seward. These 
most atrocious crimes must excite the horror and indignation of all civilized na- 
tions, and cannot at this momentous crisis of American affairs be too deeply de- 
plored by all who recognize, as this chamber does to its fullest extent, the single- 
minded patriotism and great ability with which President Lincoln has guided 
the destinies of his country through almost unparallelled difficulties. 

The chamber would also express its respectful sympathy with the widow and 
family of the deceased President. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 237 

Moved by W. P. England, esq., seconded by 11. Brooke, esq., and 
Bcsoh-ed unammousi ij , That the foregoing resohitiou be communicated to the 
American consul in Huddersfield, with a request that he will forward the same 
through the proper channel to the American government. 

W. R. HAIGH, Vice Fyeskleiit. 
JOSEPH BATLEY, Secretary. 



Resolution jmsscd hy the Huddersfield improvement commissioners. 

At a monthly meeting of the Iluddersfield improvement commissioners held 
on Wednesday, the 5th day of jMay, 1S65, it was 

JJnonimnushj resolved, That the Iluddersfield improvement commissioners, 
in monthly meeting assembled, feel that they cannot but give expression to their 
feelings of horror and indignation at the atrocious acts by which the United States 
of America have been suddenly deprived of their late President, and by which 
the lives of Mr. Secretary Seward and his two sons have been endangered. 

The commissioners would also record their deep sympathy with the people of 
the United States, and with the widow of President Lincoln, in the irreparable 
loss which they have sustained through his death. 

JOSEPH TURNER, 

Chairman of Commissioners. 
J. W. CLOUGH, 

Clerk to the said Co?7imissioners. 



From the council of the Huddersfeld Union and Emancipation Society. 

HUDDERSFIELD, Aj^ril 27, 1865. 
Thomas Stephexson, Esq., 

Constdar agent of the United States at Hudder.fcld : 
Sir : We have learned with the deepest horror and regret that the President 
of the United States of America has been basely assassinated, and we desire to 
express our profound sympathy in the sad event, with his family and friends, a 
sentiment which must be shared by the friends of liberty everywhere. 

Signed on behalf of the council of the Iluddersfield Union and Emancipation 
Society. 

MATHEW HALE. 
THOMAS DENHAM. 
JOHN GLAI8ZER. 
HENRY REVILL. 
WILLIAM R. CROFT. 
J. K. Glaiszer, Honorary Secretary. 



Hill, May 1, 1865. 
At a meeting of the directors of the Hull Chamber of Commerce and Shipping 
held this day, the president, Henry V. Atkinson in the chair, it was moved by 
Stephen West, vice-president, seconded by Edmund Philip Maxsted, vice-pres- 
ident, and carried unanimously — 

That the American minister be assured of the sympathy of this chamber with 
the government and people of the United States, under the mournful circum- 
stances in which they are placed by the assassination of President Lincoln. 

HENRY V. ATKINSON, President. 



238 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COKRESPONDEKCE. 

Resolution of the Hohnfirth Cliaviber of Commerce. 

At a meeting of the council held on the 8th of May, 1865, the following res- 
olution was unanimously adopted : 

" That this chamber desires to express its abhorrence of the assassination of 
the late President of the United States of America, and to offer its sympathy 
to Mrs. Lincoln and family, and the American people, in their painful bereave- 
ment." 

BENJAMIN CRAVEN, President. 
SAMUEL S. BOOTH, Secretary. 



Resolutions passed at a meeting held by the working men of Hinton Martell, 

Dorset county. 

At a public meeting of the working men, held (by permission) in the school- 
room, Hinton Martell, near Wimbourne, in the county of Dorset, on Wednes- 
day, May 17, 1865, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

That this meeting having heard with great regret of the assassination of Mr. 
President Lincoln, beg most humbly, but very respectfully, to tender through 
his excellency the American ambassador residing in this country, to the gov- 
ernment and people of the United States of America, their most earnest sympa- 
thy and condolence, and to express their detestation and horror of the crime. 

That his excellency be requested to convey to Mrs. Lincoln the assurance, 
that by no class in this country will there be felt for her a more earnest and true 
sympathy under this great trial than that experienced by us, a few of the agri- 
cultural laborers of Dorset. 

Signed on behalf of the meeting : 

HARRY STOICS, Chair7nan. 



Hi.VTON Martell, 

Wimbourne, May 19, 1865. 
Sir : As chairman of the above meeting, I have the honor to hand you the 
resolution passed by the working men of this district. 

I would take this opportunity to express my earnest hop ^ that the prospect 

now presented of a termination of the couUict that has been raging so long in 

your country may bo speedily realized, and that you, sir, may be long spared 

to watch over the interests of your country at the court of our beloved Queen. 

With great respect, I beg to remain, sir, your very obedient humble servant, 

HARRY STOKES. 
His Excellency C. F. Adams, Esq. 



To the President of the United States of America. 

We, the town commissioners of West Hartlepool, in the county of Durham, 
beg to convey to you and, through you, to the people of the United States, our 
deep abhorrence and detestation of the foul crime which has so suddenly de- 
prived you of your late President, Abraham Lincoln. 

We share with all classes and creeds in this country in feelings of mingled 
grief and indignation at so atrocious an outrage. 

Called to the high ofEce of supreme director of the destinies of a great nation, 
and engaged in the active and conscientious performance of his vast and ardu- 
ous duties, such a life might well have been regarded as peculiarly sacred. 

We would desire to express our deep sympathy and condolence with your 
government and people at this untoward and melancholy event, and our hope, 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 239 

that, under the ble>?slng of Almighty God, even this sad event may be over 
ruled to the Avelfare of your country and the restoration of national peace and 
prosperity. 

Given under our common seal this 3d day of May, 1S65. 

The common seal of the West Hartlepool commissioners was hereunto affixed 
in the presence of — 

[SEAL.J WILLIAM B. BRUNTER, 

Clerk to the Board. 



To Mrs. Lincoln. 



We, the town commissioners of West Hartlepool, in the county of Durham, 
desire to express to you our earnest sympathy in your recent great and irrepar- 
able bereavement. So foul an outrage against the life of the illustrious Presi- 
dent is received by us with but one united feeling of abhorrence and detestation. 
All classes and creeds unite in one common expression of mingled grief and 
indignation at the foul and dastardly assassination. 

We desire to convey to you our deepest condolence in this your great trial 
and affliction, and our earnest hope that if anything will tend to assuage your 
great grief, it will be the united sympathy of all classes and all countries, and 
your consciousness that the life so dear to you was sacrificed while engaged in 
tiie honest and noble discharge of his duty in that high sphere to which, under 
God's providence, he had been elected by his fellow-countrymen. 

Given under our common seal this third day of May, 18G5. 

The common seal of the West Hartlepool commissioners was hereunto affixed 
in the presence of — 

[seal.] WILLIAM B. BRUNTER, 

Clerk to the Board. 



[seal.] Borough of Hartlepool, Countij of Durham: 

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Hartlepool, convened 
by the mayor, in response to a numerously signed requisition from the rate- 
payers, and lield in the Town Hall on Tuesday, May 2, J S65, James Grooves, 
esq., mayor, in the chair, it was unanimously resolved — 

First. On the motion of Mr. William Hall, seconded by Mr. B. T. Ord, That 
this meeting deeply sympathizes with the people of the United States of 
America, in the bereavement which they have sustained in the death of their 
President by the hand of an assassin. 

Second. On the motion of George Blumcr, esq., seconded by Thomas Belk, 
esq., That this meeting desires, while giving expression to the feelings of grief 
and horror with which it regards the assassination of President Lincoln,^ to con- 
vey to Mrs. Lincoln an intimation of its profound sympathy and heartfelt con- 
dolence. 

Third. On the motion of the Rev. J. B. Hall, seconded by Mr. S. Armstrong, 
That this meeting of the inhabitants of the ancient borough of Hartlepool 
rejoice to learn that it is the intention of President Johnson to carry out tho 
policy of which the late lamented President's career was the embodiment, be- 
lieving, as they do, that that policy iiad for its object the preservation of the 
Constitution of the United States and the emancipation of the slave. 

Fourth. On the motion of .Mr. J. H. Bell, seconded by Mr. Councillor Grahani, 
That copies of the foregoing resolutions be placed in the hands of the Hon. C. 
F. Adams, the American minister, for transmission to his Excellency the Presi- 
dent of the United States, to Mrs. Lincoln, and to the honorable W.H. Seward. 

Signed ou behalf of the meeting. 

JAMES GROOVES, Mayor. 



240 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

And tlie chair having been vacated — 

Fifth. On the motion of Mr Councillor Taylor, seconded by Mr. Councillor 
Harrison, That the best thanks of the meeting be accorded to his worship, the 
mayor, for having so promptly convened and so ably presided at this meetings 



May 4, 1^65. 
My Dear Sir: The United Methodist Free Church, "West Hartlepool, in a 
special congregation desires that you will convey to the government of the 
United States, and to Mrs. Lincoln and to Mr. Seward in particular, its deep 
detestation of the crime and of the men who have struck down the noble life 
of the late President. We have ever felt towards him while alive a personal 
friendship, and now, that he is no more of this world, we love his memory. 
"The niemor}^ of the just is blessed." But this is not a time for many words. 
"We have faith in the future of the United States, and we say, God prosper and 
bless the American people. God bless the policy of emancipation. 
On behalf of the church. 

J. MARTIN, Pastor. 
Hon. Charles Adams, 

American Legation, London. 



Resolutions passed at a j^uhlic meeting held at Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, 

on Thursday, the llih day of May, 1S65, Samuel Harrison Cowell, esq., 

mayor of the borough of fyswich, in the chair. 

On the motion of the Rev. Charles Hicks Gaye, seconded by Henry Foot- 
man, esq.. That this meeting regards the assassination of President Lincoln 
with unmitigated abhorrence, and desires to express the deepest sorrow and in- 
dignation at the occurrence. 

On the motion of the Rev. James Robert Turnoch, seconded by Edward 
Grimwade, esq., That this meeting sincerely condoles with Mrs. Lincoln and all 
others whom this event has bereaved, and entertains the greatest respect for the 
memory of the late Mr. Lincoln, whose talents, integrity, and peaceful disposi- 
tion so eminently qualified him for the high position he held at the present crisis 
of American afiairs. 

On the motion of the Rev. James Webb, seconded by George Green Samj)Son, 
esq.. That we deeply sympathize with our American kinsmen in the great 
national attiiction that has befallen them, and trust that they may ere long be 
delivered from their present distress to enjoy the blessings of peace and pros- 
perity, and above all, the utter extinction of slavery. 

On the motion of Joseph Fison, esq., seconded by the Rev. John Gray, That 
copies of the foregoing resolutions be 6ent to the honorable Mr. Adams, the 
United States ambassador in London. 



SYMPATHY WITH AMERICA. 

Resolutions j^assed at public meeting of the working classes, held in the borough 
rf Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, May 22, 1865. 

First resolution: That this meeting desires to express the detestation and pro- 
found sorrow with which it regards the assassination of President Lincoln, and 
the barbarous attack on Mr. Seward, and to offer its sympathy and heartfelt con- 
dolence with Mrs. Lincoln, President Johnson, the government, and the people 
of the United States. 



SENTIMENTS OF COXDOLEXCE AND SYMPATHY. 241 

Second resolution : That this meeting^, while it cleey)lj lament? the loss of Presi- 
dent Lincoln, at a time when his influence and abilities were most needed to 
complete the work of r^lave emancipation in America, confidently trusts that 
President Johnson and his colleagues, upon M'hom the conduct of national af- 
fairs in America devolves, will succeed in accomplishing that desirable result. 
Signed on behalf of the meeting : 

WM. D. SI]\[S, 
(of Burlington Road, Ipswich,) Chairman. 
Hon W. TT. Seward, 

Secretary to the Government of the United States of America. 



Address of the Niagara annual conference of the M. E. church in Canada to 

Mr. Johnson. 

We, the ministers composing the Niagara annual conference of the Methodist 
Episcopal church in Canada, desire to express our heartfelt sympathy with Mrs. 
Lincoln and fjimily, yourself, and the people of the United States of America, 
because of the melancholy death of the lamented late President Lincoln, who 
was assassinated in the prime of life, and at a period in the history of the re- 
public when he appeared to be the mainspring of the nation. 

We feel that in the demise of Mr. Lincoln his country lost a patriot, and the 
whole civilized world a friend. 

The cause and spu'it of the execrable southern rel)ellion, which evidently dic- 
tated the barbarous crime, as well as the assassin who attempted the destruction 
of the Hon. W. H. Seward and sons, and succeeded in killing President Lincoln, 
deserve the reprobation of the universal brotherhood of mankind. 

Our sincere prayer to Almighty God is, that He may console Mrs. Lincoln 
and family under their bereavement ; preserve -the life of the present Chief 
Magistrate of the republic, and direct him and his administration to such wise 
conclusions as shall fuliy restore the Union, extinguish slavery, and give per- 
manent peace to the nation. 

Done by order of conference at Strashrog, on the 24th of April, A. D. 1865. 

M. BENSOX, Secretary of Conference. 

Office at Ingersoll, Canada West. 

His Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States of America. 



At a meeting of the provost bailies and councillors of the royal burgh of Jed- 
burgh, in Scotland, held the 8th day of May, lSG-5. it was 

Ptesolrcd, That this council, on their own part and as the exponent of the feel- 
ings of the entire community of tlie royal burgh of Jedburgh, do record an ex- 
pression of the deep sorrow universally experienced on receiving the intelligence 
of the assassination of President Lincoln — an act, the foul atrocity of which has 
excited the horror and indignation of all classes of her Majesty's subjects. 

That this council, in expressing their most sincere sympathy with the govern- 
ment and people of the United States under their terrible national calamity, fer- 
vently hope and pray that the death of their Chief Magistrate, in a manner so 
shocking to every feeling of humanity, and so subversive of social order, may be 
regulated by an all-wise and overruling Providence, so as not materially to af- 
fect their country's prospects of internal peace, amity, and good will. 

That this council further express their sympathy with j\Irs. Lincoln, and the 
family of the late President, in their sorrowful bereavement, and earnestly pray 
that He who has revealed himself heretofore as the " father of the fatherless, and 
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242 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

judge of tlie ^v■i(low," may be to tiiem an all-abiding cousolation iu tbis tbeir hour 
of trial. 

It was further 

Resolved, That the provost transmit a copy of these resolutions to the Ameri- 
can ministca- in Loudon, with a request that he will take the earliest opportunity 
of coramuuicatiug them to his government, and to the widow of the late Presi- 
dent. 

WILLIAM DEAN, Provost. 



At and within the Town Hall of the burgh of Kilmarnock, in the county of Ayr, 
on the 3d of May, 1865, convened the provost magistrates and council of said 
burgh ; whereupon it was 

Resolved, That this council have learned with the greatest indignation and 
profound regret of the atrocious murder of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, President of 
the United States of America. 

That this council deeply sympathize with the American republic, under the 
great loss which it has sustained by the untimely decease under such revolting 
circumstances, and in the midst of the illustrious career of a ruler whose personal 
excellence has made him an object of honest pride to his own countrymen, and 
of just admiration to the rest of the world, and whoso earnest endeavor to main- 
tain friendly relations Avith Great Britain must ever endearing name and memory 
to the people of this country. 

That this council also deeply sympathize with Mrs. Lincoln and family under 
their heavy bereavement, and sincerely pray that they may be supported by Him 
" who is the husband of the widow, and the lather of the fatherless." 

That these resolutions be subscribed by Provost Dickie, in name and on be- 
half of the council, and presented by him to the minister in London of the United 
States of America. 

JOHN DICKIE, Provost. 



At a meeting of the town coiuicil of the borough of Kidderminster, in the 
county of Worcester, held Wednesday, the 3d day of May, 1865. 

Moved by Mr. Councillor P. Talbot ; seconded by Mr. Councillor Boycott — 
That this council, representing the inhabitants of the borough of Kiddermin- 
ster, desires to give utterance to the feelings of grief and horror at the assassi- 
nation of President Lincoln, and the attempted murder of jMr. Seward, and to 
convey to the United States government and people, and 'to Mrs. Lincoln, an ex- 
pression of its profound sympathy and sincere condolence. Carried unanimously. 



King's Lynn — Guildhall. 

At a congregation there holden on Friday, the 19th dayof May, A. D. 1865 — 
present, AVilliam Monement, esquire, mayor ; Aldermen Francis J. Creswell, 
Walter Moyse, John G. Saunders, and William Scppings ; Councillors Hcury 
W. Allen, Robert Cook, Joseph Cooper, Richard Coller, W. D. Harding, Geo. 
Holditch, S. Marsters, William Pews, H. B. Plowright, James Seals, T. M. Wil- 
ken — it was moved by Mr. Alderman Moyse, seconded by Mr. Councillor Cook, 
and resolved unanimously — 

That the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of this borough, in common council 
assembled, desire to record their feelings of horror and indignation at the atro- 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 243 

cious assassination of ibc late Presiclent of the United States, Abraham Lincohi, 
and the murderous attack on Mr. Secretary Seward, and to express their deep 
sympathy with the people of the United States under the great national ca- 
lamity which has befallen them; and with Mrs. Lincoln and her bereaved family 
in the irreparable loss they have sustained. 

That copies of the above resolution be forwarded through one of the membei'S 
for the borough to Mr. Adams, the American minij^ter iu London, for transmis- 
sion to the American government and to ]\Irs. Lincoln. 

[SKAL.J AVILLL\M MONEMENT, Maijor. 



Address of the j^^'ovost magisfrafcs and town council of the roi/al burgh of 

Kir/idldi/, Scot/and. 

May 9, 1865. 
To Charles Francis Adams, esq., envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten- 
tiary for the United States of America, London. 

Sir : The provost magistrates and town council of the royal burgh of Kirk- 
aldy, Scotland, desire to express their unfeigned sorrow at the tragic termina- 
tion of the career of the late loved and lamented President of the United States 
of America, Abraham Lincoln. 

They join in the universal cry of horror and detestation at the dreadful crime 
which has inflicted so deep a wound iu the heart of the nation, and has awak- 
ened so keen a sympathy with you throughout the civilized world. 

They recognize in the late President a man who, by his honesty, vigor, and 
ability, secured the intense affection and i-espect of the people ; one fitted to 
rule in the midst of the greatest civil conflict the world has seen, and to temper 
with forbearance and clemency the triumph over the vanquished. They join 
in earnest hffpe that your severe and protracted struggle may terminate with 
his intentions and dei-ires fully accomplished, in the downfall of slavery, and iu 
the entire removal from your great nation of an evil which has hitherto tram- 
elled and distressed it. They anticipate a briglit future for America in the 
reign of freedom, intelligence, and Christian worth; they desire an intimate and 
friendly understanding between her and the government and people of Great 
Britain ; and trust that, together, they may long c- ntinue the pioneers and pro- 
moters of civilization and freedom. 

They will feel obliged by your commiuiicating these sentiments to the gov- 
ernment of America. * 

Signed in name and by authority of the provost magistrates and town coun- 
cil of the royal burgh of Kirkaldy, and the seal of the burgh hereunto appended. 

PATRICK D. SWAN, N. 13., 
Provost Magistrate of Kirkaldy. 



Address of the provost magistrates and foum council of the royal Inirgh of 
Kirkaldy, Scotland, to Mrs. Lincoln. 

May 9, 1865. 
Mada.m : Permit us, the provost magi.-^trates and town council of the royal 
burgh of Kirkaldy, Scotland, to approach you in order to express our deep sym- 
pathy with you under your sore bereavement, and the dreadful shock which 
the removal from your side, by such foul means, of a husband who had earned 
the respect, love and admiration of so great a people, must have given you. 



244 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COPtEESPOXDENCE. 

We commend you to the care and protection of the Almighty Father, who 
alone can heal the wound which this great calamity has inflicted. 

We pray that Pie may be your God and guide through life, your constant 
protector and stay, and that, to soothe your sorrow, you may enjoy the attach- 
ment of the great people over whom your lamented husband ruled with so much 
ability and success, and whose virtues we doubt not will be embalmed in the 
hearts of their grateful post; rity. 

Signed in name and by authority of the provost magistrates and town coun- 
cil of the burgh of Klrkaldy, and the seal of the burgh hereto appended. 

[SEAL.J PATRICK D. SWAN, N. B., 

Provost of Kirkaldy. 



Address of the corf oration of Kendal to Mrs. Lincoln. 

The corporation of Kendal approach Mrs. Lincoln with their respectful 
expression of sincere condolence on the incalculable loss she has so suddenly 
and so painfully sustained. 

It having pleased the Almighty Ruler of events to permit the newly re-elected 
head of the American people to be removed on the threshold of his continued 
possession of the chair of state, thus overturning a nation's plans for its own 
government, the corporation feel that, in the solemn presence of such a lesson 
of the instability of the schemes of man, the death of the President must have 
come upon his afflicted family as a national as Avell as a domestic bereavement. 
But it is Avith regard to the latter deep sorrow that the coiporation venture 
to offer their sincere sympathy to Mrs. Lincoln and her children. The amia- 
bility and kindliness if the departed President was not limited to his connexions, 
but extended to his opponents ; his praj'ers for peace, and the dignity of his 
benevolence in the hour of successful triumph, have left behind" a light pure 
and bright for those who succeed him. 

[seal.] JOHN WHITWELL, 

Vice- May or of Kendal. 



Address cf the corporation of the horovgh of Kendal to the government of the 

United States. 

The corporation of the borough of Kendal, moved by indignation at the foul 
and treasonable assassination of the late President of the United States, hereby 
transmit to his excellency Charles Francis Adams, for communication to the 
American government, the sincere expression of sorrow that the life of the chief 
ruler of the American people has been sacrilegiously taken at the mnment he 
was designing, by conciliatory and kindly measures, to heal the discord :ind 
anarchy that has so grievously afflicted the United States. It will rejoice the 
corporation of Kendal to learn, in the process of time, that the sanguinary strug- 
gle, during which so many precious lives on both sides have been sacrificed, has 
eventually resulted in freedom to the whole family of man on the North Ameri- 
can continent — a consummation necessary to the sacred character of a free con- 
stitutional state. 

In seal of the corporation of Kendal. 
I SEAL.] JOHN WHITWELL, 

Vice- Mayor. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 245 

At a public meeting of the inliabitants of Kendal, convened on belialf of tlie 
mayor by John Whitwell, esq., the ex-mayor, and held the 6th day of May, 
1S65, the following proceedings took place : 

The following resolution, proposed by Mr. Henry Wilson, seconded b^' Mr. 
John Robinson, and supported by James Cropper, esq., (by request,) was car- 
ried unanimously : 

The inhabitants of the borough of Kendal in public meeting assembled — 

Resolved, That it is their bounden duty to express their horror and detesta- 
tion of the treacherous assassination of the Chief ]\[agistrate of the United 
States, the late President Lincoln, and of the nuirderous attack on the life of 
Mr. Secretary Seward ; and they request his excellency Mr. Adams to convey 
from them to the authorities of the United States and to the American people 
the expression of condolence on the death of the head of their government by 
the hand of treason and crime. 

The following resolution, proposed by the Rev. William Taylor, and seconded 
by Charles Lloyd Braithwaite, esq., was carried unanimously : 

Resolved, That the honoraMe widow and children of the late President of the 
United States be respectfully informed that this meeting enters deeply into their 
great soirow, sympathizing with them in their sudden and most afflictive be- 
reavement, and trusts that it may please the great Ruler of the Universe, in this. 
His inscrutable dispensation, to comfort those who mourn, and to visit with His 
healing presence tlie widow and fatherless in their affliction. 

Signed on behalf of the meeting. 

JOHN WHITWELL, 

Ex-Mayor, Chairman. 



Address oj" condolence with the Arnericaii j'cople. 

We the inhabitants of Keighley. in public meeting assembled, having learned, 
with deepest sorrow and regret, the horrible act of foul assassination of his ex- 
cellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and the 
attempt upon the life of Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, do hereby express our 
sympathy with the American people, and especially with Mrs. Lincoln, her 
fitxmily, and the members of the late President's cabinet, for the great loss they 
are thus called upon to sustain in that pare, kind-hearted, forgiving, and perse- 
vering friend to the human race, so violently removed from his high and respon- 
sible position in life. We deplore the loss of such a good and great man, and 
deprecate the foul deed as a blot upon the human character. We recognize 
among the American people many of our beloved relatives and friends, and to 
all we offer the right hand of human brotherhood, expressing our earnest wish 
for the future peace, prosperity, and amicable relations of the nation with this 
and every other country; and we pray the God of all peace to guide them in 
all domestic afiairs, to preserve them from discord at home and abroad, and 
especially from further deeds of dark and fiendish assassination and lawless vio- 
lence, which they with us e(iually abhor. 

JOSEPH CRAVEN, Chairman. 



We, the undersigned inhabitants of the town of Kettering, in the county of 
Northampton, desire to express, through his excellency the American minister, 
our horror at and detestation of the atrocious crime by which the President of 



246 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

the United States has been deprived of his life, and our deep sympathy with 
the people and government, as well as with the family of the late President. 

H. LINSAY, Rector. 
JAMES MURSELL, 

Bajiflst Ministe?: 
MILES B. PICKERING, 

Wcsleyan Minister. 

The above memorial of the inhabitants of Kettering was signed by eight 
hundred persons. 



Rcsohdiovs j^ttsscd at a public mectivg of the inlmhitants of the cit)/ of Ivings- 
ton, ill the island of Jamaica, held at the Baptist chapel, East Queen street, 
on Thursday, June 1, 1865, the honorable h. Q. Eoicerbanh, cu-tos, in the 
chair. 

Resolution No. 1. 

That this meeting rejoices in the prospective termination of the fratricidal 
war whicii has for ibur years desolated the United States of America, and trusts, 
by the blessing of God, that soon peace may be permanently established in that 
country ; that all its institutions, social, political, and commercial, may be 
speedily restored to their former order and prosjDerity ; and that all classes of 
its citizens may be once more united together in peace, amity, and love. 

Moved by Rev. W. Gardner ; seconded by Rev. E. Nuttall. 

Resolutio.x No. 2. 

That this meeting would reverently and thankfully acknowledge the over- 
ruling providence of Almighty God, in having evolved from the late terrible 
war the blessings of emancipation to four millions of human beings, and congrat- 
ulate the United States that their country has thus become delivered from the 
curse and dishonor of slavery, and is now throughout its entire and vast extent 
a land of liberty, in which every man, Avoman, and child, without any distinc- 
tion of class, country, or color, may enjoy the benefits of its charter, life, lib- 
erty, and the pursuit of happiness. 

Moved by Rev. Seth Wolcott ; seconded by Rev. Mr. Dilavaute. 

Resolution No. 3. 

That this meeting would express its deep sympathy with all those families 
whose homes the late awful struggle has made desolate, and prayerfully com- 
mend the widows who have been deprived of their husbands, and orphans 
whose fathers have been slain, to the loving care and protection of Him who is 
the widow's friend and the father of the fatherless ; and most especially would 
it mu)gle its sympathies with the nation, on account of the awful calamity which 
has fallen upon it in the moment of its greatest triumph, by the assassination of 
its late President, as also with his bereaved widow and family whom this terri- 
ble event has deprived of one whom they so tenderly and reverently loved, and 
who was so highly and deservedly honored by a great and mighty nation. 

Moved by Rev. W. Holdsworth ; secoiided by Rev. W. Hamilton. 

Resolution No. 4, 

That this meeting cannot refrain from its expression of horror and detesta- 
tion of the foul crime v,hich has so suddenly deprived President Lincoln of life 
by the hand of an assassin ; that it would pray the Father of Mercies to watch 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYiMPATHY 247 

over the interests and welfare of the United States in this eventful and perilous 
crisis of their history, and by the communication of His grace to him who has 
succeeded the late lamented President in the government of the Republic, by 
the impartation of wisdom and discretion to those oHicers of state in whose 
hands is placed the solemn trust of directing public affairs, and to the people at 
large a spirit of mutual forbearance, conciliation, and good order, so that no fur- 
ther evils may result from the awful tragedy that has filled the land with 
mourning. 

Moved by Rev. James Watson ; seconded by Rev. W. Raw. 

Rksolution No. 5. 

That this meeting would record its profound veneration and highest respect 
and admiration to the character of him whose untimely death it deplores, and its 
conviction that history will not only enshrine his name among the noblest 
patriots and most enlightened statesmen that have ever presided over the des- 
tiny of nations ; hut that the memory of Abraham Lincoln Avill be embalmed in 
the hearts of millions as one whose private virtues, simple honesty of purpose, 
and enlarged philanthropy rank him as one of the greatest and most honorable 
of men. 

Moved by Rev. S. Oughton ; seconded by Rev. E. Palmer. 

Resolution Xo. 6. 

That John Camp, esq., vice-consul of the United States of America, be re- 
quested to forward a copy of these resolutions to his government, with an as- 
surance of the deep sympathy of the inhabitants of Jamaica in their present 
bereavement, and earnest interest in their future prosperity and happiness. 
Moved by Thomas Oughton, esq.; seconded by Richard C. Ilitchins, esq. 

LEWIS Q. BOWERBANK, 

Custos Rotulorum, Chairman. 



Kixr.STON, Jamaica, June 5, 1865. 
His Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States of America: 
May it please your excellency : By desire of a numerous meeting of the inhabit- 
ants of this city, held at the Tabernacle on tlie 1st instant, in condolence on the as- 
sassination of your late beloved President, I have the honor to hand herewith a copy 
of resolutions and address which were unanimously adopted, and also to state that 
the sympathies of the people of Jamaica have ever been with your government. 
I have further to ask the ondescension of your excellency towards the meeting, 
by placing the enclosed letters in possession of Mrs. Lincoln and the honorable 
AV. H. Seward, giving expression to our sincere and respectful wishes. 

I have the honor to be, with the highest respect, your excellency's most 
obedient servant, 

GEORGE W. GORDON, 

Cltainnan. 



Address of the inhabitants of Kingston, Jamaica, to President Johnson. 

Kingston, Jamaica, June 1, 1865. 
SiK : We, the inhabitants of Kingston, Jamaica, on this melancholy occasion 
seek the opportunity of conveying to you and the people of America the inex- 
pressible grief we feel, and the sympathy which touches our hearts, on the sad 



2-48 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPOXDENCE. 

event wliicli bas not only overtaken the nation of America but, we may say 
the whole world, in the tragical end of the great and renowned Mr. Lincoln, 
your late President. 

Our feelings revolt at the atrocious, cowardly, and heartless manner in which 
his valuable life was taken, and by which the cause of truth, liberty, and 
righteousness has been deprived of one of its greatest supporters the world ever 
produfeed. 

When we reflect on his fixed principles of humanity and truth, from which 
he could not be moved by threats nor tempted by selfish interest to swerve, we 
find that he was of a singularly great mind. He accomplished, under God, gi-eat 
purposes, and his memory claims a reputation which can never be tarnisbed. 
We could wish that his most valuable life had been spared to see the end of the 
unnatural and terrible war which he had so nearly subdued brought to a con- 
clusion; "but though dead, he yet speaketh." We hope that tbat freedom 
v/hich has cost the penalty of life may be ever a memento of him, dear in the 
heart of the people of America in present and succeeding generations. We beg 
you, as the representative of the American people, and through you, his sur- 
viving widow, to accept this our special condolence in the sudden bereavement 
which has caused such general sorrow, and we hope that it will please God to 
grant sustaining grace in the hour of need, and that the dispensation may be 
sanctified in its influences, 

We have also to convey to the honorable W. H. Seward, Secretary of State, 
our heartfelt congratulation on the narrow escape of his life from the hands of 
the base ruffian, who so barbarously assaulted him on a bed of sickness. We 
hope that Almighty God may be pleased yet to spare his valuable life, and that 
his remaining days on earth may be peace. 

We heartily convey to yourself our best wishes for the success of your ad- 
ministration, and the happiness and prosperity of the nation, whose greatness 
is so truly enhanced by the blessings of freedom to all its subjects. 

By desire and on behalf of the meeting : 

GEO. W. GORDON, 

Chairinan. 
JXO. H. CROLE, 

His Excellency A\drew Johason, iStcretary. 

President of the United Sfates of America. 



KINGSTON, JAMAICA. 

Resolutions passed at a meeting held, by the citizens of Kingston, Jamaica. 

At a numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Kingston, Jamaica, held at the 
Tabernacle Parade, on Thursday, 1st of June, 1SG5, to give expression of deep 
sympathy with the United States of America, which have suffered sad bereave- 
mt ut by the assassination of their late distinguished President, Abraham Lin- 
coln, George W . Gordon, esq., was unanimously called to the chair, and the 
following resolutions were passed. 

IMoved by Mr. W. K. Smith ; seconded by Rev. Mr. Dingwall : 
Ecsol.Ked, 1st. That this meeting records with profound grief the overwhelm- 
ing calamity which has afllicted the cause of humanity and freedom, and also 
the civilized world, by the tragical and sad manner in which the most useful and 
valuable life of the great and justly beloved President of the United States of 
America, Abraham Lincoln, was suddenly terminated by the barbarous act of 
au unscrupulous assassin. 

Moved by Rev. l\Ir. Crole; seconded by Mr. J. Williamson : 

Resolved, 2d. That this meeting desires to express its sense of gratitude to the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 249 

memory of the late lamented President of the United States, and also to his 
surviving Secretary, the lion. W. H. Seward, for their discreet, untiring, and 
successful labors in the most critical crisis of American history, and during 
which protracted period, by their persevering and courageous eiforts, they were 
able to subdue a most stubborn and unnatural rebellion, and, by the mercy of 
God, defended the cause of truth and righteousness to an extent which shall hand 
down their memories to posterity with lustre on the pages of history. 

Moved by Mr. A. Herse, of the United States of America; seconded by Mr 
W. H. Bercley : 

Resolved, 3d. That this meeting congratulates the lion. W. H. Seward on the 
narrow escape of his life from the hand of the base ruffian who sought his de- 
struction on a bed of sickness, and thanks God for this token of mercy to Mr. 
Seward, whose life it is hoped may be yet long spared for future usefulness to 
his fellow-creatures ; and when it may please God to remove him frum this 
jiresent sphere of labors may he receive the welcome approbation of his Heavenly 
Benefactor. 

Moved by Rev. J. F. Roach ; seconded by Mr. J. Gordon : 

Res'h-ed, if/i. That this meeting glories in the fact, and humbly acknowledges 
with devout gratitude the hand of Almighty God, in the near approach of the 
entire abnlition of slavery in America, and trusts that a similar blessing awaits, 
at an earl}' period, all other slaveholding countries. 

Moved by Mr. J. Goldson ; seconded by Mr. W. Harris : 

Resolved, oth. That a copy of the foregoing resolutions and the address here- 
with be signed by the chairman and secretary and forwarded to the President, 
and also a copy of the resolutions to j\trs. Lincoln and the Hon. W. H. Seward, 
in the most acceptable manner, and the chairman, the Rev. J. F. Roach, Rev. 
J. H. Crole, and Messrs. M. A. Hearse and W. K. Smith be a committee for such 
purpose. 

Moved by ]\tr. J. G. Surgeon ; seconded by Mr. M. A. Hearse: 

Resolved, 6fk. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to each of the news- 
papers of this island, and to the New York Herald, and also to the London 
Times. 

Moved by ilr. M. A. Hearse ; seconded by Mr. "W. K. Smith : 

Resolved, 1th. That the thanks of the meeting be tendered to the chairman 
for the able manner in which he presided over the meeting. 

GEO. AV. GORDON, CJminnan. 
JNO.H. CROLE, Secretary. 



Resolution j^tssed at a meeting held hij the inhahitants of Kingstun-upon-Hull. 

Towx Hall, KL\G.sTO.\-uP().\-HrLL, 

April 29, 1S65. 

At a meeting of the inhabitants of Kingston-upon Hull, duly conveiu^d by the 
mayor, it was 

" Unanmoushj resolved, That the inhabitants of Kingston-upon-IluU, in public 
meeting assembled, desire to express tlie feeUngs of horror and indignation with 
which they heard of the assassination of the President of the United States, and 
the barbarous attempt on the life of the Secretary of State, and also their deep 
sympathy with the government and people of the United States, as well as with 
the widow and the family of the late President, at the great loss which they 
have sustained. 

[SEAL.J HENRY J. ATTKINSON, 

Mayor of Kingston-vpon-Hull, and Chairman (f the Alccting. 



250 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

At the quarterly meeting of the mayor, aldermen and council of the borougli 
of Ludlow, held in council chamber, the 4th day of May, 1865, the following 
resolution was unanimously agreed to, and it was ordered that the corporate 
common seal be affixed thereto : 

Resolved, That this council express their sorrow and indignation at the 
atrocious murder of Abraham Lincoln, the late President of the United States, 
and record their deep sympathy with the people of the great American nation 
in the heavy affliction that has befallen them. 

[seal.] JOHN HARDING, Mayor. 



Kt the quarterly meeting of the council of the borough of Llanidloes, in the 
principality of Wales, Great Britain, held, pursuant to summons, on the 5th day 
of May, A. D. 1865, it was moved, seconded, and carried nem con. — 

That the council of tlie borough of Llanidloes hereby unanimously express 
their extreme abhorrence of the assassination of the late lamented President 
Lincoln, and their deep sympathy and condolence with Mrs. Lincoln upon her 
great bereavement, and also with the American people for the great loss they 
have sustained, and at a very critical period of their history, of that most honest, 
sagacious, and concilatory statesman and patriot, their late President. 

Signed on behalf of the council. 

[seal.] THOS. F. ROBERTS, Mayor. 



Resolution passed hy tlie town council of the borough of Liymington, May 2, 1865. 

Resolved, That this meeting, having beard of the great loss the American 
Constitution has sustained in the horrible assassination of its President, and the 
murderous attack upon Mr. Seward, desires to convey to ]\Ls. Lincoln, the 
United States government and people, its sympathy and condolence, and that 
the town clerk do forward a copy of this resolution to the American minister in 
London. 

E. H. MOORE, Town Clerk. 



At a quarterly meeting of the town council of the borough of Leominster, in 
the county of Hereford, held on the 11th day of May, 1865, it was moved by 
Mr. Alderman James, and seconded by Mr. Rudge, and carried unanimously — 

That this council, feeling deep indignation at the cowardly and brutal assas- 
sination of the American President, Abraham Lincoln, and the attempt on the 
life of Mr. Seward, are desirous of expressing their sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln 
and the American citizens at the great loss they have sustained, and the heavy 
affliction with which they have been visited. 

That a copy of this resolution be duly signed and sealed by the mayor, and 
transmitted by the town clerk to the American minister of the United States in 
this country. 

[seal.] JOHN JACKSON, Mayor. 



Borough of Lancaster, 

hi the county 2^al(itine of Lancaster, to wit : 
.At a quarterly meeting of the council of the said borough, held in the council 
chamber, in the Town Hall, within the said borough, on Wednesday, the 3d 
day of May, 1865 — present, James Williamson, esq., mayor, in the chair — it 



was 



SEXTIMEXTS OF COXDOLENCE AXD SYMPATHY. 251 

TJnanivionsly resolved, That this comicil shares in the spontaneous and deeply 
felt indiguation and horror of the people of this country at the atrocious assas- 
sination of the late President of the United States, and the barbarous attack on 
Mr. Secretary Seward, deeds most cowardly and detestable, which no political 
considerations can palliate, and which must shock the whole civilized world. 

That this council desires to express, through the American minister now in 
London, its deep sympathy and condolence with the United States government 
and people, and with the widow and family of the late President, at the lose 
they have sustained. 

That copies of these resolutions be presented to ]\Ir. Adams, the resident 
American minister. 

JAMES AYILIAMSOX, Mayor. 

Extracted from the minutes. 

THO:\rAS SWAINSON, Town Clerk. 



At a meeting of the council of the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the city 
of Lincoln, held at the Guildhall, in the said city, on Tuesday, the 9th day of 
^fay, 1S65, it was proposed by the worshipful the mayor of Lincoln, Richard 
Sutton Harvey, esq., and seconded by Mr. Thomas John Nathaniel Brogden, 
and carried unanimously — 

That the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the city of Lincoln, England, in 
council assembled, are desirous of expressing their most profound sympathy with 
Mrs. Lincoln, and the people of the United States, now plunged into the deepest 
sorrow by a deed which has in a moment not only depri^a'd lier of a beloved 
husband, but them also of their elected cliief, and filled the mind of every mem- 
ber of their great and intelligent republic, as well as the mind of every thought- 
ful individual throughout the world, with feelings of the utmost horror, indigna- 
nation, abhorrence, and grief. 

That the mayor, aldermen, and citizens, in coiuicil assembled, are desirous, 
most respectfully, to present to Mrs. Lincoln their sincere and heart-felt sym- 
pathy and condolence on the melancholy loss she has sustained in the death of 
her illustrious husband. 

That the mayor, aldermen, and citizens rejoice that tlie dastardly attempt 
upon the life of Mr. Seward was frustrated, and sincerely hope that he may 
long be spared, to continue that assistance to his bereaved country which he has 
hitherto afforded, and with the help of his great colleagues may succeed in 
speedily restoring it to a position of freedom, happiness and peace. 

lUCHAFvD SUTTON HARVEY, 

[seal.! Mayor. 

JOHN THOMAS TWEED, 

Town Clerk. 



CITY OF LINCOLN. 

At a meeting of the citizens of Lincoln, convened by public notice, and held 
in the C4uildhall, in the said city, on Saturday, the 20th day of j\Iay, 1865, at 
which meeting the mayor, Richard Sutton Harvey, esq., presided, the fol- 
lowing resolutions were proposed and unanimously carried : 

Proposed by Mr. Coroner Hitch ins, and seconded by the Rev. A. F. JLacdonald : 

Resolved, That the citizens of Lincoln deeply regntt the melancholy termina- 
tion, by assassination, of the life of President Lincoln, and more especially at a 
time when the continuance of his career of usefulness was in the greatest need. 

Resolved, That they deplore the irretrievable loss which Mrs. Lincoln has 
sustained, and fervently sympathize with her in her sorrow and bereavement. 



252 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Resolved, That the citizens of Lincoln sincerely hope the pleasing recol- 
lection of the many virtues of her departed husband may in a measure tend to 
alleviate the sorrows of Mrs. Lincoln. 

Resolved, That they rejoice that the deadly intentions of the cowardly assassin 
upon the valuable life of Mr. Seward and his sous were thwarted, and they 
cheerfully congratulate him upon his providential deliverance. 

[SBAL.J RICHARD SUTTON HARVEY, 

Mayor. 



At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borougli of Leicester England, 
held in the Temperance Hall, on Friday, the 2Sth day of April, 1865, Alfred 
Bm-gess, esquire, mayor, in the chair, it was unanimously resolved — 

First. That this meeting records its unqualified abhorrence of the assassination 
of his excellency Abraham Lincoln, the late President of the United States. 

Second. That the inhabitants of Leicester greatly deplore the loss which the 
citizens of the United States have sustained in the violent death of their patriotic 
and honest President, and deeply sympathize wiih them at this important crisis. 

Third. That this meeting desires to express its deep sympathy with the 
widow and family of the late Pi-esidcnt of tlie Lfnited States, trusting that, in the 
midst of their rmparalled affliction, they may find comfort from the memory of 
tlie high character of the deceased, and from the gratitude of a great nation. 

Fourth. That this meeting, while receiving with feelings of thankfulness an 
improved account of the state of the honorable W. H. Seward, desires to express 
its strong sympathy with himself and his family. 

Fifth. That the foregoing resolutions be signed by the mayor for transmission 
to the honorable 0. F. Adams, the American ambassador. 

ALFRED BURGESS, Mayor. 



Town Hall, Li?nerick, May 9, 1865. 
Sir : At a public meeting held in this city on Saturday, the 6th instant, to 
express the opinion of the citizens of Limerick on the assassination of Presi- 
dent Lincoln and the attempt on the life of Mr. Seward, a series of resolutions 
were passed unanimously, and which 1 now enclose, with a request that you will 
have copies sent to Mrs. Lincoln, also to Mr. Seward. 

Assurhig you of my own feeling of sympathy with the American people, and 
abliorrence of tlie cowardly act which has been committed, 
I liave the lionor to remain your obedient servant, 

JOHN R. TIN.^LEY, 
Mayor of Lbnerick. 
His Excellency C. F. Adams, 

United Hates Minister, London. 



Limerick, May 6, 1865. 

Proposed by Ricliard Russell, esq., J. P., seconded by Councillor Lyman, 
J. P., and unaninrously passed : 

That this meeting views with the deepest abhorrence the assassination of 
the President of the United States, and desire to record their most heartfelt 
sympathy with the American people in the great national loss sustained by the 
removal from the head of the government of a man who displayed, in the dis- 
charge of his duties, the greatest ability and zeal for the interest of the people 
over whom he presided. 

Proposed by Caleb Powell, esq., J. P., seconded by Eugene O'Callaghau, 
esq., J. P., and carried unanimously : 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 253 

Tliat as Irishmen we feel it our duty to express our deep sorrow and indig- 
nation of the attempt to assassinate Mr. Seward, Foreign Secretary of the States 
of America. 

Proposed by Alderman Quarteran, J. P., and seconded by Thomas Boyse, 
esq., J. P. : 

That copies of the resolutions now passed be forwarded to the American 
minister in London, and to ]Mrs. Lincoln ai\d ]\Irs. Seward. 

JOHN R TINSLEY, 
Mayor of TAincrich, Chairman of Meeting. 



Resolution j^asscd at a meeting held hi/ the town council of the royal hurgJi 

of Lauarli. 

La\ark, May 8, 1S65. 

At an ordinary monthly meeting of the town council of the royal burgh of 
Lanark, before proceeding to the ordinary business of the meeting, the follow- 
ing resolution was unanimously agreed to : 

That this council desire, in common with every public body iu the British 
nation, to express their feelings of horror on learning of the dastardly murder 
of Abraham Lincoln, Pre.-^idi'ut of the United States of America. This crime, 
which would have been atrocious under any circumstances, is reudered doubly 
so in this instance, from its having been committed upon a man whose honesty 
of purpose, gentleness ^li disposition and greatness of character were becoming 
fully appreciated by the whole civilized world, and were of peculiar value in the 
crisis which the American nation had just reached. This council cannot, under 
such circumstances, refrain from expressing their deep sympathy with the peo- 
ple of that country in the great loss they have just sustained, and more espe- 
cially with Mrs. Lincoln, to whom the loss must be altogether irreiiarable, and 
for this purpose order a copy of this minute, signed by the p;ovost on behalf 
of the council, to be forwarded to the ambassador of the United States of Amer- 
ica in London. 

. ALEXANDER MAXWELL ADAMS, Frovost. 



COUNTY OF LANARK, SCOTLAND. 

At a general meeting of the lord lieutenant, sheriff, and commissioners of 
supply of the county of Lanark, and of the provosts and chief magistrates of 
the ci'ty of Glasgow, royal burghs of Lanark, Rutberglen, and burghs of Ham- 
ilton and Airdrie, hold'en at Lanark, on the 1st day of \fay, 1SC5, it was, on 
motion of the Riglit Honorable Lord Belbaven and Hamilton, K. T., &c., &c., 
&c., lord lieutenant of the county, seconded by Sir Archibald Alison, baronet, 
sheriff of the county, 

TJnanimovshj re.solccd, That the meeting do give expression to the feelings of 
profound sorrow and of deep horror and detestation in which they, in common 
with all the iidiabirants of the British islands, regai d the late atrocious mur- 
der of President Lincoln, and the murderous assault upon the honorable Secre- 
tary Seward. 

It was also 

Unanimously resolrcd, That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to his 
excellency the minister of the United States for presentation to his govern- 
ment. 

BELHAVEN AND HAMILTON, 

Lievtcnant and Convener of the County. 



254 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC ^CORRESPONDENCE. 

At a meeting of the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of tlie borough of Liver- 
pool, in common council assembled, held in the Town Hall within the said bor- 
ough, on Wednesday, the 3d day of May, I860 — present, Edward Laurence, 
esq., mayor, &c., &c., &c. — it was 

Cnanimoushj resolved, That this council desires to record its horror and in- 
dignation at the atrocious murder of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United 
States, and to express its sympathy with the American nation under their se- 
vere loss, as well as to Mrs. Lincoln in the sad bereavement she has sustained. 

And it was also 

Resolved, That a minute of the foregoing resolution, under the ■common seal, 
should be sent to Mrs. Lincoln through the British minister at Washington. 

[seal.] EDWARD LAURENCE, Maijor. 

WILLIAM SHUTTLEWORTH, Town Clerk. 



Liverpool, April 27, 1S65. 

At a meeting of the inhabitants of LiA'erpool, held in St. George's Hall, on 
the evening of Thursday, the 27th of April, 1865, called for the purpose of ex- 
pressing sorrow and indignation at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Pres- 
ident of the United States of America, the following resolutions were passed 
unanimously : 

L That this meeting of the inhabitants of Liverpool records its horror and 
detestation of the atrocious assassination })eri.etrated at Washington, on the 
fourteenth of this month. 

2. That this meeting desires "-to express its deepest sympathy with the fom- 
ilies of President Lincoln and Mr. Seward in the great affliction which has be- 
fallen them. 

3. That this meeting desires, also, to express its profound sympathy with 
the people of the United States in the loss they have sustained by the death 
of President Lincoln, and its earnest hoj)e that the events we now deplore may 
not imperil or delay the triumph of freedom and of right, or the restoration of 
peace in America. 

4. That the resolutions now passed be signed by the chairman on behalf of 
the meeting, and be transmitted throus^h the proper authorities to Washington. 

" CHARLES WILSOX, Chairman. 



Resolution jx^ssed at a meeting Jiehi by the ivhahitants of the horough erf Li v- 

erijooj. 

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Liverpool, held in 
St. George's Hall, on Thursday, the 27th day of April, 1865, Edward Lau- 
rence, esq., mayor, in the chair, it was 

Resolved unanimoushj. That the inhabitants of Liverpool, in public meet- 
ing assembled, do hereby express their deepest sorrow and indignation at the 
atrocious assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and 
of Mr. Frederick Seward, Assistant Secretary of State ; and at the dastardly 
attempt, about the same hour, on the life of Mr. Seward, Secretary of State. 
They desire that the government and the people of the United States should 
understand that no difterence of opinion on the merits of the conflict of the last 
four years avails to prevent the unanimous condemnation of so great a crime 
against our common humanity. 

EDWARD LAURENCE, Mayor. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 255 

At a meeting of the Ann'rican Cliamber of Commerce of Liverpool, lield on 
tlie 28tli d:iy of April, 18G5— pre^^ent, Wellwood Maxwell, (W. A. & (1. Max- 
well tSc Co.,) pre.''i(lent ; J. Spence, (Richardson, Spenee Ifc Co.,). vice-president ; 
F. A. Hamilton, (Brown, Shei)ley & Co. ;) Stewart H. Brown ; M. Hyislop, 
(W. A. & G. Maxwell & Co. ;) Henrv W. Gair, T. K. Twist, (Kathbonc Broth- 
ers & Co. ;) C. W. Pickering, (J. H. Schroeder & Co.;) Charles Maclver, (C. 
& D. :MacIvcr ;) Charles Forget, Chark-s P. Melly, George :\lelly, (Mrlly, For- 
get & Co. ;) William Rome, (Eyre, Evans & Co. ;) H. Stolterfoht, H. Stolter- 
foht, jr., (Stolterfoht, Sons. & Co.;) Thomas Boyde, Thomas Stcjlterfoht, (Boyde, 
Edwards & Co. ;) Fredinand Karck, (Drake, Kleinwort & Cohen ; ) Edgar Gars- 
ton, (George Green & Co.;) George ^fartin, Meadows Frost — it was 

Unananoush/ resolved. That this chamber begs to express to the American 
minister, and through him to the government of the United States, its deep 
abhorrence of the foul deed that has been perpetrated by assassins in the ruth- 
less murder of the President of the United States and the dastardly attempt 
upon the life of Mr. Secretary Seward. 

The chamber offers to the whole American people its heartfelt condolence on 
the terrible loss they have sustained in the person of their Chief Magistrate. 

To Mrs. Linc<dn and Mrs. Sfward the chamber would respectfully tender 
the expression of its most sincere sympathy in their great affliction. 

WELLWOOD MAX^VELL, 

President. 



At a special general meeting of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, held on 
Friday, the 5th of May, I860, II. W. Meade King, esq., vice-president, in the 
chair, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

Eesolred, That this chamber, in special meeting assembled, liL-reby record 
the profound sorrow and indignation with which they have heard of the 
assassination of the honorable Abraham Lincoln, and the attempt on the life of 
the honorable W. H. Seward; while expressing their deep sympathy with the 
Chambers of Commerce of the United States of America, and through them 
with the nation at large, in this national calamity, they fervently hope that it 
may not delay the return of peace and confidence to an afflicted country. 

Resulced, That the president be requested to forward a copy of this resolu- 
tion to his excellency Charles Francis Adams, the American minister, for trans- 
mission to his government at Washington, and that copies be also sent to Mrs. 
Lincoln and the honorable W. H. Seward, and also to the New York Chamber 
of Commerce, with a request that that chamber will kindly send copies to every 
other chamber of commerce or board of tr^ule in the United States. 



Mercantile Mari?ic Service Association, Livcrjwol. 

At a meeting of the council of the ^Mercantile Marine Service Association, held 
at the offices of the association, 06 Tower buildings, Water street, Liverpool, 
on Monday, the 1st of May, 1865, Captain Benjamin Sproule in the chair, it 
was 

Vnanimouslij resolved, (on the motion of Captain James W. Jeffrey, sec- 
onded by Captain James K. ilea,) That this association desires to express, in 
the strongest possible terms, its deep feelings of sorrow and indignation at the 
recent foul assassination of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United 
States of America, and also at the diabolical attempt, made about the same 
hour, upon the lives of Mr. Secretary Seward and his son, Mr. Seward, the 
under secretary. 



256 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE, 

It was further 

TJnanhnousl y rcsulved, That this association also ventures to place on record 
its heartfelt sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln and her family in the irreparable loss 
they have sustained in the awfully sudden and truly sad and unlooked for 
departure from among them of the late President of the United States, and 
the association earnestly hope that consolation be ministered to them in this 
bitter hour of trial and distress. 

It was also 

Unanimonshj ^-esoh-ed , That the secretary do transmit copies of the forego- 
ing resolutions, through the proper channel, to Mr. President Johnson, as rep- 
resenting the American people, and to Mrs. Lincoln. 

BENJ. SPROULE, President. 



Vice-President of tJie Liverjfool Cotton Brokers'' Association to Mr. Dudley. 

Liverpool, April 2S, lS6.'i. 

Sir : At the usual weekly meeting of the Cotton Brokers' Association of this 
town, held this morning, the appalling assassination of the late President of the 
United States, and the atrocious attempt on the lives of Mr. Secretary Seward 
and his sou, were the theme of unanimous execration and abhorrence. 

I have been requested to convey to you, as the representative of the United 
States at this port, the expression of the deep sympathy and condolence of this 
association, in common with the country at large, at a calamity so awful and 
which has impressed our body with the strongest feelings of profound regret 
and indignation, as well as of commiseration, for a people with Avhom we are so 
closely allied in the bonds of good will, as well as in the daily business of our 
lives. I trust you will favorably receive this imperfect assurance, that in the 
terrible blow which it has pleased God to inflict on your great nation they and 
you have the utmost possible sympathy of the members of our association, both 
individually and collectively. In the absence (from ill-health) of our president, 
Edgar Musgrove, esq., I beg to subscribe myself on behalf of this association, 
with all respect, sir, your obedient humble servant, 

D. C. BUCHANAN, Vice-President. 

Thomas H. Dudley, Esq., 

American Consul, Licerpool. 



At a meeting of the committee of the Liverpool Emancipation Society, held 
May 3, 1865, the following resolutions were passed unanimou-ly, and ordered 
to be forwarded to his excellency the Hon. C. F. Adams, for transmission to 
the government of the United States : 

That the Liverpo<d Emancipation Society, in recording its deepest sorrow for 
the death of President Lincoln, cut off as he has been in the midst of a life of 
usefulness rarely equalled, expresses its sympathy with his bereaved family in 
their affliction and with the people of the United States in their loss. 

That the society expresses at once its sympathy with Mr. Seward and his 
family in their sufferings, and its heart-felt satisfaction that the purposes of the 
assassin were in this case frustrated. 

That, in conveying to the people of the United States this testimony of sor- 
row for their bereavement, this society also records its profoundest thankfulness 
that, in the good providence of God, the great cause of emancipation, so nobly 
carried out during the last four years by President Lincoln and the legislature, 
is in the safe keeping of a people fully awakened to a sense of its responsibility ; 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 257 

a people resolved to make peace on the basis of freedom only, and thus hand 
down to succeeding generations a heritage enlarged, ennobled and consecrated 
by the precious blood of martyrs. 

Signed on behalf of the society : 

CHARLES WILLSON, Chairman of Committee. 
ROBERT TRIMBLE, Secretary. 



FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCFATION, LIVERPOOL — MONTHLY MEETING, FRIDAY, 

APRIL 28, 1865— (E. K. Muspratt, esq., in the chair.) 
Extract from Proceedings. 

]\[oved by Owen Williams, esq.; seconded by Joseph Coventry, esq., and re- 
solved unanimously — 

Believing that it is the duty of all associated bodies of Englishmen to give 
expression to the feelings of horror and indignation excited in every English 
mind by the execrable murder of the wise, patriotic, and magnanimous ruler of 
a great people, and this in a moment when, triumphant in the terrible struggle 
which lias so long devastated his native land, he had no thoughts but those of 
clemency toward the vanquished ; no desire but to assuage all animosities, and 
to confer on all classes of his fellow-countrymen, without distinction of color, 
the blessing of equal rights and privileges ; and regarding with equal horror and 
detestation the murderous assaults on the chief Secretary of State and members 
of his family, the council of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association desire 
to convey to the President and people of the United States, to the bereaved 
widow and family of Abraham Lincoln, and to the Hon. Mr, Seward, if his life 
be happily spared, or to his flimily, if deceased, anNissurance of their sincere 
sorrow and sympathy, in contemplation of the atrocious deeds which have con- 
verted the hour of triumph for them and their country into one of universal 
mourning ; and, also, an expression of their earnest hope that, whatever differ- 
ences of opinion or causes of complaint there may have been on one side or the 
other, the knowledge that there is not one person in America not closely related 
to the victims that detests and deplores these savage deeds and their conse- 
quences more than every honest man in the United Kingdom, will have the 
effect of burying in oblivion the remembrances of all such grievances, real or 
imaginary, and of permanently restoring those feelings of cordial amity which 
ought ever to prevail between two great nations, one in race, language, laws of 
religion, and henceforth, in really free institutions. And the council further 
desire that the Hon. Mr. Adams, resident American minister at London, will 
have the goodness to transmit this resolution to the proper parties in the United 

CHARLES EDWARD MACQUEEN, 

Secretary 



Resolution passed at the ordinary meeting of the Albert Literary Society. 

THE LATE PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

At the ordinary meeting of the Albert Literary Society, on the 4th instant, 
held at the Royal Institution, Colquitt street, Mr. G. H. Ball in the chair, the 
following resolution was proposed by Mr. A. B. Hayward, the vice-president, 
seconded by Mr. E. J. Parr, the treasurer, and carried unanimously : 
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258 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

"That tliis society record its deep horror of the enormous crime which has 
deprived the American people of their Chief Magistrate, and tender to the late 
President Lincoln's family, and the nation at large, its sincere sympathy, and 
also its appreciation of his singular ability, rare integrity, and progressive 

'^'^" * . WILLIAM EVANS. Hon. Secretary. 

Liverpool, May 5, 1865. 



ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

" Sic semper tyrannisl" the assassin cried, 

As Lincoln fell. O villian .' who than he 

More lived to set both slave and tji'ant free ? 
Or so enrapt with plans of freedom died, 
That even thy treacherous deed shall glance aside 

And do the dead man's will by land and sea ; 

Win bloodless battles, and make that to be 
"Which to his living mandate was denied ! 
Peace to that gentle heart ! The peace he sought 

For all mankind, nor for it dies in vain. 
Rest to the uncrowned king, who, toiling, brought 

His bleeding country through that dreadful reign; 
Who, living, earn'd a world's revering thought, 
■ And, dying, leaves his name without a stain. 

ROBERT LEIGHTON, of Liverpool. 



At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Leeds, in the county 
of York, held in the Town Hall, on the 1st of May, 1865, convened by the 
mayor, in accordance with a requisition presented to him by the inhabitants — 
present, the mayor, in the chair — 

Resolved, That the inhabitants of Leeds, in public meeting assembled, would 
emphatically express the feeling of horror and intense regret with which they 
have heard of the atrocious acts by Avhich the LTnited States of America have 
been suddenly deprived of their President, and the life of his chief Secretary has 
been endangered ; and that they recall with melancholy interest the friendly 
feeling invariably displayed by the late President Lincoln towards this couutiy. 

Resolved, That while deeply lamenting the removal of President Lincoln from 
his exalted position, at a time when his combined wisdom and benevolence 
seemed peculiarly needful to secure the peaceful and harmonious reconstruction 
of the American nation, this meeting earnestly hopes the surviving statesmen 
of that great republic may succeed in speedily and happily surmounting every 
obstacle to such a reconstruction, in accordance with the immutable principles 
of justice and freedom. 

Resolved, That a copy of the preceding resolutions, signed by the mayor, on 
behalf of the meeting, be forwarded to tlie United States government, and that 
the American Consul at Leeds be requested to transmit such copy to the em- 
bassy in London. 

Resolved, That copies of the foregoing resolutions be also forwarded to Mrs. 
Lincoln, with an expression of the deep sympathy entertained by the inhabit- 
ants of Leeds for herself and her family in their heavy bereavement and afflic- 
tion. 

J. D. ZUNOCK, Mayor. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 259 

At a large meeting of work-people, in the Leeds Working ]\ren'3 Hall, 
cu Tlmrsdaj evening, April 27, held to bear a dramatic reading, oj)portnnity 
•was taken to show the deep feeling of sympathy felt among the working classes 
for their brethren in America on the sad loss of President Lincoln. 

The following resolution was unanimously carried, with a request that the 
American consul in Leeds would kindly forAvard it to the proper quarter: 

Rcsolrcd, This meeting desires to express its deep and heartfelt sympathy 
with the people of the United States on the terrible bereavement they have just 
experienced in the assassination of President Lincoln, and its feeling of horror 
at' the cowardly murder by which they have been deprived of a sound leader, 
a wise counsellor, a beloved friend, and an honest man. In Abraham Lincoln 
the working classes of this country have long had the fullest confidence, as the 
uncompromising enemy of the detestable institution of slavery ; and although 
recent victories had placed his enemies at his feet, his nobledieartediiess and 
kindly disposition led him to extend forgiveness to them, in the hope of restor- 
ing peace and unity among the American people. 

This meeting prays that God, in His infinite mercy, will so direct the rulers 
of America that peace may be soon restored, the Union cemented, and slavery 
forever abolished. 

FPvED. R. SPARK, Vice-President, Chairman. 



Mr. Ada?ns to Mr. Seward. 

No. 936.] Legatiom of the United States, 

London, April 2S, 1S65. 

Sir: I had the grief to receive the day before yesterday the telegraphic de- 
spatches from Mr. Stanton, the Secretary of "War, and from Mr. Hunter, the 
chief clerk of your department, announcing the afflicting event of the 14th in- 
stant, which has thrown our whole people into such deep distress. They also 
give a narrative of the simultaneous savage onslaught upon yourself in your sick- 
room, and upon your son, the Assistant Secretary, which had not at the latest 
date, and which I yet permit myself to hope will not prove fatal to either of 
you. 

I immediately took the requisite measures to communicate the intelligence to 
the different legations on the continent. 

It is but consistency that a rebellion vrhich began in perjuiy, treachery, and 
fraud, should close with private assassination. 

The whole of the day Avas one of the greatest excitement. Few events of the 
present century have created such general consternation and indignation. ]\Lany 
people called personally at the legation to express their deep sympathy, and 
many more sent me notes of the same tenor. 

The notices taken by the press are almost all of them of a most honorable 
character. I transmit copies of the leading newspapers. There seems, at last, 
to be a general testimony borne to the noble qualities of the President, and the 
friendly disposition of the Secretary of State. 

If all this eulogy be found mingled with the alloy of unworthy aspersions of 
the Vice-President, who succeeds, he has abundant consolation in the reflection 
that when his predecessor began he was not a whit better treated. It is a weak- 
ness of the press and the people of this country not to value some men properly 
until they are lost : the case of the late Prince ('onsort is a remarkable instance. 

The proceedings in the two houses of Parliament last evening mark out the 
line proposed to be adopted by the government on this occasion. 

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, 

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, 

Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State, WasJiingten^D. C. 



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3Ir. Adams to Mr. Hunter. 

No. 943.] Legation of the United States, 

London, May 4, 1865. 

Sir : The death of the President and the fearful circumstances under which it 
was brought about have occupied the public mind, all over this kingdom, almost 
exclusively during the past week. 

At the desire of the Americans residing in this city, I called a public meeting 
of all such as might happen to be here, for Monday last. It was very well at- 
tended. I have the liouor to transmit a copy of the proceedings. 

I have the honor to transmit a number of addresses, resolutions, or other form 
of public action, taken by various corporate bodies in England, Scotland, and 
Ireland on this subject, and forwarded to me down to this time, according to the 
list which is attached to this despatch. 

As a further evidence of the extent of the public feeling, I transmit a con- 
siderable number of newspapers from different parts of the kingdom which have 
been sent to me as containing comments upon the late calamity. 

A very large number of persons have called at this legation, including most 
of the members of the corps diplomatique, in token of their sentiments on this 
occasion. The labor devolved upon the members of it in acknowledging all 
these demonstrations is not small. It will also become a serious question to 
decide upon the most suitable mode of responding to them. On mature reflec- 
tion, I should rather recommend one brief, comprehensive communication, which 
I might be authorized to print, in some form or other, and send to the respective 
parties concerned. 

1 have the honor to be, sir,'your obedient servant, 

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. 

Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. 



[Extract.] 
A REQUIEM FOR ABRAHAM LINCOLN : AN ADDRESS TO THE LIBERALS OF EUROPE. 

" AtvaJce ! thou shalt and must ! " 

Brothers: One of our best friends, and one of the best men the world has 
ever seen, has been called suddenly from us. We will not say that he is dead, 
for there is no death for such as he : nothing but life — a glorified and immortal 
life — both on earth and in heaven. It will be as wise as consoling for us to 
reflect that this good man, instead of dying, as his wretched enemies have sup- 
posed, has attained to a higher existence — has gone to a companionship more 
worthy of his exalted merit.s — has been welcomed home like a good servant to 
repose from his labors — and is henceforth to be known as one of that sublime 
brotherhood of sages and heroes who have died that men may be wiser and 
better. 

I. The GLORY OF MR. LINCOLN. 

Grandest among the sages and heroes of this generation! the most perfect 
embodiment of the genius of a free and mighty people ! the noblest benefactor 
of his species that has ever toiled and suffered among men ! the glorious father 
of a whole Avorld's regeneration ! the great prophet of the speedy emancipation 
of every man ou the earth who is burdened and wronged ! there is no mortal 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 2G1 

name beneath the stars that can be placed beside that of Abraham Lincoln. 
He has lived and died not for America alone, but for the people of England, 
the people of France, the people of Germany, the people of Italy, the people 
of every land under heaven. He has lived and died,- not only for American 
unity and brotherhood, but for the unit}" and brotherhood of all the groaning and 
oppressed peoples of Europe. As simple as a child in the sublime faith that 
moved him, as sound in every attribute as the sturdy oaks of his native hills, as 
kindly towards all mankind as a loving mother to her children, as unselfish and 
as spotless in all his attribute as an angel from heaven, it is not for nought 
that he has been elevated in the providence of God to the highest pinnacle of 
glory, where the eyes of all the sons of men can behold him, as a bright and 
deathless example. When the foremost of the Liberals who had called him to 
his high office were calling sternly for judgment upon the rebels, he knew how 
to temper judgment with mercy ; when all around him were discouraged by unex- 
jDected reverses, his faith remained calm and unshaken. "When sympathizers 
with rebellion obtruded themselves upon him, and told him that certain pro- 
posed measures would be the certain destruction of his country, he smilingly 
bowed them out of his presence, and went on with his labours as steadily 
as though these croakers of evil had never existed. When a hundred dif- 
fei-ent cliques and parties endeavoured to sway him in as many different 
directions, he wisely selected the right course, and placed his foot firmly upon 
the precise road that his far-seeing wisdom and humanity pointed out to him. 
A mental and moral giant, he did not waste his strength upon the little expe- 
dients of politicians, but he charged directly upon the great towers of human 
wretchness, assaulted incessantly the strongholds of the misguided men who had 
taken up arms against human liberty ; and nobly and gloriously did he carry 
his warfare to the hour of victoly. Patient and long-suffering, animated by a 
trust in God that gave him sufficient endurance for the onerous duties devolving 
upon him, looking hopefully towards heaven for the regeneration of mankind, 
and loving even those who had pointed their weapons at his throat, it was in 
keeping with all his thoughts and actions that ^^e spoke Idndhj of Lee and others 
in the confederacy, in the last hours preceding his assassination, and thus 
grandly sealed the yearnings and tender affection he had so long displayed 
towards the brave but mistaken men who had attempted the life of the republic 
Brothers ! the world is too small to furnish a grave for Abraham Lincoln, 
and the spirit of the glorious martyr must^continue to dwell among us ! 

11. The power and grandeur of the American republic. 

In the land beyond the sea, where the spirit of Abraham Lincoln still ani- 
mates his people, there is honor and glory. There is weeping, too, there is 
sorrow too great for utterance, but there is also a hope as radiant as the morning 
of that blessed eternity to which we are all hastening. The great propliet has 
indeed left us, but the true seer of God lives forever in the fulfilment of his 
aspirations, and greater than all surviving voices is that voice which has been 
so rudely silenced. Over the sea, towering supremely above all the mighty 
things of the world, there is a redeemed and ennobled nation, quickened into 
universal life by the spirit of its great leader, and ordained by Almighty God 
to be the bulwark and the impregnable fortress of universal freedom. 

The initial battles of a universal regeneration have been won ! 

If Mr. Lincoln did not live to perform all that he intended, and all that we 
had reason to expect of him, he did certainly live to set in motion the forces that 
will soon sweep from the face of the earth tlie enemies of mankind who hated 
and abused him. 

A great change for the better has already been accomplished, and it only 
remains to carry Mr. Lincoln's work to its completion. 



262 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

If tlie dungeons built by tyranny liave not been destroyed, they have at least 
been shattered by the lightnings of progress, and the light of liberty is to-day 
shining into them, never more to be darkened. 

Glorious light ! all hail ! 

If we are not all of us fully awake to the duties devolving upon us, and if we 
have not yet entered fully into possession of our promised land, and if Ave are 
still loaded unjustly with burdens grievous to be borne, and if many of us are 
still driven to and fro like cattle, the glad truth is nevertheless manifest that 
the spirit of God is working lovingly among us, and that the long-desired morn- 
ing of the world's regeneration will soon dawn upon us. 

If there is yet sin and suffering around us, and if weary men are still 
toiling hard and long for the bare necessities of existence, and if the most vital 
titles and claims of manhood are yet denied by our governments, and if cruelty 
and injustice are still potent in many of the affairs touching our personal honor 
and happiness, it is nevertheless easy to see that the idea of a goverriment of 
the people for the people will soon be realized among all the civilized nations of 
the earth. 

Once more, glorious era of freedom and freemen, all hail ! 

Fraternally your brother, 

LEON LEWIS, 
A CitlzeH of the United States. 



[Translation.] 

London, Xo. 3 Percy Street, Bedford Suuare, 

May 5, 1S65. 

Mr. President : In presence of the sombre tomb which encloses the body 
of citizen Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and 
member of the Grand Lodge of New York, the undersigned, delegates from the 
lodge of Gymnosophists in London, have the honor of transmitting to you the ex- 
pression of their fraternal regret for the loss of one of the greatest citizens of the 
republic of America. 

Abraham Lincoln is no more ! He has given his blood for the social restora- 
tion of the most pitiable portion of humanity. Death to him is not annihilation ; 
but the beginning of a new life, that will endure as long as the memoiy of man. 
The lodge to which we belong has decided to wear mourning for a month, in 
commemoration of that heroic and unfortunate death, and takes this occasion of 
requesting you, Mr. President, to accept the expression of the regrets which Ave 
send in the name of our brethren, and our best Avishes for the prosperity of your 
country and your OAvn personal happiness. 

J. P. BERJEAN, (33,) 
Grand Venerable Master of the Lodge. 

J. LORGUE, First Warden. 

CHAPERON, Second Warden. 

L. WOLFF, Depvty <fthe Lodge. 

P. LEFEVRE, Orator. 

CRESPELLE DESIRE, Treasurer. 

L. ARNAUD, Levite. 

GROT, Exjycrt. 

DAUTEAUBEL, Brother Collector. 

T. CHARLES BERJEAN, Secretary, 
[masonic seal.] 

His Excellenc}^ Andreav Johnson, 

President (f the United States. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYxMPATHY. 263 

A common council liolden in the cliamber of the Gniklhall, of the city of Lou- 
don, ou Thusday, the 27th day of April, 1865, Hall, mayor — 

Resolved unannnously, That this court desires, before proceeding to the 
business of the day, to express its profound sympathy with the people of 
America, at the loss sustained in the death, by assassination, o/ Mr. Lincoln, the 
President of the United States, and to record its detestation of the atrocious 
crime which has been perpetrated. 

WOODTHROPE. 



Bee H[VE Office, 10 Bolt Court, Fleet street, London. 

At a meeting of the working men of Loudon, held at St. Martin's hall, ou 
Thursday evening, May 4, 1SG5, Mr. Thomas Bayley Potter, M. P. in the 
chair, it Avas 

Unanimoushj resolved. That in addition to expressing their deep sympathy 
with the people of America for the great loss they have sustained, this meeting 
also desires to convey to the President, government, and people of the United 
States, their congratulation on the decisive successes which have lately attend- 
ed the federal arms, affording a just hope of a speedy suppression of the rebel- 
lion, and the entire extinction of the accursed slave institutions, and therefore 
adopt the following address : 

To the President, govcrnincnt, and j^eople of the United States : 

"\Ve, the working men of London, send you greeting ! For more than four 
years have we watched, with the deepest anxiety, the momentous and stupend- 
ous struggle in which you have been engaged ; we have sympathized with your 
reverses, rejoiced over you successes, and hailed Avith delight your late decisive 
triumph over the men who raised the standard of rebellion, not for the advance- 
ment of liberty, but that they might establish in your midst an empire with the 
avowed object of maintaining, extending, and perpetuating the accursed slave 
institution, for so long a period the dark spot in your national history. "We 
were about to congratulate you ou your late glorious victory, and on the extir- 
pation from your great republic of that foul stain of slavery, when we Avere 
shocked at receiving the intelligence that the man who had done so much to bring 
about this desired end, gradually and constitutionally, Avho had pursued stead- 
fastly his anti-slavery policy, braving alike the opposition of the open foe, the 
fears of the timid, the prejudice of the ignorant, and the abuse of the aristocrat, 
had fallen a victim to the fiendish attack of an assassin, on the eve of Avitness- 
ing the consummation of his great and glorious labor, and Avhile the words of 
conciliation and mercy to the A'anquished enemy Avere yet hovering on his lips. 

People of America, Ave deeply feel Avith you the great loss you have sustained 
by the untimely death of your late illustrious President, Abraham Lincoln, Avho 
had endeared himself to his country and mankind, especially to the toiling mil- 
lions of the civilized world, not less by his pure and stainless character than by 
his great services to his country in its time of agonizing trial. We feel that the 
loss of such a man is ours as Avell as yours. We feel that the loss of such a 
man is not only a loss to the nation over AA'hich he presided, but a loss to the 
world at large. Raised by the force of his oavu character and genius from a 
humble position in the ranks of industry to be the first citizen of a great and 
glorious republic, his memory will be endeared to, and enshrined in, the hearts 
of the toiling millions of all countries, as one of the few uncrowned monarchsof ' 
the AYorld. Abraham Lincoln has been sacrificed ha the cause of negro emuuci- 



264 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

pation, and the freedom of tlie slave Las been consecrated by tbe blood of his 
deliverer. 

People of America, in yonr grief and affliction we the working men of Lon- 
don, offer you our heartfelt sympathy. We also have to lament the recent loss 
of a man among us whose life was devoted to our interests, and whose politi- 
cal career, like that of your Abraham Lincoln, though less troubled, was equally 
pui'e and stainless, Richard Cobden. May we, acting in the spirit of these two 
great men, draw closer the bonds of unity between us, and may peace and good 
Avill always exist between our respective nations. That man is a traitor to hu- 
manity and freedom who would lift his voice or his pen to provoke hostile pro- 
ceedings betAveen England and America ; that man, be he peer or plebian, be he 
in the senate or on the platform, or in the press, who would say or write any- 
thing in favor of a war between the two countries is little less a miscreant than 
that assassin who has so lately struck down the foremost man amongst you. Be 
assured, whatever you may have heard to the contrary, either in a parliament 
with which we have nothing in common, and in which we are not yet represent- 
ed, or in the leading articles of the corrupt and venal portion of the press, the 
working men of Great Britain have always been sound upon the great struggle 
in which you have been engaged, and, while you have been fighting, they have 
been anxiously watching and awaiting that time, now it would appear so happily 
approaching, Avhen the lights and dignity of labor shall be acknowledged to ex- 
i-t ecjually in the black man as in the white. It was for this Abraham Lincoln 
lived and labored. It was for this Abraham Lincoln died the martyr of free- 
dom. May his glorious example be as a beacon light to his successor. May he 
and those associated with him in the government, carry out the principles and 
policy of Abraham Lincoln, tempering justice with mercy, and triumph with con- 
ciliation, and the blood and treasure poured out during the last four years, will 
not have been sacrificed and expended in vain. 

Accept, people of America, the pledge of sympathy and the hand of fellow- 
ship and fraternity, from the working men of England's great metropolis. 
Signed on behalf of the meeting : 

THOMAS BAYLEY POTTER, 

Chairman . 
THOMAS BAYLEY POTTER, M. P., 
P. A. TAYLOR, M. P., 
EDMOND BEALES, M. A., 
JOHN ROBKRT TAYLOR, 
PROFESSOR BEELY, 
MASON JONES, 
F. W. EDGE, 
S. ENGLANDER, 
J. A. NICHOLAY, 
E. D. ROGERS, 

Coi7imi(tee. 
GEO. POTTER, 
W. S. NORTHHOUSE, 

Honorary Secretaries. 
And forty-two other names. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 265 

Address of the working men of South London to Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Johnson, 
and the pcoj)Ie of America. 

South London, April 28, 1865. 

Bereaved Friends : We, a public meeting of many liundreJs of working 
men of South London, assembled in front of Surry Chapel, Blackfriars' Road, 
Surrey, desire to convey to you our sincere and sorrowing sympathy in 
reference to the sad loss you have sustained by the cruel and blood-thirsty 
assassination of the truly magnanimous and patriotic President, Abraham Lin- 
coln, and to record our unmitigated disgiist and horror at the brutal treachery 
and unparalled baseness of the savage deed of blood which has placed your 
own and every civilized land in mourning. 

The name of Abraham Lincoln had already become famous to the working 
people of England ; he appeared as one of themselves, fighting the battle of 
freedom for all lands; he is now, and for all coming time, the hero martyr of 
liberty and right. The American people have acted right nobly under his 
wise, conscientious, and upright rule. We believe they will not depart from 
the splendid course he has marked out for the nation. The assassin's hateful 
blow has sealed Avith sacred blood the bond which secures freedom in per- 
petuity to every man on the American continent, irrespective of color or race. 

Peace be to tlie slain ! We mourn the mighty dead ! Never, in the whole 
range of the world's history, were hopes so gloriously bright so rudely, sud- 
denly, and atrociously dashed ; but we earnestly pray that from out the thick 
darkness and the fearful evil good may ultimately flow. The twice elected 
President — the man of the people — is no more; but, Sampson-like, in a moral 
sense, there will be more slain by his death than in his life ; for we see, even 
now, in clearer character, the diabolical vindictiveness which obtains among 
the baffled abettors of slavery, and to see a subtle and gigantic evil in its 
native hideousness is the certain forerunner of its complete and final overthrow. 
The blow which aimed, alas, too surely, at Abraham Lincoln's life, will send 
its echoes wherever slavery is felt or known, and will, we trust, prove the key- 
note of freedom for the oppressed in every land. 

We mourn with bitterness and lamentation for the dead ; we sorrow for the 
living ; but not as for those who have no hope. The comforter will surely 
come for them, and their wounds, though many and severe, shall be healed. 
We pray for the future of America, that it may be indeed a glorious future of 
liberty, prosperity, and peace, and notwithstanding the last fearful climax to 
the treachery and rebellion so recently and gallantly quelled by the victorious 
bravery and courageous persistence of the northern arms, we trust that mod- 
eration and clemency may still rule; justice, as in the past, being ever tem- 
pered with mercy, and that the national counsels may be always under the 
guidance of Him, who has said, " Vengeance is mine, 1 will repay." 

Signed on behalf of the meeting, and at its unanimous request : 

GEORGE M. MURPOY, 
Chairman, 55 Finchley Road, London. 

To Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, 

His Excellency the President of the United States, and 

The People of Anierica. 



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Meeting held hy the members cf the " Worldng Men's Christian Institute,'^ 

Drury Lcme, W. C. 

Dear Sir : We, the members of the " Working Men's Christian Institute," 
Parker street, Drury Lane, W. C, in meeting assembled, beg to convey to 
Mrs. Lincoln, to the United States government, and to the American people, 
our deep sympathy with them in the great loss they have sustained by the 
martyrdom of President Lincoln, and we fervently hope that the principles of 
Union and emancipation, which were so dear to the late lamented President, 
and in the defence of which his blood was shed, may become still dearer to 
the American people, and that, from the present struggle, the United States 
may come forth a glorious, a united, and a free nation. 

In behalf of the meeting : 

R. NICHOLLS, Chairman. 

His Excellency C. F. Adams, 

Minister of the United States of America, Ijondon. 



London, W., IS Greek street, May 13, 1865. 

Sir : The demon of the peculiar institution, for the supremacy of which the 
South rose in arms, would not allow his worshippers to honorably succumb in 
the open field. What he had begun in treason he must needs end in infamy. 
As Phillip Second's war for the inc[uisition bred a Gerards, thus Jefferson Da- 
vis's pro-slavery war a Booth, 

It is not our part to cull words of sorrow and horror, while the heart of two 
worlds heaves Avith emotion. Even the sycophants who, year after year, and 
day by day, stuck to their Sisyphus work of morally assassinating Abraham 
Lincoln and the great republic he headed, stand now aghast at this universal 
outburst of popular feeling, and rival with each other to strew rhetorical flow- 
ers on his open grave. They have now at last found out that he was a man, 
neither to be browbeaten by adversity nor intoxicated by success — inflexibly 
pressing on to his great goal, never compromising it by blind haste ; slowly ma- 
turing his steps, never retracing them ; carried away by no surge of popular 
ftivor, disheartened by no slackening of the popular pulse ; tempering stern acts 
by the gleams of a kind heart; illuminating scenes dark with passion by the 
smile of humor; doing his Titanic work as humbly and homely as heaven-born 
rulers do little things, with the grandiloquence of pomj) and state ; in one 
word, one of the rare men who succeed in becoming great without ceasing to be 
good. Such, indeed, was the modesty of this great and good man, that the 
world only discovered him a hero after he had fallen a martyr. 

To be singled out by the side of such a chief, the second victim to the infer- 
nal gods of slavery, was an honor due to Mr. Seward. Had he not, at a time 
of general hesitation, the sagacity to foresee and the manliness to foretell " the 
h-repressible conflict ?" Did he not, in the darkest hours of that conflict, prove 
true to the Roman duty to never despair of the republic and its stars ? We ear- 
nestly hope that he and his son will be restored to health, public activity, and 
well deserved honors within much less than " ninety days." 

After a tremendous civil war, but which, if we consider its vast dimensions 
and its broad scope, and compare it to the Old World's one hundred years' 
wars, and thirty years' wars, and twenty-three years' wars, can hardly be said 
to have lasted ninety days. Yours, sir, has become the task to uproot by the 
law what has been felled by the sword, to preside over the arduous work of 
political reconstruction and social regeneration. A profound sense of your great 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 



2G7 



mission will save you from any compromise with stern duties. You will never 
forget that, to initiate the new era of the emancipation of labor, the American 
people devolved the responsibilities of leadership upon two men of labor, the 
one Abraham Lincoln, the other Andrew Johnson. 

Signed, on behalf of the luteruatioual Working Men's Association, by the 
central council : 



CHARLES KAUB. 

EDWIN COULSON. 

FERD. LESSNER. 

CARL PFAENDER. 

N. P. HANSEN. 

KARL SCHAFPER. 

WILLIAM DELL. 

GEORGE LOCKNER. 

GEORGE ECCAKIUS. 

JOHN ASBEUN. 

EMILL HATTORP, Secretary far Poland. 

KARL MARX, Secretary for Lierviany. 

GEORGE WILLIAM WHEELER. 

J, WHITLOCK, Financial Secretary. 

P. PETERSEN. 

ALO FANKO. 

EUGENE DUPONT, Secretary for France. 

HY JUNG, Secretary/ for Sic it zer land. 

W. H. CREMER, Honorary General Scc'y. 

Ai\DREW JOHNSOX, 

F resident of the United States. 



H. CLUWOSKY. 

JOHN WESTON. 

HENRY BOLLETER. 

BENJAMIN LUC RAPT. 

JAMES BUCKLEY. 

PETER FOX. 

N. SALVATELLA. 

GEORGE HOWELL. 

BORDAGE. 

A. VALTIER. 

ROBERT SHAW. 

JOHN H. LONGMAID. 

M. MORGAN. 

JOHN D. NICASS. 

WILLIAM C. WORE SY 

DIXON SrAWTZ. 

G. T. DE LASSARIE. 

J. CARTER. 

G. ADGER, Prcsidcjit. 



London, May 1, 1865. 
Sir: We, the imdersigned, merchants, bankers, and traders of the city of 
London, are anxious to express to you, as the representative of the United 
States of America, the horror and indignation Avith which we have heard of the 
assassination of the late President, j\[r. Lincoln. This event, which, under any 
circumstances, would have called forth these feelings, seems to do so more 
strongly at this time, when so much appeared to depend upon Mr. Lincoln's 
well known character for integrity, and his kindly desire of conciliation in the 
great task to which he was about to address himself — of restoring peace and 
concord in that great country over the councils of which he presided. 

We also desire to express our deep and heartfelt sympathy in the irreparable 
loss which his family have sustained ; and we beg you vvill convey to them the 
assurance of this feeling, which we believe to exist uuiversally throughout this 
countr}'. 

II. L. HOLLANDS, 
Governor of the Bank of England. 
THOMAS N. ilUNT, 
Dejmty Governor of the Bank of England, 
And 300 other names or firms. 
His Excellency Hon. C. F. Adams, 

Minister of the United States of America, London. 



268 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



THE LATE PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

At a great meeting held under the auspices of the Emancipation Society, at 
St. James's Hall, London, on Saturday evening, the 29th of April, 1865, (Mr. 
William Evans, president of the society, in the chair,) the following resolution 
was proposed by Mr. W. E. Forster, M. P., seconded by Mr. P. A. Taylor, M. 
P., supported by Mr, E. A. Leatham, M. P., and carried unanimously : 

That this meeting desires to give utterance to the feelings of grief and horror 
with which it has heard of the assassination of President Lincoln, and the murder- 
ous attack upon Mr. Seward ; and to convey to Mrs. Lincoln and to the United 
States government and people an expression of its profound sympathy and 
heartfelt condolence. 

Mr. Stansfield, M. P., moved, Mr. T. P. Potter, M. P., seconded, and Mr. W. 
E. Baxter, M. P., the honorable Lyulph Stanley, Mr. Henry Faucett, profes- 
sor of political economy in the University of Cambridge, and Mr. G. Shaw 
Lefevre, M. P., suppoited the following resolution : 

That this meeting desires also to express the entire confidence which it feels 
in the determination and the power of the government and people of the Uni- 
ted States to carry out to the full the policy of which Abraham Lincoln's pres- 
idential career was tlie embodiment, and to establish free institutions through- 
out the whole of the American republic 

It was further resolved, on motion of Mr. Caird, M. P., seconded by Mr. Gren- 
fell, M. P., and supported by Mr. Crum Ewing, M. P., the Rev. Newman Hall, 
and Mr. Mason Jones : 

That copies of the foregoing resolutions be placed in the hands of the honor- 
able C. F. Adams, the American minister, for transmission to his excellency the 
President of the United States, Mrs. Lincoln and the Hon. W. H. Seward. 

Mr. F. W. Chesson, the honorable secretary, announced the receipt of letters 
expressing deep sympathy with the objects of the meeting from Lord Hough- 
ton, Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., Mr. Goschen, M. P., Colonel Sykes, M. P., Mr. 
Thomas Bazley, M. P., Mr. Charles Buxton, M. P., Mr. Thomas Hughes, and 
Dr. Frederick Tompkins. 

A vote of thanks to the chairman was moved by Mr. Edmond Beales, and 
seconded by Mr. Cyrus W. Field, of New York. 

WILLIAM EVANS, C/iairman. 

P. A. TAYLOR, 

WILLIAM V. MALLESON, Treasurers. 

F. W. CHESSON, Honorary Secretary. 



Address of the Freedmen's Aid Society of London. 

Sir : The committee of this society deems it its melancholy duty to give 
expression to its deep sorrow on account of the sudden removal of President 
Lincoln, and its intense abhorrence of the crime by which his valuable life has 
been terminated. This committee has long cherished the highest admiration 
for the character, and felt full confidence in the constitutional and genuine anti- 
slavery policy, of the late lamented President. It has never traced the sufferings 
of the freed people to that policy, but to the cruel and unrighteous war, which 
the slaveholders originated, which having begun, Mr. Lincoln turned to the ad- 
vantage of the enslaved, by making it the constitutional ground of their eman- 
cipation. 

This committee tenders its deep sympathy with the widow and other members 
of the bereaved family, and also to the entire nation which at such a crisis has 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 269 

been so suddenly deprived of its great leader. But this committee, wliile sor- 
rowing for the loss of tins great and good man, and deeply sympathizing with 
all the American people, has strong faith in the glorious cause of emancipation 
to accomplish which the President has fallen a sacrifice. 

He by whom kings reign and princes decree justice can easily supply the 
lack of service which has now arisen, and will, it is confidently believed, raise 
up and duly qualify all needed agency for effecting the absolute extinction of 
slavery, the reconciliation of contending parties, and the establishment of 
universal peace. 

Signed on behalf of the above society by — 

T. FOWELL BUXTON, Bart., Chairman. 
SAMUEL GURNEY, M. P., Treasurer. 
WILLIAM ALLEN, Sub-Treasurer. 
FRED. TOMKINS, M. A. D. C. L. 
F. W. CHESSON. 
SAMUEL GARRATT, M. A., 
JOHN CURRVEN, Honoranj Secretaries. 
Hon. Charles Framcis Adams, 

Minister of the U. S. of America at the Court of St. James. 



At a general meeting of the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery 
Society, lield at No. 27 New Broad street, E. 0. London, on Friday, the 5th 
day of May, 1865, the following resolution Avas unanimously adopted, and the 
secretary was instructed to forward to the Hon. C. F. Adams, United States 
minister in London, copies of the sami' for transmission to Andrew Johnson, 
President of the United States, and to Mrs. Lincoln. 

EESOLUTION. 

The committee desire to record the feelings of dismay and sorrow with which 
they had heard of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the 
United States of America, and of the murderous attempt upon the life of his 
colleague, the Hon. W. H. Seward. While they regard these crimes as un- 
paralled in atrocity, deserving, as indeed they have justly excited, universal 
reprobation, they consider that the peculiar circumstances under which they 
were perpetrated remove them out of the category of ordinary crimes, and give 
them a deplorable prominence as the natural manifestations of the execrable 
system of slavery directed against the exponents of a policy of freedom. 

The committee deem it especially their duty to bear their testimony in ap- 
preciation of the high qualities which distinguished Abraham Lincoln as the 
ruler of a great people, who during a season of unprecedented ditiiculty con- 
sistently adhered to principles which have happily been accepted by the nation, 
and in their application will secure the liberty of four millions of our fellow- 
creatures, held oppressed and degraded in the v^ery worst form of bondage. As 
the emancipator of the slaves in the United States, Abraham Lincoln is entitled 
to the gratitude of all mankind. 

The committee, in condoling with the people of the United States on the 
occasion of the signal loss they have sustained in the sudden removal of their 
late President, would express the confident hope that they will remain steadfast 
to the policy of emancipation, to the steady development of which his life was 
consecrated, and to which he fell a martyr, and will strengthen the hands of 
his successor to pursue the same noble course. They also fervently trust, that 
in the high and responsible position which Andrew Johnson, now President, 
has been called to fill, he may be guided by the wisdom which cometh from 
above ; that he may be endowed with the forbearance which tempereth justice 



270 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

with mercy, and be spared to briug to a happy aud peaceful consummation the 
work Abraham Lincoln began. 

The committee would ' further express their profound sympathy with the 
family of Abraham Lincoln, under the bereavement which bowa them down 
with g-iief. At such a solemn time they will derive consolation from the world- 
wide manifestation of sorrow and regret which the violent death of him who 
was their head lias elicited, and will be strengthened to bear up against this 
grievous calamity, and be cheered by the reflection that he and his descendants 
will bear an honored name, which the ever-increasing multitudes of a once 
down-trodden race will hold enshriued in their hearts to be transmitted to re- 
motest posterity, as that of one of the greatest benefactors of mankind. 

SAMUEL GURNEY, 

President. 
EDMUND ST URGE, 

Chairman of Committee. 
L. A. CHAMERORZOW, 

i:iccrctary. 



London Committee of Deputies of tlie British Jeics. 

4 Great SxANHorR Street, May Fair, May 2, lS6o. 
Sir : I am deputed, as president of this board, to express to your excellency, 
and to request tliat your excellency will convey to Mrs. Lincoln and the United 
States government the assurance of its deepest sympathy in the sad event 
which has aroused the indignation of all classes of persons in this country, and 
excited their most heartfelt sorrow. 

This board is mindful of the full measure of equal liberty so long enjoyed by 
its co-religionists in the United States, and trusts that in thus conveying its 
condolence, it may be permitted to express its grateful appreciation of this 
blessing. 

I have the honor to remain,''your excellency's faithful and obedient servant, 

J. M. MONTIFIORE. 
Charles Francis Adams, 

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister 

Plenipotentiary, United States of America, S^c, S^c, Sfc. 



Argvle Square Junior Members' Society, 
24 Grafton Place, Euston Square, London, May 6, 1865. 
Sir : I beg to hand you a copy of a resolution passed at a general meeting 
of this society, held last evening, expressing condolence with the American 
nation on the late disastrous assassination of Air. Lincoln. 

I have the honor to be your excellency's most obedient servant, 

H. FRANCIS MORSE, Hon. Sec. 
Hon. C. F. Adams. 

Resolved, That this meeting desires to give utterence to the feelings of grief 
with which it has heard of the assassination of President Lincoln, and to con- 
vey to Mrs. Lincoln, aud to the United States government and people, an expres- 
sion of their deepest sympathy and condolence. 



The Bank of British Columbia, 
SO Loi7ihard Street, E. C , London, April 28, 1865, 



Sir : We are deputed by the court of directors of this bank to convey to 
you, and through you to the government of the United States of America, the 



SENTIMEXTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 271 

expression of tlicir sincere sympathy at the heavy caLamity wliich has befallen, 
not only your country but our own, and, in fact, the whole world, by the cruel 
assassination of your hig-h-minded and patriotic President. 

We have the honor to be, sir, your excellency's most obedient servants, 

TilOS. W. L. MARRAM, Chairman. 
ROBERT ESTERSFIE, Deputy Chairman. 
HENRY McCHELSEY, Director. 
His Excellency Hon. Charles F. Adams, 
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister 

Phnipoten'iary from the United States. 



British Honduras Company, Limited, 
L :7ido)i, E. C, 2 Grea' St. Helen's, April 28, 1SG5. 
Sir : I am intrusted by my colleagues, the directors of the British Honduras 
Company, Limited, with the expression of our deep sympathy with you and your 
nation on the sad event of the assassination of your late excellent President. 

Somewhat of the tenderness of private personal feeling mingles with our 
sense of a great public calamity in which the whole civilized world shares ; as 
Mr. Lincoln shewed great kindness to our manager when seeking labor in the 
United States, and took an interest in the company's affairs, we thus deem our- 
selves called on, peculiarly, to express that sincere symiiathy which is universal, 
for the sad loss which the people of the United States have sustained by the 
death of so honest, so humane, so sagacious, so good, and so great a chief. 
Permit me to add to yourself the expression of our personal regard. 
•I am, sir, your excellency's most obedient servant, 

J. R. ROBERTSON, Chairman. 
His Excellency Hon. Charles F. Adams. 
Envoy Extraordinary and, Mini-'<ter 

plenipotentiary from the United States. 



An address of condolence from the memhers of the " Temple Discxssion 

Forum,'' Fleet street, London, to tlte dhistriotts tcidtow of tlie late President 

Lincoln. 

Illustrious Lady: Illustrious by position, and still more by sorrow: We, 
the supporters and frequenters of the " Temple Discussion Forum," Fleet street, 
London, approach you with liveliest sentiments of profound respect, sympathy, 
deep and unfeigned regret. Our society, wliich numbers in its ranks the rep- 
resentatives of all nations and forms of government throughout the civilized 
world, and in the free exercise of its opinions once evoked the censure of the 
most potent sovereign in Europe — established in dark and troubled days in the 
history of our country, for the fearless and open expression of opinion — has 
ever held in utter detestation the crimes of conspiracy and assassination, which 
in all ages have been the most deadly instruments which despotism could sup- 
ply, and have ever been inimical to the cause of civil and religious liberty 
throughout the world. 

In a society so constituted as ours, it is useless to say, a variety of opinions 
necessarily exist as to the merits of that mighty struggle which has marked 
with the furrows of age a glorious and youthful republic. But we rejoice to 
think not a single dissentient opinion exists in the condemnation of a deed wliich 
has taken away so cruelly and abruptly from this life, tlie husband, father, and 
uncrowned monarch of millions of men whose language is the language of 
Shakespeare and Milton. 



272 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

Upon sorrow so sacred and so recent we will not presume further to intrude our- 
selves, but, illustrious lady, be pleased to place upon that narrow bed of eternal 
rest where your own heart now lies entombed, this well-meant tribute of an ancient 
body, a tribute already sanctioned by the sorrows of our aiigust sovereign, a 
tribute which the great ornament of our hereditary legislature declared in his 
senatorial place, " every man, woman and child agreed in." 

Praying that He who " tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," and filled in 
the old days the stricken heart of the royal Psalmist with celestial rays of 
promised joy, may guard you from every ill and sustain you in your terrible 
bereavement, 

We remain, illustrious lady, your devoted and faithful servants, 
WILLIAM CORNTIER, Proprietor. 
JOSEPH BENJAMIN FEANKLIN, Chairman. 
M. N. DEYBURGH, 

Scotchman, Editor of ike Illustrated Times. 
EDWARD BAKER, London. 
JOEL H. TALUM, of Alabama. 
WILLIAM CHAPMAN, 

Citizen of Antwerp, Belgium. 



The directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, while occupied on the eve 
of accomplishing their enterprise for drawing closer the ties of friendship and 
cordial intercoiirse between the two kindred nations of America and the British 
empire, have heard with horror of the atrocious and recent acts by which the 
people of the United States have been deprived of their Chief Magistrate, in the 
person of their estimable and patriotic President, and have lost for a time the 
active services of Mr. Seward, who is one of their foremost ministers and states- 
men. 

The directors desire to record their deep sympathy with the people of the 
United States on this calamitous occasion, and hoping that these wicked and dis- 
astrous crimes will be traced to individual malignity, wholly foreign and abhor- 
rent to the feelings of any section of the American people, they share with them 
in the sorrow and indignation which they have excited in this kingdom, and 
throughout the civilized world. 

The directors further desire respectfully to tender to Mrs. Lincoln, and the 
bereaved i'amilies and friends of the eminent men who have thus fallen and 
suflPered under the hands of assassins, their joint and individual condolence on 
their cruel bereavement and sorrows. 

Given under the common seal of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, at the 

r 1 otifices of the company, within the city of London, this 8th day of 

[SEAL J j^^^^^ ^ggg_ 

GEO. SAWARD, Secretary, 



CovENT Garden Theatrical Fund, 

May 4, 1865. 
Resolved, That this honorable corporation, the Covent Garden Theatrical 
Fund, desires to give utterance to the feelings of grief and horror with which it 
has received the fearful intelligence of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 
President of the United States, and to convey to his sorrowing widow and the 
American people its profound condolence and sympathy, together with the ex- 
pression of its sad and solemn regret that the unnatural parricide who deprived 
the Father of his country of existence, and the wife of his bosom of her loved 
protector, should in any the slightest way have been connected with the pro- 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 273 

fession tliis corporation represents, whose honor and loyalty have ever been its 
naost cherished prido. 

Signed for the committee of the Oovent Garden Theatrical Fund : 

URINKWATER MEADOWS, Secretary, 
6 The Grange, Michael's Grove, Brampton, S. W. 
Charles Francis Adams, # 

Minister of the United States in England. 



[Translation. ] 

Concord Lodce, London, 

May 22, 1865. 
To the Citizen Andrew Johnson, 

President of (he Rej)t/l>l/c of the United. Stales, thrice greeting : 
Stricken by the ball of a serf of tyranny, Abraham Lincoln is dead — victim 
to his love for the cause of our brethren, tlie black laborers of the southern States. 
Descendants of 'slaves, it is with feverish anxiety that we have followed the 
great movements of the drama of emancipation, for which the blood of the up- 
holders of right has been shed. 

Independent operatives, our bosoms have swelled with joy at the news of the 
downfall of oppression beneath the heroic efforts of the soldiers of emancipation. 
Our brethren are free ! Slavery is abolished ! Such is the cry which, 
throughout the Old World, the doWn-trodden of our day repeated Avith joy, when 
the death of the great martyr came to add new brilliancy to the glorious halo 
which surrounds the sacred cause of right and of justice. 

Mourning is in our hearts ! our grief is great ! We weep with you for the loss 
of the great citizen who represented the nation of freemen. Faithful to his 
memory, we shall tell our sons of the actions of this just man, who has passed 
from this life to the life immortal 

L. LUBAY, President of Concord Lodge. 
P. BORDAGE, Secretary. 
LARDON, Orator. 
■ L. PAtRIER, Ist Supervisor. 
L. RIDET, 2d Supervisor. 
LE ROUX, Treasurer. 
EMILE HATTORFF, Expert. 
AZERNA, Architect. 



Resolution of the German National Verein in London. 

Seyd's Hotel, Flnsbury Square, London, 

May 6, 18G5. 
Sir: At to-day's meeting of the German National Verein in London, to which 
meeting the Germans resident in London were invited, it was resolved to ex- 
press at the same time our joy at the victory of the free States of the Union, 
md our horror of the crime' perpetrated upon the life of your noble President, 
ivhose fidelity to the cause of humanity we admired, long before his kindness to 
he conquered and his glorious martyrdom reconciled to him even those who had 
long been his antagonists. 

We consider it an important sign of our time that, as this great and good man, 
^ho held the helm of your state during this tempest, had, by his own energy 
nd virtue, risen from the working class, so your actual worthy President, like- 
'ise, shows ns a workman of former day^, raised to the liead of a grand and 
lighty community, by his own merit and the free election of his people. 
IS a 



I 



274 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Germany licas assisted the giant struggle of freedom in your hemisphere, not 
by idle sympathy, but with blood and treasure; because, throughout the coun- 
try tiie feeling is universal that, as a reverse of the North must have given the 
severest blow to the growth of democratic institutions in Europe, so your glorious 
conquest will powerfully influence and accelerate the triumph of our own free- 
dom. America, during*these four years, has fought the battle of liberty for all 
mankind ; for the cause of liberty is the same cause everywhere. The abolition 
of slavery and the reconstruction of your state into a powerful republic will con- 
duce to the elevation of the laborer, and to the establishment of such forms of 
government as will secure to the will of the true majority the sway over the 
destinies of every nation in Europe. 

May we be allowed to convey to your excellency these sentiments of our 
countrymen, and to sign, with the expression of our highest consideration, 

The committee of the German National Verein in London. 

GOTTFRID KINKEL, Chairman. 
L. LEFFLER, Secretary. 

His Excellency the Ambassador 

of the United Stales of America at the Court of St. James. 



London, Ajjril 27, 1865. 
Dear Sir: In view of the distressing intelligence which has just reached us 
from America, we have to ask your excellency to convoke a meeting of Ameri- 
cans resident here, in order to obtain an expression of their feelings on this 
sad occasion. If convenient to your excellency, we propose Monday, May 1, 
at 3 p. m., for such meeting, at some place to be hereafter designated. 
Respectfully, yours, obediently, 

GEORGE PEABODY. 

RUSSELL STURGES. 

J. S. MORGAN. 

C. M. LAMPSON. 

JAMES Mc HENRY. 

J. R. BLACK. 

ELIHU BURRITT. 

H E. SOMERLY. 

BENJAxMlN MORAN. 

CRAUiMOND KENNEDY. 

HENRY T. PARKER. 

DANIEL BLISS. 

R. HUNTING. 

W. R. BALLARD. 

W. N. NEWMAN. 

FREEMAN H. MORSE. 

OSGOOD FIELD. 

E. G. TINKER. 

SEWELL WARNER. 

DENNIS R. ALWAKD. 

JOHN NORRIS, Jr. 

WINSLOW LEWIS. 

WM. D. COOLIDGE. 

E. 0. FISHER. 

C. M. FISHER, Sfc, !fc. 
His Excellency Charles Francis Adaivis, 

Minister of the United States. 



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London, April 27, 1865. 
Gentlemen : In accordance witli the desire expressed in your note of tliis 
day, and with what I presume to be the general wish of Americans in London, 
I consent to your proposal, and hereby invite my countrymen, so disposed, to 
meet for the purpose designated on Monday next, May 1, at 3 p. m., at St. 
James's Hall. 

I am your obedient servant, 

C. F. ADAMS. 
Messrs. George Peabody, 
Russell Sturges, 
J. S. Morgan,. 
0. M. Lampson, 
James McHenrv, 

eye, c^C, SfC. 



At a meeting of Americans resident in Loudon, holdeu at St. James's 
Hull on the first day of May, 1865, his excellency Charles Francis Adams 
in the chair, it Avas resolved unanimously — 

That we have heard with the greatest indignation and the most profound sor- 
row of the assassination which has deprived our country of its beloved Chief 
Magistrate, as well as of the audacious assault which has greatly perilled the 
lives of the Secretary and Assistant Seci-etary of State, and that we regard the 
takiug of the life of our chief executive otficer, while our country is passing 
through unparalleled trials, after all loyal Americans had learned to love him, 
and, with good men the world over, to confide in him, and when so much of 
national and individual welfare and happiness depended on his existence, as 
the great crime of the ninteenth century, memorable in its atrocity and entailing 
on its perpetrator the execrations of mankind. 

That we tender to Mrs. Lincoln our heartfelt sympathy and expressions of 
condolence in the great affliction that she and her family and the nation have 
sustained. 

That in the long public career of Andrew Johnson, now President of the 
United States, the early and pre-eminent sacrifices he made from his devotion 
to the cause of the Union, and his pledges to maintain the great principles of 
human liberty, we have every assurance that he Avill faithfully prosecute to 
its final success the wise, humane, and statesmanlike, domestic, and foreign 
policy of President LincoliL 

That as loyal Americans, we have -witnessed with peculiar pleasure the ex- 
pressions of indignation and sorrow throughout Great Britain at the assassination 
of President Lincoln, and the cordial and hearty sympathy winch has been ex- 
tended by the people of this realm to the government and people of the United 
States in this great bereavement and public calamity. 

That copies of these resolutions be transmitted to the President of the United 
States and to Mrs. Lincoln. 

R. HUNTING?, 

Secretary. 



[From the London Evening? Star, May 2, 1865.] 
THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

Important meeting of Americans. 

In accordance with an influentially signed requisition to Mr. Adams, the 
American ambassador, a public meeting of Americans, resident in London, was 



276 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

held yesterday at St. James's Hall, in order to give expression to their feelinga 
respecting the late distressing intelligence from America. The hall presented 
the same singularly effective and sombre appearance as on the occasion of the 
great demonstration last Saturday evening, under the auspices of the Emanci- 
pation Society, the entire front of the balconies being draped with black cloth, 
bordered with white lace, and festooned with cord of the same hue, and the front 
of the upper gallery being tastefully decorated with three American flags grouped 
together, and whose drooping folds were looped with crape, while the staves 
of the wand-bearers were tipped with the same material. Although the hour 
appointed (three o'clock) might be considered rather inconvenient, the attend- 
ance was very numerous. An hour before the time appointed the principal cor- 
ridors leading to the hall were quite thronged with ladies and gentlemen wait- 
ing for admission, and soon after the doors were thrown open the spacious hall 
became comfortably filled. By the time appointed for commencing the proceed- 
ings the platform, which it is well known is of very large dimensions, presented 
quite a crowded appearance. Some few minutes after three o'clock Mr. Adams, 
accompanied by a large number of gentlemen, ascended the platform. His ap- 
pearance was the signal for loud applause,' and after taking the chair his excel- 
lency had seferal times to bow his acknowledgments. Among those present 
were Mr. Benjamin Moran, secretary of legation ; Mr. Dennis R. Alward, as- 
sistant secretary of legation ; Hon. F. H. Morse, United States consul, London; 
Mr. Joshua Nunn, deputy United States consul, London; Mr. G. H. Abbott, 
United States consul, Sheffield ; Mr. H. Bergh, late United States secretary of 
legation, St. Petersburg; Lord Houghton, Alderman Salomons, Hon. A. Kinnaird, 
Hon. Lyulph Stanley, Mr. H. T. Parker, I\Ir. C. M. Fisher, Mr. James M'Henry, 
Mr. Gerald Kalston, consul general of Liberia ; Mr. T. B. Potter, M. P. ; Mr. 
John Goddard, Dr. W. R. Ballard, Dr. J. R. Black, Mr. G: M. Lampson, Mr. J. 
S. ^1 organ, Mr. Russell Sturgis, Judge Winter, Dr. Howard, Mr. Mason Jones, 
Colonel J. S. Chester, Captain E. G. Tinker, Mr. Gilead A. Smith, Mr. B. F. 
Brown, Mr. Nathan Thompson, Dr. E. G. Ludlow, Mr. C. Coutoit, Mr. H. G. 
Somerby. Mr. Horatio Ward, Dr. W. Darling, Mr. John Brougham, Mr. Charles 
Button, Rev. Dr. Storr, Mr. W. R. Dempster, Mr. James Beal, Mr. Marshall 
Woody, Captain Tomkin, General Tom Thumb, Commodore Nutt, Rev. Cra- 
mond Kennedy, Mr. Henry Stevens, Dr. Fred. Robinson, Dr. C. R. Nicholl, 
Mr. George Ross, Captain Richardson, (San Francisco,) Rev. Daniel Bliss, Rev. 
E. L. Cleveland, Mr. C. F. Dennet, Mr. E. G. Coates, Mr. T. B. Hubbell, Mr. 
George Atkinson, Mr. Edmond Beales, Mr. R. Hunting, Mr. Bartlett, Mr. Os- 
good Field, Mr. Edward Thornton, Mr. John B. Stephenson, Mr. Levi Coffia, 
(Cincinnati, Ohio,) Mr. Stafford Allen, Mr. Peach, Mr. Massey, Mr. Phillips, 
(Wisconsin,) Mr. Westerton, Mr. John H. Goodnow, United States consul at 
Constantinople, Mr. M. D. Conway, «&c. 

The chairman, on entering the hall, was received with most enthusiastic ap- 
plause, which was repeated on his rising to address the meeting. Silence hav- 
ing been restored, he said : 

Ladies and Gentlemen : I have been desired to call you together for the 
sake (>f giving some common form of expression to our emotions, stirred up 
as they have been by the late fearful calamity. In presence of such an awful 
event, we are forcibly impressed not merely with the commonplace idea 
of mortal vicissitude, but with the more solemn idea of keeping ourselves 
wholly free from the indulgence of any unworthy passion. The ordinary 
jars of human life are hushed before such a catastrophe. A great Virginiau 
statesman once said that "he trembled for his country when he reflected 
that God is just." The dreaded visitation appears to have come upon us 
iu the third and fourth generation. Let us endeavor to bear ourselves with 
patience and humility. But while acknowledging our shortcomings, let us 
draw closer and closer together while we unite iu one earnest wail of sorrow 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 277 

for our loss, for I may be permitted to observe that in this loss the bereavement 
is wholly onr own. We are entirely to bear the responsibility of it. The man 
who has fallen was immolated for no act of his own. It may well be doubted 
whether, during his whole career, he ever made a single personal enemy. In 
this peculiarity he shone prominent among statesmen. No; he who perpetrated 
the crime had no narrow purpose. It was because Abraham Lincoln was a 
faithful exponent of the sentiments of a whole people that he was stricken down. 
The blow that was aimed at him was meant to fall home upon them. The ball 
that penetrated his brain was addressed to the heart of each and every one of us. 
It was ft fancied short way of paralyzing the government which we have striven so 
bard to maintain. It was, then, for our cause that Abraham Lincoln died, and not 
his own. If he was called a tyrant Avho was elevated to his high post by the 
epoutaneous voices of a greater number of men than had ever been given in any 
republic before, it is only because he was obeying the wishes of those who elected 
him. It is we who must stand responsible for his deeds. It is he who has paid 
the penalty for executing our will. Surely, then, this is the strongest of reasons 
why all of us should join, as with one voice, in a chorus of lamentation for his 
fall, [t was one of the peculiar merits of Mr. Lincoln that he knew how to give 
shape in action to the popular feelings as they developed themselves under his 
observation. He never sought to lead, but rather to follow, and thus he suc- 
ceeded in the difficult task of successfully combining conservatism with progress. 
This surely was not like tyranny. His labor was always to improve. Hence 
it was that he conducted a war of unexampled magnitude, always bearing in 
mind the primary purpose for which it had been commenced, at the same time 
that he associated with it broader ones as the opportunity came. He had pledged 
himself at the outset to accomplish certain objects, and he never forgot that pledge. 
The time had at last arrived when he might honestly claim that it would be ful- 
filled. It was in that very moment he was taken away. On the very same day 
of the year when the national flag, which just four years before had been lowered 
to triumphant enemies at Fort Sumter, was once more lifted to its original po- 
sition by the hand of the same officer who had suffered the indignity that com- 
menced the war, Abraham Lincoln fell. His euthanasia is complete. For him 
we ought not to mourn. His work was done ; he had fought the good fight ; he 
had finished his course. The grief is all for ourselves alone. And now we who 
Btaud around his body may well cry, " Go up, go up, with your gory temples 
twined with the evergreen symbols of a patriot's wreath, and bearing the double 
glory of a martyr's crown. Go up, while for us here remaining on earth your 
memory shall be garnered in the hearts of us and our latest posterity, in common 
with the priceless treasures heaped up by the great fathers of the republic, and 
close by tliat of the matchless Washington." But although we profoundly la- 
ment this loss, it must not be presumed that we do so having no hope. We have 
parted with a most faitliful servant. But the nation has not lost with him one 
atom of the will which animated others of its servants as fully as it did him. It 
is one of the notable features of this great struggle that it is not particular men 
who have attempted to lead on the people, but rather that the peGple have first 
given the tone, to the level of which their servants must come up, or else sink out 
of sight and be forgotten. They have uniformly designated to them their wishes. 
To one man they have said " Come up," and to another, " Give way," and in either 
case they have been as imjjlicitly obeyed. Whoever it be that is employed, the 
Bpirit that must animate him comes from a higher source. The cause of the 
■ country, then, does not depend on any man or any set of men. It has now called 
'. to the front the individual whom it had already elevated to the s^jcoud post in 
the government. He had been pointed out for that place by a sense of his ap- 
I proved fidelity to the Union at the moment when all around him were faltering 
: or falling away. In the national Senate he stood Abdiel-like, firm and detcr- 
i mined in encountering with truth and force the fatal sophistry of Jetierson Davis 



278 * APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

and Lis associates, and in denouncing' tlie course of action which v/as leading 
them to their ruin. Four years of intense and continued trials within the borders 
of his own State have been passed in the effort to reconstruct the edifice of civil 
government, which they had overthrown. No one has braved greater dangers 
to his person and to all that was held most precious to a man in this world than 
he. Those four years have not been passed without at once proving the firm- 
ness of his faith and the progressive nature of his ideas. He, too, has been sus- 
ceptible to the influence of the national opinion. He, too, has gradually been 
brought to the conviction that slavery, which he once defended, has been our 
bane, and the cause of all our woe. And he, too, will follow bis predecessor in 
making the recognition of the principle of human liberty tlie chief pathway to 
restoration. Maybe that he will color his policy with a little more of the stern- 
ness gathered from the severity of his own trials. He may give a greater promi- 
nence to the image of justice than to that of mercy in dealing with notorious 
offenders. But if he do, to whom is this change to be imputed 1 Lincoln leaned 
to mercy, and he was taken off.' Johnson has not promoted himself. The ma- 
gician who worked this change is the enemy himself. It would seem almost as 
if it were the will of Heaven which has interposed the possibility of this marvel- 
lous retribution. Yet, even if we make proper alLnvances for this difference, the 
great fact yet remains clear that Andrew Johnson, like his m-edecessor, will 
exert himself to the utmost of his power fully to re-establish in peace and hai-- 
mony the beneficent system of govei'nment which he has clearly hazarded so 
much to sustain. And should it happen that he too, which Heaven avert, should 
by some evil design be removed from the post now assigned to him, the effect 
would only be that the next man in the succession prescribed by the public law, 
and inspired from the same common source, Avill be summoned to take his place. 
And so it would go on, if need be, in a line like that in Macbeth's vision, 
" stretching out to the crack of doom." The republic has but to command the 
services of any of lier children, and whether to meet open danger in the field or 
the perils of the more crafty and desperate assassin, experience shows them equally 
ready to (d)ey her call . So long as the heroic spirit animates her frame the requisite 
agents will not fail to execute her will. Any attempt to paralyze her by striking 
down more or less of them will only end, as every preceding design to injure her 
has ended, in disappointment and bitter despair. Let us, then, casting aside all 
needless apprehensions for the policy of our land, now concentrate our thoughts 
for the moment upon the magnitude of the offence which has deprived us of our 
beloved chief, in the very moment of most interest to our cause, and let us draw 
together as one man in the tribute of our admiration of one of the purest, the 
most single-minded, and noble-hearted patriots that ever ruled over the people 
of any land. 

The Hon. Mr. IMoRSE, in moving the first resolution, said : If he were 
to consult his own feelings, he should allow the resolution to pass in silence. 
To attempt to add aiiything to the atrocious crime which had bi-ought them 
together was useless. All human language failed to make it clearer, or to con- 
vey any stronger impressions than the fact itself, tiaving expressed his pro- 
found sorrow at the fact, and his admiration of the noble character of the 
late President, he said there was this consolation — the lamentable event was 
calculated to hasten the coming of the day which the North and'all who sym- 
pathized with their cause longed to see, namely, the restoration of the Union 
and the promulgation of liberty throughout the land. (Cheers.) This was not a 
fit time to go into the question of slavery, but they well remembered the various 
stages through which Mr. Lincoln had carried his country with the view to wipe 
out that black stain upon its banner. (Applause ) Now that the head of the 
State was dead, it was necessary to take a calm survey. What remained, now 
that Lincoln was no more 1 Lincoln was dead, but America was not — it still lived. 
(Applause.) This brought him to consider who were left behind to fill up the 



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gap. First, as regarded President Johnson ; of him he coukl speak from per- 
sonal experience. Twenty-one years ago he entered the Congress of the United 
States with Andrew Johnson, who was then the representative of the State of 
Tennessee. He was on a committee with him, and sat three or four times a 
week with him perhaps for the space of two years, and he said here, that 
throughout the whole of that period, and for three or four years subsequently, 
during which time his acquaintance with Andrew Johnson continued, he never 
heard one word whispered against his fair fame. (Loud cheers.) He never heard 
the reproach of intemperance cast upon him. (Hear, hear.) He had seen him 
daily, and knew him well, and he knew that to charge him with habitual in- 
temperance was one of the vilest slanders that could be bi-ought against him. 
(Cheers.) Johnson came from the ranks of the people. He had now been in 
public life some thirty years ; commencing as an alderman, then mayor, after- 
wards a member of the lower House, from which he was in time advanced to 
the Senate, eventually made Vice-President, and now, by the providence of God, 
President of the United States. (Applause.) He was a little particular iu 
making these facts known, because, after what had been represented against 
him, it was not to be wondered at if a want of confidence should manifest itself 
in regard to the stability, and particularly the foreign policy, of a government 
with such a man presiding over it. (Cries of " No, no." " No, no.") He was 
glad to hear that, for he believed in his heart there need not be the slightest 
mistrust of that noble man — a man, in whose honor let it be added, who had 
made his way from the ranks of the people upward to his present eminence by 
his own imtiring perseverance and manly conduct. (Applause.) As had been 
remarked by the chairman, when in 1861 the United States seemed to be fast 
crumbling away ; when senator after senator and member after member boldly 
gave iu his resignation, or left his seat Avithout making any sign that they in- 
tended joining in the rebellion, while Slidell and Mason were plotting under- 
ground — where was Andrew Johnson ? He was contending loudly against the 
adversaries of the Union ; he was protesting loudly against secession ; he was 
upholding the flag of his country like a brave and patriotic man, as he was, and 
as he remained, doubtless, to this day. (Cheers.) There was no faltering in his 
case ; he went straight on ; it mattered not who lagged behind, he was ever 
stoutly defending the front. He had suffered, as they had heard. He came 
from a State in which, more than anywhere else, it was dangerous to be a known 
Unionist — where hundreds and hundreds of men were shot down in cold blood, 
hanged upon trees, and hunted to the mountains for no other reason than that 
they had a leaning towards the North. He lost all his property. His wife was 
imprisoned, and became an invalid through the sufferings she endured while in 
prison. Was that the man to fail them in these times ? (Cheers.) 

Mr. C. M. Lampson briefly seconded the resolution, which, as was the case 
also with all the subsequent ones, was unanimously adopted. 

Henry Bough, esq., of New York, moved the next resolution. With manifest 
emotion he expressed his detestation of the crime that inflicted such a blow ou 
America. From Italy, Germany, Spain, France, Russia, and England — the 
cradle of the American race — (applause) — had already gone forth addresses and 
letters of condolence with the American nation generally, and the widow in par- 
ticular. Witliin those very walls only on Saturday night a thrill of unfeigned 
sympathy and grief was excited by the noble utterances of those who took part 
in the proceedings of the occasion. He concluded an impassioned harangue by 
powerfully appealing in the language of Shakspeare to the sympathy of the 
Christian worlds — 

"Canst thou minister to a mind diseased ?" &c. — 

and declared his belief that, by the aid of that Divine Providence which tem- 
pers the wind to the shorn lamb, they could, " with some sweet oblivious anti- 



280 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COPtKESPONDENCE. 

dote, wipe out tlie written troubles of the mind " of tlie widow and family, be- 
reaved by this shocking event. 

Mr. J. S. Morgan seconded the resolution. 

Dr. Black, in moving the third resolution, remarked upon the' faults found 
with the late President by those whose sympathies favored the South. Lincoln 
was wrong in everything when he was living. What was said now he was 
dead? He had no villifiers now, and before long it would be difficult to fi'^d a 
man to dare acknowledge ever having said a wrong word against such a noble 
character. Andrew Johnson was now the man at whom attacks would be 
directed; it would not be many years, he (Dr. Black) apprehended, before his 
villifiers would also hang down their heads. Johnson had a very difficult task 
before him, and not the least difficult part of it was the question of slavery — 
where to place the slaves, how to provide for them, and what privileges to accord 
them. But it was not by far so difficult to deal with as the enemies of the 
North tried to make out. People in this country pointed to Jamaica, and said, 
"Look what difficulties we had there." But Jamaica and America were two 
different places, and presented very different aspects in reference to the slave 
trade. In Jamaica, Avhere fresh supplies were continually arriving from Africa, 
the negroes kept up the supei'stitions and bad habits of their race ; their mas- 
ters lived in England and knew nothing aljout them, had no sympathy with 
them; in fact, they never associated with anybody but their drivers, until at 
last slavery and labor became synonymous. Afterwards, when the slaves were 
made free, freedom and laziness became synonymous. In the United States 
the slaves had some degree of intelligence ; since 1808 there had been no ad- 
mixture with fi-esh importations from Africa, and let him say h(xe, it was 
America who first abolished the African slave trade. Great Britain following 
the example. Leaving this question, he glanced at the financial condition of 
the United States, and replying to the alarm felt in certain quarters in this 
country that America would repudiate its liabilities, said that when this coun- 
try came out of the Napoleonic war its debt was nearly twice as much as that 
which America had now entailed upon itself; the commerce of England was 
very little more than that of America even now while she was at war ; the peo- 
ple of England were half the number of the American population ; the leading 
men of America were English in origin, religion, language, morality", and habits 
of business; surely, then, if England was in a position to pay its way America 
would be. If anybody supposed, indeed, that the Americans had any other 
than an honest and honorable intention, they did them an injustice. Moreover, 
it was their interest, as well as their duty, to pay their just debts, and it was 
pure nonsense to talk any other way. (Hear.) In conclusion, he expressed 
his hope that the event which had called them together, and which had excited 
such universal sorrow, would be the starting point from which to establish ami- 
cable relations between this country and America — amicable relations in their 
truest and widest sense — from which both should march, treading down all 
past prejudices, to an honorable and lasting peace and unity, and from which to 
inaugurate the natural alliance, the most powerful combination the world ever 
knew — not for tyranny, but for the prosperity and happiness of mankind through- 
out the world. (Cheers.) 

Mr. H. T. Parker seconded the resolution. He made a very able speech, 
hopefully picturing the future of America. 

Mr. Iv Sturgis, in moving the next resolution, remarked that an address of 
sympathy had that day emanated from the Bank of England and passed through 
city circles preparatory to being placed in the hands of Mr. Adams. He also 
stated that had that, gentleman been well enough in health, Mr. Peabi)dy, whose 
noble heart and liberal hand had spread blessings over both lands, (cheers,) 
would have occupied his place. He then proceeded to "show that it was the in- 
terest as much of England as of America to cling closely to each other. The 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 281 

two countries had not only a common lineage and common language, but a com- 
mou heart ; and whatever differences of sentiment existed as to the issue of the 
present conflict, the heart was found in the right place when such a crime as 
this occurred. There was not one single throb on the American side but what 
had a corresponding movement on the English side. (Applause.) 

Mr. E. M. Fisher seconded the resolution. 

Mr. Cyrus Field proposed a vote of thanks to his excellency the chairman. 
In doing so, he remarked that just before* he left America for this country he 
had ail interview with Mr. Lincoln, and he was convinced, from what then 
transpired, as well as by what he knew of his character and policy, that he 
Ib'artily desin d peace in America, and America to be at peace with all the 
world. (Applause.) 

The CHAiRiMAiX said it was a great comfort and pleasure to him to meet so 
many of his fellow-countrymen, and to perceive, as he did, such unanimity of 
sentiment on the melancholy subject v^'liich had brought them together. 

The meeting then dispersed. 



London, Saturday, April 29, 1865. 

Sir : "We, the undersigned, JLauritian colored gentlemen, resident in London, 
assembled in committee, have resolved to send this address to the representative 
of the United States in England, as the tribute of oxir warm admiration for the 
patriotic deeds of the Chief American Magistrate, whose assassination has hor- 
rified the civilized world. 

We, coloTed men, natives of Mauritius, have placed an implicit faith in all 
those liberal views of the late Mr. Abraham Lincoln's government, acting as 
barriers against the lawless attempts of a slave-holding community to destroy 
the glorious, free, and united republic of George Washington. 

Be assured, sir, that by expressing our abhorrence of the murder of Mr. 
Abraham Lincoln, we echo the opinion of our colored brethren in Mauritius. 

The fiend-like assassin who cruelly butchered your late illustrious President 
at tlie time when the Union armies were successful everywhere and the slave 
empire was crumbling to the dust, has not only deprived the United States of 
one of its noblest citizens, of one of its most virtuous patriots, but also the sixf- 
fering and enslaved colored race living in abjectuess in your country of their 
kind and staunch protector. 

We beg, sir, that you will convey to the authorities of your great and free 
republic the expression of our sentiments of admiration for the chivalrous con- 
duct of your late lamented and deeply-regretted President in the hour of tri- 
umph, and of our feelings of horror and di.sgust on hearing of his assassination. 
We subscribe ourselves, yours, obediently, 

POLYXENES VANDAGUE, President. 
TH. LIONEL JENKINS, Vicc-Fresident. 
J. D. ^lURRAY. 
H. DUBOIS. 
E. VANDAGUE. 
ABTIIUH BENEES. 
His Excellency Mr. Adams, 

American Avihassador of the United States. 



London, April 27, 1866. 
Sir : We, the undersigned, speaking the feelings of a large number of Ger- 
mans resident in England, express our sincere grief at the destruction of the life 



282 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

of tlie President of the United States, wliose very forbearance and leniency in 
the hour of national triumph has not been able to stay the hands of assassins. 
While deeply deploring that the joy we have felt at the recent victories of 
the American republic should thus be marred by the untimely and violent death 
of its Chief Magistrate, we firmly trust that the people of the United States, 
who have carried on during four j^ears a gigantic war in the cause of freedom 
and civilization, will only feel nerved to further exertions in rooting out the 
hateful institutions from which the slaveholders' rebellion, with all its attendant 
crimes, has sprung. 

^ We beg you, sir, to convey these sympathetic sentiments of ours to the author- 
ities of your free and great republic, and we subscribe ourselves yours obe- 
diently, 

KARL BLIND. 

A. HEINTZMANN. 

P. H BEMDES. 

FERDINAND FREELIGRATH. 

ERNEST SUCH. 

E. C. RAVENSTEIN. 

NICOLAS TRUBNER. 

GOTTFRIED KINKER. 
His Excellency Mr. Adams, 

United Stales Ambassador in hondon. 



Sir : We, the undersigned, merchants and others of the Greek race resident 
in Lobdon, have heard with the profouudest regret of the cruel assassination of 
Abraham Lincoln, the President of your great republic. 

When we ourselves were struggling for our freedom against our oppressors, 
no nation was more generous in -its sympathy for our cause than the great free 
republic of the West : gratitude, theref ire, as well as every feeling of humanity, 
calls upon us to express to your excellency, and through you to the people 
which you so worthily represent, the intense feelings of horror and abhorrence 
with which we have heard of the unprovoked and unprecedented crime and of 
our sincere and heartfelt wishes and prayers for the future well-being and pros- 
perity of your great and glorious people. 

A. A. RALLI. 
M. E. MAVROCORDATO. 
DEM. F. RANA. 
ALEXANDER BALLL 
And one hundred and eleven other names. 
His Excellency Mr. Adams, 

Ambassador of the United States. . 



Resolutions 2}(i'Ssed at a meeting held hij the Welsh residents in London. 

SYMPATHY WITH AMERICA. 

At a meeting of Welsh residents in London, held at the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association institution, Aldersgate street, on Monday, the 8th of May, the 
Rev. Owen Tiiomas Jewin Crescent, in the chair, the following resolutions 
were unanimously adopted : 

I. ]\Ioved by Rev. Henry Richard, seconded by J. Owen, esq., Holloway, 
and supported by Rev. W. Rees, Liverpool : 

Resolved, That this meeting desires to express its utter abhorrence of the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 283 

execrable crime by wbicli ]\rr. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 
was stricken down by the hand of an assassin, at a time so inexpressibly critical 
and momentons in the history of that country, while it cordially joins in the 
tribute of admiration so universally paid to the many admirable qualities of the 
deceased statesman, the honesty, simplicity, and firmness of his character, the 
rare self-control which he showed amid the excitement of conflict and the mod- 
eration and mercy with which he was prepared to use the advantages of victory, 

II, Moved by Mr. John Griffith, seconded by Mr. J. Williams, London city 
mission, supported by Dr. Nicholas, Dr. Reed, Swansea, Rev. W. Lloyd, Al- 
dersgate street, and Thomas Williams, esq., Pendarrau : 

Resolved, That the meeting would convey to the people of the United States 
the assurance of its profound sympathy under the appalling calamity that has 
overtaken them, and earnestly hopes they will not suffer themselves to be driven, 
even by the supreme atrocity of this act, from the disposition, so honorable 
to their national character, which they had previously displayed, to act towards 
their vanquished brethren in the spirit of true Christian kindness and concil- 
iation. 

III. i\[oved by Rev. J. Kilsby Jones, seconded by Rev. H. C. Parry, sup- 
ported by Rev. W. Edwards Abevdare, D. Davies, London, and D. Rowlands, 
B. A. Lanbrynmair : 

Resolved, That the meeting would further record the expression of its re- 
spectful sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln in the midst of the awful affliction that has 
befallen lier, and trusts that she may be enabled to find solace in the thought 
that the father of the fatherless and the judge of the widow is God in his holy 
habitation. 

Signed on behalf of the meeting : 

OWEN THOMAS, 

Chairman. 



His Excellency Hon. Charles F. Adams : 

Sir : We, on behalf of our countrymen resident here, hasten to render, 
through you, to the American people, our profound sympathy with them under 
the heavy affliction they have sustained in being deprived of their deeply la- 
mented and much beloved President. 

We fondly hoped that he would have enjoyed for the full term that position 
and those honors which a grateful country had conferred on him, and that, in 
the increased happiness and prosperity of the United States, he would have 
seen the desires of his great and generous soul realized and continued on a 
scale commensurate with the high destiny and splendid fortunes of the Ameri- 
can republic. 

It must be consoling, under this bereavement, to recall that it was reserved 
for him to see his country emerge, great and glorious, from the perils which 
menaced her existence as a nation, and thus disappoint the anticipations of those 
who desired her dismemberment. 

We feel proud that our countrymen have contributed to this great result, and 
proved, by their fidelity and heroism, that valor and gratitude are among the 
many virtues which Irishmen cultivate and extend to their friends and bene- 
factors in whatever position they may be placed, whether in social or military 
life. 

As good citizens, they have been true to the national cause, and we refer, 
Avith especial satisfaction, to those among them whose names will enter into the 
history of your great republic, associated with its principles, hallowed by its 
sacrifices, and identified with its glory. 

We beg you, sir, to be the interpreter of our feelings to the American people, 



284 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDEXCE. 

and to assure them that onr attacliment has been unalterable, neither springing 
from expediency nor inspired by self-interest, but that it is the warm impulse 
of a people whose generous sensibilities are among the most prominent of their 
national chaiacteristics. 

Signed on behalf of a meeting of the Irishmen of London, held at the 
Aruudel Hall, Arundel street, Strand, on Monday, the 1st of May, 1865. 

O'DONOHUE, M P., 

JOHN FRANCIS O'DONNELL. 

RICHARD ARCHER 

WILLIAM DOYLE. 

MOHERT E. MANAY. 

P. B. HALL. 

WALTER MEADE O'DWYER. 

FRANCIS SCAMELL. 

JAMES WILLIAM GILLIGAN. 

FRAXCIS JOSEPH MORAN. 

C. SAVAN DUFFY. 



At a meeting of the corporation of the city of London, in the province of 
Canada, held on the seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord 18C5, 
the following resolution was unanimously adopted : 

Resolved, That, in view of the lamentable occurrence which has taken place 
in the neighboring nation of the United States, by which their Chief Magis- 
trate has been deprived of life by the hand of an assassin, we, the corporation 
of the city of London, deem it incumbent upon us to offer to ov;r sorrowing 
neighbors this expression of our sympathy for the great loss they have sus- 
tained, and our abhorrence of the act by which they have been made to suffer. 

In testimony whereof, I, Daniel Glass, esq., mayor of the said city of Lon- 
don, have hereunto set my hand, and caused to be affixed the corporate seal of 
the said city, on this eighteenth day of April, 1865. 

[seal.] DAVID GLASS, Mat/or. 



Resolutions adopted at a large ijuhlic meeting, held in tJie city of London, 
Canada West, on Wednesday, the Vdtli <yf April, in the year of our Lord 
1865. 

First. That we, the citizens of Loudon, Canada West, in public meeting 
assembled, at the hour when the solemn obsequies of Abraham Lincoln are 
being performed at Washington, are moved by our common feelings of hu- 
manity and our regard for the American people to express our profound sorrow 
at the sudden and mournful death of the late excellent and humane President 
of the neighboring and friendly republic ; and we hereby record our heartfelt 
sympathy with the nation that has been visited by such an appalling calamity, 
with the widow and other relatives of the deceased President, who are j^lunged 
into grief by his assassination, and with the Hon. W. H. Seward and his 
family in the barbiirous cruelty inflicted on his person. 

Second. That we regard the assassination of President Lincoln and the at- 
tempted assassination of the Hon. W. H. Seward, whoever were the agents 
and whatever were their motives, as most cowardly, bloody, and diabolical 
crimes, a daring and lawless outrage on humanity, and a lasting disgrace to 
the civilization of the nineteenth century. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 285 

Tliird. That a copy of tliese resolutions, signed, in name of tliis meeting, 
by the chairman and secretary, be forwarded through the proper channel to 
Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, to Mrs. Lincoln, widow of 
the late lamented President, and the Hon. W. H. Seward, Secretary of State. 

DAVID GLASS, Mayor. 

Warrkn Rock, Secretary. 



Address of the Board of Trade of the city of London, Canada West, to Mr. 

Johnson. 

Office of the Boaru of Trade, 

London, C. W., April 19, 1865. 
The Board of Trade of the city of London, Canada West, desire to express 
their deep sympathy with the government and people of the United States, in 
the great loss the nation has sustained by the untimely death of Abraham Lin- 
coln, their late President, who has fallen in the prime and vigor of life by the 
hand of an assassin. They feel that the act is one deserving the deepest 
execration of all civilized communities, and that at this critical period of this 
history of the United States, it is a great calamity to the government and people 
of that country and to the whole civilized world. The board of trade also 
desire respectfully to offer their condolence ■with Mrs. Lincoln and her family, 
and hope that with the blessing of God they will be sustained under this try- 
ing bereavement. 

CHARLES JAMES HOPE, 

President. 
THOMAS OHQRCHER, 

Secretary. 
AxDREw Johnson, 

President of the United States of America. 



At the half-yearly general meeting of the Grand Trunk Railroad Company 
of Canada, held at the London Tavern, London, on Thursday, the 27th of 
April, 18G5, Edward W. Watkins, esq., M. P., in the chair. It was moved by 
Mr. Filder, seconded by Mr. Champness, and carried unanimously, in solemn 
silence — 

That this meeting of holders of property, much of which is protected by the 
laws and institutions of the United States, desires to express its horror and 
detestation of the crimes of assassination by which the invaluable life of Presi- 
dent Lincoln has been sacrificed, and that of M\\ Secretary Seward placed in 
extreme jeopardy, and to record its conviction that a grievous loss has thereby 
been occasioned not only to the United States, but to the civilized Avorld at 

EDWARD W. WATKINS, 

President. 

Certified copy : 

JOHN W. GRANT, 

Secretary. 



We the local board of health for the town and district of Luton, in the 
county of Bedford, do hereby, desire to record the expression of sorrow which 
we and this town and district have deeply felt since informed of the diabolical 



286 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

assassination of President Lincoln, a deed the nature of wliieli has excited and 
must continue to excite the indignation of all right-minded people. 

We strongly unite with the rest of our countrymen in the expression of our 
sympathy and good feeling, which we always have, and shall ever entertain 
toAvai'ds the people of the United States of AuiL-rica, and more so at the present 
juncture, when we contemplate the fearful trials and difficulties which have been 
placed in their way, but which can only retard for a very brief period that 
great work of civilization and progress which has eminently characterized them. 
iSprung from the same nation, there always will be a strong manifestation of 
interest with the people of this country on American afifiiirs, and upon every 
matter which will advance the welfjxre and happiness of the American people. 
We, the said local board of the town and district of Luton, do hereby like- 
wise most sincerely condole with, and beg to express our sincere and heartfelt 
sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln and her family, in their great and irreparable loss, 
and humbly hope that an inscrutable Providence may support them under the 
very heavy trial which they are now undergoing, and which we hope and pray 
may be overruled for their and their country's good. 

Given under our hand and official seal this 5th day of May, in the year of 
our Lord 1865. 

WILLIAM THOMPSON PLEDGE, 

Chairman. 
SAMUEL TOYN. 
[seal.] a. V. WEBSTER. 

FREDERICK PRAIMAN. 
JAMES HIGGENS. 
JNO. AMBERLAND. 
Countersigned : 

GEORGE BAILEY, 

Cierli to the said Local Board. 



At Leith, the second day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, 
which day the honorable the provost magistrates and council of the borough of 
Leith being assembled, unanimously resolved to record their abhorrence ot the 
atrocious assassination of President Lincoln of the United States of America, 
and their deepest sympathy with the people of the "United States under the 
calamity which has befallen them. 

Extracted from the council records by — 

H. H. COUPE R, Town Clerk. 



At a meeting of the Leith Chamber of Commerce, incorporated by royal 
charter, held the 2d day of May, 1S65, the following resolution was moved by 
John Warrack, esq., chairman of the Chamber, seconded by Adolph Robinson, 
esq., and unanimoiisly adopted : 

The Leith Chamber of Commerce desire to join with all classes of their 
countrymen in expressing their indignation, horroi-, and sorrow at the assassina- 
tion of President Lincoln, and resolve to communicate to the American people 
and government the sympathy of the Chamber for a loss which is felt, not by 
the United States alone, but by the whole civilized world. 

The secretary was instructed to tiansmit a copy of the above resolution to 
his Excellency Mr. Adams, the United States minister in London. 

Signed in name, and by authority of the Chamber. 

r ,,,, 1 . JOHN WARRACK, 

&LAL. ^j . 



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Methodist New Connexion Conference, 

Asscmhlcd at Lynden, C. IV., June, 13, 1865. 

Resolution 109 : That we, as a branch of the Church of Clirist, bog to express 
our feeliugs of detestation and abhorrence at the spirit that planned, and the 
monster in human form who perpetrated, the foul act of assassinating the late 
honored President of the United States ; and while we thus give utterance to our 
deep feelings of sympathy with his bereaved family and nation, most earnestly 
would we pray that the day may never come when such scenes of horror shall 
be repeated in any nation; that hiiman slavery may soon be brought perma- 
nently to an end ; and that the commercial interests and bonds of Christian 
brotherhood which now so closely unite the American and British nations may 
never be lessened. 

110. That the secretary of this conference transmit a copy of the above 
resolution to the American Secretary of State. 

[seal 1 WILLIAM TINDALL, 

' '-' Secretary of Conference. 



Resolution of tJie mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Margate. 

AYe, the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Margate, in the 
county of Kent, learn with deep regret the death of his Excellency Abraham 
Lincoln, President of the United States of America, by the hand of a cowardly 
assassin, and desire to express our warmest sympathy with the American na- 
tion at so lamentable and horrible an event, which has deprived the people of the 
greatest ornament of their country, and the world of one of the best friends of 
humanity. 

Given under our common seal the second day of May, A. D 1865. 

[seal.] THOMAS H. KEBLE, Mayor. 

WM. BROOKE, Town Clerk. 



Resolution of the council (f the borough of Morpeth. 

Resolution passed at a quarterly meeting of the council of this borough, on 
the fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five : 

" That the mayor, aldermen and councillors of Morpeth desire to express 
their feelings of sorrow and indignation at the assassination of the President of 
the United States of America, and at the attempt to obtain the life of his chief 
Secretary, Mr. Seward." 



Resolution of the council of the borough of Macclesfield. 

At an assembly of the council of the said borough, held at the Town Hall 
there on Thursday, the fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty- 
five — 

Resolved, That this council embraces the earliest opportunity (before pro- 
ceeding with the business of this day) of expressing its dee}) and ])rof()und sym- 
pathy with Mrs. Lincoln, and the government and people of the United States 
of America, in the melancholy bereavement they have sustained in the brutal 
and cowardly assassination of Mr. President Lincoln, and begs to record its hor- 
ror and abhorrence of so malignant and atrocious a crime. 



288 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

That tlie mayor be respectfully requested to communicate this resolution to 
Lis excellency Mr. Adams, the minister of the United States, and to desire that 
he will be pleased to transmit the same to the President of the United States 
and to Mrs. Lincoln. 

[seal.] JAMES JACKSON, Maijor. 



Extracts from the minut'^s of the meeting of the town council of tJie borough of 
Maidstone, in the county of Kent, held at the Toivn Hall on Wednesday, the 
IQth day of May, 1865. 

Ordered, That the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Maid- 
stone view with horror and indignation the atrocious assassination of the late 
President of the United States, and desire to express their unmitigated regret 
at the commission of so foul and unprovoked a crime. 

Ordered, That a copy of the foregoing resolution be forthwith transmitted by 
the town clerk to Mr. Adams, the American ambassador in London. 

Given under the corporate seal of the said borough, this 10th day of May, 
1865. 

[seal.] CHARLES ELLIS, Jr., Mayor. 



His Excellency the honorable Charles Francis Adams, 

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 

of the United States, London : 

We, the mayor and corporation of the borough of Maldon, in council assem- 
bled, desire to express through you, to the people of the United States of Amer- 
ica, the feelings of sorrow and indignation with which we have received intelli- 
gence of the assassination of President Lincoln. 

Our regret at his untimely end, at a moment when his life appeared to be of 
the utmost importance to the welfare of the state, is greatly increased by the 
recollection of his well known character, but especially by the just and friendly 
sentiments he entertained towards England, and we venture to hope that the 
general expression of horror which his violent death has excited throughout our 
land will show to the American people that England reci^n-ocates these feel- 
ings of kindness and good will to their fullest extent. 

We also beg to offer to Mrs. Lincoln our respectful sympathy in her afflicting 
bereavement, and we trust she will find great consolation in the thought that the 
memory of the late President will long be affectionately cherished by the people 
who twice chose him to fill the highest office in the land. 

Given under our common seal this 9th day of May, 1865. 

[seal.] JAMES BARRITT, Mayor. 



Hon. Charles Francis Adams, 

Envoy Extraordinary and, Minister Plenipotentiary 

of the United States of America : 
' May it please your excellency : We, the provost, magistrates and members 
of council of the burgh of Musselbxirgh, in Scotland, participating as we do in 
the feeling of distress universally existing in this nation on account of the atro- 
cious crime which has been committed in the country which you represent, by 
the assassination of its Chief Magistrate, grievously aggravated by its being per- 
petrated on one of such commanding talents and estimable qualities as Presi- 
dent Lincoln unquestionably possessed, deeply sympathize with the great people 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 289 

of wliora he was the head, and especially with the lady who has by this foul 
deed been so unexpectedly and sadly rendered a widow, as well as with the 
family who have been deprived of their honored parent. 

We embrace also this opportunity to express our regards towards your excel- 
lency, and remain yours, very faithfully, 

GEORGE LAURIE, 
Provost and Chief Magistrate. 

Signed in name and on behalf of the town council of the burgh of Mussel- 
burgh, and the seal of the burgh affixed, upon this 11th day of May, 1865. 
[seal.] GEORGE LAURIE, 

Provost and Chief Magistrate of Musselburgh. 
THOS. LEES, Town Clerk. 



At Montrose, the 3d day of May, 1865, the which day the magistrates aud 
town council met and convened in council, William Mitchell, esq., provost, in 
the chair, the following resolution was proposed by the provost and unanimously 
agreed to : 

The magistrates ami town councillors of the royal burgh of Montrose, in the 
county of Eorfar, having heard with profound regret and horror of the cowardly 
assassination of his Excellency Abraliam Lincoln, President of the United States 
of America, have resolved to express their abhorrence and detestation of the 
cold-blooded and murderous deed, and their sincere and earnest sympathy and 
condolence with the people of the United States, in being thus bereft of the ser- 
vices of a man whose honest devotion to what he considered the principles of 
right and justice had won for him an eminent name and position in the world's 
history. The council further desire that a copy of this miuute, signed by the 
provost and chief magistrate, and having the corporation seal affixed, be for- 
warded to. his excellency Mr. Adams, the United States minister in Loudon, to 
be communicated to the proi)er quarter. 

[seal.] WM. MITCHELL, 

Provost and Chief Magistrate. 



CITY OF MANCHESTER. 

At a meeting of the council of this city, held the 3d day of May, 1865, it was 

Unanimously resolved, That this council seizes the first opportunity which 
has arisen since the painful intelligence was received, to record the feelings of 
horror and of indignation, as well as of deep sorrow, with which they have 
heard of the cruel and cold-blooded assassination of President Lincoln, and to 
express their sincere sympathy with the citizens of the United States in the 
grievous loss which they have thereby sustained. 

That the mayor be respectfully request(!d to communicate this resolution to 
his excellency Mr. Adams, the minister of the United States, with the assurance 
that, in the opinion of this council, the sentiments therein expressed are entirely 
in accordance with the feelings universally entertained by the inhabitants of 
this city, and to desire that his excellency will be pleased to transmit the same 
to the President of the United States. 

[8EAL.J J. M. BENNETT, Mavor. 

JOSEPH HERVEY, Town Clerk. 

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290 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEEESPONDENCE. 

Resolutions passed at a meeting held by the citizens of Manchester. 

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

At fi public meeting of the citizens of this city, convened by the mayor, and 
held in the Town Hall, King street, on Thursday, the 4th day of May, 1865 — 
J. M Bennett, esq., mayor, in the chair — it was 

JJnaniviously resolved, That the citizens of Manchester, now assembled, desire 
to express their horror and detestation of the deplorable crime which has resulted 
in the violent death of the Chief Magistrate of the American republic, Abraham Lin- 
coln, and of the attempt to murder Mr. Seward and some members of his family, 
and they desire most earnestly and respectfully to convey to the authorities of 
the United States their deep sympathy with the American people in the heavy 
loss they have sustained. 

Resolved unanivioushj, That this meeting desires most respectfully to present 
to Mrs. Lincoln its sincere sympathy and condolence on the melancholy loss she 
has sustained in the death of her husband. 

Resolved, That the mayor be requested to transmit the resolutions this day 
adopted to his excellency the Hon. Mr. Adams, the American minister to the 
court of St. James, London. 

J. :\L BENNETT, Mayor. 



Resolutions of synipaihy with the Hon. William H. -Seward, Secretary of State, 

Wash in g ton. 

At a public meeting of citizens of Manchester, held in the Free Trade Hall, 
April 28, 1865, to express symj)athy and condolence with Mrs. Lincoln and the 
American nation on the assassination of the late President of the United States, 
the following resolution was unanimously adopted : 

Moved by Dr. John Watts, seconded by Mr. Edward Hooson — 

Resolved, That this meeting also desires to record an expression of [n-ofound 
sympathy with the Hon. William H. Seward and the members of his family, 
in regard to the atrocious attempt to assassinate that distinguished and able states- 
man whilst lying in a helpless condition on a bed of sickness; and this meeting 
earnestly hopes that the foul attempt may not have proved successful, but that 
Mr. Seward may soon be restored to health and vigor, to render efficient service 
in the government of his great nation, under a restored Union based on the eter- 
lial principles of freedom, justice, and equal rights to men of all races. 

Signed on behalf of the meeting : 

FRANCIS TAYLOR, Chairman. 



His Excellency A\'drew Johnson, 

President of the United States of America : 

The board of directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce desire to 
convey to the government and people of the United States of America, in the 
most emphatic terms, the expression of their horror and indignation at the das- 
tardly assassination of the late Chief Magistrate of the republic, as also at the 
murderous assault made upon Mr. Secretary Seward and his son ; and they de- 
sire to assure the American people that those diabolical outrages have evoked 
sentiments of the deepest execration from all classes in the United Kingdom, 

The directors of the Chamber further desire most respectfully to express to- 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 291 

wards Mrs. Lincoln, and other members of her sorrowing family, their profound 
sympathy and condolence under the heavy affliction which has betalleu them. 
Signed for and on behalf of the directors. 

MALCOM ROSS, 

President. 
HUGH FLEMING, 

Seen tary. 



Address of the Union and Einmicipation Society of Manchester to Mr. Johnson . 

Sir : We have heard wnth profound regret that your late distinguished Pres- 
ident, Abraham Lincoln, has fallen a victim to a vile conspiracy, and that he 
has been suddenly removed from you midst by the hand of a cowardly assassin. 

We have v/atched his career from the period of his election in 1S60 down to his 
lamented death, as well through ail the darkest hours of the struggle in which your 
country has been engaged as at the time when success seemed to be within his 
grasp, and we have ever recognized in him a self-denying patriotism, a devotion 
to the principles of right and justice, and a determination to surmount, by con- 
stitutional means, every obstacle which stood in the way of the final triumph of 
those principles. His imswerving faith never forsook him in the hour of depres- 
sion and gloom, and he has left behind him a noble example of magnanimity 
and moderation, in the hour of victory, which cannot fail to secure the admira- 
tion of the whole civilized world. 

■ Elected on the basis of a limitation of the area of slavery in the United 
States, he gradually and cautiously developed an auti- slavery policy, which re- 
sulted in the issue of an emancipation proclamation, by which every slave in the 
rebel States is now free ; and he lived to see adopted by Congres an amend- 
ment to the Constitution abolishing forever slavery in the United States. 

He has not been permitted to witness the final achievement of this great M^ork, 
bat his name will ever be associated in history with the removal of this from 
your national escutcheon. 

It is not alone or chiefly on grounds of philanthropy that we have sympathiz'cd 
in his objects and aims. From the period when we beheld a section of your 
community, when defeated at the ballot-box, aj>pealing to the arbitrament of the 
sword, without even the pretence of a grievance, excepting the alleged danger 
to the institution of slavery, we regarded free constitutional government as on 
its trial, and we have received with unvarying satisfiictinn the uniform consist- 
ency with which he always upheld the maintenance of the Union as paramount 
to every other consideration. 

In the recollection of these things we desire now, through you, to express our 
deep sympathy with your loyal-fellow cititens in the grievous loss you have 
sustained — a loss which, at this important crisis in your country's history, can- 
not fail to produce serious and anxious concern. 

In the midst of gloom, however, we are consoled by the reflection that the 
world is ruled by principles, not by men ; and that while the most distinguished 
statesmen are constantly passing away, the principles which they have pro- 
pounded are immortal. 

Mr. Lincoln, it is true, has departed, but he has bequeathed to posterity an 
example which cannot fail to exercise a powerful influence on the future of your 
country. 

The Constitution places you in the ofiice of Chief Magistrate of tbe Union at 
a solemn crisis in your national affairs, which has no parallel in the past history 
of the nation ; but we cheerfully recognize the fact tliat the same ballot which 
secured the triumphant re-election of Mr. Lincoln also placed you in the distin- 
guished position to become his successor ; and our faith in the instincts of a 



292 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COKRESPONDENCE. 

great people forbid us to doubt that the noble principles which animated him 
will ever find a response in your heart. 

For and on behalf of the Union and Emancipation Society of Manchester. 

THOMAS BAYLEY POTTER, 

President. 
FRANCIS TAYLOR, 

For self and oilier Vice-Presidents. 
SAMUEL WATTS, Treasurer. 
JOHN H. EASTCOURT, 

Chairman of Executive. 
JOHN C. EDWARD, 
EDWARD OWEN GREENING, 

Honorary Secretaries. 
His Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States. 



At a public meeting held in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, April 28th, 
1865, it was moved by Alderman Heywood, ex-mayor, seconded by the Rev. 
S. A. Steinthall, and passed unanimously — 

That the address to President Johnson, expressive of sympathy with the 
American people in the loss they have sustained by the lamented death of Pres- 
ident Lincoln, be adopted, and that the chairman be authorized to sign it on 
behalf of this mee'dug. 

FRANCIS TAYLOR, Chairman. 



Address of the Union and Emancipation Society of Manchester to Mrs. Lincoln. 

51 Piccadilly, Manchester, Ajnil 27, 1865. 
Madam : It is not for us to invade the privacy of domestic sorrow,' nor fitting 
that we should add to the sharpness of your grief by characteriziug as it de- 
serves the deed which has deprived you of a liusbaud, and your country of its 
Chief Magistrate. We desire, however, to express our deep sympathy with you 
in this mournful affliction, and our earnest hope that you may be supported through 
the trial by the consciousness that your husband, though called to the helm 
in the midst of tempest and storm, never foiled to respond to the call of duty, 
and that throughout a period of unparalleled difficulty he has guided the affairs 
of the nation in a manner Avhich will ever connect his name with all that is noble, 
magnanimous, and great in your country's history. His name will be asso- 
ciated with the cause of human freedom throughout all time, and genera- 
tions yet unborn will learn to lisp his name as synonymous with liberty itself, 
and to connect the atrocious deed by which his career was closed with the ex- 
piring throes of that foul system of slavery against which his life was a stand- 
ing protest, and the fate of which he had sealed. 

For and on behalf of the Union and Emancipation Society of Manchester : 

THOMAS BAYLEY POTTER, 

President. 
FRANCIS TAYLOR, 

For self and other Vice-Presidents. 
SAMUEL WATTS, Treasurer. 
JOHN H. EASTCOURT, 

Chairman of Executive. 
JOHN C. EDWARD, 
EDWARD OWEN GREENING, 
Mrs. Lincoln. Honorary Secretaries. 



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At a ptiljlic meotinj^ held at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, April 28, 1865, 
it wa.s moved by the Rev. G. W. Couder, seconded by Jacob Bright, esq., and 
passed unanimously — 

That the address of sympathy and condolence with Mrs. Lincoln, now read, 
be adopted, and that the chairman be authorized to sign it on behalf of this 
meeting. 

FRANCIS TAYLOR, 

Chairman. 



At a conference of the British Temperance League, held in the city of Man- 
chester on the 17th day of May, 1865, Joseph Thorp, esq., in the chair, on 
the motion of the reverend J. C. Street, of Newcastle, seconded by the rev- 
erend William Cam, of Manchester, it was 

Unanimous! y resolved, That this conference expresses its feeling of grief and 
indignation at the assassination of the late President of the United States of 
America, who was for upwards of fifty years a consistent temperance man, and 
desires to convey to Mrs. Lincoln and to the people of that country its profound 
sympa'^hy with them in this great affliction, its horror and detestation of the 
atrocious crime against humanity which has been committed, and its fervent 
hope tliat the event may be overruled by tlie Almighty for the preservation of 
the great republic and the complete overthrow of human slavery — these being 
the objects for which Mr. Lincoln lived and worked, and for tidelity to which 
he died. 

JOSEPH THORP, 

President. 
WM. J. CLEGG, 
Secretary to the Conference. 



Resolution i^asscd at a meeting of the Sons of Temjjcrance of Manchester. 

27 Devonshire Street, Hulme, Manchester. 
At a meeting of the officers and representatives of the twenty- nine divisions 
under the Manchester Grand Division of the order of the Sons of Temperance, 
England, in session assembled April 29, 1865, it was — 

Unanimously resolved, That this Grand Division expresses its utter abhorrence 
at the revolting and cowardly assassination of the late President of the United 
States of America, by which act we feel that America has lost one of its bright- 
est ornaments and our cause one of its noblest champions, and desires to offer 
our deepest sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln and the people of America in the sad 
and bereaving dispensation under which they have had to groan, and pray that 
the arm of Omnipotence may surround and sustain them. 
Signed on behalf of the Manchester Grand Division : 

HENRY HULME, G. W. P. 
JOHN HARRISON, G. S. 

Mrs. Lincoln and the People 

of the United States of America. 



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Resolutions adojHed by the Execufhe of the United Kin^^dom Alliance Jor the 
Total tSnppi'ession of the Iji<iuor Traffic, Manchester. 

Offices, 41 John Dalton Street, 

Manchester, May 5, 1865. 
AFadam: I am instructed to convey to you the enclosed copy of resi lutious 
of the Executive of the United Kingdom Alliance. 

In performing this official duty, allow me to add that no words can express 
to you our deep and tender sympathy. 

May God bless and comfoi't you under your great bereavement. 
Ever very faithfully youis, 

THOS. H. BARKER, 

Secretary U. K. A. 
Mrs. Lincoln. 



Resolutions of sympathy and condolence on the assassination of President Lin- 
coln, ado2)ted by the Executive of the United Kingdom Alliance. • 

Resolved, That the Executive of the United Kingdom Alliance for the Legis- 
lative Suppression of the Liquor Traffic has heard with feelings of profound hor- 
ror and inexpressible giief of the assassination of the President of the United 
States by the hands of a reckless murderer, inspired by political rancor. 

That this Executive, while recording an expression of its deep sympathy and 
sorrowful condolence with the widow and nation of Abraham Lincoln, cordially 
recognizes the great personal worth and noble civic virtues of that large-hearted 
patriot and magnanimous ruler, twice elected by the people as the Chief Magis- 
trate of a great nation, the emancipator of four million slaves, and the savior of 
his country from armed rebellion, anarchy, and ruin. 

That, while this Executive shares most earnestly these sentiments entertained 
by all parties, ranks, and classes, it feels very keenly the death, by the hand of 
a murderer moved by drink, of a man whose long adhesion to the principles of 
total abstinence and prohibition, and whose f;\ithful adherence to them even 
during the war, have proved that to these, as to all forms of enlightened philan- 
thropy, the late President of the United States of America devoted his high 
intelligence and his noble heart. 

That this Executive earnestly hopes that the fearful civil war in America has 
now ceased, and that peace will speedily be proclaimed and permanently estab- 
lished on the righteous bases of union and nationality, justice and freedom, with 
equal civil and political rights to loyal men of all creeds, races, and conditions. 

WILLIAM HARVEY, Chairman. 
SAM'L POPE, Hon. Secretary. 
THOS. U. BARKER, Secretary. 

Manchester, May 3, 1865. 



His Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States of America : 

Sir : AVe, the inhabitants of Mossley, in public meeting assembled, pray your 
acceptance of our heartfelt condolence at the heavy loss sustained by the gov- 
ernment and people of the United States in the death of their truthful, righteous, 
and self-sacrificing President, Abraham Lincoln. 

We have suffered long and severely in consequence of the cruel war which 
has cursed your land ; for it has crippled our industry, blasted our hopes, and 



SENTIMENTS OP^ CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 295 

caused mauy of our sous to seek a liome among straugers. But our sufferings 
sink into insignificance wiien we think of this horrid crime, which stands with- 
out a parallel in the history of the world. 

Feeling conscious that the assassiu's blow was uot only aimed at your worthy 
predecessor and his worthy colleagnes, and, through them, at your glorious Con- 
stitution, but also at the cause of liberty throughout the world, we share your 
heavy grief, and sincerely pray that the spirit of liiai whose name will be ever 
dear to freedom's worthy sons may uot be buried with him, but that it may in- 
fluence your counsels as his successor until the last remnant of slavery shall be 
annihilated and your Union cemented by love. 

We are happy to learn that Mr. Seward and his son are likely to recover. 

We have every confidence in your nation's heart, and in your firmness, integ- 
rity, and heroism as President, and sincerely hope that you will be able so to 
temper justice with mercy that the future of your country may be unclouded, 
and its peace unbroken. 

GEORGE ANDREW, Chairman, 



MossLEY, May 4, 1865. 

Drau widowed Lady: Permit us, as subjects of a widowed Queen, whose 
mighty heart and spotless life have not only made our native land more dear to 
us, but bid us long to see the reign of love universal, to express our deep sym- 
pathy with you in your great affliction, and our ardent prayer that He who 
overrules all events may fill up the painful void in your heart which the loss of 
such a treasure must create, and so control the spirits of men that your beloved 
country may soon become what your beloved husband toiled to make it — the 
abode of peace and purity, liberty and love. 

We have suffered deeply in consequence of your dreadful war. It has made 
us familiar with poverty and grief, desolated many of our homes, and blighted 
many of our prospects; but our sufferings are nothing to yours. 

Dear lady, God bless you and yours ! 

GEORGE ANDREW, Chairman. 

Mrs. Lincoln. 



The address of the inhabitants of Merthjr Tydfil, in the county of Glamorgan, 
ill l^uhlic meeting assembled. 

To the President and Congress of the United States of America : 

•In desiring to convev to you our expression of painful sympathy in the heavy 
loss which the government and people of the United States have suffered by 
the death of President Lincoln, we express our unqualified detestation and exe- 
cration of so hideous a crime. 

We are the more deeply shocked that the event has occurred at a moment 
when the triumph of the United States seenu'd on the point of completion ; and 
as the murderous and simultaneous attack upon Mr. SewaVd, the faithful mnuster 
of President Lincoln, who so well bupported him through the_ whole of this 
eventful crisis, betrays the object of the crime, we are constrained to believe 
that their death was intended to rob the people of the United States of their 
devotion to right and law, and to postpone the time when the long-desired peace 
would be obtained. 

But we sincerely hope that the great work of the restoration of the Urnon 
will not, by this deplorable event, suffer, or cause it to be long delayed. The 



296 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

death of Iiim who so wisely and efficiently worked for that great end will, we 
confidently trust, have only the more striking effect of strengthening the Union for 
which he died. 

In the invincible respect which the people of the United States have mani- 
fested for law and freedom, during the terrible struggle of this war, we recognize 
the best guarantee of a future obedience to the authority of the government, 
and of submission to the will of the people, as expressed by popular represent- 
ation. 

We confidently anticipate they will express most immistakeably that the 
policy of which their late President was the embodiment is to be carried out in 
all its extent, and that institutions in which perfect freedom for life, for speech, 
and for property, will be extended over the whole of the United l^tates, so that 
ntegrity and worth, not color and class, shall henceforward be recognized as the 
proper qualifications of those who govern. 

We consider that the long services of Andrew Johnson are sufficient guar- 
antees that, in succeeding the late President, the people of America will find a 
man eminently qualified to carry to a successful issue the policy inaugurated 
by his predecessor, and we fervently hope that, in the hands of divine Provi- 
dence, he will prove to be the humble instrument of bringing peace and tran- 
quility to a land torn by warfare and bloodshed, and that in the futiire relation 
of America with foreign nations, truthfulness, honesty, and forbearance will be 
its foremost consideration. 

Finally we pray that the ruthless passions which have been engendered may 
totally cease, and that under an united people the remembrance of the fearful 
struggles of civil warfare will forever be buried in oblivion. 

JOHN JONES, 
High Constable, Chairman. 



Resolution passed at a meeting held hi/ the inhabitants of Merthyr Tydfil, 

Wales. 

To Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the late Abraham Lincoln, President of the 
United States of America : 

The following resolution was unanimously adopted at a public meeting of 
the inhabitants of Merthyr Tydfil, in the county of Glamorgan, Wales : 

That this meeting expresses its sincere condolence with Mrs. Lincoln on her 
sudden and mournful bereavement, and wishes to convey to her its deep sympa^ 
thy under her heart-rending trial. 
Dated this 10th day of May, 1865. 

JOHN JONES, 
High Constable, Chairman. 



Melbourne, July 4, 1865 — 58 Elizabeth street. 

Sir: We, the undersigned, on behalf of the few remaining Polish and Hun- 
garian refugees resident in the colony of Victoria, beg most humbly to request 
you, as the only representative of the American United States government, to 
accept tlie expression of our most deep and sincere sorrow at the untimely death, 
by a most cowardly assassination, of his excellency Abraham Lincoln, late Pres- 
ident of the United States of America. 

May the great Providence, which has chosen to visit one of the greatest nations 
upon the earth with such an indescribable calamity, inspire the present and 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 297 

many generations yet unborn, not only how to support this groat loss, but to 
venerate the sacred memory of its greatest citizen forever. 

We again beg that you may accept this from, sir, your most humble servants 

GEORGE G. W0INAR8KT, 
Late OflJcer in the P. and II. Army. 

MARTIN FARKAS, 
Late Cajitaln in the Hungarian Army. 
William Blanchard, Esq., 

United Stales American Consul, Melhuurne. 



At a meeting of the council of the city of ^[elbourne, held in the council 
chamber in the Town Hall, Swanston street, in the said city, on Monday the 24th 
day of July, 1865, it was 

Resoh-cd, That this council for and on behalf of the corporation of the mayor, 
aldermen, councilors, and citizens of the city of Melbourne, desires to record 
its unmitigated horror and detestation of the atrocious murder of Abraham Lin- 
coln, the late President of the United States of America; to express its pro- 
found sympathy with the American people in the incalculable loss of so great 
and good ,; citizen, councilor and ruler ; and to offer its deep and respectful con- 
dolence to Mrs. Lincoln under her most grievous and terrible bereavement. 

r_ ^ ^ n GEO. WRAGGE, Mayor. 

I J E. G. EITZ GIBBON, Town Clerk. 



Extract from the minut'^s of a meeting of the council of the city of Montreal, 
held on Wednesday, the \9th day of April, 1865. 

Present, his worship the mayor, J. L. Beaudry, esq. ; Aldermen Grenier, Red- 
den, Contant, Gorrie, David Rolland, Stevenson, McCready ; Councilors jMcGib- 
bon, Devlin, Lamoureux, Goyette, McNevin, Higginson, McGauvran, Leduc, 
Donovan, Alexander, Ogilvie, Brown, Isaacson, Cassidy, Bastion. 

Before proceeding to business, his worship the mayor stated that since the 
meeting was called, a great calamity had befallen the American people in the 
assassination of their Chief Magistrate, and his worship submitted to the meeting 
whether it would not behoove this council to adjourn, as a mark of respect to the 
memory of the late President. It was therefore 

Unanim/jusly resolved. That in respect to the memory of the late President 
of the United States, and as a mark of sympathy with the great public calam- 
ity which has befallen our neighbors, and also as an expression of the profound 
regret and horror felt by this council at the foul crime peri)etrated on the revered 
person of the late Chief Magistrate of the United States, this council do now ad- 
journ. 

J. L. BEAUDRY, Mayor. 

CHS. SLACKMEYEK, City Clerk. 



Resolutions j^assed at a meeting held hy the citizens of Montreal. 

Montr K A l, April 20, 1865. 
In compliance with a very numerously signed requisition, a public me.-ting of 
the inhabitants was called by his worsiiip the mayor, and held on the I'Jth in- 
stant, at which the following action was taken : 



298 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

1. Mijved by honorable Thomas Ryan, seconded by honorable A. A, Dorion 
and 

Unanimously resolved, That, the citizens of Montreal, in public meeting as- 
sembled, desire to express most emphatically the sentiment of horror and de- 
testation with which they regard the great crime recently perpetrated at Wash- 
ington, by the base and cowardly assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late Pres- 
ident of the United States, 

2. Moved by honorable T. D. McGee, seconded by honorable James Ferrier, 
and 

Unanimously resol fed, That we regard this unprovoked and most atrocious 
assassination the greatest crime of our age, as committed not merely against the 
people of the United States, but against our common humanity and common 
Christian civilization. 

3. Moved by honorable P. J. 0. Chauveau, seconded by honorable L. H. 
Holton, and 

Unanimously resolved, That on behalf of the city of Montreal, we desire to 
tender to the people of the United States the assurance of our sincere sympathy 
and condolence with them, in this awfully sudden and afflicting loss of their 
Chief Magistrate. 

4. Moved by Benjamin Holmes, esq., seconded by Tuncrcde Bouthillier, esq., 
and 

'Unanimously resolved, That his worship the mayor, and the seci-etaries, be 
requested to transmit copies of the foregoing resolutions to the honorable John 
F. Potter, United States consul general for British North America. 

J. L. BEAUDRY, Mayor. 
•F. P. POMINVILLE, 
WM. J. PATTERSON, 

Secretaries. 



Resolutions j^assed at a meeting held hy the New England Society of Montreal. 

At a meeting of the members of this society, and other Americans, held in 
the American Presbyterian church on Wednesday, April 19, 1865, in commem- 
oration of the memory of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States, 
the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

Whereas Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, has perished by 
the hand of an assassin, at the time when the military power of the rebellion 
was conquered, and when his wisdom seemed most necessary to the well-being 
of the country ; and Avhereas the Americans resident in Montreal are deeply in- 
terested in anything which concerns the honor or welfare of the United States : 
Therefore resolved — 

1. That the members of the Montreal New England Society, and other Amer- 
icans resident in Montreal, tenderly sympathize Avith the government and peo- 
ple of the United States, and bereaved family, in deploring this calamitous event, 
and in their grief at this sore affliction, and that as an evidence of our grief we 
wear mourning thirty days. 

2. That in the acts and character of Abraham Lincoln as President of the 
United States, in a time of unparalleled difficulty, we recognize the true patriot, 
and sagacious statesman, as well as that fidelity to sacred trust, that regard to 
individual rights, that kindly consideration for all classes, as manifested in his 
reluctance to wage war, until forced upon him, his tender care for the soldiers, 
and words of sympathy to their relatives, his emancipation proclamation, and 
his clemency to conquered cities and captured armies, which will forever link 
his name with that of the illustrious Washington, as one of the greatest, wisest, 
noblest, and kindliest men of the race. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 299 

3. That in tlie career and cliaraeter of Abraham Lhicoln as farm laborer, hoat- 
mau, school teacher, laAvyer, legislator, and President, we recognize the intiu- 
ence and power of American institutions to develop manhood, and to confer 
honor and rewards upon the capable and deserving. 

4. That although Abraham Lincoln has perished by the hand of an assassin, 
we thank God that he was permitted to live to see the arm of this most gigan- 
tic and guilty rebellion broken ; that although we ardently desired he might 
have been spared to carry out his scliemes for the reconstruction of government 
in the conquered and returning States, yet we bow in submission to God's will, 
entertaining undoubting faith in the righteousness of the Divine gov(n'nment, 
and the speedy and tliorough pacification of the country, so that the United 
States, purged of its heirloom of slavery, and strengthened by the discipline of 
war, shall be in the future, as in the past, the home of the free, and hope of the 
oppressed, the refuge for the poor and down trodden of every race and creed. 

5. That seeing in this dreadful crime, at which " humanity shudders and civil- 
ization grows pale," a fresh proof ot the lawless and degrading tendencies of 
slavery, we pledge ourselves anew to aid in every legitimate way in the over- 
throw of the last vestige of human slavery on this continent. 

6. That the foregoing resolutions be publi.-^hed in the newspapers of this city, 
and that a c< py of them be sent through the United States consul general to 
the United States government, and to the family of the lamented deceased. 

A true copy of the original minute. 

P. 1). BPvONNE, President. 
E. F. AMES, Secretary. 



[Translcatioii.] 

MOTTOKS ON THE SeaL : 

Altius Tendimus. 1 
Travail et Concorde. | 
Caniidiau Institute, found- 
I ed in 1844, incorporated 
( in 1853. 

To His Excellency the Hon. Andrew Johnson, President of the United. States: 

May it please your Excellency : With profound sentiments of ailliction and 
indignation, the Canadian Institute heard of the horrible murder that has spread 
consternation among the people of the United States, and of the execrable at- 
tempt of assassination upon the person of the honorable Secretary of State. 

The premature and tragic death of the eminent man, so universally respected 
and admired, who was the political chief of the great nation tlint your excel- 
lency is now called upon to govern, is, In the opinion of the Canadian Institute, 
not only a terrible national calamity, but an event that brings sorrow and mourn- 
ing upon all true friends of liberty and progress, and upon the enemies of slavery 
and tyranny throughout the world, and sincere grief to the believers in demo- 
cratic institutions; who were proud to see one of the most upright and blame- 
less men that ever governed a nation at the head of the freest people on the face 
of the earth. 

The members of the Canadian Institute, in their humble sphere, admired 
Abraham Lincoln as much for his rare modesty and the self-denial of which he 
gave so many glorious examples, as they esteemed him for his elevated concep- 
tion of political and private probity, which even his enemies could not refuse to 
acknowledge in him. 

Slavery had already sacrificed enough victims ; and it was truly lamentable 
that the great chief of the nation, who had destroyed the monster, should be- 
come its iiist and most ilhistrious martyr. It is, indeed, deplorable that this 
great and renowned patriot, the impersonation of national unity, of fidelity to 
the Constitution and devotion to duty, should be added to the hecatomb of 



300 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

sacrifices of defenders of the Coustitution and the laws, caused by tlie accursed 
institution of slavery. 

The Canadian Institute, watching with interest the various events in the 
social or political progress of a people towards civilization, ventures to express 
to your excellency the great pleasure it feels at the abolition of slavery in the 
glorious American republic. The consequence of this act will be the blotting 
out of the only stain upon democratic institutions, which have been so often cor- 
rupted, perverted, and turned from their true path by an accursed institution, 
which Avas an emphatic denial of all human rights, and a violation of every di- 
vine law ; and the restoration of peace in the United States, a peace that must 
endure, since the sole cause of the terrible war that has desolated the great 
country has disappeared with slavery. 

The Canadian Institute rejoices that your excellency escaped the assassin's 
dagger, and expresses its most sincere wish for the success of your administra- 
tion ; it hopes you may overcome the existing obstacles in the way of a perfect 
peace and reunion, with the same success that attended your illustrious prede- 
cessor, and wishes you may fill the honorable and glorious position in the his- 
tory of the United States which was promised by your memorable assurances 
of devotion to the integrity of your country, and to its glorious and admirable 
Constitution. 

L. A. DESSAULES, Clerk of the Croitm, 

GONZALVE DOUTRE, B. V. L, 

Committee. 

J J. DURAND, President of the C. I. 

LEO SASSRON, Secretary Arc. C. I. 

JOS. BOUCHARD, Secretary Cor. C. I. 
Montreal, April 22, 1865. 



To his Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United States : 

Sir : We, the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Newark, in 
the county of Nottingham, England, in council assembled, desire through you 
to express to our brethren in America, on our own behalf, as well as of the in- 
habitants of the town of which we are the municipal representatives, our deep 
dommisseration on the melancholy event which has so suddenly and unexpect- 
edly placed you in your present high and difficult position, and our profound 
abhorrence of the dastardly crime, which, at so important a period of his valuable 
life, has deprived his country of the services of your distinguished predecessor. 
Although the perpetrator of an act of unparalleled atrocity appears hitherto 
to have escaped detection, we trust that he may soon receive the just reward of 
his villany, and that through Divine assistance, you may be enabled by a wise and 
beneficent policy, to effect the object which at the time of his premature removal, 
appeared nearest the heart of Abraham Lincoln, namely, the restoration to 
peace and prosperity of your magnificent but now afflicted country. 

Given under our common seal at the council chamber, in the Town Hall of 
the said borough, the 2d day of May, 1865. 

[l. .s.] JOHN GILBIET, Mayor. 



Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the county of Stafford. 

At an assembly of the council in the Town Hall, on Wednesday, the 3d day 
of May 1865, it was 

Resolved unanimously, That this council desires to express its feelings of horror 
and detestation at the death, by the hand of an assassin, of President Lincoln, the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMYATHY. 301 

cliopcu and trusted chief of the Uni*ed State? of America; and to record its heart- 
felt sympathy and condolence with ]\[rs. Lincoln, and the government and people 
of those States, upon the grievous loss they have sustained. 

[skal] THOMAS HARDING, Town Clerk 



Town Clerk's Office, Guildhall, 

Neath, May 8, ISGo. 

At a quarterly meeting of the town council of the borough of Neath, in the 
county of Glamorgan, holdeu at the council chamber of the Guildhall of the 
said borough, on Monday the 8th day of May, l!S65. 

On the motion of Mr. Alderman Gwyn ; seconded by P. Charles, esq., 
mayor, it was resolved — 

1. That this council desires to record the sentiments of horror and detestation 
with which it regards the assassination of President Lincoln and the attack on 
Mr. Seward, the American Secretary of State ; and wishes to offer its sincere 
condolence to the widow and fiimily of the late President, and to express its 
deep sympathy with the American people in the severe loss which th«iy have 
sustained. 

2. That the foregoing resolution be transmitted by the mayor to the Ameri- 
can minister for presentation in due course. 

fsBAL.J P. CHARLES, Mayor. 



Copy of resolutions passed at a meeting of the magistrates and toicn council oj 
the royal burgh of Newburgh, Fifeshire, held on the 5th of May, 1865. 

The magistrates and council uanimously agree to place on their records an 
expression of their own and fellow-townsmen's condemnation and abhorrence of 
the barbarous murder of the President of the United States of America, and also 
an axpressiou of their sincere sympathy Avith the people of the United States on 
the atilicting calamity which has betalleu them. 

That the chief magistrate be requested to transmit to his excellency the 
American minister in Loudon, an address in accordance with these resolu-' 
tions, and also that a copy of them be sent to Mrs. Lincoln, with an expn^ssion 
of the magistrates' and council's sympathy with her under her severe and dis- 
tressing bereavement. 

ANDREW MILNE, Chief Magistrate. 

Newburgh, May 10, 1865. 



Address of the magistrates and toion council of the burgh of Newburgh. 

To his Excellency Charles Francis Adams, 

Envoi/ Extraordinary and Minister Plenijwtentiary 

for the United Stales of America, London : ^ 

May it please your Excellency : We, the magistrates and town council C)f 
the burgh of Newburgh, in the county of Fife, North Britain, in common 
council assembled, do hereby express deepest sorrow and indignation at the^ 
atrocious assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of 
America, and at the dastardly attempt about the same hour on Mr. Seward, 
Secretary of State. 



302 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

"We desire that the government and people of the United States should un- 
derstand that no differt'uce of opinion on the merits of the conflict of the last 
four years avails to prevent the unanimous condemnation of so great a crime 
against our common humanity. No fouler crime stands chronicled in all history. 

We hereby offer our sincere sympathy with the people of the United ^^tates 
on the afflicting and heavy loss which they have thus sustained, and trust that the 
event may be overruled for their good. 

May it please your Excellency to forward this humble address to the proper 
quarter, in order that the American people may know they have the sympathy 
of the council and inhabitants of this burgh. 

Signed by the chief magistrate at Newburgh, May 10, 1865. 

[seal. I ANDREW MILNE, Ohkf Magistrate. 



Resolution passed at a meeting held by the Netvmih/,9 Anti- Slavery Society, 

Newmilus, May 5, 1865. 

In public meeting assembled it was unanimously resolved to present the fol- 
lowing unto the honorable Andrew Johnson, President of the United States 
of America : 

Honored Sir : We, the members of the Newmilus Anti-Slavery Society, 
having early espoused the side of humanity in the great struggle going on iu 
your beloved country for the emancipation of mankind from bondage — a bond- 
age which made the humane of every land shudder to contemplate — proud as 
we were over him who undertook the task to grapple with this gigantic evil, 
■what are we to think, or how can we express our feelings, when we know that 
he who was the appointed instrument to erase from the land of America the 
accursed blot which had so long stained your honored and will-be respected flag, 
and he who with calmness, fortitude, and dignified mercy, held in the one hand 
the palm of victory, in the other the olive-branch, crying pt'ace ! peace ! being 
struck down and deprived of life by the assassin's hand, when on the very verge 
of seeing his long-wished-for desire successfully consummated ; and, honored sir, 
in our lamentations over the sad event, may we be permitted to congratulate 
you, upon the knowledge we have, through the honorable Mr. Adams, the Ame- 
rican ambassador, London, and Mr. Stodart, Glasgov/, of the high attainments 
you possess for the important office you have been so unexpectedly called upon 
to fill. We therefore tender unto you, and along with you our sincere sympathy 
for the bereaved widow of the late honored and respected President, Abraham 
Lincoln, acknowledging our gratitude to God for the miraculous preservation of 
the honorable Mr. Seward and family; and whde we mourn, along with every 
true friend of humanity, the unparalleled event that has befallen yotir country, 
and although the horizon seemed dark for a time after such a calamity, we are 
again hopeful when we see the sun emerging from behind the cloud in your own 
likeness, supported by general Grant and the gallant army — Farragut and the 
navy — the patriotic people of Ame^-ica, and all who stood forward so nobly in 
time of need in defence of those institutions for the good of mankind contained 
in the glorious republic of America, all deserving and receiving our best thanks. 

Signed in behalf of the meeting : 

MATTHEW POLLOCK, President. 
ALEXANDER DYKES, Secretary. 

Resolved, That the foregoing be forwarded to the honorable Charles Francis 
Adams, American ambassador, London, for transmission to the honorable An- 
drew Johnson, President United States of America. 

M. P. 
A. D. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 30^ 



Salt Chambkr of Commrrce, 

KortkwicJt, Cheshire, May 6, 1S65. 
Your Excellency : The salt trade of England, represented by tins cliam- 
ber, have, perhaps more than any other mercantile community of this country, 
cause to identify their interests with those of the great American people. 

The council of this chamber have therefore instructed me, by unanimous reso- 
lution, to convey to your excellency their profound grief and heartfelt symi)athy 
with the American nation at the great calamity which has befallen them, through 
the dastardly assassination of their late President. 

In thus representing their condolence, this chamber pray you to accept their 
earnest assurance of profound respect for your excellency. 

JOHN MOORE, 
Secretary qftJie Salt Cliamher <if Commerce, 
His Excellency the President of the United }<tates. 



At a meeting of the watch committee of the corporation of Newport, in the 
county of Monmouth, held at the council-house on Tuesday, the 2d day of May, 
lS6o, E. J. Phillips, esf|., mayor, in the chair, the following resolution was una- 
nimously agreed to : 

That we view with the greatest horror and detestation the atrocious crime by 
which the President of the United States has been deprived of liis life, and 
that our deep sympathy with the people of the United States for their loss be 
conveyed with this resolution to the United States consul of this town. 

THOS. AVOOLLETT, 

Town Clerk. 



BOROUGH OF NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT. 

The following is a copy of a resolution passed at the quarterly meeting of the 
council of this borough, held on 2d day of May, 1SG5, at the Guildhall. 

Proposed by Mr. Councillor Piunock, seconded by Mr. Alderman Way, and 
carried unanimously — 

That this council desire to record their abhorrence and detestation of the 
crime which has deprived the American nation of the services of their President, 
and respectfully oifer to the government and to the people of the United Slates 
their heartfelt sympathy. 

[SEAL.J . IIY. MEW, Mayor. 



At a meeting of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Nottingham in council 
assembled, held the 1st day of May, 1865, it was unanimously resolved— 

That this council desires, in its corporate capacity, to express its extreme 
sorrow and indignation at the assassination of the late President of the United 
States of America, and to convev the expression of its condolence and sympathy 
at the loss which his widow and that nation at large have thereby sustained. 

That the members of this council also express their regret at the attempt 
made upon the life of Mr. Seward and his'sons, and the pleasure with Avhich 
they this morning receive the news of their improved condition. 

Given under the common seal of the mayor, ald.M-men, and burgesses. 

[seal.] WILLIAM PAGE, Mayor. 



dU4 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Nottingham, held at the Exchange 
Hall on the 1st clay of May, 1865, it was unanimously resolved — 

That this meeting regards with horror, indignation, and abhorrence the appal- 
ling crime which has put an end to the life of President Lincidn, while it re- 
joices that the dastardly attempt on the life of Mr. Seward has not residted in 
his death, and trusts that he may long be spared for the benefit of his country. 

That this meeting desires to record its profound sympathy with the people of 
the United States in this hour of national bereavement, and more especially 
with the widow whose grief is intensified by the atrocious nature of the deed 
which has snatched her husband from her side. 

That this meeting devoutly trusts that the wise, statesmanlike, and emi- 
nently conciliatory and Christian policy of the late President, so peculi;irly suited 
to bind up the wounds of his bleeding country, may not die with its author, but 
be carried forward by his successor to the speedy establishment of an enduring 
peace. 

Signed by ordei and on behalf of the meeting: 

WILLIAM PAGE, Mayor, 

Chairman. 



Resolutions j^iissed hy the anmtal assembly of the United Methodist free 
churches, held in Nottingham, Avgust, 1865. 

THE AMERICAN WAR AND SLAVERY. 

1. Resolved, The members of this assembly having during the past four years 
watched with intense interest and painful anxiety the progress of the civil con- 
flict npon the American continent, would now express their gratitude to Him by 
*' whom kings reign and princes decree justice" that the said sanguinary con- 
flict has closed, and upon this auspicious circumstance this assembly most cor- 
dially congratulates both the government and people of the United States. 

2. Resolved, This assembly is exceedingly grateful to have observed that 
God in his providence has so overruled the discussions of Congress and the 
conflict of armies as to have removed from amongst the American people that 
which has been their dishonor and scourge — chattel slavery ; and upon this is- 
sue this assembly congratulates not only the American nation, but also all others, 
believing that the abolition of slavery in the United States will be the prelude 
to its abolition all over the world. 

3. Resolved, This assembly rejoices at the seasonable and well-sustained 
efforts which have been made by the American people, iu order to lessen the 
distress which has arisen from the immediate emancipation of the slaves of the 
South, by the feeding and clothing of the aged and infirm and the opening of 
schools for the education of the young; and this assembly recommends the 
members of our churches to do what they can by the contribution of both ap- 
parel and money, in order to further the object of the "freedmen's aid societies." 

4. Resolved, This assembly records its unmitigated abhorrence of, and indig- 
nation at, the crime of assassination by which the American people have, in the 
hour of returning order and peace, been deprived of one of the most praise- 
worthy of modern rulers — the patient, sagacious, and philanthropic Abraham 
Lincoln. 

This assembly also expresses its deep and sincere sympathy with the Execu- 
tive and people of the United States upon their loss; and also, in harmony with 
the promptly-presented utterances of the British press, platform, senate, and 
Throne, tenders its condolence to the honored widow of the deceased President. 

This assembly, moreover, trusts, now that the war has ceased in the triumph 
of the northern arms, that henceforth England and America, as they are one in 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMrATHY. 305 

origin, language, and religion, Avill cultivale towards each other the most ami- 
cable relations, and, being banded together not only as profitable traders but 
true friends, will by their powerful example and moral influence elevate and 
bless the. world. 

5. Resolved, That a copy of the aforesaid resolutions be commiinicated to the 
honorable Charles Francis Adams for presentation to Mrs. Lincoln and to his 
Excellency the President of the United States. 

Signed on behalf of the assembly : 

\Vir.LIA:\r ROBERTS BROWN, President. 
MARMADUKE MILLER, Sccrciar>/. 



At a meeting of the citizens of Norwich, in Common Hall assembled, on 
Tuesday, the 2d day of May, 1 865, pursuant to a requisition to the mayor, 
numerously and iiifluentially signed, for the purpose of expressing the sympathy 
of the city of Norwich to the xVmerican government and people for the great 
loss they have sustained by the atrocious murder of their President, the follow- 
ing resolution was unanimously passed, and the mayor was requested to sign 
and affix the corporate seal thereto, and forward it to the American minister in 
London : 

IlrsoJced, That this meeting desires to express the greatest regret at the 
calamity brought upon the people of the United States of America by the 
assassination of President Lincoln. 

That this meeting regards with horror and detestation the crime by which 

the President's life was sacriiiced,and that in the name of the citizens of Norwich, 

this meeting begs to offer to the government and people of the United States 

the most sincere and earnest sympathy under the loss which has so suddenly 

befallen them. 

S. E. TUCK, Manor. 
[SEAL.] -^ 



Resolution 2)assed at a meeting of the council of the horongh of Newcastle- 

vpon-Tijne. 

At a quarterly meeting of the council of the borough of Newcastle-upon- 
Tyne, held in the council chamber, Town llall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on 
Wednesday, the third day of May, lS6o, .Anthony Nichol, esq., deputy mayor, 
chairman, it was unanimously resolved, on the motion of Mr. Joseph Cowen 
the younger, seconded by Mr. Alderman Laycock — 

That this council desires to give utterance to the feelings of grief and horror 
with which it has heard of the assassination of President Lincoln, and the mur- 
derous attack ui)on Mr. Seward, and to convey to j\Irs. Lincoln, President 
Johnson, and his colleagues, and to the people of the United States, its profound 

sympathy and heartielt condolence. 

\ ANTHONY NICIIOL, 

P^'^L-J Chairman. 



Resolution 2^nssed at a meeting held by the inhabitants of the borough of 

Newcastle upon- Tijne. 

At a meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 
convened by the mayor on requisition and held in the Town Hall, on Tiiursday 
evening, the 4th of May, 1865, the sheriff of Newcastle in the chair, 
20 A 



I 



30G APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

On the motion of the Rev. W. Walters, and seconrled by Councillor Mawson? 
and supported by the llev. J. 0. Street, it was unanimously resolved — 

1st. That this meeting desires to give utterance to the feelings of grief and 
horror with which it has heard of the assassination of President Lincoln, and 
the murderous attack upon ]\Ir. Sewai'd, and to convey to Mrs. Lincoln, to 
President Johnson, and his colleagues, and to the people of the United States, 
its profound sympathy and heartfelt condolence. 

On the motion of Councillor Benson, seconded by Mr. Ralph Curry, and 
supported by Councillor Harford, it was unanimously agreed — 

2d. That copies of the foregoing resolution be placed in the hands of the 
honorable C. F. Adams, the American minister, for transmission to his excel- 
lency the President of the United States, Mrs. Lincoln, and the honorable W. 
H. Seward. 

Signed on behalf of the meeting: 

WILLIAM LOCKLY HARLE, Slierlf. 



To Jiis Excellency Andrew Johnson, President oj" tlte United States of America: 

The following resolution was adopted by the sixty-ninth annual conference 
of the Methodist New Connection, assembled in Salem chape!. Hood street, 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on the thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord 
1865: 

Resolved, That the conference of the Methodist New Connection, assembled 
in Neweastle-on-Tyne, would record the expression of its devout thanksgiving 
and joy on the termination of the war which for four long years has been waged 
at so fearful a cost of human life and human treasure between the northern and 
southern divisions of the United States of America. While in the war itself the 
conference would recognize the supreme justice of eternal Providence in making 
a nation, hov/ever mysteriously, and by whatever means, yet ultimately and 
surely responsible for the legislative or social wrongs it either autliorizes or 
countenances, it would nevertheless and equally recognize the mercy of that 
Providence in the conclusion to which the war has been finally conducted, in 
that a great nation, so intimately allied to our own in all the interests of human 
civilization and Christian enterprise, has been redeemed from disorder and an- 
archy by the triumph of the national wisdom and courage, and especially that 
this has been so done as eftectually to annihilate the evil out of which l^ie war 
really though not ostensibly sprang, restoring to the position and privileges of 
manhood four millions of human beings who had previously been held as mere 
property by those who claimed to be their owners. 

The conference also desires to unite with the whole English nation, and, in- 
deed, with the entire civilized world, in giving emphatic utterance to its horror 
and abhorrence of the fearful crime by v/hich the close of the war has been sig- 
nalized, in the assassination of the late much lamented President of the United 
States, to whose practical Avisdom and singular goodness of character may be 
largely attributed the continuance of the peaceful relations existing between this 
country and America. Amid the jealousies and perplexities which the war occa- 
sioned, as well as to whose prudence and perseverance, together with the pru- 
dence and perseverance of those united with him in the conduct of public affairs, 
the result now enjoyed has been happily reached. 

And yet the conference would express an earnest hope that no irritation thence 
residting, however natural and reasonable, will be allowed to influence the reg- 
ular course of justice in dealing with those who have taken a leading part in the 
attempt to divide the Union, by establishing a separate confederacy, and that in 
fact no means Avill be adopted but such as will, under the superintendence of the 
Great Ruler, tend to conciliate the affections and interests of the parties hitherto 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMrATHY. 307 

SO much divided, and !=o restore tliem to a couditlou of permanent liarmonv and 
peace. " 

Signed on bebalf of the conference : 

WILLIAM I3AGGARLY, -President. 
JOSHUA POLLARD, Sccretanj. 



Resolution adopted at a meethg of the E.recuiire Council of Neufoundland, on 

Saturdaij, May G, 1865. 

That the council avail themselves of the earliest opportunity of expressing 
their deepest regret and horror at tlie foul assassination of President Lincoln ; 
and on behalf of the people of this colony they beg to tender their respectful 
sympathy in the sorrow that has so justly been awakened throughout the Amer- 
ican Union at the loss of their illustrious head. • 

Eesolred, Ihat his excelh-ncy the Governor be requested to transmit a copy 
of the foregoing resolution to her Majesty's minister at Washington. 



[Trunslatiou.] 

THE CITIZENS OF THE SWISS REPURLIC IN NEW SOUTH W'ALES. 

To the honorable the President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives 
of the United States of America : 

We, the citizens of the Swiss republic, resident at New South Wales, liave 
been requested by Signor John Baptist Modini, one of our countrymen, to as- 
semble in order, as sons of another free rejmblic, to condole Avith you, the Con- 
gress of America, on the very sad calamity that has befallen your nation, and 
to express our heartfelt sorrow and sympathetic grief for the immense loss you 
have sustained by the atrocious murder of your great devoted champion of lib- 
erty, President Abraham Lincoln. 

We, by birth sons of another free republic, cannot refrain from giving ex- 
pression of sympathy for your great loss, bei/ig ourselves brought up under 
free principles, and owe it to ourselves and to the republic of which we are citi- 
zens to declare our abhorrence of the crime which has deprived humanity of one 
of its greatest ornaments. 

To Mrs. Lincoln and family we offer the respectful condolence of our sympa- 
thy with the sufferings which it is some consolation to know are in a degree 
shared by the world at large, but which are assuaged by the consideration that 
Mr. Lincoln's work and best efforts had already gained the approval and ad- 
miration of every free and enlightened people. 

J. B. MODIXL 
AUGUSTO ANDREOLL 
ORIOLA AFIRO. 
LORENZO BERTA. 
GOVANXI GAYLIARDL 
FRANCESCO GALLI. 
And forty other names. 



At a meeting of the mcavor, aldermen, and councillors, being the municip 
council of the borough of Northampton, held at the Town Hall in the same 
borough, on the 1st day of May, 1S65— present, the worshipful the mayor, 
Thoma-? Osboru, esquire, in the chair — it was 



308 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEEESPONDENCE. 

Vnammously rcsolccd, That the members of this council, including persons of 
all parties in the state, desire to record the deep feeling of horror with which they 
have heard of the late atrocious murder of the President of the United States of 
America, and the attempted assassination of his Secretary of State, crimes de- 
serving of the execration of mankind, and which the members of this council 
doubt not will prove to have been the acts of the guilty perpetrators exclusively. 

The couAcil desire further to record their sympathy with the widow of the 
murdered Chief Magistrate under her bereavement, their condolence with the 
citizens of the republic, and their sincere trust that under the providential guid- 
ance of the Great Disposer of events the path of mercy and conciliation on 
which Mr. Lincoln had entered may be steadily trodden by his successor, and 
that the great and kindred nation over which he is summoned, to preside may 
speedily recover from the deep wounds of civil war, and enjoy a bright future 
of liberty, peace, and prosperity in ever closer and more cordial alliance with 
our own branch of the English race. 

That two copies of the above resolutions be fairly made on veUura, authen- 
ticated by the signature of the worshipful the mayor and the common seal of 
the borough, and sent to his excellency the United States minister in this coun- 
try, with a request that he will forward one copy to the proper authority of his 
own government and the other to Mrs. Lincoln. 

[seal.] THOMAS OSBORN,' iHa^/or. 



Abkygton Terrace, 
'Kortliampton, May 19, 1865. 
Respected Sir : Your well known courtesy encourages me to forward the 
enclosed lines to you, at the request of an invalid sister, whose composition they 
•are, as a tribute to the memory of that great and good man, your late President. 
If it would not be out of place, and should meet with your approbation, my 
sister desires you would enclose them in your future despatches for Mrs. Lincoln, 
with a sincere hope that they may afford her some comfort in her heavy afflic- 
tion. Trusting you will pardon the liberty I have taken, 
I remain, your most obedient servant, 

WILLIAM GRAY. 
C. F. Adams, Esq., United States Amhassador. 



ACROSTIC ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

A nation — nor one only — mourns thj^ loss, 

Brave Lincoln, and with voice unanimous 

Raise to thy deathless memory 

A dirge-ljke song of all thy noble deeds. 

High let it rise ; and I, too, fain would add 

A loving tribute to thy jiriceless worth, 

More widely known since banished from the earth. 

Laurel shall now thy brow entwine 
In memory's ever faithful shrine ; 
Nor shall it fade when earth dissolves. 
Cauglit up to meet thee in the air. 
Old age and youth shall bless thee there; 
Love shall her grateful tribute pay, 
Nor cease through heaven's eternal day. 
NoRTiiAJiPTox, England. GRACE "W. GRAY. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 309 



GoVKRNI\lK.\T HorSK, 

Halifax, Nora Scotia, Aj>ril 17, 1865. 
Sir : I have the honor to aeknowh'dgi' the receipt of your cornmunicatiou of 
Saturday, the 15th iuslant, announcing tlie atrocious assassination of I'resident 
Lincohi. I feel I need not assure you of my own personal sympathy for your 
countrymen under au affliction so su(hlen, and accompanied by special circum- 
stances so appalling'. 

The adjournment of both branches of the legislature, on receipt of the melan- 
choly intellio-ence, the fllags hoisted half-mast on all forts and public buildings, 
together with the unanimous and outspoken feeling of the press, sufficiently at- 
test the jn-ofound and painful impression which the iutelligeucc has produced on 
this community. 

You thus have at least the sad gratification of knowing that the misfortunes 
of your countrymen can evoke from their kindred here only feelings of kindly 
sympathy and good will. 

I have the honor to be, sir, vour most obedient, humble servant, 

RlCHAllD GRAVES MACDOXNELL, 

Lieutenant Gorernor. 
JrDGE Jackson, United States Consul, 

Halifax^ Noca Scotia. 



LEcrsLATivE Council Chamber, 

Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 15, 1865. 
Sir: By the direction of the legislative council of Nova Scotia, I have the 
Lonor to transmit to you two resolutions passed by that house on receiving the 
sad intelligence of the assassination of tlie President of the United Slates of 
America, and to request that you Avill forward the same to the Secretary of the 
Department of State of the United States. 

I have the honm- to be, sir, vour most obedient, humble servant, 

JOHN C. IIILLBUIITON, 
3I0RTIMER M. Jackson, Esq., 

IJtiited States Consul, Halifax, 2\. S. 



Resolutions i^asscd hjj the legislafice council chamber of Halifax. 

Lecisi.ative CouNriL Chamber, 

Halifax, Nora Scotia, Ajiril 15, 1865. 

Rcsolred unanimoushf. That this house has heard with most profound regret 

hat the President of the United States of America has fallen by the hand of 

1 assassin, and that as a mark of sympathy with the people who have thus 

■en deprived of their chief ruler, and of al)horrence of the atrociou.s crime that 

nas been committed, this house do now adjourn. 

Resolved, That the clerk of this house be directed to forward a copy of the 
for.'jjoing resolution to the consular officer of the United States resident in this 
city,%vit?i a request that the same be respectfully transmitted to the Secretary 
of the ]Jei)artment of State of the United States. 

JOHN C. HILLBURTON, 
Clerk of the Legislature Council of Xoca Scotia. 



310 APPENDIX TO. DIPLOMATIC COREESPOXDENCE. 

THE NEWS IX THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. 

[From the Kcporter. 1 

The house of assembly met this morning at 11 o'clock, aTid the provincial 
secretary immediately moved a resolution to adjourn until Monday next. He 
said : I need not say that this house has been deeply shocked by the intelli- 
gence which has just been received of the death of President Lincoln. Both 
branches of the legislature having been on Thursday last informed that his ex- 
cellency would come down at three o'clock for the purpose of assenting to sev- 
eral bills which have passed, I felt it my duty, proposing as we do to adjourn 
this house, to put myself in coramunicat on with his excellency, who entirely 
concurs in the appropriateness of this house marking its sympathy with the peo- 
ple of the United States, who have thus lost their Chief Magistrate, and their 
deep abhorrence of the crime by which he has been removed. This bouse is 
aware that when, exactly four years ago this day, the first intelligence reached 
this country of the ci:mmencement of hostilities in the American republic, this 
house placed on record its sentiments by the following resolution : 

" Resolved unanimously, That the house of assembly of Nova Scotia have 
heard with deep regret of the outbreak of the civil war in the United states ; 
that this house, wiihout expressing any opinion upon the points in controversy 
between the contending parties, sincerely lament that those who speak their 
language and share their civilization should be shedding each other's blood, and 
oifer x\\) their prayers to the Father of the Universe for the speedy restoration of 
peace." 

This resolution sufficiently marked the feelings with which this house viewed 
the beginning of hostilities which have so long and so terribly distracted the 
neighboring republic. It is not to be denied that as that struggle advanced, 
when the people of British North America witnessed the heroic resistance that 
a comparatively small number of men in the southern States made against over- 
whelming odds, a large amount of sympathy was excited in the minds of many — 
that sympathy which is always excited when a small body is seen contending 
with great bravi'ry against superior numbers — in favor of the South. But al- 
though that feeling has existed to some extent — although there have been per- 
sons in this country Avho believe that the material interests of British America 
would be promoted by a separation between the northern and southern States, 
and that great republic being thus divided into two governments; yet I am con- 
fident that there is not a British subject in British America who will learn the 
untimely death of President Lincoln, and the circumstances under which it has 
occurred, without the feeling of the most unfeigned sorrow and the most profound 
regret. It is well known that Presid(uit Lincoln was elected the President of the 
United States of Amerca by the intelligent and freely expressed voice of the people 
of that great country ; and no man who has observed tlte course he has pursued can 
entertain a doubt that he has regarded it as a conscientious diity — a duty from 
which under no circumstances he was able in the slightest degree to shrink- 
to maintain the sovereignty of his government over the entire country. That 
he has persistently pursued that policy with an inflexibility of determination and 
strength of purpose which must forever mark him as a man of comm^mding 
talents no one can deny, and I am satisfied that the sentimtjnt of the people,, 
and of those who are placed ovejr the people throughout British North America, 
will agree in the opinion that he has been actuated by a conscientious discharge 
of what he believed to be a patriotic duty in tliat crisis of his country's history. 
Under these circumstances, 1 feel that it is right that the neighboring govern- 
ments in British North America should, as far as their means would permit, ex- 
hibit on the present occasion their deep sympathy with the people of the neigh- 
boring States who have lost their chief ruler, and at the same time mark their 
deep abhorrence of the atrocious crime by which he has been removed. I have, 
therefore, to offer to the house the following; resolution : 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 311 

"Rcsolrc/1 unanhnmishi. That tins bouse have lieard with tlie most profound 
regret that the Pre.^ident of the United States of America has fallen by the hand 
of an assassin, and that as a mark of sympathy with the people wboliavc thus 
been deprived of their chief ruler, and of their abhorrence of the atrocious crime 
that has been committed, this house do adjourn until Monday next." 

Mr. Stewart Campbell, who seconded the resolution, said: On any ordinary 
occasion I should regret the absence of the learned member for Colchester, who 
occupies a position in this house which would peculiarly call upon him to second 
any resolution demanding the united action of all parties in this house. Hut 
this resolution is of no l)arty, and requires not that any parlicular individual 
should second it. It is, indeed, one that need not be formally seconded by the 
lips, for it is sustained by the feelings of every gentleman around these benches. 
The honorable provincial secretary has referred to the awful tragedy of which we 
liave just received the painful intelligence, in terms so feeling and so appropriate 
and just, that although, according to parliamentary usage, 1 have undertaken my 
present duty, but litle observation is required on my part to confirm or indorse 
those sentiments. We all feel, sir, that an occurrence has taken place which, at 
the present age of the world, is not only an outrage upon an individual and a 
nationality, but is an outrage upon m:inkind and the civilization of the world at 
large ; and although we belong to another empire than that in which this dread- 
ful scene has been enacted, we are deeply moved b}^ the awful fact that there 
has been a gross outrage committed against those feelings which are, and ever 
will be. respected in every country that prides itself in the possession of the 
privileges of civilization and the blessings of Christianity. I think the course 
taken by the government in adjourning this house, as a mark and testimony of 
its f elings on the present melancholy occasion, is extremely appropriate, and 
will be sure to meet with the cordial approval of every member in this house, 
and of ever}' man in this country. 

The resolution passed unanimously, and the house adjourned. 



At a meeting of the council of the borough of Oldham, in the county of 
Lancaster, held at the Town Hall iu Oldham on Wednesday, the 3d day of May, 
1865, it was 

Resolved, That this council hereby expresses its horror at the crime recently 
perpetrated, in the assassination of the President of the United States of Amer- 
ica, and the attempted assassination of Mr. Seward, and desires to lay before 
the United States their wish that the government may still be carried on effi- 
ciently, and in the interests of peace, notwithstanding the loss sustained by 
them and the Avorld. 

[SEAL.J JOSIAH RADCLIFFE, Mayor. 



Resolution 2iasscLl at a meeting of the rounml of tJic honmgli of Oldham. 

At -n" meeting of the council of the boroug'i of Ohlham, in the county of 
Laiieastcr, held at the Town Hall iu Oldham on Wednesday, the 3d day of May, 
1SG5, it was 

Resolred, That this council expresses to ]\[rs. Lincoln its sincere and strong 
■vmpathy with her in the sorrow which she must feel, and the loss she has 
sustained, by the foul crime that has been committed in the assassination of the 
President of the United States, and trusts she may have strength to bear the 
great sorrow that has been thrown upon her, and power to look beyond the 
present. 

[seal J JOSLm RADCLIFFE, Mayor. 



312 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

At a public mocting of tlif inhabitants of the borough of Oldham, in the 
county of Lancaster, convened upon a requisition to the Wdrshipful the mayor, 
held at the Town Hall in Oldham on Monday, the 1st day of May, 1S65, Josiah 
Eadcliffe, esq., mayor, in the chair, it was 

Rvxolccd, That this meeting desires to express its deep and unqualified 
abhorrence of the foul and atrocious crime which has been per])etrated on the 
person of the President of the United States, as well as the diabolical attempt 
to assassinate Mr. Seward, while helpless and prostrated ou a bed of sickness. 
The tragic event has sudderdy deprived the people of the United States of a 
Chief Magistrate whom they had learned to love and revere, and thus plunged 
them into the deepest sorrow and distress. It has also caused all right-minded 
people in every laud to feel the strongest horror and disgust at its cowardly and 
dastardly character. We denounce not only the instrument of ^Ir. Lincoln's 
death, but all who may have aided and abetted him, and who may be so lost 
to honor and justice as to approve of such a diabolical deed. We desire to 
acknowledge our sympathy with the people of the United States, who have 
been thus ruthlessly deprived of a wise and good rulfn- at a time wheu his mod- 
eration and sagacity were so needful to the cause of peace. While we are 
conscious that the cruel act which we all deplore is so eminently calculated to 
rouse the deepe-t indignation, still we trust that in the order of Providence the 
same wise forbearance which President Lincoln has manifested may be shown 
by his successor, President Johnson, and that peace aud harmony may be 
speedily restored to the whole country. 

It was also 

ResoJci'd, That, in accordance with the deep sorrow which animates our own 
breasts, we teel constrained to express our heartfelt sympathy and condolence 
with Mrs. Lincoln in her sudden and overwhelming bereavement, aud we trust 
she may be enabled to derive some consolation from the fact that she has the 
sympathy of the whole civilized w^orld, and from the consciousness that her 
husband was actuated by the noblest motives and the most generous designs; 
that he harbored no resentment in his lofty soul, but sought to heal the wounds 
which have lacerated his country by kindness and conciliatix)n, and by a 
Christian forbearance, whicli ought to have disarmed the malice of all, and 
which have won for him the approbation of mankind. 

It was farther 

h'csolvcd. That the mayor be requested to forward the foregoing resolutions 
to his excellency ]\Ir. xidams, the American minister at London, as the expres- 
sion of the feeling of the jjeojile of Oldham, in public meeting assembled, on the 
tragic event which has recently been enacted in the United States. 

JOSIAH RADCLlFFE.J/fl^or. 



Resolution passed at a merli?ig held, hy the Ancient Older of Foresters. 

Court Dutchess of Sutherland, No. 3,212, held at the Roman Arms, Roman 
Road, Old Ford, in the county of Middlesex, at the meeting on Tuesday, 2d 
May, 1865, it was proposed by P. C. R. Bro. Walsham, seconded by P. 0. 
R. Pro. Davis, and carried unanimously — 

That the members of this court, who arc, in connection with the Lon- ; 
don United District, numbering upwards of 47,000 members, in all parts of ' 
the globe, enforcing no creed in religion or code in politics, do hereby tender to 
the people of the United States of America, many of whom must be tied to them ■ 
by the bonds of brotherhood, their expression of deep s^'mpathy upon the loss ( 
they have sustained by the death of their President by assassination — a crime of ; 
such deep guilt and magnitude that it is justly held in abhorrence by all nations 



y 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMrATHY, 313 

gnd people ; and furtlier, to offer ]\[rs. Lincoln their ^incere condolence and re- 
gret that i^lie should be deprived of her husband by such a cowardly and in- 
human act. 

It was further proposed by P. C. R. Bro. Walshara, seconded by P. C. R. 
Bro. Davis, and carried unanimously — 

That a copy of the foregoing resolution be forwarded tlu3 Hon. Charles 
Francis Adams, American minister in London, desiring him to oifer it for the 
acceptance of the Secretary of State at Washington, and Mrs. Lincoln. 

Extracted from the minutes, this 3d day of May, 1865. 

WxAI. H. WALSIIAM, Secretary. 



His Excellency the Hon. Axdrew Johnson, 

Fresident of lite United States of America : 

We, the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of Oxford, in council assembled, 
express through you, sir, to our brethren the great American nation, the abhor- 
rence and detestation with \vhich, in common with the whole British nation, and, 
indeed, the whole civilized woild, Ave regard the foul crime by which the late 
President has been deprived of his life, his wife and family of a faitliful and 
loving husband and father, and his country of a true citizen. 

We pray, sir, that under your auspices, the United States may shortly 
be restored to peace, and thus be reinstated in happiness and prosperity. 

Given under our common seal the ISth day of May, 1865. 

[seal.] 



The Chancellor of Oxford to Mr. Adayns. 

St. James Square, May 0, 1865, 
Sir : As chancellor of the University of Oxford, I have the honor of trans- 
mitting to you an address under the seal of the university, unanimously adopted 
by convocation, expressive of their condolence with the government and the 
people of the LTnited States on the calamity which has recently befallen them in 
the assassination of the President ; their abhorrence of the act of the assassination ; 
their friendly feeling towards a kindred nation, and their earnest prayers for the 
restoration of peace and national prosperity to your now suifei ing coiuitry. It is, I 
hope, unnecessary for me to assure your excellency of my entire personal con- 
currence in the sentiments of which I am made the official organ; but the de- 
parture on this occasion by the university from its almost invariable practice 
will afford an additional proof, if any were required, of the strength and genu- 
ineness of the feelings Avhich this atrocious crime and lamentable catastrophe 
have evoked from all classes and all shades of political opinions, from the 
sovereign downward, throughout the whole of the United Kingdom. 

I have the honor to be, with the highest respect, your excellency's most 
obedient servant, 

DERBY. 
His Excellency Hon. Charles Francis Ada.ms, 

]\Ii?ii.ster ff the United States. 



Address to his excellency the envoy extraordinary and minister fl.enipotentiary 
of the United States of America. 
^lay it please your excellency : We, the chancellor, masters, and scholars of the 
University of Oxford, request your excellency to convey to the government and 
people of the United States of America the assurance of our sincere condolence, 
on the occasion of the appalling calamity which has rcceutly befallen your country. 



di4 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

It is not the practice o| this University to notice, in its corporate capacitjj, 
events which do not direcrly affect tlie well-being of our own conntry. But at 
this singular. and lamentable crisis we are conscious of the full force of those 
recollections of the past which must at all times lead the British nation to regard 
with a community of interest the fortunes and destinies of a friendly and a kindred 
people. In accordance with these sentiments, it is the anxious desire of the 
xiniversity to express toyour excellency the abhorrence v/ith which we, together 
with the whole civilized world, regard the assassination of the President of the 
United States. We would also at the same time express, in common with all 
ranks of our countrymen, our earnest hope that by the orderings of a merciful 
Providence the American people may speedily enjoy the restoration of internal 
peace and national prosperity. 

Giv-en at our house of convocation, u.nder the common seal, this fifth day of 
May, in the year of our Lord God 1865. 

[seal.] 



3Iayor's Office, City Hall, 

Ottoica, Ajrril 19, 1865. 

filR : I have the honor to enclose herein a copy of a resolution adopted unani- 
mously by the municipal council of this city, the same being but an imperfect 
expression of the most sincere sympathy of this community towards the Ameri- 
can people, on the melancholy occasion of the recent tragical death of the late 
President of the United States of America at the hands of an assassin. 

I would also beg leave to express my regret at the atrocions attempt made 
npou your own life and others of your family and household, and have great 
pleasure to learn this day by public report of the certain and gradual improve- 
ment in the condition of yourself and those who unfortunately suffered with yon. 
I have the honor to remain your obedient servant, 

M. K. DICKEXSOX, 

Mayor of Ottoiva. 
Hon. WiLLL\Af H. Seward, 

Secretary of State, Wasliington, D. C. 



Resolution of the city of Ottowa. 

Rcsoh-ed, That this corporation deems it its duty to express its sincere regret 
for the untimely and tragical fate of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United 
States of America, which calamitous event has bereft a friendly nation of its 
Chief Magistrate and mankind of a character noble for his integrity and firm- 
ness. And that as an expression of the deep sympathy felt by this com- 
munity for the afiiicted people vv-ho have thus suddenly been deprived of their 
chief ruler, the mayor be requested to order the national ensign to be raised on 
the public buildings of this city, and the citizens of Ottowa are hereby respect- 
fully requested to follow such example. 

[l. s.] M. K. DICKEXSOX, Maijor. 

Certified : WM. P. LETT, City Clerk. 

City Hall, Ottowa, April 19, 1865. 



Excerpt fiom minute of the meeting of the magistrates and commissioners of the 
burgh of Patrick, near Glasgow, Scotland, held upon the 8th day of May, 
in the year 1865. 
Inter alia, it was unanimously resolved, on the motion of Allan Arthur, senior 

magistrate of the burgh — : 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMrATIIY. 315 

That this meeting- desires to express their grief and abhorrence at the crime by 
wliich, in an eventful crisis, the United States of America have been deprived of 
a M'ise and good President, and the l;fe of one of their Secretaries of State has 
been endangered ; their sympatliy with the people of the United States in the 
trying circumstances ; respectful condolence v/ilh the widow and family of the 
late lamented President, Abraham Lincoln; and the hojje that the life of Mr. 
Seward may be spared to his coimtry and to his family. 

And, further, tliis meeting desires to express the fond trust that under the favor 
of Almighty God the blessing of peace m ly soon be restored to those States, so 
long suti'ering the horrors of war. 

That a copy of the foregoing resolution be excerpted from the minutes by the 
clerk to the commissioners, signed by the senior migistrate in th(3 namo of the 
meeting, and sent to his excellency the minister of the United Stales in Loudon. 

ALLAN ArvTIlUR, 
Senior ]SLi gist rate of the Burgh of Patriclc. 
MAT. WALKER, Clerk. 



At PoUokshaws, and within the council chamber there, on Friday, the oth day 
of May, 1865 : 

At a meeting of the magistrates and town council of the Burgh of Polloksliaws — 
present, Provost Austin, Bailie King, Treasurer, Nicol, Counsellors Watson, 
Baird, Mclntire, Mackay. Brownlee, and Steel — the provost in the chair — Pro- 
vost Austin moved that tlie magistrates and town council express their sympathy 
with the community of I he United States of America, and especially with Mrs. 
Lincoln and her family, on the melancholy bereavement they have sustained 
through the assassination of the late President of those States. 

This motion was seconded hy Bailie King, and unanimously agreed to, and 
the clerk was instructed to forward to the American minister in London a copy 
of this minute. 

In respect wherof : 

WILLIAM AUSTIX, Provost. 

I certify that the foregoing is a true copy, 

JOHN KEXAKT, Towi Clerk. 



BOROrOII OF POllT-SMOUTII. 

At a meeting of the council of the borough of Portsmouth, holdeu at the coun- 
cil chamber, tlie 1st day of ^lay, ISGo, 

The mayor having addressed the council in reference to the recent death by 
assassination ot the President of the United States, he moved therein, seconded 
by Louis Arnoldus Vandenberg, esquire, and it was thereujion 

Vvanimoushj resoUed, That this council, representing the feelings of all classes 
in the borough, has heard with the greatest sorrow and indignation of the recent 
death of the President of the United States of America, by the hands ofan assassin 
and of the attempt made at the same time on the life of Mr. Seward, the American 
Secretary of State. And while declaring its abhorrence at these hateful crimes, 
it desires earnestly to express its deep sympathy with the American people in 
the grief and distress into which they have been plunged by those sad and cow- 
ardly events. 

It was then moved by Mr. Aldtrman Scall, seconded by W. G. Chambers, esq., 
and 

Unanimoushj resolved, That the mayor be requested to forward a copy of the 
foregoing resolution to Mr. Adams, the representative of the United States to this 



316 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

country, wiili a request that it may be communicated to the American govern- 
ment, and that the mayor do at the same time offer the sincere condolence of the 
council to Mrs. Lincoln, in her sudden and cruel bereavement. 

Extracted from the minutes of the proceedings of the council of the borough 
of Porlsmouth, the 9th day of Mav, 1865. 

JOHN HOWARD, Toivn Clerk. 



Address of the inovost, magistrates, and town council oj" the lurgh of Paisley, in 

Scotland. 

Sir : That the provost, magistrates, and town council of the burgh of Paisley 
have received the intelligence of the death of his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, 
late President of the United States, by the hand of an assassin, and of the at- 
tempt to assassinate the honorable William H. Seward, an illustrious member of 
his government, with sentiments of detestation and abhorrence. 

That they desire for themselves and the inhabitants of the burgh they repre- 
sent, to express their detestation of these atrocious crimes, whereby the Ameri- 
can nation, by the untimely death of Mr. Lincoln, has been deprived of an 
upright ruler, and the life of Mr. Seward endangered, and of deep sympathy and 
condolence with Mrs. Lincoln in her severe affliction. 

They have also to express their sympathy with the government and people of 
the United States in being deprived of their Chief Magistrate at a momentous 
period of their country's history. 

They would express a hope that the prospects of a returned peace may not be 
impeded by the lamented death of Mr Lincoln, and that the measures to be 
adopted by your government may tend to the restoration of the blessings of peace. 

Signed in our name and behalf, and by our authority, and the common seal of 
the burgh affixed thereto, the sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. 

[SKAL.] DAVID CAMPBELL, 

Pro-ost and Chief 3Iagis(rate oj" Paisley . 

His Excellency the President 

of the United States oj" America. 



Resolutions j^assed at a meeting held hy the toion council of the city of Perth. 

At Perth, and within the Town Hall thereof, Monday, the first d;iy of May, 
eighteen hundred and sixty-five, at ten o'clock, forenoon, sederunt in council — 
John Vetemp, esq , present, lord provost of the city of Perth, &c. — 

On the motion of the lord provost, it was 

Unanimously resolved, That the town council of the city of Perth record the 
heartfelt concurrence with which they and the people of this locality, in common 
with the whole of the Briti.sh nation, reprobate with abhorrence the foul ci-ime 
which has recently been committed in and against the United States of Amei'ica by 
the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, the twice elected President of that great nation ; 
and that the council express their participation in the grief which the sad event 
has universally created. The crime is atrocious from every point of view, emi- 
nently dangerous to society, and deeply distressing to the relatives of the ex- 
alted victim, as well as to the great community over which he presided with so 
much justice, intelligence and ability. 

And resolved, That the council oifer their condolence and sincere expressions 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 317 

of sympathy with the American people and relatives of the deceased President' 
by forwarding an extract of the present resolutions to his excellency the Amer- 
ican ambassador in London. 
Extracted by 

WILLIAM GREIG, 

Joint Town Clerk. 



The Improvement Commissioners of the city of Petcrboro', in the county of 
Northampton, Old England, being the local authority of the city, at their meet- 
ing held on the 2d day of May, 18G5, unanimously passed the following resolu- 
tion : 

Resolved, That this meeting desires to express its grief and horror at the 
cruel assassination of President Lincoln, and the murderous attack upmi 3[r, 
Seward, and to convey to j\L-s. Lincoln and the United States government an 
expression of profound sympathy. 

Signed on behalf of the meeting : 

W. STRONG, Chairman. 



MiLLFiHLD, Peterboro', May 13, 1865. 

Sir : At a public meeting held here on the 12th instant, in the " Assembly 
Rooms," which meeting was called by some working men, (although otliers 
assisted at the meeting,) "to express sympathy with the people of America in 
the sad loss they have sustained in the assassination of President Lincoln,'" the 
following resolutions were unanimously passed. As secretary of the committee 
calling the meeting, I am requested to forward them to you, praying you to 
transmit them to the authorities at Washington : 

Resolved, That this meeting, having lieard of the assassination of President 
Lincoln, desires to express its profound sorrow at, and detestation of, the deed 
by which he was stricken down. 

Resolved, That this meeting desires to condole with ]\Irs. Lincoln in this the 
hour of her sad bereavement, and would earnestly pray that (lod, the " husband 
of the widow," may be graciously pleased to grant her the rich consolations of 
his grace. 

Resolved, That this meeting desires to express to the people of America its 
deep sympathy with them in the irreparable loss they have sustained in one so 
wise, so honest and so generous as Abraham Lincoln, and sincerely hopes that 
the good Avork so gloriously inaugurated by him may be carried on to its final 
issue. 

Allow me to add that the meeting, although not so numerous as it would 
have been but for the severity of the weather, (it had been raining incessantly 
during the whole of the day, and during the time of the meeting,) from 2,50 to 
300 present, was very enthusiastic in its approval of the principles and polity 
of the late lamented President, and rejoiced with joy unfeigned at the over- 
throw of the slaveocracy of the south. 

With deep sympathy for yourself in this trying moment of your country's 
history, 

1 have the honor to be, your obedient servant, 



H. BEECH. 



Hon. Mr. Adams, ^r., Sfc. 



318 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 



PuDSEY, West Leeds, May 4, 1865. 

Tlie local Board of Surveyors for tlie township of Pudsey, West Leeds, in the 
West Riding of the county of York, at thtir public meeting yesterday, passed 
the following resolution with a deep feeling of sorrow : 

Resolved, That this board desires to take this its earliest opportunity to 
record its utter detestation of the atrocious crime of assassination committed at 
Washington, in the United States of America, on the honorable the President 
of the United States, in consequence of which Abraham Lincoln, their noble 
and beloved Chief Magistrate, has lost his life. 

And this meeting wishes to express its profound sympathy with the people 
over which he Avas called to preside, in the grievous and irreparable loss the 
nation has sustained by his death at this critical period of their country's his- 
tory. 

Signed on behalf of the meeting : 

BENJAMIN TROUGHTON, 

Chairman. 

Hon. C. F. Adams, American Minister, London. 



Iiesolutio)i jyasscd in the horough of Preston, in the county of Lancaster. 

At a meeting of the council of the said borough, held on the 27th day of 
April, 1865, present the right Avorshipful Joseph Isherwood, mayor, in the 
chair, it was 

CnanimousJ y resolved, That this council desire to express their utter abhorrence 
of the assassination of the President of the United States of America, and to con- 
dole and sympathize with the American nation upon the loss they have sustained 
through the sudden and lamented death of their President. 

Given under the common seal of the said borough, the day and year above 
mentioned. 

JOSEPH ISHERWOOD, Mayor, [l. s.] 

Robert Ascroft, Toicn Clerk. 



Resolution passed at a public meeting held in Preston on the ^th of May, 1865. 

Resolved, That the inhabitants of Preston, in public meeting assembled, do 
hereby express their deep sorrow and indignation at the atrocious assassination 
of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and the dastardly attempt 
about the same hour on the life of IMr. Secretary Seward, Secretary of State. 
They desire to express their profound sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln in this 
mournful affliction, and with the American government and people in the loss, 
at such a crisis, of one so recently elected a second time to the office of Presi- 
dent. In the state of aftairs consequent upon the recent successes of the federal 
arms, the kindly feeling and the evident anxiety to smooth the way to the 
removal of animosities displayed by President Lincoln in the hour of triumph, 
render his removal, in the opinion of this meeting, a calamity not only to 
America, but to Europe. 

JOSEPH ISHERWOOD, 

Mayor, Chairman. 

His Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States. 



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Address of the Preston Anti-Slavery Society. 
To hi.s Excellency AxnuBW Jon.\so.\, President of the United States: 

Sir: rcrmit us, in tliouglit and feeling, to join with the great lunkitude of 
mourners, and with thein utter our deep f^orrow over the loss of one so nohle- 
heavted, so gx-utle and wise, as the late President of the American republic. 

We are shocked at the atrocious and dastardly mode by whicii so valuable a 
life Avas destroyed, and can only attribute it to the corrnpting- influence of the 
foul system of slavery, which engenders the most cruel and inhuman passions. 
We desire to express and offer, through you, our deep sympathy with the Amer- 
ican government and people in their grief over this cruel deed, which is truly 
the crowning enormity of that catah)gue of crimes committed in the name of 
slavery. Wit\ them we execrate the brutal assault on ]\fr. Seward and his 
sons, and join in gratitude for their spared lives. 

Permit us to hope that *he anti-slavery policy so wisely inaugurated, and so 
firmly executed by your predecessor, may under your governance be practically 
completed, until in America shall be found only the ireedman and the citizen, 
and unjust prejudice disappearing from all classes of society shall follow as a 
shadow the departed form of slavery. 

Our sense of the inestimable worth of the departed checks the disposition to 
congratulate you upon your ascension to the presidential chair; but remember- 
ing your manner of life from your youth up, your steadfastness and sufferings 
on behalf of your convictions, and the gifts with which you have been so liber- 
ally endowed, and have so diligently cultivated, we beg to express our earnest 
hope and confidence that your future career will testify your worthiness of the 
honor and your ability to sustain the responsibility so unexpectedly conferred 
upon you. 

Accept, sir, for yourself and the great republic of America, our best wishes. 
Signed for and on behalf of the Preston Anti-Slavery Societv : 

JNO. McKEAX, President. . 
PtOBT. BEXSOX, Treasurer. 
SARAH J. CLEMESLIA, 
EDWIX COX, 

Honorary Secretaries. 



Address of the Preston Anti- Slavery Society. 
To Mrs. Ll\cOLN : 

Mad.am : We desire not to invade the privacy of domestic sorrow— a sorrow 
into the agony and solitude of which only one— the Divine Comforter— can and 
does fully enter— but we wish to assure you of our sincere and deep sympathy 
by which, in some degree, we share your grief, and of our earnest hope that you 
mav Le sustained in this time of bitter trial by the memory of the Christian 
character and noble life of the late Mr. Lincoln, as also by the universal spnpa- 
thy which his untimely loss has excited, by the general tribute already ottered 
to his wisdom and nobility as the Chief Magistrate of the American repubhc, 
and, above all, by that religious faith which he so truly manifested, and which 
sheds upon his grave the light of a brtt<-r hope exclaiming : " Blessedare the 
dead which die in the Lord ; yea, saith the spirit, for- they rest from their labors 
and their works do follow them." . 

Signed for and in behalf of the Preston Anti-Slavery Society : 
° * •JXO. .AIcKEAX, President. 

IIOBT. BEXSOX, Treasurer. 
SABAII J. CLEMESLIA, 
EDWIX COX, 

Honoranj Secretaries. 



320 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

Sir: Having followed tlie fortunes of tlie federal government and people 
during the terrible war of the last four years with intense and undisguised sym- 
pathy, we cannot now refrain from expressing our profomid and grateful joy iu 
the magnificent triumph which has crowned the northern arms — a triumph 
which, in sealing forever the fate of the most infamous of rebellions, also pro- 
nounces the final doom of the fonlest slavery the world has ever known. A 
triumph, not of arms merely, but of principles — the principles of " liberty, 
equality, and fraternity." Alas, sir, that a nation's joy should be so suddenly 
eclipsed — that a short-sighted malignity, born only of slavery, should rob the 
world of a man so true and noble-hearted, so just yet gentle, so sagacious and 
humane, as Abraham Lincoln. While, sir, we are shocked at this accursed 
deed, and execrate the foul conspiracy of Avhich it formed but a part, we cease 
to be astonished when we remember that the history of the slave power is a his- 
tory of crime and corruption, of satanic cruelty and baseness. Having first 
sought to murder liberty, we do not wonder that its guilt should culminate iu 
the assassination of the great liberator. But, sir, though he dies, liberty sur- 
vives! It lives in the aspirations of a race uprising from beneath the burden of 
centuries of wrong and misery. It is seen emerging from the dismal night of a 
dead past, rejoicing in its native air and the early morn of its I'edemptiou. The 
redeeming sacrifice has indeed been precious, but around its altar stand a chast- 
ened but disenthralled, a puiified and ennobled people, who bow the head and 
exclaim with their martyred chief: " The judgments of the Lord are true and 
righteous altogether;" -'For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but 
the way of the ungodly shall perish." 

We rejoice, sir, that the control and governance of the great. republic should 
in this crisis of its history have been committed to one who, by a long and hon- 
orable career of public seivice, by fidelity to constitutional law and moral con- 
viction, has merited the entire confidence of the American people. In the presence 
of the manifold and great difliculties involved in a state of social and national 
transition, our congratulations upon your ascension to the presidential chair may 
fittingly assume the form of sincere desire and earnest hope that, endowed with 
wisdom and knowledge, strengthened by conscious rectitude and the love of 
truth, you may tread the future as firmly and as nobly as the past, maintaining 
justice, yet delighting in mercy, healing the nation's wounds, and rebuilding her 
waste places, until "peace be in her walls, and joy in all her palaces, her cot- 
tages and halls." 

Accept, sir, for yourself and the American people, this assurance of our sym- 
pathy ill your joy and in your grief, and of our best wishes for your prosperity 
and welfare, and for the maintenance and increase of our mutual amity and 
friendship. 

Signed on behalf of the Preston Union and Emancipation Society : 

JNO. HASLAN, President. 

His Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States. 



We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Pembi'oke, in 
council assembled, are anxious to express to you, as the representative of the 
United States of America, the feelings of disgust and abhorrence with which we 
heard of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, the late President of the United States, 
and more especially at a time when the councils of that great nation required 
the benefit of his valuable services and judgment. 

We also request that you will convey to Mrs. Lincoln and the other members 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 321 

of the fiimih- of tlie late President the expression of our deep and heartfelt sym- 
pathy with tliem under their present bereavement and in tlie irreparable loss 
which tLey have so suddenly sustained; and which feeling of deep sympathy is, 
we believe, universally entertained throughout the United Kingdom. 

We further venture to express our earnest hope that the most friendly feelino-s 
may ever exist between the |)eople of the United States and of this country.* 

Signed on behalf of the mayor and council, and under the corporate seal of 
the said borough, this 9th day of May, 1S6-5. 

[SJ^AL.] JONAS DAWKINS, Mayor. 

To his excellency the Hon 0. F. Adams, 

Minister of the United States of America, resident in London. 



Resolutions of the independent ministers of the counties of Carmarthen, Cardi- 
gan, and Pembrohe on, the death of President Lincoln. 

A resolution passed unanimously at the annual association of the independent 
ministers of the counties of Carmarthen, Cardigan, and Pembroke, he'd at 
Maenclochog, Pembrokeshire, June 6, 1S65, Rev. Evan Lewis Brynberian pre- 
siding ; and also at the annual association of the independent ministers of the 
counties of Glamorgan. IMonrnouth, Radmor, and Brecon, held at Neath, Gla- 
morganshire, July o, 1865, Rev. Dr. Rees, of Swansea, presiding. 
(These two associations represent 289 ministers and 438 churches.) 
That this conference desires to inform our fellow-citizens, and especially our 
fellow-countrymen in America, of our deep interest in the past history and our 
full confidence in the future progress of the United States. That we acknowl- 
edge in the late war the righteous judgment of God on the northern and southern 
I States, and also on Great Britain, in the distress occasioned by the war, and see 
j iu it an instance of retributive providence, as a temporal judgment for the com- 
mencement, continuance, and defence of the polluted system of slavery, rediicing 
the man created in God's image to -the status of the animal. 

That we have jjersonally and socially prayed for the speedy termination of 
the "war in the complete overthrow and everlasting destruction of the slave 
system, and the progress of, liberty and virtue in America. 

That we congratulate the American people on the quashing of the rebellion; 
and desire that they m;iy have wisdom from above in the reconstruction of the 
Union on principles and by laws acknowledging that men of all colors and 
languages are er|ual. 

That in common with the whole civilized world we have felt deeply indignant 
on reading the account of tlie treacherous murder of the benevolent President, 
Abraham Lincoln ; and while dee])ly sym]);ithizing with the sorrowing widow 
so mysteriously bereaved of her husband, and the nation so suddenly deprived 
of her leader, we earnestly pray that that " righteous man has not been taken 
away from the evil to come." 

That Ave see in the whole history of the "irrepressible conflict " between 
slavery and freedom in the States a fresh proof that '.' righteousness exalteth a 
nation, but sin is a reproach to a)iy people." 

And, lastly, we trust that with the restoration of peace there will be a vigorous 
renewal of those philanthropic and religious efforts that have made America so 
conspicuous in the past for moral reformations and religious revivals ; so that 
she may become in the future still more eminent for powerful and more enduring 
revivals, having been freed from the curse of slavery, that defiled with its 
touch everything with which it came in contact ; and that she may be a free 
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322 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

country, living in peace at home and in peace with all other nations, according 
to the wish so beautifully expressed by the ever to be remembered Abraham 
Lincoln on his reiuauguration as President, on the 4th of March, 1865. 

EVAN LEWIS, Chairman. 

THOMAS REES, Chairman. 

SIMON EVANS, Secretary. 

ELLIS HUGHES, Secretary. 



BOROUGH OF PLYMOUTH. 

Record of the mayor, aldermen, and councillors of the borovgh oj" Plymouth. 

We, the mayor, aldermen, and councillors of the borough of Plymouth, in 
council assembled, desire to record our feelings of indignation and sorrow at 
the atrocious crimes by which the .United States of America have been deprived 
of their Chief Magistrate, and the life of a principal officer of state has been 
endangered, and to join our voices in the universal condemnation of the authors 
of these deplorable events. 

AVe desire to tender to the government and people of the United States the 
assurance of our profound sympathy under this great calamity, and to offer to 
the widow of the lamented President our respectful condolence at her bereave- 
ment. We earnestly hope that in this universal sentiment, and the cordial 
recognition which has found so world-wide an utterance of the eminent quali- 
ties and kindly nature of the deceased, they may derive all the consolation 
Avhich human sympathy can impart. 

We confidently trust that the same spirit which was seen to animate Mr. 
Lincoln when arrested in his career will continue to guide the successors to his 
government ; that by a generous and conciliatory policy peace and harmony, 
involving the recognition of justice to all members of the community, may be 
restored to a distracted nation, and that the intimate relations which connect 
this country with the United States of America may be maintained with in- 
creasing friendship and cordiality. 

[SEAL.] CHARLES NORRINGTON, Mayor. 



Resolutions passed at a 'puhlic meeting held at Plymouth, May 3, 1S65. 

At a public meeting held at the Plymouth ]\[echanics' Institute, in aid of the 
freedmen in the United States, Mr. Charles Korrington, mayor of Plymouth, 
presiding, the following resolutions were imanimously adopted : 
Moved by the Rev. H. A. Greaves, and seconded by Mr. Rowe — 
That while this meeting deeply deplores the severe and long-continued war 
in the United States, it records its gratitude to Almighty God that the conse- 
quent manumission of more than two million slaves has prepared the way for 
absolute and universal emancipation. 

Moved by Mr. Alfred Rooker, and seconded by the Rev. J. E. Risk — 
That this meeting, avowing its deep indignation at the recent assassination 
of the President of the United States, desires to express its deep sorrow at the 
mysterious event which has Suddenly deprived the slaves of a prudent benefac- 
tor, and the state of a ruler who had inaugurated a policy of conciliation. 
Moved by the Rev. T. C. Page, and seconded by Mr. S. Elliot — 
That this meeting, considering the sufferings of the freedmen in their transi- 
tion from slavery to freedom, pledges itself to render them such assistance as 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 323 

may tend to mitigate present want and prepare for future prosperity, and that 
gentlemen and ladies' committees be constituted to give effect to this resolution. 
On the motion of Mr. T.-C. Brian, seconded by Mr. T. Nicholson, a vote of 
thanks was accorded to the mayor for his kindness in taking the cliair. Mr. 
Xorringtou having briefly acknowledged the compliment, the meeting closed. 



From the inJiahifatUs of Plaisfoiv, Essex, England, in pMic meeting assembled, 
to the 2>cople of the United tStates of America. 

Permit us, as a small portion of the English nation, to add our sentiments of 
sympathy and sorrow to those felt by you on the recent lamentable events 
which have plunged your whole community into intense grief; 

The base assassination of President Lincoln, with the attempted murder of 
a chief member of your government, is one of those events which merge in com- 
mon unity those minor political differences which are essential to the freedom 
of great nations, but without necessity inferring antagonism. Permit us, there- 
fore, as one with you, to offer our profound sympathy and sorrow, to unite in 
detestation of a crime disgraceful to humanity, and to assure you that the blow 
struck at yourselves recoils on us. 

But, further, we heartily sympathize with that national action which, as ex- 
poiinded by your lamented President, had for its residfc the emancipation of 
slaves, and in the destruction of rebellion the destruction also of that system 
which we believe to have been its moving cause, even if not the prompting 
cause, also, of President Lincoln's assassination and the murderous attack on 
Mr. Seward. That as a united and universally free nation your present posi- 
tion may be unendaugered by recent events and your future course attended by 
increasing stability and glory is our earnest desire, thus expressed through the 
medium of your official representative at St. James. 

Signed, on behalf of the meeting — 

JOHN FOSTEPv, Chairman. 



From the inhahitanis of Plaistoiv, Essex, England, in imUic meeting assembled. 

To Mrs. Lincoln : 

Dear'Madam: Many words in your present grief would be an intrusion. 
"We have expressed in another form our syrapi\^liy with the loss sustained by 
the LTuited States as a nation. Here, and to you, we would only say that, as 
men and women of kindred race to your own, and, therc^fore, of the same Chris- 
tian family, we fully share in the grief felt by those more immediately near to 
you. Distance does not create division in a common sorrow ; may that sorrow 
felt most keenly by yourself be assuaged by the Great Healer, and to his tender 
mercy we affectionately commit you and yours. 

Signed on behalf of the meeting: 

JOHN FOSTER, Chairman. 



Resolutions passed at a meeting of t\e citizens of Port Roivan, province of 

Canada. 

Port Rowax, Apnl 24, 1SG5. 
Sir : In conformity with a numerously signed requisition addressed to John 
B. Hutchinson, esquire, reeve of the towuship of Walsingham, county of Norfolk, 



324 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

and province of Canada, a large and influential meeting was held in the Town 
Hall, in the village of Port Rowan, on the evening of Thursday, the 20th in- 
stant, for the purpose of affording the inhabitants of said township of Walsing- 
hani an opportunity of expressing their sympathy with the American people, 
and of offering their condolence to the late President's afflicted widow in the 
loss of so good a husband and father, and of expressing their abhorrence of the 
treacherous and bloody deed. At which meeting Hugh Mabee, esquire, was 
appointed chairman, and F. A. Hall, esquire, was chosen secretary, when the 
following resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

Moved by Henry J. Killmaster, esquire, and seconded by P. Burnett, esq. — 

jResoh'Cd, That in view of the lamentable occurrence which has taken place 
in the neighboring nation of the United States, by which their Chief Magisti-ate 
has been deprived of life at the hands of a blood-thirsty assassin, we, the inhab- 
itants of the said township of Walsingham, deem it incumbent upon us to offer 
to our mourning neighbors this expression of our sympathy for the great loss 
they have sustained in thus being deprived of a patriot and statesman. 

Moved by John A. Backus, esquire, and seconded by Benjamin Killmaster, 
esquire — 

Resolved, That this meeting desires respectfully to offer their condolence to 
Mrs. Lincoln and her ftimily, and hopes, with the blessing of Cod, they will be 
sustained under this trying bereavement. 

We have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servants, 

H. A. MABEE, Chairfnan. 
F. A. HALL, Secretary. 



Resolution passed at a meeting held hy tlie city council of Quebec. 

City Hall, Quehec, April 22, 1865. 

At a special meeting of the city council, held on the 21st April instant, it 
was — 

Resolved., That this council has learned with the most profound regret the 
death of the honorable Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of 
America, caused by one of the most dastardly outrages recorded in history, 
and that as a token of respect for his memory and of sympathy for the great 
nation with whom we are on friendly terms, and which is now plunged into the 
deepest grief for the loss of its Chief Magistrate by the perpetration of the 
most atrocious murder, this council do immediately adjourn, and that a copy of 
this resolution be transmitted to the American consul. 

Certified : 

L. S. CANNON, City Clerk. 



Resohition of tlie town council of Rochester. 

City of Eochkstkr. 

At a quarterly meeting of the town council of the said city, holden at the 
Guildhall, of and within the said city, on Friday, the twelfth day of May, 
1865— 

Resolved, That we, the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the city of Rochester, 
in council assembled, take this opportunity of giving expression to our extreme 
feelings of horror and regret at the atrocious crime which has been recently per- 
petrated in America, whereby the United States of America have been deprived 
of their President, Abraham Lincoln, who was thus suddenly cut off while hon- 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 325 

estly devoting his best energies to the service of his country, and whereby the 
lives of Mr, Seward and sonie of his ftimily have been endangered, and we de- 
sire most respectfully to convey to the authorities of America our deep and ear- 
nest sympathies with them in the great loss they have sustained, and to express 
the satisfaction which we feel in the intelligence that, under the mercy of God, 
the ultimate recovery of Mr. Seward may reasonably be anticipated. 



At Rothesay, the 8th day of May, 1865, the magistrates and council of the 
royal burgh of Rothesay, in council assembled — 

JJnanimoushi rcsoh-ed, That this council desire to express the feelings of ab- 
horrence and profound grief with which they liave received the painful intelli- 
gence of the assassination of the President of the United States of America. 

That this council heartily sympathize with the people of the United States, 
who, by a detestable and shocking crime, have been suddenly deprived of their 
chief ruler at a momentous crisis in the history of their great country. 

That this council record their high respect for the admirable character of the 
late lamented President Lincoln and their grateful remembrance of his endeav- 
ors, in times of peculiar trial and difficulty, to preserve and cultivate friendly re- 
lations with Great Britain. 

That this council also deeply sympathize with the late President's widow 
and family under their sore bereavement, earnestly praying that they may be 
sustained and comf irted by the Almighty and Merciful Disposer of all events. 

Signed in name and by appointment of the magistrates and council of Rothe- 
say by the provost and chief magistrate of the said roval burgh. 

[seal.] CHARLES DCNCAN. 



At a meeting of the council of the town and borongh of Rochdale, in the 
county of Lancaster, in England, held in the council rooms, Rochdale, on the 
3d day of ]\Liy, 1865, John Latham, esq., mayor, in tlu; chair, it was — 

Resoit-ed unanimousli/. That this council has heard Avith profound regret and 
horror of the dastardly assassination of President Lincoln, and hereby express 
its deepest abhorrence of such a deed, and ils sincere sympathy with the citi- 
zens of the United States, and the widow and family of the late President in 
the great and ii-reparable loss which they have sustained. 

[SEAL.] JOHN LATHAM, Mayor. 



At a public meeting of the inhabitant householders of the borongh of Roch 
dale, in the county of Lancaster, in England, convened by the mayor of the 
said borough, on a requisition to him for that purpose signed by such inhabit- 
ants, held in the public hall in the said borough, on Thursday, the 4th day of 
May, 1865, the mayor in the chair, it was — 

He.soh:ed, That this meeting desires to give utterance to the feelings of grief 
and abhon-euce with which it has heard of the assassination of President Lm- 
coln and the murderous attack u})on Mr. Secretary Seward, and to convey to 
Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Seward, and to the United States government and people an 
expression of its profound sympathy and condolence. 

^ ^ ^ 1 J jQy^ LATHAM, Mayor. 



326 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

At a public meeting held at the Town Hall of Ramsgate, Kent, on Saturday, 
May 6, 1865, the deputy, Thomas Whitehead, esq., J. P., iu the chair, the fol- 
lowing resolutions were unanimously passed : 

Resolfed, That we, the assembled inhabitants of Ramsgate, desire to give 
utterance to the deep indignation and profound sorrow with which we have 
heard of the assassination of President Lincoln, and the murderous attack upon 
Mr. Seward, and to convey to Mrs. Lincoln and to the United States govern- 
ment and people an expression of the warmest sympathy and heartfelt con- 
dolence. 

Resolved, That we desire to add to this expression of deep condolence oiir 
earnest hope that i\r<i wise and merciful counsels of which President Lincoln 
was the expouoiit may speedily crown the dark years now closed by this de- 
plorable event with a lasting peace and firm prosperity. 

THOMAS WHITEHEAD. 



At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Reading, in the county of Berks, 
holden at the Town Hall there on Monday, the 1st day of May, 1805, Charles 
James Butler, esq., mayor, in the chair, the following resolutions were carried 
unanimously : 

Resohx'd, That this meeting, having heard with great sorroAV and indignation 
of the assassination of ]\Ir. President Lincoln, by which the United States have 
been so suddenly deprived of his services, desires to express its utter abhor- 
rence and detestation of the crime, and its sincere sympathy with the people of 
the United rotates uu so trying an occasion, and trusts that the sad event may 
be so overruled as not to be prejudicial to the continued prosperity of the best 
interests of the nation. 

Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing resolution be signed by the mayor on 
behalf of this meeting, and placed in the hands of the Hon. 0. F. Adams for 
transmission to his Excellency the President of the United States. 

Signed on behalf of the meeting : 

CHARLES JAMES BUTLER, 

Mayor. 



THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

Resolution of tlte Rhyl Improvement Commissioners.- 

At the monthly meeting of the Rhyl Improvement Commissioners, held this 
day, the following resolution was unanimously agreed to : 

Resolved, That this meeting desires, before pn icecding to the business of the 
day, to express its detestation of the assassination of Pi-esident Lincoln and of 
the wicked attempt made on the life of the Hon. W^. H. Seward, and to convey 
to Mrs. Lincoln and the people of the United States its deep sympathy with 
them in their loss, and the expression of our hope that our friendly relations 
with the United States may be continued. 

Resolved, That copies of the above resolution be forwarded to the United 
States minister in London for transmission. 

The common seal of the commissioners affixed by order, this 12th day of 
May, 1865. 

jj,P^L 1 JOHN PRYDDERCH WILLIAMS, 

^'' ' '-' Clerk to the Commissioners. 

Town Hall, Rhyl, Rorth Wales. 



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'Excerpt from the minutes of a meeting of commissioners of supply of the county 
of Roxhurg, held at Jedburg, the 1st day of May, 1865. 

The commissioners of supply of the county of Roxhurj:^, at their meeting hehl 
this day, unanimously resolved to record their heartfelt indij^nation at the atro- 
cious murder of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States, and 
the attempt to assassinate Mr Seward, the Secretary of State. They feel as- 
sured that throughout the whole of the States, as in every civilized country, the 
sad event will be equally deplored, and they desire by this resolution to intimate 
their deep sympathy and condolence to the people of the States, and to Mrs. 
Lincoln, under the heavy bereavement which this disgraceful crime has occa- 
sione^d. 

That this resolution be signed by the chairman, on their behalf, and there- 
after transmitted to the American minister in London, with a request tliat the 
eame may be communicated to the people in the States, and to Mrs. Lincoln, in 
such a way as he may think proper. 

WILL. OLIVER RUTHERFORD, 

Chair7nan. 



Tow.\ Hall, Rvde. 

Sir : We, the Ryde commissioners, incorporated by act of Parliament, beg 
to express our great sorrow and indignation at the lamentable assassination of 
your late respected President, whereby the American nation has lost the ser- 
vices of an enlightened ruler and noble minded patriot. 

We respectfully tender through you to his bereaved widow, and to the gov- 
ernment and people of the United States, our heartfelt sympathy on this mel- 
ancholy occasion ; and we sincerely hope that the era of peace, mercy, and lib- 
erty, which your illustrious chief so happily inaugurated, may be carried by his 
successor to a just and satisfactory termination. 

Given under our common seal, this 9th day of May, 1865. 

[sBAL.J THOMAS BASHWOOD, 

Chair?nan rf the Ryde Commissioners. 

His Excellency Hon. C. F. Adams, 

Minister of the United. States to the Court of St. James. 



At a puldic meeting held in the Congregational church, George street, Ryde, 
on Monday, May 1, 1865, the pastor, Rev. George Allan Coltart, in the chair, 
the folluwing resolutions were carried unanimously : 

That this meeting desires to record its horror and indignation at the atrocious 
assassination of President Lincoln; to express its sympathy with the American 
people in this terrible cahimity with which they have been visited, and the de- 
sire that it may be overruled, for the welfare of the whole nation ; and its earn- 
est hope that He who has declared Himself to be the husband of the widow 
may grant His comforting mercies to Mrs. Lincoln. 

That this meeting has heard with the deepest solicitude that millions of those 
who, by the event of the war, have been freed from slavery, are in circum- 
stances of great physical and spiritual destitution; rejoices in the formation of 
organizations called the Freedmen's Aid Societies, intended to supply their 
wants and raise them in the social scale ; and desires to make such contribu- 
tions as may be within the power of its members to assist this good work. 

GEORGE ALLAN COLTART, 

Chairman. 



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Resolutions of the mayor, aldermen, and lurgesses of "flie horovgJi of Sudhury. 

Borough of Sudbury, 
In the counties of Suffolk and Essex. 

At a meeting, or court, being a quarter!}^ meeting of (he mayor, aldermen, 
and burgesses of the said borough, held at the Town Hall there on Friday, the 
5th day of May, 1865 — moved by Samuel Higgs, esq., mayor, seconded, by Mr. 
Alderman Andrews, and 

Unanimously resolved. That the following resolution, on the subject of the 
late lamented assassination of the President of the United States of North 
America, be now adopted by this meeting ; and that a copy thereof, under the 
seal of this corporation, be sent to the Hon Charles F. Adams, the American 
minister, to be forwarded by him to his Excellency the President of the United 
States : 

Resolved, That the members of this council desire to express the horror and 
indignation they have felt at the atrocious crime by which the late excellent 
and much esteemed President of the United States of North America, Mr. 
Abraham Lincoln, has been deprived of life, and the hope they also entertain 
that the great work of pacification, on which his heart was evidently set, may 
not be retarded by his lamented and untimely death. 

Given under the seal of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses. 

[seal.] SAMUEL HIGGS, Mayor, 



We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Stratford-upon- 
Avon, in council assembled, having heard with feelings of indignation and pro- 
found sorrow of the cruel assassination of the President of the United States of 
America, express our heartfelt sympathy with the American government and 
people on this overpowering calamity. We feel deeply grieved at the distress- 
ing affliction and bereavement which has thereby fallen upon Mrs. Lincoln, and 
earnestly pray that she may be sustained in her sad trial, and that comfort and 
support may be afforded her and her family in this their hour of need. 

Tlie murderous attack upon Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State, and the 
frightful crimes of which his house was the scene, have also impressed us with 
the same feelings. Jlay God in his mercy overrule all for the good and wel- 
fare of the American people, and may their future be one of peace and pros- 
perity. 

We respectfully request his excellency Mr. Adams, the American minister, 
to convey this expression of our sentiments to those whom it may concern. 

Given under our common seal, the 3d day of May, in the year of our Lord 
1865. 

[seal.] 



Resolution passed at a meeting of the council of the horougli of Scarborough, in 
the county of York, held in the Town Hall, on Monday, May 8, 1865. 

Resolved unanimously. That this council desires to express its feelings of 
horror and indignation at the assassination of the President of the United States, 
and the barbarous attempt on the lives of Secretary Seward and his son ; and 
also its deep sympathy with the people of the United States, as well as with 
the widow and family of the President, at the great loss they liave sustained. 

Signed on behalf of the council : 

AMBEOSE GIBSON, Maxjar. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 329 



BOROUGH OF SHKEVVSBURY. 

Rcsolutiojis passed at a meeting of tlic mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, in council 
assembled, on the Stk day of May, 186-3. 

That this council desires to record their unanimous concurrence in the feehugs 
of horror, detestation, and regret entertained througliout the length and breadth 
of this kingdom, at the late atrocious murder of the Chief Magistrate of the 
United States of America, and in those sentiments of sorrow and sympathy 
which have already been expressed on this most melancholy event by our most 
gracious sovereign, and by all classes of her subjects, towards the family, the 
friends, and the fellow-countrymen of Mr. President Lincoln. 

That this resolution be duly sealed and signed by the mayor, and transmitted 
to the minister of the United States in this country. 

[seal.] J. GREGORY BRUYNE, Mayor. 



Excerpt from minute of meeting of tlie town council of the royal hurgh of San- 
quhar, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, dated May 10, 1865. 

"The council record that, in common with the whole community, they have 
heard of the death, by assas.^ination, of the President of the United States, with 
feelings of abhorrence of the crime, and profound sympathy for the people of 
the United States in the calamity which they have sustained; andthey express 
their deepest sympathy with Mrs Lincoln and the family of the deceased Presi- 
dent, in the bereavement which they now mourn." 

Certified to be a true excerpt, by 

W. 0. MACQUEEN, Town Cleric. 



Extract fro7n the minutes of a meeting of the council of the borough of St. Al-ban's, 
in the county of Hertford, held the 12th day of May, 1865. 

Resolced unanimously. That this council desires to express, in the name of 
the inhabitants of this borough, their feelings of sorrow and indignation at tlie 
assassination of the President of the United States of America, and to convey 
to the government and people of that country the assurances of their deep and 
earnest sympathy under this most grievous calamity. 

[seal.] B. CAGG, Town Clerk. 



Assassination of President Lincoln. 

Borough of Southamttox, Wednesday, May 3, 1865. 

A meeting of the council of the borough of Southampton was this day held 
at the Audit House, in the said borough, the worshipful the mayor, Thomas 
Bowman, esq., in the chair. 

At this council it was moved by Mr. Alderman Palk, J. P., seconded by ^Ir. 
Councillor Stebbing, J. P., and — 

Unanimo7isly resolved, That this council has heard, with just indignation 
and abhorrence, of the atrocious crime committed against the government and 
people of the United States of America, by the assassination of President Lin- 
coln, and hereby express their deep sympathy and condolence with that people 
at this lamentable termination of a life which, during his presidency, had been 



330 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

devoted, with great .self-sacrifice, to tlie good of tlaose over wliom he was called 
upon to preside as Chief Magistrate. 

The council desire likewise to express their admiration of President Lincoln's 
declared feelings of kindness and mercy upon the occasion of the remarkable 
successes so conspicuous during the latter period of his government, exhibiting up 
to the last sad closing hour of his existence a brilliant example of those humane 
principles which always actuate men of distinguished attainments. 

This council likewise most respectfully tenders to Mrs. Lincoln and family 
their heartfelt sympathy and condolence at the sad and afflictive bereavement 
which they have been called upon to sustain by this detestable and tragic 
event. 

That the foregoing resolution be forwarded to his excellency the American 
minister in London, with a request that he would be pleased to transmit the 
same to the government of his country, and that a copy be forwarded to the 
American consul at this port. 

CHARLES E. DEACON, Toivii Oerk. 



Borough of Salford, in tJte County of Lancaster. 

At a meeting of the council of the said borough, held on the 3d day of 
May, 1865, Wright Turner, esq., mayor, in tlie chair, it was, upon the mo- 
tion of the mayor, seconded by Mr. Alderman Davis, 

Resolved, That this council desires to give utterance to the feelings of grief 
and hoiTor.with which it has heard of the assassination of President Lincoln 
and the murderous attack upon Mr. Seward, and to convey to Mrs. Lincoln, 
and the United States government and people, an expression of its profound 
sympathy and heartfelt condolence. 

WRIGHT TURNER, Mayor. 
GEORGE BRETT, Tou-n Clerk. 



At Stirling, the itlt day of May, 1865. 

Which day the magistrates and town council of the burgh of Stirling being 
convened, inter alia, the provost moved that the magistrates and town coun- 
cil resolve to record their profound sorrow and indignation with which they 
and the whole community of Stirling have heard of the atrocious assassina- 
tion of President Lincoln, of the United Statee of America, their respect for his 
private and public character, their admiration of his moderation and. concilia- 
tion in the hour of success and triumph, and their deepest sympathy with the 
people of the United States under the terrible calamity which has befallen 
them. Which motion was unanimously agreed to, and the clerk was instructed 
to send a copy of this resolution to the American ambassador in London. 

Extract from the records of said burgh, by 

THOMAS L. GALBRAITH, 

Toivn Clerk. 



Stirling, May 1, 1865. 
Sir : We, the Commissioners of Supply and landed proprietors of the 
county of Stirling, in annual meeting assembled, wish to express to you, and 
through you to the people and government of America, our horror and detesta- 
tion of the great crime committed in the base and cruel murder of the Presi- 
dent of the United States. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. o31 

We feel the deepest .sympathy for the loss wliich a people so nearly con- 
nected with our own nation has sustained in the unnatural death of a ruler so 
good and so honest, at a time when his value had come to be so thoioughly 
known and so highly appreciated, not only at home, but throughout the rest 
of the civilized world. 

AVe pray that God may so direct events that this dreadful crime may not 
prevent peace, freedom and good government from being soon established in 
your mighty country. 

Signed, in name and by appointment of the meeting, by Alexander Graliam 
Speirs, of Culcrench, convener of the county. 

A. G. SPEIRS. 
His Excellency Hon. Charles Francis Adams, 

Knvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 

of the United States of America, at London. 



At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Stalybridge, in the 
counties of Lancaster and Chester, duly convened by his worshipful the mayor, 
and held in the Town Hall in the borough of Stalybridge, on Friday, the 5th 
day of May, 1865. James Sidebottom, esq , mayor, in the chair, it was 

TJnanimously resolved. That this meeting would convey the expression 
of its heartfelt feelings of sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln, together with the 
government and people of America, unfler their great affliction, and would hail 
with delight the carrying out of the conciliatory policy indicated by the late 
President, and the restoration of peace upon a just and enlightened basis. 

JAMES SIDEBUTTOiAI, Mayor. 



Sunderland, May 2, 1865. 
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Sunderland, in the county 
of Durham, the right worshi[)ful the mayor hi the chair, it Avas — 

Unanimously resolved, That this meeting expresses its profound horror and 
detestation of the assassination of President Lincoln, and the murderous attack 
upon Mr. Seward. That it believes the death of the President at this great crisis 
of American history is an unspeakable loss to the people of America, and at the 
same time to the people of England and to humanity at large. That this meet- 
ing desires to convey to Mrs. Lincoln, and to the United States government and 
people, its deepest sympathy and heartfelt condolence. 

^ "^ ^ EDWARD T. GOURLEY, 

Mayor of Sunderland and Chairman of the Meeting. 



Stapleiiurst, May 2, 1865. 

Honored Sir: Amid the numerous expressions of smitow, indignation, and 
Bympathy which you are now receiving from the metropolis and eliief towns of 
Great Britain, in reference to the assassination of President Lincoln, be pleased 
also to receive one from the village of Staplehurst, in Kent. 

At a public meeting held last evening it Avas — 

Resolved, That this meeting regards with intense horror and indignation the 
assassination of President Lincoln, and desires to express its sympathy with 
Mrs. Lincoln, the government, and the people of America in their severe trial. 

Resolved, That this meeting expresses its sympathy with Mr. Andrew Johnson 



332 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

in the responsible oifice to Avhicli he is thus suddenly called, and sincerely hopes 
he may be able so tu conduct the affairs of the country as to complete the eman- 
cipation of the slave, and secure the establishment of permanent peace. 
I am, sir, with much respect, yours most obediently, 

JOHN JULB, Cliairvian. 
His Excellency Mr. Adams, 

United States Ambassador. 



Stewarton, Ayrshire, N. B., May 6, 1S65. 

1. Resolved, That the inhabitants of Stewarton, in public meeting assembled, 
have heard with grief of the assassination of President Lincoln, and do hereby 
express their unmitigated horror of the crime which has so suddenly deprived the 
United States of America of an upright and honored ruler. 

2. We embrace this opportunity of assui-ing the citizens of the United States 
of our deep and earnest sympathy with them under this grievous dispensation. 

3. We also sympathize most deeply with Mrs. Lincoln and the family of the 
late President, and earnestly pray that they may be sustained under the terrible 
affliction which has befallen them, and that their personal loss may, in the provi- 
dence of God, become a national gain. 

A. POLLOCK, {Teacher,) 

Chairman. 



Resolutions passed vnanhnously at a rneeting of the inhabitants of St. Helens, 
Lancashire, convened in compliance with a numerously signed requisition, 
and held at Volunteer Hall, St. Hetens, on the 2d of May, 1865. 

1. Resolved, That the inhabitants of St. Helens, in public meeting assembled, 
do hereby express their strongest feelings of abhorrence and indignation at the 
atrocious assassination of the President of the United States, and also at the 
dastardly attempt upon the life of Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State. 

2. That this meeting hereby records its deepest sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln 
and her family under their present heart-rending bereavement, and trusts that 
the universal condolence of all the rightminded and virtuous throughout the 
world may be some solace to them in their grievous affliction. 

3. That this meeting desires to convey to the people of the United States an 
expression of heartfelt sympathy in the loss they have sustained by the cruel 
death of their most excellent President. 

ROBERT McNIOOLL, Chairman. 



Resolutions paf^sed at a public meeting of the inhabitants of the toiim and 
borough of Stroud, hehl at the Subscription Rooms, Stroud, on Friday even- 
ing, the bth of May, 1865. 

First resolution. — That this meeting desires to record the sentiments of grief 
and horror with which it regards the assassination of President Lincoln and 
the attack upon Mr. Seward ; to offer its sincere condolence with Mrs. Lincoln 
and her family, and to express its deep sympathy with the American people in 
their great calamity. 

Second resolution. — That this meeting hopes the government of the United 
States will ever be animated by the spirit of moderation and conciliation which 
characterized the late President, and that the deplorable struggle in which the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 333 

people Lave been so long engaged may be bronglit to an early conclusion, and 
result m the freedom and lia])pincss of all the American people. 

T/iird resoluthf/.— That the chairman be n^quested to forward the foreooino- 
resolutions to the Hon. Mr. Adams, the American minister in England, a^s the 
expression of the feelings of the inhabitants of this town and borough in public 
meeting assembled. 

' S. S. DICKINSON, C/Hunnan. 



licsohit ions passed at a meetins; held lylle hiliahitants of tic borough of South 

Shields. 

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of South Shields, in the 
county of Durham, duly convened by his worship the mayor at the request of 
the town council, and held on the 10th of May, 1865, William James, esq., 
mayor, in the chair, the following resolutions were unanimously passed, viz : 

1. On the motion of James C. Stevenson, esq., seconded by the Hev. Eobert 
E. Hoopell : That the dastardly and wicked crimes so recently perpetrated in 
the United States of America by the assassination of the President and the 
cowardly attack upon Mr. Seward, the Secretary, have been received with horror 
and indignation by the people of this country from one end of the kingdom to 
to the other, a feeling in which the inhabitants of this, the borough of South 
Shields, most sympathetically concur, in common with the Crown, the Parlia- 
ment, and the people at large. 

2. Upon the motion of James Mather, esq., seconded by Mr. Alderman 
Glover : That great as the loss of their President would have been to the United 
States at any period of the civil strife in which that country has been so un- 
happily engaged, it is especially now to be deplored, in the present eventful 
crisis of the contest, when, by his experience, moderation, char.icter, and pru- 
dence, the pain and animosity engendei-ed by the war might have been allevi- 
ated, and its attendant exasperation tempered and removed, to the probable 
advantage and satisfaction not only of the northern but the southern States. 

3. Upon the motion of the Rev. Samuel B. Brasher, seconded by Mr. Alder- 
man IMofiPett : That therefore these the sentiments and resolutions of the meeting, 
and the sympathy of the inhabitants of South Shields with the government 
and people of the United States on their sad deprivation, be conveyed by the 
mayor to Mr. Adams, the American minister in Loudon, for transmission through 
him to the proper authority in America; accompanied at the same time with an 
offer of our heartfelt condolence to the indiapi)ily bereaved widow of the mur- 
dered President on the irreparable loss which she has sustained, under circum- 
Btances of such sudden and peculiar atrocity. 

WM. JAMES, Mayor, 



Rcsolutioyis passed at a meeting held, hy the inhahitants of Southport. 

At a public meeting. of the iidiabitants of Southport, held in the Town Ilall, 
on Saturday, the 6th day of May, 1865, Samuel 13oothroyd, esq., chairman of 
the Southport Improvement Commissioners, in the chair, the requisition and 
notice calling the meeting having been read by the clerk to the commissioners, 
it was moved by the Rev. B S. Clarke, seconded by W. G. Talbot, esq , sup- 
ported by the Rev. J. C. Millson and AY. Hattiwell, esq., and carried unani- 
monslj — 

That the inhabitants of Southport, in public meeting assembled, would record 
their deep abhorrence and indignation at the cruel and cowardly assassination 



334 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

of President Lincoln and the mnrderous attack upon Mr. Secretary Seward and 
liis son. 

That this meeting hereby expresses its sincere sympathy with the people of 
the United States in the great loss they have so tmexpectedly sustained in the 
death of their Chief Magistrate, and its earnest hope that the fearful war which 
has been carried on for four years in that country may speedily be brought to 
an end. • * 

That this meeting respectfully tenders to Mrs. Lincoln its heartfelt condo- 
lence in the deep sorrow into which she and h r family are plunged by this 
awful occurrence. 

Moved by the Rev. John Chater, seconded by R. Craven, esq., and carried 
unanimously — 

That the preceding resolution be engrossed, signed by the chairman of the 
meeting, and forwarded to the Hon. Mr. Adams for presentation to the Ameri- 
can government, and to Mrs. Lincoln, the bereaved widow of the late President. 

SAMUEL BOOTHROYD. 



The undersigned, inhabitants of the town of Selby, desires to give expression 
to the feelings of horror, regret, and indignation with which they have heard 
of the assassination of President Lincoln, and of the attempt on the life of Mr. 
Secretary Seward. 

The undersigned wish to convey the assm-ance of their deep sympathy with 
the people and government of the United States under the death of one whose 
character had won the respect and admiration of both friends and enemies, and 
of their heartfelt condolence with Mrs. Lincoln on the irreparable loss which 
she has sustained. 

They also desire to express their satisfaction at the prospect of a speedy re- 
turn of peace, to be accompanied by the extinction of negro slavery in America. 

JAMES ANDUS, Justice of Peace. 

HENRY GREEXE, Curate m Charge. 

CHARLES WILDHOX, Curate. 

JOHN RHODES, Wedei/an Mi?iister. 

GEORGE ABBOTT, Weslei/an Minister. 

JOHN D. JULIAN, Wesleijan Minister. 

PARKINSON MILLSON, Primitive Methodist Minister. 

DAVID COLE, Independent Minister. 

ROBERT MONELL, Bank Manager. 

WM. SWENSEDGE, Jr., Merchant. 

And two hundred and sixty other names. 



Ac a public meeting held in St. Catharine's, presided over by William 
Eccles, esq., mayor, the folloM'ing resolutions were unanimously passed : 

Moved by Dr. T. Mack, seconded by Rev. Dr. Cooney — 

That we feel it to be our duty to express our heartfelt sympathy with our 
neighbors of the American Union in the great loss they have sustained by the 
untimely death of their beloved President, the late Abraham Lincoln. 
^, Moved by Rev. Mr. Burns, seconded by Rev. Mr. Morton — 

That we recognize with religious awe and humble submission the will of the 
Almighty in permitting such a man, at such a time, to fiill by the hand of an 
assassin. 

Moved by Delas Beadle, esq., seconded by Rev. Mr. Gary — 



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That his virtues as a private citizen, his ability, benevolence, and sterlin'^' 
integrity as the head of a great people make his loss a calamity not to the 
United States alone, but to the whole brotherhood of civilized nations. 
Moved by Hon.' J. G. Currie, seconded by iiev, JMr. Howard — 
That united as we are with the American people by the ties of kindred, and 
by social and commercial intercourse, it is our earnest desire and our fervent 
prayer that " He by whom kings reign and rulers decree justice" may direct 
the counsels of the government of the United States and of our own empire 
so that the pacific policy jiropounded by the late President may be pursued^ 
and that peace and amity between these two great Christian nations may be 
perpetuated. 

Moved by Rev. Mr. Holland, seconded by James R. Benson, esq — 
That we deeply sympathize with the family and relatives of the deceased 
President in their sad and unexpected bereavement ; and that the following 
gentlemen be a committee to forward an address of condolence to Mrs. Lincoln, 
accompanied by a copy of the resolutions adopted at this meeting, viz : Hou. 
J. G. Currie, James R. Benson, and the mayor. 



Address of the Inhahitants of St. Catharine's. 

St. Catharine's, Canada, AprU 22, 1S65. 

Madam : On behalf of a large and influential public meeting of the inhabit- 
ants of this town, we beg to enclose you the accompanying resolutions, and de- 
sire to address you in this hour of trial and sorrow, and to tender you the 
heartfelt sympathy of our people for the great and irreparable loss you have 
recently sustained by the sad and sudden death of your late husband, the Presi- 
dent of the United States. 

In comm.on with the people of this province, we have ever admired the 
ability, benevolence, sterling integrity, and private M^orth of your deceased 
husband, and we feel that while it has pleased Almighty God in His wisdom, 
by the hand of death, to deprive you of a kind husband, and your fomily of 
an affectionate parent, the United States have lost a prudent counsellor, and we 
Lave also to mourn the loss of one whose earnest desire it always was to pro- 
mote the cause of humanity, and so strengthen the ties of friendship between 
the United States and the British empire. 

We earnestly pray that the God of j!l grace, the Father of the fatherless, 
and the Comforter of all that are cast down, may restore you at an early day 
to bodily health, and vouchsafe to you and family that consolation which he has 
promised in seasons of trial, and that strength which will enable you to bear 
this heavy affliction which it has pleased Him to send. 
We luive the honor to be vours, respectfullv, 

WM. ECCLES, Mayor. 
J. (k CUR K IK, M. S. a 
J. R. BENSOX. 

Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, Washington. 



Copy of resolutions passed at a piihlir meeting oftlie citizens of the town of Sher- 
hrookc, province of Canada, on Wednesday, the I'dth day of April, 1865. 

Sherhrooke, Canada East, April 19, 1865, 
Resolved, That this meeting is shocked at the fearful tragedy which took 
place at Washington, the capital of the United States, on Friday night last, in 
the fiendish and dastardly murder of the honorable Abraham Lincoln, President 



336 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

of tlie United States, and filled v/itli the most painful emotions that a man hold- 
ing so high a position, upon whose life so many hopes were resting, and whose 
character was such as to give promise of so much good, should fall by the hands 
of a bi'utal assassin^ in the presence of a peaceful audience. 

Resolved, That we sincerely sympathize with the widow and family of the 
late President in the sudden and unexpected death of one so near and dear to 
them ; who amidst the unceasing cares and responsibilities devolving on him as 
the ruler of a great nation, at the same time retained those social and domestic 
Qualities which so endeared him to his family, and to all those privileged with 
meeting him in the social circle. 

Resolved, That we deeply feel for and deplore the los"^ our friends and neigh- 
bors in the adjoining republic have sustained in the removal of their Chief Ma- 
gistrate — a man eminently qualified for his high position, and combining in his 
person those characteristics which, at the present critical juncture of their national 
affairs, rendered him, under Almighty God, the instrument of great good to their 
country. 

Resolved, That we t. iit the m.ysterious dispensation of Almighty God, in 
permitting at this juncia. • i i aifairs in the United States the removal of Abra- 
ham Lincoln by the hand of death, will be so ord.red and overruled as not to 
prove detrimental to the best interests of the republic, and that although the 
leading instrument in the conduct of affairs during their present unhappy strug- 
gle to an issue giving promise of peace has been removed from his high position, 
the progress of true freedom will be onv/ard, and the principles of liberty per- 
petuated throughout the length and breadth of the land. 

Resolved, That as Canadian citizens connected with the British empire, we 
but express, we believe, the opinion of all our fellow subjects in deploring the 
removal of Abraham Lincoln 'at this present important epoch in the world's his- 
tory, believing him to be desirous of maintaining friendly relations with other 
nations ; and that, in connecljion with the honorable Mr. Seward, he was prepared to 
promote and advance the best interests of the world, by endeavoring to per- 
petuate the good feeling and friendly intercourse which have so long existed 
between the United States and European powers. 

Resolved, That we feel grateful for the kind interposition of Almighty God 
in preventing the cowardly assassination of the honorable Mr. Seward and his 
gon, on the evening of Friday last, and trust that their lives will be spared to 
prove a blessing to their countxy in carrying forward to completion those plans 
inaugurated by their late President for the restoration of peace, and the re-es- 
tablishment of liberty on a firm basis. "• 

Resolved, That the mayor of this town, as chairman of this meeting, be re- 
quested to forward a copy of these resolutions to Washington on behalf of the 
citizens of Sherbrooke. 

J. G. FvOBEHTSON, Mayor. 



St. Thomas, Canada West, Aivil 19, 1865. 

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of St. Thomas, Canada West, on Wed- 
nesday, the 19th of April, I860, the mayor, Thomas Arkell, esq., presided, and 
the fillowiiig resolutions were passed unanimously. 

The meeting was opened by religious services, in which the ministers of dif- 
ferent denominations took part. 

1. Moved by Doctor Southwick, ex-M. P. P., seconded by the Reverend Doc- 
tor Caulfield, that we, the mayor and inhabitants of St. Thomas, in public meet- 
ing assembled, hereby declare our unutterable horror at the crime by which the 
valuable life and labors of the late excellent President of the United States were 
so dreadfully closed. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 337 

2. Moved by Daniel Harvey, esq., seconded by bis bonor Judge Ilugbes,. 
tbat we regard tbe assassination of President Lincoln and tbe diabolical assault 
on Secretary Seward as indelible stains upon tbe civilization of tbe age, and a 
special disgrace to our race and language. 

3. Moved by Sheriff Munro, seconded by tbe Reverend Mr. Cutbbertson, 
that we desire to express our sincere sympathy with tbe people of the United 
States in the great and awful loss whicli they have sustained by tbe murder of 
their President — an act which has this day draped tbat nation in mourning, and 
will cause a shudder of horror to run through every civilized nation in tbe 
world. 

4. Moved by the Reverend Mr. Ames, seconded by W. E. Murray, esq., of 
Aylmer, that we express our deepest sympathy with the widow and family of 
President Lincoln, in their severe bereavement. 

5. Moved by Coliu McDougald, esq., seconded by Mr. Ilodge, that the pro- 
ceedings of this meeting be engrossed and forwarded to the British ambassador 
at "Washington, and published in the local newspapers, the London Free Press, 
and the Globe and Leader, of Toronto. 

6. Lloved by C. D. Paul, esq., seconded by Nelson Moore, esq., tbat the 
mayor leave the chair and Doctor Soutbwick take the same. 

The thanks of tbe meeting were then given to the mayor, and the meeting 
was closed by the Reverend Doctor Caulfield pronouncing the benediction. 

THOMAS ARKELL, Mayor, Chairman. 
Thomas Hodge, Secretary. 



At a meeting of the town council of the borough of Sheffield, held ou the 3d 
day of vMay, 1865, it was 

Una)iimo2isly resolved. That this council unites in the universal expression of 
indignation and profound sorrow at tbe assassination of Mr. Lincoln, the late 
President of the United States of America, and desires to record its horror and 
"detestation at tbe treasonable and wicked act which has deprived that country 
of so able and good a man, at a time when bis services were so important ; and 
to express its entire sympathy with the government and people of the United 
States of America. 

This council also desires to convey the expression of its deepest sympathy 
to Mrs. Lincoln and family, and begs sincerely to condole Avith them in their 
heavy bereavement. 

[l. s.j THOMAS JESSOP, Mayor. 



Resolution passed at a meeting held by the inhabitants of the borough of 

Sheffield, England. 

At a meeting of tbe inhabitants of the borough of Sheffield, in the county of 
York, England, held on Monday, May 1, J 865, Thomas Jessop, esq., in tbe 
chair, it was 

Unanimously resolved, Tbat this meeting condemns in tbe strongest possi- 
ble sense tbe dastardly and cruel murder of Presidc-nt Lincoln, in the hour of 
his clemency, and records its utmost abhorrence of the atrocious miscreants who 
planned and the wretches who perpetrated tbe liideous, detestable and unpar- 
alleled crime ; and tbat tbe Right Honorable Earl Russell be requested to trans- 
mit this resolution, in the manner most befitting tbe occasion, to tlie government 
and citizens of tbe United States, assuring them of the profound and sincere 
regret of tbe inhabitants of Sheffield at tbe bereavement, and their lirm hope 
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338 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

that, as in the past, so Avith this sad occurrence, the United States will show by 
their calmness, wisdom, and energy, that though of appalling magnitude, their 
loss is not irretrievable. 

THOMAS JESSOP, 

Mayor and Chairman. 



Address of the inhahitants of Sheffield, England. 

Sheffield, Exgland, May 1, 1865. 

Madam : The inhabitants of Sheffield, in public meeting assembled, beg per- 
mission to approach you in the hour of your grief, to assure you how deeply 
and tenderly they sympathize with you in your great sorrow. 

They are mournfully reminded of the bereavement of their own beloved 
sovereign, and are well aware that time alone can heal the deep and terrible 
wound which has been inflicted upon you. 

Without trespassing further upon the sanctity of your sorrow, they desire 
to express the fervent hope that you may find consolation in the contemplation 
of the noble and righteous life of him who has been so suddenly taken away, 
in the thought that his influence over the minds of his countrymen, and his 
power to promote the great cause for which he would willingly have died, has 
been increased by his tragical martyrdom ; and, above all, in the love of that 
God whom he served, and who has promised "to comfort all them that mourn," 
" to be the Father of the fatherless and the husband of the widow." 

Signed on beha:lf of the meeting: 

THOMAS JESSOP, 

Mayor a?id Cha'rman. 

Mrs. Lincoln, 

Widow of his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, 

late President of the United States of America. 



THE LATE PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

Ptihlic Sympathy. — Sheffeld Chamhcr of Commerce. 

At a meeting of the council of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and 
Manufactures, held at the office of the chamber the 27th of April, 1S65, the 
president (Robert Jackson, esq.) in the chair, it was moved by Joshua Moss, 
esq., seconded by W. C. Corsan, esq., and resolved — 

That the council take this the earliest opportunity of expressing, in the 
strongest terms, the horror and disgust which they feel at the outrage recently 
perpetrated in Washington, in consequence of which his excellency President 
Lincoln has lost his life, and the lives of Mr. Secretary Seward and other per- 
sons of distinction have been greatly endangered, if not actually destroyed. 

That the council beg also to express their deep sympathy with the Ameri- 
can people in the loss, at such a crisis, of one so recently selected for a second 
time to fill the office of President. In the state of affairs consequent upon the 
recent successes of the federal arms, the kindly feeling and the evident 
anxiety to smooth the way to the removal of animosities displayed by Presi- 
dent Lincoln in the hour of triumph render his removal, in the opinion of this 
council, a calamity to all sections of the community. 

That in thus giving expression to their feelings of disgust and abhorrence at 
the crime which has been committed, and their sympatliy with the American 



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SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 339 

people, the council are convinced that they are giving utterance to the feelings 
which these terrible occurrences have excited in the breast of the whole British 
nation. 

ROBERT JACKSON, 

President of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce. 



Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, April 29, 1865. 
Dear Sir : I am directed by the Cutlers' Company to send you the accom- 
panying resolution passed yesterday by the company on the assassination of 
Mr. President Lincoln, and have to request that you will forward it to the pro- 
per quarter. 

I am, dear sir, yours faithfully, 

CHARLES ATKINSON, 

Master Cutler. 
C. J. Abbot, Esq., American Consul, Sheffield. 



Resolved, That this company desires to express its deep sorrow and indigna- 
tion at the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, President of the United States, and to 
record, in common with the whole British nation, its profound sympathy with 
the government and people of America at the very serious .loss they have 
sustained by the atrocious crime which has just been perpetrated. 



Address of the Sheffield Secular Society. 

Honored Madam : From this country there will reach you addresses of 
condolence and respect from all classes. The English nation has spoken with 
one voice of deep and sincere sympathy for the fate of your illustrious husband, 
of detestation of the vile and cowardly murderer who struck him down, and 
of grief for the bitter bereavement you have sustained. From the Queen upon 
our throne, from the leaders of our parliamentary parties, from our municipal 
and public bodies, down to the humblest associations, there has gone forth the 
most earnest and unanimous expression of sorrow for the deplorable loss the 
great American republic has suffered, in the violent death of its eminent and 
honored President ; and the Sheffield Secular Society desires to put upon record, 
and to convey to you and to your family, its sincere concern for this the most 
gi-ievous event of our times. Our principles teach us to_ regard reason and 
liberty as the two great forces of political progress. We are attached to that 
great doctrine of democracy which regards the whole people as entitled to equal 
conditions of personal improvement, of social prosperity and civil equality,- 
and when the head of the great American federation, which represents these 
principles, is struck down, we regard it as a crime against humanity and the 
liberties of the human race. 

Another reason why we regret the fate of Mr. Lincoln, and why we honor 
his memory, is, that Mr. Lincoln not only rose from the people, but he exalted 
the people among whom he arose. His career is a historic proof that industry 
applied to study, animated by honesty, sustained by patience and perennial good 
will, may result in a commanding capacity, placing the possessor on a level with 
the most distinguished statesmen of Europe, and higher than any king. The 
courage, persistence and moderation with which be advanced, and the impassable 



340 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

heroism with which he became the deliverer of the slave, crowned his life with 
a kinglier glory than any which attaches to any name in the history of men. 
We trust that these considerations, which the h^rt of the English nation 
ratifies, will be to you and to your family some consolation in this hour of your 
sorrow. 

We are, honored madam, your sincere friend?, 

JAMES DODWORTH, President. 
GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE. 
H. WM. BELLS. 
(Signed on behalf of the Sheffield Secular Society.) 

Mrs. Lincoln. 



Resolution of the provost, magistrates and town council of the royal hurgh of 

Selkirk. 

To the President of the United States of America : 

We, the provost, magistrates and town council of the royal burgh of Selkirk, 
for ourselves, and as representing the community of the said burgh, beg to 
express our feelings of abhorrence in regard to the assassination of President 
Lincoln, and our sympathy with the American people imder the loss they have 
sustained by the sudden and violent death of the head of their government. 

Signed by the magistrates, by authority of the town council, and the seal of 
the burgh affixed, this 11th day of May, 1865. 

r . • JOHN JOHNSTON, Provost. 

i^^^^\ THOMAS DALYLEISH, Bailie. 

GEORGE LEWIS, Bailie. 

JAMES MILLAR, Dean of Guild. 

BASIL HENDERSIN, treasurer. 



Resolution of the nohlemcn, ^gentlemen, and Com?nissioncrs of Supply of the 
county of Selkirk in public meeting assemhled. 

Resolved, That this meeting do record an expression of heartfelt sorrow and 
indignation with which they have heard of the assassination of Mr. Abraham 
Lincoln, the President of the United States of America, feeling assured that an 
event so terrible in its nature, and so calamitous to the people whose chief man 
has been thus suddenly cut off, has excited sentiments of the deepest horror and 
commiseration, not in this kingdom only, but in every civilized country through- 
out the world. They decire to convey this expression of their individual sym- 
pathy to the people of the United States, as well as to the widow and family of 
the late President ; and for that purpose they authorize their chairman to sign 
the present resolution, in their name and on their behalf, and to transmit the 
same to his excellency the American minister in London, with a request that 
he will communicate it to the government of the United States and to Mrs. 
Lincoln in suchway and manner as he may think proper. 

Signed in name and by appointment of the meeting, by 

R. WAITT, Ghairvuin, 

In the limits of Selkirk, 

May 1, 1865 



' SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 341 

Resolutions adopted at a meeting of the corporation of Sligo, held on Thursday 
the ith day of May, 1865. 

Resolved, That we, llie members of tlie corporation of Sligo, in council 
assembled, hereby tender our moet profound S3aiipathy to the President and 
people of the United States of America on the great loss sustained by them in 
the death of their late President, Abraham Lincoln, and that we regard the 
means by which his, life was sacrificed, with horror and indignation. 

Moved by Aldernvan Lyons ; seconded by Alderman McGill. 

ResoU-ed, That the resolution this day adopted be suitably engrossed and 
signed by tbe mayor, with the corporation seal attached thereto, and forwarded 
to the American minister at London for presentation to the American govern- 
ment. 

Moved by Councillor Gillmor; seconded by Councillor Doherty. 

[^^EAL.] W. A. WOODS, /. P., 

Mayor of Sligo. 

S. Whittaker, Town Clerk. 



Extract fro7n minutes of proceedings of the Board of Guardians at their meeting 
9th (f May, 1865, the right honorable John Wy?me, P. C, in the chair. 

Notice having been given on last board day by H. Griffith, esq., D. L., that 
an address of sympathy and condolence to the American government and people 
on the late atrocious murder of President Lincoln, and attempted murder of Mr. 
Secretary Seward, be prepared and forwarded for presentation, it is this day 

Unanimously resolved, That having heard with feelings of the deepest regret the 
great loss which the American nation have sustained in the death of their late 
President, Abraham Lincoln, whose honesty, courage, and perseverance in the 
fulfilment of the duties of the high position he occupied have gained the highest 
respect and esteem for him, even among those who may have differed from him 
on questions of state policy, and by whom terms of conciliation tending to an 
honorable peace with the southern portion of the States so anxiously awaited in 
these countries were about to be perfected, we desire to express our heartfelt 
sympathy with the American government and people, and our deep abhorrence 
of the atrocious murder committed, as well as of the attempted murder of Mr. 
Seward ; and we also tender our sincere condolence to the bereaved widow, 
Mrs. Lincoln, and to the family of Mr. Seward, and add our earnest prayer that 
the death of the brave, good man, who has died for his country, may be the last 
sacrifice of a war apparently about to expire, and that peace, on a substantial 
basis, may speedily follow. 

JOHN WYNNE, Chairman. 
, DAVID CLARK, Clerk of Union. 

Board PiOom, Sligo, May 10, 1865. 



Stourbridge resolutions. 

Moved by Mr. Henry Hughes, seconded by Mr. William Rollinson, and 
carried unanimously — 

That this meeting, on behalf of itself and the inhabitants of the town of 
Stourbridge, takes this opportunity of giving expression to its feelings of con- 
dolence and sympathy with the family of the late President of the United 
States of America and the nation at large on the occurrence of that great ca- 
lamity to themselves and to the whole civilized world, by the asaassiuation of 
their able, beloved, respected, and revered Chief Magistrate. 

Stourbridge, May 1, 1865. 



342 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. ' 

Stourhridge Union. 

^Moved by Mr. Chance, seconded by Mr. Wood, and carried unanimously — 
That this board has heard with the deepest regret of the assassination of 
Abraham Lincohi, President of the United States ; and, Avhile it expresses its 
utter detestation of so diabolical an act, begs to oflEer to the American people its 
sincere condolence on the heavy calamity which has befallen their nation. 
Board Room, Workhouse, f 

April ?0, 1865. 



UNION AND EMANCIPATION SOCIETY. 

Stafford Auxiliary, Aj^nl 29, 1865. 

Sir : We, the undersigned, on behalf of the committee and members of the 
above society; beg respectfully to tender to your excellency our most sincere 
condolence upon the loss the United States of America and the civilized world 
have sustained by the atrocious murder of President Abraham Lincoln. 

Trusting that Providence will direct his successor. President Johnson, as an 
instrument for perfecting the work so honestly begun to a speedy termination, 
when the South may see that to be prosperous a nation must be both free and 
united. 

We are, sir, yours most obediently, 

WM. SILVESTER. Prcside?it. 
W. J. LAPWORTH, Secretary. 
His Excellency the Americaiv Minister m Loiidon. 



BOROUGH of STOCKPORT IN THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF CHESTER AND LAN- 
CASTER. 

At a meeting of the council of the borough of Stockport, held in the council 
chamber, on Wednesday, the 3d May, 1865, William Linton Eskrigge, esq., 
mayor, in the chair, it was 

Unanimously resolved, That the council of Stockport, at its first meeting since 
the terrible news reached this country that President Lincoln had fallen the 
victim of a dastardly assassin, and that a like attempt had been made on the 
life of Mr. Secretary Seward, unanimously passes a vote of sincere condolence 
with the United States of America, with Mrs. Lincoln, and with Mr. Secretary 
Seward, expressive of the horror felt by the council, aryi its deep sympathy with 
those afflicted by these most diabolical acts. 

That this resolution be transmitted to the envoy extraordinary and minister 
plenipotentiary of the United States in London, with a request^that he will duly 
communicate it to his government, to Mrs. Lincoln, and to Mr. Secretary Sew- 
ard. 

The common seal of the borough of Stockport was hereunto duly affixed in 
the presence of — 

[seal.] henry COPPOCK, Town Clerk. 



Resolutions passed at a viceting held by the Sunday School Union of Stockport, 

At a meeting of the teachers, superintendents, and representatives of the 
schools composing the Sunday School Union of Stockport, held on the eighth 
day of May, 1865, Mr. Councillor George Barber in the chair, it was — 

Unaniviously resolved, That the Sunday schools of Stockport, embracing all 
he evangelical denominations of the Christian church, have heard with feelings of 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 343 

the deepest horror and the most inexpressible grief of the brutal assassination of 
Abraham Liucolu, President of the United States of America, by the hand of 
a vile and reckless murderer. 

That this imion, while recording this expression of the most heartfelt sym- 
pathy and sorrowful condnhmce with the bereaved widow and the great Amer- 
ican republic, most cordially recognizes the eminent personal worth, the hi"-h- 
toned religious principle, and the noble civic virtues of that large hearted father 
of the American people, twice elected as Chief Magistrate by the popular voice, 
beloved by the children of two hemispheres, admired by the vast army of Sun- 
da}'- school teachers in the free countries of Europe and America, and revered 
by the great and good of every clime, as the heroic emancipator of four millions 
of abject bondsmen, and the saviour of his country from armed rebellion, an- 
archy, and ruin. 

That whilst this union cherishes tliese sentiments with the deepest emotion, 
it feels most keenly the death, by the hand of a wretched drunkard, of so good 
a man, whose persistent advocacy of the importance of an education based upon 
religious principles, and his bright example as a steady and consistent abstainer 
from intoxicating drinks, afforded strength and encouragement to our bands of 
hope, and proved that, even under circumstances of the most severe trials ever 
imposed upon the ruler of a great nation, the late President of the United States 
of America devoted the full strength of his lofty intelligence and the warmest 
sympathies of his noble heart. 

While our Sunday schools are bowed with sorrow, feeling that each has lost 
a friend, the prayer is raised continually that this fearful rebellion may speedily 
be brought to a close, and that a permanent peace may soon be proclaimed, es- 
tablished on the only righteous basis, viz : That of union, nationality, justice, 
and freedom, with equal civil and political rights to all loyal men, of whatever 
creed, race or condition, and the inestimable blessings of a healthy religious ed- 
ucation secured to all rising and future generations of the republic. 

Signed on behalf of the Union — 

GEORGE BARBER, Chairman. 
JAMES H. MIDDLETON, 

Honorary Secretary. 

Stockport, May S, 1S65 



At a meeting of the vicar, church wardens, and vestrymen of the parish of St. 
Martin in the Fields, in the county of Middlesex, specially convened and held 
at the vestry hall of the said parish, on Friday, the 5th day of May, 18G5 — 
present, the Reverend William Gelson Humphrey, B. D.. vicar, in the chair- 
it was moved, seconded, and 

Uiianimously resolved, That the following address be forwarded to his excel- 
lency the American minister at the Court of St. James, viz : 

Sir : We, the vicar, church wardens, and vestrymen of the parish of St. Mar- 
tin in the Fields, desire to express to you the strong feelings of grief and indig- 
dation with which we have heard of the assassination of President Luicoln, and 
the attempted murder of !Mr. Seward. 

We are not without hop(-" that it may be some consolation to the American 
people, and to the widow of the late President, in this their bereavement, to re- 
ceive the sympathy of the people of this country ; and we trust that the dreadful 
events which have called forth our sympathy will be by Divine Providence 
80 overruled as not in any way to retard the restoration of peace, concord, and 

prosperitv in the United States. 

^ " W. G. HUMPHREY, Chanman. 

The honorable Charles Francis Auams, Envoy Extraordinan/ 

and 3[inistcr Plenipotentiary oftltc United States of Amenra. 



344 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the town and borougli of Swansea, 
held at the Guildhall, in the said town, on Thursday, the 4th day of May. 1865, 
it was 

Unanimously resolved, That this meeting desires to manifest its profound ab- 
horrence and indignation at the great crime by which the United States of Amer- 
ica have been deprived of their late Chief Magistrate, Abraham Lincoln ; and, 
fuither to express its unfeigned sympathy with the government and people of 
the United States, and the widow and family of the late President, in the depth 
of their calamity and bereavement. 

J. CLARKE RICHARDSON, Mayor. 



SWANSEA WORKINGMEN'S INSTITUTE. 

At a special general meeting held at the institute on Tuesday, May 9, 1865, 
Mr. Benjamin Davis in the chair, it was 

JJnaniynoiisly resolved, That the members of the Swansea Workiugmen's 
Institute, being desirous of manifesting their sincere regret at the revolting act 
which has deprived the American republic of an able President, and society at 
large of one of its brightest ornaments, beg to tender to Mrs. Lincoln and the 
government and people of the United States their heartfelt sympathy in their 
present hour of sorrow. 

And it was further 

Unanimously resolved, That the resolution just passed be forwarded, through 
the medium of the American minister at London, to Mrs. Lincoln, and the gov- 
ernment and people of the United States. 



St. Marylebone, A2Jril 27, 1865. 
At the vestry — present, Mr. Churchwarden Baddely in the chair — 
Resolved unanimously, That the vestry of Saint Marylebone, having heard 
with the profoundest regret of the assassination of the President of the United 
States, beg respectfully and earnestly to convey, at the earliest possible oppor- 
tunity, to his excellency the American minister the expression of their horror at 
the detestable and cowardly crime that has been committed, and their deepest 
sympathies with the American people and his excellency in the lamentable na- 
tional catastrophe which has befallen them. 
Extracted from the minutes. 

W. E. GREENOCK, Vestry Clerk. 



Parish of St. Pa.xcrais, in the county of Middlesex. 

At a general meeting of the vestrymen of the said parish, held at the vestry 
hall, King's road, Pancras road, on Wednesday, the 10th day of May, 1865 — 
Mr. Churchwai-den Robson in the chair and sixty-eight other vestrymen present — 
it was moved by John R. Collins, esq., pursuant to notice, seconded by Henry 
Farber, esq., F. S. A., and 

Resolved unanimously. That this vestry desires to express its feelings of 
grief and horror at the untimely death of President Lincoln, by the hands of an 
assassin, and to avow its high appreciation of the great ability, moderation, and 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 345 

patriotism displayed by him as Chief iMagistratc of the United States of Amer- 
ica, at a period of extraordiuary civil commotion. Tliis vestry desires further to 
express its deep sympathy M'ith the widow and family of the late President, 
and also with the people of the United States, in being thus ruthlessly deprived 
of the guiding influence of so high-principled a statesman at a time of national 
difficulty and distress, and would fervently hope that the wise and moderate 
policy of Abraham Lincoln may be adopted by both President and people in 
the pacification of their distracted country. 

The common seal of the vestry of the parish of St. Pancras, Middlesex, 
r 1 affixed hereto by order of the said vi^stry. 

^"^ ' "'^ FRANCIS PLAW, Vestry Clerk. 



At a meeting of the corporation of the borough of Stockton, in the county of 
Durham, held at the Town Hall in the said borough, on the 5th day of May, 
1865 — present, the mayor, Aldermen Wren, Craggs, Ord, Jackson, and Rich- 
ardson ; Councillors Grey, Trowsdale, Brayshey, Thompson, Knowles, T. 
Wren, jr., Henderson, Rigland, Clough, T. Nelson, Barnes, J. Smith, W. Nel- 
son, T. Harrison, Brown, and Appleton — it was 

liesolved, That the mayor, aldermen, and council of the borough of Stockton 
have learned with feelings of horror and detestation of the awful crime com- 
mitted on the President of the United States and of the murderous attack on 
Mr. Seward, and they desire to record their sense of these cruel aud cold-blooded 
villanies, and •to express their sincere and heartfelt feelings of sorrow and regret 
for the calamity that has befallen that country, and for the grievous loss which 
its citizens have sustained. 

And it was 

Resolved, That the American ambassador be reque:^ted to couvey to Mrs. 
Lincoln and the American nation the expression of their profound sympathy 
and condolence for this lamentable and grievous occurrence. 

[SEAL.J 



At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, in 
the county of Durham, held at the Borough Hall in Stockton-on-Tees aforesaid, 
on the 5th day of May, 1S65 — Joshua Byers, esq., mayor, in the chair — the fol- 
lowing resolutions were passed : 

That the inhabitants of Stockton-on-Tees, in a public meeting called by the 
mayor, would express, in the strongest manner possible, their abhorrence of the 
dastardly crimes Avhich have suddenly deprived the United States of America of 
their President and seriously endangered the life of his chief secretary, and their 
deep sympathy with the government and people of that country in the affliction 
into which the loss they have sustained has plunged them. 

That this meeting deeply regrets that President Lincoln should have been 
cut off at the time when his'firm but conciliatory policy was about to reap the 
noblest fruit, and when his earnestness, simplicity, and clear insight into reali- 
ties would have enabled him successfully to carry on the Avork of reconstruction, 
and devoutly hopes that those upon whom his labors must now devolve may 
succeed in speedily and happily overcoming every obstacle and effecting that 
reconstruction on the immovable basis of freedom and justice. 

That this meeting M'ould express its earnest desire that the sympathy for the 



346 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

government and people of tbe United States of America, called forth by the 
astounding intelligence of the assassination of their Chief Magistrate, and the 
remembrance of his conciliatory bearing towards this comitry, may tend to ce- 
ment the friendship between England and America. 

That this meeting learns with sincere gratification that the Queen of the 
realm has with such promptness and characteristic kindness written with her 
own hand to the widow of his late excellency, President Lincoln, a letter of con- 
dolence and sympathy with her in her great affliction and bereavement. 

That this meeting respectfully requests the mayor to sign and afterwards for- 
ward the foregoing resolutions expressing our sympathy with the American 
government and people to the American ambassador in London. 

JOSHUA BYERS, Chair7nan. 



in memonam. 



Office of the Grand Scribe of the Grand Division 

Sons of Temperance of New Brunswick, B. N. A. 

At the regular session of the Grand Division Sons of Temperance of the 
province of New Brunsv/ick, British North America, held at the city of St. 
John, on Wednesday evening, 26th day of April, A. D. 1865, on motion of 
Representative William Wedderburn, P. G. W. P., seconded by Representative 
William H. A. Keans, grand scribe, the following resolutions were unanimously 
adopted : 

Whereas his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United 
States, has siiddenly been cut off in the zenith of his great career by the hand 
of an assassin ; and whereas we deeply feel for the affliction in which our 
brethren and the people generally of the United States have therefore been 
involved — 

Resolved, That we, the members of the Grand Division of New Brunswick 
Sons of Temperance, while we acknowledge allegiance only and loyalty to the ' 
crown of Great Britain, take the first opportunity afforded us to express our 
deep and sincere sympathy with our brethren in the Order, and the people gen- 
erally of the United States, upon the death of Abraham Lincoln, their honored 
and beloved Chief Magistrate. 

Resolved, That irrespective of our individual political sympathies and associ- 
ations, we have recognized in Abraham Lincoln a true friend of virtue, and one 
who has publicly expressed his hearty approval of the cardinal principles of our 
Order and of all similar institutions ; as a pure-minded and upright magistrate, 
an able statesman, a devoted Christian, an honest man. 

Resolved, That we abhor and denounce the assassination of Abraham Lincoln 
as a deed which can only become memorable for its ineffable infamy, as a treason 
against the commonwealth of nations, a crime against Christianity and civiliza- 
tion, and a wickedness unparalleled in the pages of history for the horror and 
villany of its conception, and the inhuman character and circumstances of its 
commission. 

Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions, suitably engrossed and under the 
seal of this Grand Division, be transmitted to the British minister at Washing- 
ton, to be laid befoi-e the American government in such manner as he shall 
deem best, to the widow of the late President, to the most worthy scribe of tbe 
Order, and the press of this city for publication. 

Extracts from the minutes. 

[l. s.] W. H. a. KEANS, Grand Seville. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 347 

Address of the colored people of Bermuda. 

Saint George's, Bermuda, April 28, 1S65. 

Sir : We, the undersigned, beg Jeave to submit to you, the lawful represent- 
ative of the United State? of America for Bermuda, our expressions of sym- 
pathy on our part, and in behalf of the colored people of this community, on 
the melancholy intelligence which has reached us of the death of the good 
Abraham Lincoln, at Washington, on the Irith instant, by assassination. Knowing 
his many virtues as a man, while in office as Chief Magistrate of America, 
■we consider his untimely removal a loss of no common degree, not only to 
the people of his country, but to many foreign to his domains. 

We do not make these expressions as a mere formal observance, but are 
prompted by purer motives. We feel that a great and good man has passed 
from us. 

We therefore most respectfully tender to you, and through you to his be- 
reaved family across the "ocean's foam,"onr heartfelt sympathy and condolence 
in this Tiour of trial and affliction, when, by the hand of a ruthless assassin, a 
•wise and patriotic ruler has been stricken down, at a time when his work was 
near its consummation. 

We remain, dear sir, with profound respect, your very obedient servants, 

J. T. RICHARDSON, 
E. B. M. FRITH, 
J. H. RAINEY, 
JOSEPH H. THOMAS, 
BENJAMIN BURCHALL, 

Committee. 
C. M. Allen, Esq., 

United States Consul. 



Saint George's, Bermuda, May 11, 1865. 
Sir : It has fallen to my lot to have the honor of presenting you with the 
enclosed address from the three divisions of the order of the Sons of Temper- 
ance located in these islands; and while I regret the delay the said divisions 
have shown in the discharge of so important a duty, do conceive it Avould have 
been a greater blunder, a grosser omission, to have neglected it altogether. 
Therefore trusting you will pardon their error in this respect. 
I am, sir, yours respectfully, 

GEORGE OXBORROW, 
General Deputij Gra?id Worth?/ PatnarcJi, Sons of Temperance. 
C. M. Allen, Esq., 

United Stales Consul. 



Saint George's, Bermuda, May 11, 1865. 

Sir : We, the undersigned, representing the divisions of the Sons of Temper- 
ance in Bermuda, convey to you the following r(-solutions, expressive of the 
sympathy felt bv that body in reference to the lamentable occurrence which 
has so lately afflicted the American nation, by the cruel assassination of its 
President. 

Resolved, That recognizing the hand of Almighty God in this afflictive 
stroke, the divisions of the Sons of Temperance in the Bermuda islands have 



348 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

received the intelligence of tlie brutal murder of Abraham Lincoln, late Presi- 
dent of the United States, with feelings of horror and detestation. 

Resolved, That to the bereaved wife and family of the late chief ruler of 
the American nation, we tender our sincere sorrow and sympathy for his untimely 
death. Allow us, in conclusion, to convey to you our deep regret at this un- 
fortunate event. 

We are, sir, yours, very respectfully, 
[l. s.] GEORGE OXBORROVV, G. D. Grand W. Patriarch, 

JOSEPH M. HAYWARD, Treasurer, 

Star of Hope, No. 190, St. George's. 
[l. s.J CHARLES W. B. FOYARD, D. G. W. Patriarch, 

BENJAMIN P. ELDRIDGE, R. S., 
NEIL McK. McLEOD, W. P., 

Reid Division, No. 192, Ha77iiUon. 
JOSIAH W. FRITH, W. P., 
JOSEPH H. FRITH, R. S., 

Argus, No. 210, Wanoick. 
C. M. Allen, Esq., 

United States Consul. 



Address of tlie viU7iicipal council of tlie city of Sydney, N. S. W. 

Madam : We, the municipal council of the city of Sydney, in the British 
colony of New South Wales, desire, on behalf of the citizens of this city, to 
express to you our deeply felt sympathy on the lamentable occurrence which 
has led to the untimely death of your husband, the late President of the United 
States of America. 

If any consolation can be experienced on such an occasion, when the almost 
universal feeling is that of the deepest sorrow, it must arise from the knowledge 
that in the history of your country there does not exist a name which, from its 
association with the momentous events of his time, will be more honored and 
reverenced than that of Abraham Lincoln. 

The unostentatious simplicity and uprightness of his character in private 
life ; the wise and useful influence which he exercised over the public institutions 
of his country ; his worthy ambitious desire to support and maintain the Con- 
stitution of the state, and the iindeviating firmness and admirable sagacity 
which he evinced during the extraordinary struggle of the past few years, have 
exhibited to the world one of those great and attractive characters Avhich com- 
mands the profoundest respect from every rank of life. The unhappy event 
which has removed such a man from the social circle, and has deprived the 
nation of such valuable aid and guidance, miist excite the most heartfelt sym- 
pathy for the relatives and friends who mourn his disastrous fate, and the 
deepest regret that his country should have lost so noble and devoted a patriot. 

We earnestly hope that the condolence which has been offered you from all 
parts of your own land and from foreign nations may tend in some degree to 
assuage your great affliction, while we are confident that the people whom your 
husband so wisely governed will bear his name in honored remembrance, and 
that it will stand side by side with the greatest in the history of the New 
World. 

I SEAL] JOHN WOODS, 

•■ •' Mayor of the City of Sydney. 



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Adopted by the municipal council of tLe city of Sydney, tins seventeentli 
day of July, A. D. 1SG5. 

CHARLES ^Y. WOOLOOTT, Toion Clerk. 
Mrs. Lincoln. 



Neiv South Wales hrancli of the Irish Natio7ial League. 

Committee Rooms, lOG King Street, 

Sydney, July 22, 1865. 

To the honorahle the President, the Senate 

and House of Representatives of the United States of Arncrica : 

The members of the New South Wales branch of the Irish National League 
have instructed us, their central committee, to condole with you (the Congress of 
America) on the calamity tliat has befallen your nation, and to convey to you 
their heartfelt sorrow and sympathy for the loss which, in common with the 
cause of freedom throughout the world, you have sustained by the foul murder 
by the hand of an assassin of that great, energetic, untiring, and devoted cham- 
pion of freedom, Abraham Lincoln. 

We, as inhabitants of New South Wales, are actuated to this expression of 
sorrow for America's great loss by the feeling, among others, that as possessors 
of free institutions we were greatly benefited by the talent, energy, and Christian 
virtues displayed by one in the proud position of President of the greates republic 
of modern times. 

In the high and responsible position in which he was placed, his powers were 
great for the accomplishment of good or evil, and how those powers were used 
is manifest -to the world. By the efforts of the gi'eat mind with which he was 
endowed, he overcame obstacles which to the most experienced statesmen in 
Europe seemed insurmountable; he supjjressed a rebellion, more formidable than 
the annals of any other country can record; united and brought into amicable 
intercourse many Avho were previously actuated in their opposition by the in- 
fluence of party spirit or sectarian prejudices, and by his powerful abilities he 
brought his coimtry safe and triumphant from that terrible ordeal through which 
she has been passing for the last four years. 

The members of the Irish National League are also actuated in this far-ofl" 
land of Australia by gratitude, which is a national characteristic, to express 
their feelings on the present occasion; they cannot and do not forget that when 
a code of the most ill-conceived laws deprived them of freedom and prosperity 
at home, and even seemed to threaten the total extirpation of their race ; when 
unable to meet their landlord's call, they were expelled from the homes in which 
they.were born ; when they appeared deserted by the world, and nothing seemed 
to remain but death from cold and starvation by the wayside, it was then that 
America, noble America, with outstretched arms welcomed them to her shores 
and bestowed upon them her fertile plains and teeming valleys, where now, 
beside the grand and majestic rivers that beautify and fertilize your country, 
they reside in freedom and happiness, with honor and credit to themselves, a 
lasting memorial of the benefits to be derived from that Constitution and that 
country whose laws they acknowledge; and respect. 

For these among other reasons we desire to express our warmest sympathy 
with America, and to pay a tribute of respect and admiration to the memory of 
the great departed. In conclusion, we beg to express a hope that the united 
exertions of America's patriotic sons will secure her peace and haj)piness, and 
that the mighty republic of the west, the great home of freedom, the United 



350 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

States of America, may continue to retain her exalted position of one of the 

great and free nations of the world. 

JOHN ROBETSON, President. 
OWEN HARUHER, 
PATRICK O'DOND, 

Vice-Presidents. 
THOMAS McCAFFERY, Treasurer. 
P. J. GROGAN, Secretary. 
JAMES P. GARY AN, 
WILLIAM DOLMAN, 
RICHARD MOOSELY, 
J. J. CURRAN, 
MICHAEL RILEY, 
JAMES COLEMAN, 
LAWRENCE MORAN, 
JAMES BUTLER, 
J. I. McDERMOT, 

Committee. 



Resolution j^tassed, hy the council of the corporation of tlie city of Toronto, Canada. 

Tuesday, April IS, 1865. 
Resolved, That this council, on behalf of the citizens of Toronto, deplore the 
impious act that has convulsed society, in the death, by violence, of Abraham 
Lincoln, late President of the United States of America. Esteeming the same a 
national calamity, they mournfully sympathize with his countrymen, and recog- 
nizing in them a great co-operating Christian power, feel deeply sensible of the 
melancholy gloom it must create. And further, that in honor of the dead the 
business of the city be suspended for two hours from noon on Wednesday, to- 
morrow. 

Truly extracted from the journals of the council. 

[SEAL.] JOHN CARR, City Clerk. 

F. H. MEDCALF, Mayor. 
A. T. McCORD, Uiamherlain. 



His Excellency A.xdkew Joh.vson, 

President of the United States of America : 

We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Tewksbury, in 
England, desire to give utterance to our feelings of grief and horror at the as- 
sassination of your late distinguished predecessor. President Lincoln, ami the 
attempted murder of Mr. Secretary Seward, and to convey to the people of the 
United States an expression of our sympathy and good will, and at the same 
time to add our sincere condolence with the widow and family of the late emi- 
nent statesman. 

Given under our common seal at the Tolsey in the said borough, this 15th 
day of May, 1865. 

[seal.] . W. ALLARD, Matjar. 



We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the ancient borough of Thetford, 
in council assembled, having received with great sorrow the intelligence of the 
assassination of President Lincoln, desire to express our utter abhorrence at the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 351 

detestable crime, and beg to oiler to the Americau nation our sincere condolence 
and sympathy upon the loss it has sustained. 

Given under our common corporate seal, this 22d day of May, 1SG5. 
[seal.] W. p. SALSEE, MaTjor. 

His excellency the Mixistek from the United States of America. 



At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Tynemouth, in the 
county of Northumberland, held in the Town Hall, on the 2d day of ^l.ay, 1S65, 
the mayor in the chair, it was 

Unanimously resolved. That the inhabitants of the borough of Tynemouth, 
VI public meeting assembled, desire to express their feelings of sorrow and in- 
dignation at the assassination of the President of the United States of America, 
and at the attempt made upon the life of his chief secretary. 

That while deeply lamenting the removal of President Lincoln, at a time 
when his influence was most urgently needed to secure a happy and peaceful 
termination of the war in America, this meeting sincerely hopes that the states- 
man upon whom the conduct of national affairs of America has now devolved 
may succeed in attaining that most desirable result. 

That a copy of the preceding resolutions, signed by the mayor on behalf 
of this meeting, be forwarded to the American government through their ambas- 
sador in London. 

That a copy of the foregoing resolutions, signed by the mayor, be also 
forwarded to Mi-s. Lincoln, with an expression of the deep and sincere sympa- 
thy of the inhabitants of this borough with herself and her family in their great 
sorrow and bereavement; and another copy to Mrs. Seward, coupled with the 
expression of an earnest hope that Mr. Secretary Seward may eventually re- 
cover from thcnttack made upon his life. 

GEORGE JOBLIXG, 
Mayor of TynemoxUh, Chairman. 



Vaxcouver's Isla.xd, VicToaiA, April 22, 1865. 
Sir : I have the honor to transmit the copy of a resolution adopted by the 
legislative assembly of Vancouver's Island, on the 28th instant, expressing their 
sympathy in the calamity which has bef;i11en the United States of America, in 
the death of their President, Abraham Lincoln, in which expression of sympa- 
thy I fully join. 

I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient servant, 

A. E. KENNEDY, Governor. 
Allen Francis, Esq., 

United States Consul, 5^v., ^v., ^v., Victoria. 



Resolution passed hy the legislative asscmhhj of Vancouver's' Island, on the 
20lh day if April, iS(j5. 

Resolved, That this house, taking into consideration the great calamity 
which has befallen the United States of America, and the rest of the civilized 
world, in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, does adjourn till to- 
morrow as a mark of respect to the memory of the great departed, the chief of 
a nation connected by the nearest ties with our own, and glorying in the same 
origin, the same traditions, and the same freedom. 

R. W. TORRENS, 

Clerk of the House. 



352 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

To her most gracious Majesty the Queen : 

We, your Majesty's faithful subjects, the members of the legislative assem- 
bly of Victoria, in Parliament assembled, crave leave to approach your Majesty 
with fresh assurances of our loyalty and affection. 

AVe desire to express our abhorrence of the foul crime by which the United 
States have been dej»rived of their late President, Abraham Lincoln, and our 
profound sympathy with the American government and people in their national 
calamity. 

We desire also to record our unfeigned condolence with Mrs. Lincoln in her 
deep affliction ; and we humbly beg that your Majesty will be graciously pleased 
to communicate these our heartfelt sentiments to the government at Wash- 
ington. 

MURPHY, Speaher. 



To her most gracious Majesty the Queen : 

We, your Majesty's faithful subjects, the members of the legislative coun- 
cil of Victoria, in Parliament assembled, crave leave to approach your Majesty 
with fresh assurances of our loyalty and affection. , 

We desire to express our abhorrence of the foul crime by which the United 
States have been deprived of their late President, Abraham Lincoln, and our 
profound sympathy with the American government and people in their national 
calamity. 

We desire also to record our unfeigned condolence with Mrs. Lincoln in her 
deep affliction ; and we humbly beg that your Majesty will be graciously pleased 
to communicate these our heartfelt sentiments to tlie government at Wash- 
ington. 

PALMER, President. 



Resolution ado j) ted at the annual conference of -the Welch Baptist Association, 
held in Victoria, county of Monmouth,' May 30, 1865. 

Resolved, That this association takes the earliest opportunity of expressing 
its intense sorrow and deep abhorrence at the assassination of the late President 
of the United States, the honest and upright Abraham Lincoln, and its heart- 
felt sympathy with the American people in the peculiarly trying circumstances 
in which, by this sad event, they have been placed ; its ardent desire for their 
peace and prosperity, and the maintenance of their amicable relations with 
Biitain and all other European States ; and its fervent gratitude to God for the 
prospect of a speedy termination of the war, and the total abolition of slavery 
throughout their land. 

Signed on behalf of the conference : 

WILLIAM ROBERTS, Moderator. 
TIMOTHY THOMAS, Secretary. 



MEETING OF AMERICAN RESIDENTS. 

At a meeting of the American residents of Victoria, V. I., held at the con- 
sulate of the tJnited States of America, on Tuesday, April 18, 18G5, it was 

Unanimously resolned. That a committee of five be appointed by the chair- 
man to drauglit resolutions expressive of our feelings in regard to the assassina- 
tion of the President of the United States, and to make the necessary arrange- 



SSXTIMENTS OV COXDOLEXCE AND SYMPATHY. 353 

merits for a suitable observance of the sad event, and pay proper respect to his 
memory. 

In compliance with the foregoing, Messrs. A. H. Guild, J. A. McCrea, G. 
Sutro, Julius Lowcy, and S. A. Moody -^vere appointed such committee, and on 
motion the president and secretary were added to the same. The meeting then 
adjourned. 

ALLEN FRANCIS, Chamnan. 

JNO. P. COUCH, Secretary. 



Notice. 

The committee to whom was referred the matter of making arrangements on 
behalf of the American residents of Victoria, to take some suitable notice of 
the death of the bite President of the United States and pay proper respect to 
his memory, beg leave to report that the Hon. S. Garfield has kindly consented 
to address the people of Victoria on the subject of the recent national calamity 
at the Victoria theatre, at 3 o'clock this (Wednesday) afternoon, April 19, 

The committee respectfully recommend those so disposed to close their places 
of business throughout the day, and pay every respect to the occasion. The 
committee also desire to extend a cordial invitation to every resident of Victoria 
to ;ittend the meeting at the theatre. Ladies are expected to attend. 

THE COMMITTEE. 

Mv. Garfield concluded his oration amid prolonged applause, and moved the 
adoption of the following preamble and resolutions, which were carried by ac- 
clamation : 

Whereas it has pleased the Almighty Ruler of the iniiverse, in the all-vvise 
dispensation of His providence, to afflict the people of the United States by 
permitting Abraham Lincoln, their Chief Magistrate, to be stricken down in the 
prime of life and in the midst of usefulness by the hand of the assassin; and 

Whereas the intelligence of this great calamity, not only to our country, but 
to the cause of truth and humanity throughout the world, has been received by 
us with feelings of the most profound sorrow, we deem this hour of our country's 
bereavement a fit and proper occasion to express the deep sympathy we feel for 
her affliction, as well as the grief which afflicts our hearts at this sudden and 
lamentable event. But how shall we give expression to our sorrow ? In what 
words shall we speak of the mighty dead who has fallen, or bewail his loss ? 
To us, on these distant shores, he was not only the Chief Magistrate of our be- 
loved country, but the embodiment and representative of the principles we 
cherish, and which we had hoped, through him, to see carried out and established. 
Called to preside over the destinies of our country at the most critical period of 
its histoiy, and all inexperienceil as he Avas in the administration of govern- 
ment, many doubted his ability to cope with the mighty difflculties and dangers 
which encompassed the nation. Questions the most momentous and altogether 
new in the country's history v/cre presented, and upon their solution depended 
not only its welfare, but its existence as a nation. To meet these successfully 
required the greatest wisdom, firmness, and moderation. But Ho who holds in 
the hollow of His hand the destinies of nations mistakes not His agents in the 
accomplishment of His vast designs ; and, therefore, Abraham Lincoln was 
found to possess the necessary qualifications to conduct his country through the 
trying ordeal to which she has been subjected ; to preserve the stability of the 
"•overnment, and at the same time vindicate the correctness of the principles 
upon which it was founded. He brought to the discharge of his great and 
arduous duties a heart so honest and sincere, a wisdom so practical and sound, 
and a moral courage so steady and unwavering, as to eminently fit him for his 
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354 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE 

exalted position. But liis most distinguished trait was his humauitj — humanity 
in its largest sense. His was the heart to feel that every man -vvas his brother. 
Surely, in the great day of reckoning his name will be found " foremost in the 
Book of Life, as one who loved his fellow-man." But time will not permit us 
further to allude to his deeds and virtues. His work was accomplished, and he 
has passed from his labors, and however mnch we deplore his loss, we can but 
bow in all humility to the fiat of Him who — 

Deep iu iiufatbomable mines 

Of never-failing skill, 
Treasures up His vast designs, 

Aud works His sovereign will. 

We, therefore, the citizens of the United States residing in Victoria, Vancoi;- 
ver's Island, for the purpose of expressing onr sense of our country's loss, have 

Resolved, first. That while humbly bowing to the decrees of an all-wise 
Providence which has permitted our beloved country to be afflicted by the death 
of its Chief Magistrate at a period so momentous in its history, our hearts are 
filled with the deepest grief, and with onr country we mourn in its affliction. 

Resolved, second, That in the death of Abraham Lincoln — the wise, the noble, 
the good — the nation has suffered a great and irreparable loss, and the kindly 
nature of the departed President has enshrined his name deeply in the affections 
of his afflicted countrymen, Avho feel that liberty Avept when Lincoln fell. 

Resolved, third, That we feel the keenest sorrow for the bereaved widow and 
family of the deceased President, and tender to them onr warmest sympathy in 
their great distress. 

Resolved, fourth. That we bow in humble submission to the inscrutable de- 
crees of Almighity God, and invoke His blessing upon William H. Seward, 
Secretary of State of the United States of America, and we fervently hope 
that he may be speedily restored to his wonted health and faculties, and that 
our country may long continue to enjoy the benefits of his known wisdom and 
ability. 



Resolutions j^o-ssed at a meeting held hjj the ivorhing classes of Wigan. 

At a meeting of the working classes, held in the Public Hall, Wigan, on the 
17th day of May, 1865, the following resolutions were enthusiastically adopted : 

1. That this meeting tenders its heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Lincoln upon the 
loss of her noble and devoted husband, and to the people of the United States 
in their sudden deprivation of a wise, just, and merciful head ; that, expressing 
its utmost abhorrence and detestation of the foul aud treacherous assassination 
of President Lincoln, and the attempt upon the life of Mr. Secretary Seward, it 
at tlie same time expresses its conviction that it was but the culminating point 
of a crime, if possible, of still darker hue — the attempt to perpetuate the bondage 
of millions of men, and to achieve the destruction of a great nation; that it 
expresses its gratitude to Almighty God for the termination of the rebellion, 
and the destruction of the institution of slavery iu the United States, rejoices at 
the complete falsification of the statements that American institutions were a 
failure, and expresses its warmest wishes for the welfere of the great American 
republic, and its desire that the bond of brotherhood betv.-eeu the tv/o people 
(England and America) may grow ever stronger, aud the possibility of war j 
between them ever more remote. 

2. That the chairman be requested to send the foregoing resolution to Mr, 
Adams, the American minister in London, desiring him to foi-ward it t.) the i 
American government and to Mrs Lincoln. 

Signed on behalf of the meeting : 

TIMOTHY COOP, Chairman. 






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W/iitc Cha^yel district, cojuprising the parishes of Mhitc Chcqjel, Spitaljields' 
01 dgcUe, Minor ics, Saint Katharine, Mile End, New To7vn, Norton Fol gate' 
Old Artillery Grotmd and Totcer. 

Office of the Board of Works, White Chapel Distrht, 
15 Great Alie street. White Chapel, E. London, May 1, 18C5. 
Sir : The board of works for the White Chapel district, at their meeting hehl 
this day, have directed me to communicate to your excellency, as the repre- 
sentative of the government of the United States of America in this country, 
their feelings of abhorrence and disgust at the assassination of the late President 
of the United States of America, and of the attempt upon the life of the Secre- 
tary of State, and also to express their feelings of warm sympathy with the 
people of America for the loss of a Chief Magistrate who, under circumstances 
of the most trying description, by his ability, kindness of heart, and honpsty of 
purpose, did so much to endear himself to all over v/hom he was called upon to 
preside. 

I have the honor to be your excellency's most obedient servant, 

ALFRED FURNET, Clerk. 
The Hon. Charles Francis Adams, 

Minister of the U. S. of Avierica, Upper Portland Place, W. 



We, the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the city of Winchester, in town 
council assembled, desire to express our extreme sorrow and indignation at the 
foul assassination of the late President of the United States of America, and to 
convey our sympathy and condolence at the loss which that nation and his 
widow have thereby sustained. We also express our regret at the attempt made 
upon the life of IMr. Seward and his son, and the pleasure with which we have 
received the intelligence of their improved condition. 

Given under our corporate seal this 4th day of May, 1S65. 

[seal.] WM. BUDDAR, Mayor. 

His Excellency the Hon. C. F. Adams, American viinistcr. 



At a meeting of the council of the city of Worcester, holueu this 2d day of 
May, 1865, it was 

Resolved, That this council has heard with great sorrow and indignation of 
the assassination of the President of the United States, and of the atrocious 
attempt on the lives of other persons connected with the government of that 
country, and feels the deepest sense of horror at such detestable crimes. The 
coimcil also wishes to assure the family of the late President, and the American 



people, of its heartfelt sympathv with them under their irreparable loss 

RICH. WOOF, Town 



Clerk. 



Address of the mayor, aldermen, a7id burge.fscs of the borough of Walsall, in 
the county of Stafford, to the governmenl and people (f the United States of 
America, and to Mrs. Li?icoln. 

The mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Walsall, in council 
assembled, unanimously desire to express to the government and people of the 
United States of America their abhorrence of the foul and cowardly crime which 



356 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

has lately depnved the States of the life of their President, and emhittered the 
happiness which all must feel at the prospect of approaching peace. The council 
desire also to express their deep sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln and her family 
under the terrible bereavement, and their earnest wishes for tranquillity and 
prosperity to their brethren of the States. 

Given under the common seal of the borough the 3d day of May, 1S65. 

[seal.] THOS. HAZLEDINE, Alayor. 

SAM'L WILKINSON, Jr., Toivn Clerk. 



Town Hall, Wells, Maij 1, 1865. 

Third quarterly meeting of the council. Moved by Dr. Purnell, seconded by 
Mr. Welsh, and 

Resolved, That the council has heard with horror and indignation of the 
atrocious outrages which have unhappily deprived the United States of America 
of their President, and threaten a similar calamity in the death of his Secretary 
of State, and they take the earliest opportunity, in the name of the municipality 
which they represent, of recording their detestation of these outrages, and of 
expressing their regret at the loss which the American people have sustained, 
and of sympathy in the calamities which have thus befallen them. 

Extracted from the minute book of the proceedings of the council of Wells. 

W. J. S. FOSTER, To2cn Clerk. 



Resolution of the council of the borough of Warivick. 

We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Warwick, in council 
assembled, desire to give expression to thefeelings of horror, indignation, and regret 
with which we have heard of the assassination of President Lincoln, and beg to con- 
vey to Mrs. Lincoln and the United States government and people an expression 
of our sincere and deep sympathy and heartfelt condolence at the melancholy 
event. 

Given under our common seal the ninth day of May, one thousand eight hun- 
r j dred and sixtv-five. 

L^^^^'-l ' THOMAS B. DALE, Mayor. 



CiTv OF Y/atbrford, Ireland, 

Council CJiamber, May 2, 1865. 
Resolved unaniviously , That this council take the present opportunity of ex- 
pressing its unfeigned sorrow and intense indignation at the foul and atrocious 
assassination of his Excellency Mr. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United 
States, and the attempted murder of the Hon. William H. Seward, the Secre- 
tary of State ; and that we most respectfully desire to convey to the American 
people and government, as Avell as to the bereaved widow and family of Presi- 
dent Lincoln, our vv^armest sympathy and heartfelt condolence on the sad and 
melancholy event, and for the irreparable loss they have sustained by such a 
vile, treacherous, and cowardly assassination. 

That copies of the foregoing resolution be transmitted to the Hon. Mr. Adams, 
the American minister at London, the Secretary of the United States govern- 
ment, and the widow and family of the late Mr. Lincoln. 

JOHN LAWLEPt, Mcnjor. [l. s.J 
JOHN O'BRIEN, Toxm Clerk. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMrATHY. 357 

Tow.\ Clerk's Office, Waterford, Ireland, 

MonduT/, Mcnj 8, 1865. 
Sir: By directiou of the right Avorshijjful the mayor of Watcrfortl, I have 
the honor to transmit to your excellency a copy of a resolution unanimously 
adopted at a meeting of the citizens, in reference to the late melancholy event 
which unhapply deprived your government of its head. 

Permit me, sir, to offer you the assurance of my sincere sympathy and condo- 
lence, which I feel in common with all classes of my fellow-citizens. 

I have the honor to be your excellency's most obedient, humble servant, 

GEORGE J. BRISCOE, Secrctanj. 
The President of the United Slates of America, 

Washington, D. C. 



Cii;/ of Waterford, Ireland. 

At a meeting of the citizens of Waterford, held at the Town Ilall, on Thurs- 
day, the 4th instant, to express the sympathy and condolence with the people 
of America, shared in by all classes of the city of Waterford, the right worship- 
ful John Lawler, mayor, in the chair — 

Resolved, una voce, That we, the citizens of Waterford, feel called upon to 
unite in the very general expression of indignation and horror at the cowardly 
and most atrocious assassination of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, President of the 
United States, and also the similar brutal attack on the life of Mr. Secretary 
Seward; and we request that our chief magistrate, John Lawler, esq., will 
forthwith transmit to Mr. President Johnson the expression of these our senti- 
- ments, as well as of our deep and sincere sympathy with the people of America 
for their sufferings under so dreadful a national calamity as this most henious act 
Las given rise to. 

Besolved, v)ia voce, That, although, at the risk of intrusion on her intense 
grief, we cannot allow ourselves to separate without offering to Mrs. Lincoln 
our deep sympathy and sorrow for the very sad and sudden bereavement Avhich 
she has endured in the loss of her husband, Avhom we have recognized to have 
been so good a man while holding the reins of the American government. 

To attempt on our part to afford consolation would, we feel, be an impossi- 
bility; but we most humbly and prayerfully commend her to the care and pro- 
tection of Him who alone can dispense full and adequate comfort and consola- 
tion under the severest circum.stances of afiliciion, whether of a national or a 
domestic character. 

By order of the mavor : 

GEORGE J. BRISCOE, Secretary. 41 

Town Clerk's Office, To\v.\ Hall, 

Waterford, Ireland, Monday, the Sth of May, 1SG5. 



ASSASSINATION OE PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

Rcsolutio7is jyassed at a jmhlic meeting convened by the mayor of Warrington, 
in 2>ursMance of a numerously signed requisition, and held at the Tuhlic 
Hall, in Warrington, Lancashire, on the 2d May, 1865. 

That we, the inhabitants of Warrington, vicAv the atrocious assassination of 
his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and the 
attack on the life of the honorable William Henry Seward, Secretary of State, 



358 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE, 

witli feelings of indignation and sincere sorrow. We feel assured that tbrougli- 
ont the civilized world there can be but the one sentiment of horror at so revolt- 
ing a crime ; and, in common Avith the rest of our fellow-countrymen, we desire 
to express our deep sympathy with the people of the United States under this 
great national calamity. 

That tbis meeting wishes to express its heartfelt condolence with the widow 
and family of the late President, and trusts that they may be sustained by a 
merciful Providence under their sad and mournful bereavement. 

That our best thanks be given to the mayor for convening this meeting, and 
that he be requested to send copies of both resolutions to Mr. Adams, the 
American minister in London. 

PETER SMITH, Mayor, [l. s.] 



At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Wakefield, in the 
county of York, held at the Court-house in Wakefield, on the first day of May, 
1865, the worshipful the mayor in the chair, it was unanimously resolved, 

1. That the inhabitants of Wakefield, in public meeting assembled, express 
their strongest hatred and grief at the horrible murder of the President of the 
United' States of America, and also at the foul attempt to kill Mr. Seward and 
his sons ; and they hereby express their earnest sympathy with the American 
people and government in the loss they have thus sustained. 

On the motion of Mr. Robert Bownas Mackie, seconded by Mr. Ralph Lin- 
field, supported by the Rev. James Bewglass, LL. D. 

2. That this meeting records its deep sorrow and heartfelt sympathy with 
Mrs. Lincoln and her family in their fearful afiiictiou, caused by the cruel mur- 
der of Mr. Lincoln. 

On the motion of the Rev. Goodwyn Barmby, seconded by Mr. William 
Kitching. 

3. That copies of these resolutions be forwarded by the mayor to the honor- 
able C. F. Adams, the ambassador of the United States to Great Britain, with 
a request to forward the same to the President of the L^^nited States, Mrs. Lin- 
coln, and the honorable Mr. Seward. 

On the motion of Mr. William Ralph Milner, seconded by Samuel Holds- 
worth, j\r. D., supported by Mr. William Thomas Lamb. 



Resolutions passed at a meeting held hy tlie inhahitants of the horcugh of 
^ Wolverhampton. 

Town Hall, Wolverhampton, 

May 5, 1865. 

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Wolverhampton, 
in the county of Stafford, held at the Town Hall on Friday, the 5th day of 
May, 1865, John Ford, esq., mayor, in the chair, the following resolutions were 
unanimously passed : 

That this meeting desires to express its detestation and abhorrence of the 
horrid crime of assassination by Avhich the valuable life of the President of the 
United States has been sacrificed, and, on behalf of the inhabitants of Wolver- 
hampton, to offer to the government and people of that country, and to the 
family of the late Chief Magistrate, its heartfelt sympathy in the great calam- 
ity that has befallen them. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 359 

That this UKLCting also desires to record the deep regret of the inhabitants of 
this borongh at the attempted assassination of Mr. Secretary Seward, and their 
earnest wishes for lus complete recovery. 

That the mayor be respectfully requested to forward copies of the foregoing 
resolutions to the honorable E. M. Stanton, the Secretary of War at Washing- 
ton, and also to the honorable C. F. Adams, the United Stales minister in Lon- 
don. 

JOHN FORD, Mayor. 



Woodstock, April 20, I8G0. 
May it please voir Excellexi v : In accordance with a resolution 
adopted at a public meeting held yesterday in this town for the purpose of 
expressing horror at the committal of a deed which makes every civilized mind 
shudder, and sympathy for the bereaved family and the people in the neighbor- 
ing republic in the lamentable and untimely death of Abraham Lincoln, Presi- 
dent of the United States, by the hand of a cruel and relentless assassin, I beg, 
respectfully, to transmit a copy of the proceedings of said meeting, Avith the 
respectful request that your excellency may be pleased to transmit the resolu- 
tions to the proper authorities of the United States of America. 
Yours, &c., 

T. McWHENNIE, Mayor. 

His Excellency the Rt. Hon. Chaulks Sta.n'lhv Monck, 
Barou Monck of Ballytrammore, in the county of Wexford, 

Governor General of the Province of Canada : 



itoved by the Rev. Wm. J. McMullen, seconded by the Rev. U. S. Griffen, and 
Resolved, That we, the citizens of Woodstock, having heard of the assassina- 
tion of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby record our 
sincere grief and inexpressible horror at the unnatural tragedy by which our 
neighbors of the American republic have been deprived of a President who has 
proved himself so well qualified to fill in such a national crisis the distinguished 
position to which his fellow-countrymen had a second time called him. We 
deplore his untimely end by a hand so worthless, not only as a great public 
calamity, falling at a time so critical on a friendly neighboring nation, but also 
as a heavy blow inflicted on the cause of humanity itself, with which the name 
of Abraham Lincoln must ever be associated. 

Gloved by the Rev. D. McDermot, seconded by the Rev. J. Lacy, and 
Resolved, That the occurrences of Friday last, in the capital of the neighboring 
republic, by which the Chief Jdagistrate of the American people met his death 
at the hands of an assassin, prostrating in the gloom of bitterest despair an 
exalted family and bowing a nation in tears of deepest grief, evokes our heartfelt 
commisseration as well for the sorrowing family as the afllicted people. It is, 
therefore. 

Resolved, That the ministers of the various churches in Woodstock be re- 
quested to utilize the occasion on Sabbath next by a service special and pertment 
to the terrible calamitv, and indicative of the abhorrence felt by this community 
at the commission of an act so revolting to all Ci)ristian men, and so subversive 
of that obedience to constituted authority which is the keystone of individual 
liberty. 



360 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COKEESPONDENCE. 



Wedxeskury Local Board of Health, 

May 5, ] 865. 
Sir : I am instructed by the above Board of Healtb, as representing the 
inhabitants of the town of Wednesbiny, containing iipv,'ardi> of 23,000 popula- 
tion, to forward to you a copy of a resohition passed at the last meeting of the 
board held on the 1st of this present month of May, as follows : 

Rcsolrcd, That this board expresses its detestation of the assassination of 
President Lincoln, and of the brutal attack upon Secretary Seward, and also 
its sympathy with the people of the United States of America upon the great ^ 
and irreparable loss they have sustained thereby. 
I am, sir, your most obedient servant, 

WILLIAM TANLY BAILEY, 

Clerk of the Board. 
Charles F. Adams, Esq., 

Amhassado'r of the United States, London. 



At a meeting of the council of the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the 
borough of Yeovil, in the county of Somerset, held at the Tovrn Hall on the Lst 
day of May, 1865 — present, the worshipful the mayor in the chair — it was 

Unanimously resolved, That the council desire to unite in the general expression 
of deep sorrow and indignation excited throughout the kingdom by the foul 
assassination of the President of the United States of America, and most re- 
spectfully tender to the government and people of that nation, as well as to the 
widow and family of the late President, an assurance of the sincere sympathy 
of the council in the unprecedented calamity which has befallen them. 

And further, that the tov»'n clerk do transmit a copy of the foregoing resolu- 
tion to his excellency the United States minister in London. 



Resolutions yassccl at a meeting held hy the inhalitants of the city of York. 

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the city of York, held at the Guild- 
hall of the said city, on Thursday, the 4th day of May, 1865, the right honor- 
able Edwin Wade, lord mayor of the said city in the chair, the following resolu- 
tions Avere unanimously adopted, viz : 

Moved by Mr. Alderman Richardson, seconded by the sheriff of York — 
That this meeting desires to express its horror and detestation at the atrocious 
crime by which the life of Mr. Lincoln has been sacrificed, and its warm sym- 
pathy Avith the American people in the loss they haA^e sustained by the death of 
their distinguished President. 

Moved by W. D\ Husband, q&c\^., seconded by A. E. Hargrove, esq. — 
That this meeting desires to convey to Mrs. Lincoln its warm expression of 
sympathy and condolence at the bereavement she has sustained by the sudden 
and untimely death of her distinguished husband. 
Moved by John Smith, esq., barrister at lav/, seconded by Henry V/atson, esq. — 
That copies of these resolutions be forwarded to Mr. Adams for transmission 
to the government of the United States and to Mrs. Lincoln. 

EDWIN WADI^, Mayor. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 361 

EXTRACTS FIIOM THE PEESfe OF GKEAT BRTrAIN. 

[From tlic Ardros=aii and Saltcoats Herald and ^Vcst Coast Advertiser, Saturday Ai)ril 20 

1865.] ' ^ ' 

i.\ MEMORIA.M ABllAIIAM LL\COL\. 

Abraham Lincoln is dead, The news has sent a thrill of liorror through the 
country, for his death was the result of uone of the ordinary causes which re- 
move men from the scene of their labors, but he was foully and cowardly assas- 
sinated. In the hour of their triumph the northern States have been deprived 
of their trusted ruler — the genial, warm-hearted, kindly, honest man — the man, 
above all public men in the North, who did his duty from a sense of what he 
owed to his country ; who prosecuted the war without rindictiveness, without 
vaunting, without threats of extermination, and without the smallest grain of 
self-glorification ; v,ho conducted his intercourse with other countries with rare 
sagacity and moderation ; and who, but a few days before his death, now that 
the hard lighting he hoped was over, indicated in his own homely, kindly way, 
the best use Avhich could be made of their recent great victories, and that was by 
showing- mercy to their erring brethren. It is no matter for wonder that when 
intelligence was received of the great crime. New York was draped in black. In 
this country the act everywhere is viewed with deep abhorrence, and whatever 
the difference of views regarding the war, there is but one universal feeling of 
regret for the victim, and strong commiseration for a country deprived of its 
chief magistrate at the most critical crisis of its history. What, then, must be 
the public feeling in the industrious towns of New England, in the cities on the 
seaboard, all over the western States, and in the armies ? Craftsmen and clerks, 
fishermen along the shores, toilers in the rich fields of the west, Avandercrs in 
the prairies — the working world of the States, were allowed but bare time to 
cast aside their holiday attire put on to hold high festival for the downfall of 
Eichmond. The news would reach them when still surrounded v, ith much of 
the confusion and trappings of a merry-making time. It would come with the 
shock of a death immediately on a marriage ; the enactment of a fearful tragedy 
after a farce. Would it be irdiuman if the enraged feelings .of the nation should 
find utterance in a call for vengeance? God grant there may not! That in 
this sad hour of trial the innocent may not be called upon to suffer for the guilty. 
But none, under the circumstances, need be surprised if they should. We re- 
member Lucknow, and deemed the atrocities committed by Nina Sahib and his 
myrmidons as only too mercifully punished when the captured were blown from 
the cannon's mouth. 

Abraham Lincoln has died with his work incompleted ; but he has done enough 
to place his name next to that of Washington on the broad roll of his country's 
great men. Without any special training for goA'ernment, he Avill stand second 
to none for having conducted the affairs of his country, both at home and abroad, 
with great firmness and sagacity. He was reputed a humorist, but his jokes 
were neither rude nor ill-natured ; and although for the most part of his life he 
had followed manual employments, he so conducted himself in his personal in- 
tercourse with all classes and with all men whom curiosity or business brought 
to the seat of government, that he gained for himself general respect, if not ad- 
miration. He acted with extreme caution, and it would be difficult to point to 
a single act in his presidential career which was either mistimed or a mistake. 
He never vituperated the South ; and after four years of protracted struggle to 
force their return to the Union, if he has not gained their confidence, he has 
commanded their respect. His name will ever be associated with the freedom 
of the slave, and the abolition of the cursed slave system in the States of 
America. Like our own Sir Robert Peel and protective duties, he Avas slow in 
perceiving and acting upon the policy of emancipation as necessary to tire tri- 



362 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COKRESPONDEXCE. 

umpb of the northern arms and the future well-being of his country. But when 
he did take hold of the principle, with the firmnegs inherent in his character, 
■unhesitatingly he made it the chief ground on which he sought his late re-elec- 
tion to office, and the one point he was determined to insist upon in any recon- 
struction of the Union in which he was to play apart. Although he was aware 
that an opposite policy might rally round him the democratic party of the North, 
and possibly change somewhat the sentiment of the South, and make them less 
difficult to manage when once the war is over, he solemnly accepted the nobler 
alternative. It was he who exalted the issue of the war. He changed it from 
a war waged to enforce the return of the seceded States into the Union to one 
which, while accomplishing the end first contemplated, secured the emancipation 
of the negro race. The blacks call him the "liberator," and as this, as well as 
the nation's martyr, his name will descend in the annals of his country's history. 
It is needless to speculate on the effect which his death will have upon the 
war. His assassination is more than a crime — it is a great mistake. Apart al- 
together from the influence which the deed wll have upon the public opinion of 
Europe, it will have an evil influence, we fear, upon the future of the South. It 
will not delay for a day the further prosecution of the war — Grant, and Sher- 
man, and Sheridan are still alive to press the advantages already gained. But 
the most humane and Fagacious man in the cabinet has been taken away, and 
taken away when planning how best and most mercifully he could assuage the 
animosities of a four years' conflict, and reconstruct the Union on a broad and 
firm basis. The reins of government are in other and quite different ha,nds — 
men, we fear, less mercifully disposed to the instigators and fomentors of the re- 
bellion. 



[From the BradSprd Review, Saturday, April 29, 1865.] 
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

Many a time during the past four years has mournful news been brought us 
from the north ; but never during the whole of the war has any intelligence of 
such evil import for America arrived, as that which sent a shudder of horror 
through the length and breadth of England on Wednesday afternoon. Presi- 
dent Lincoln was assassinated on the 14th of April. No remark of ours can add 
anything to the intensity of feeling which tliose few words will excite throughout 
this nation, and the civilized world. For ourselves, we record the event with 
the bitterest sorrow for the dead, the most burning indignation against his mur- 
derer. 

From the scanty details which arrived on Wednesday, it appears that the 
President was at Ford's theatre, Washington, on the evening of Friday, April 
14th, with Mrs. Lincoln and some friends. A man suddenly appeared in the 
back of the box, fired at Mr. Lincoln, and lodged a bullet in the back of his 
head. The assassin then leaped from the box on to the stage, brandishing a 
large knife, and escaped at the back of the theatre. The whole affiiir was the 
work of a moment, and the audience did not realize the fjxct that the President 
was shot till the villian had escaped from the building. Mr. Lincoln was car- 
ried home insensible, and remained in that state all night. No hope was enter- 
tained from the first. About half-past seven o'clock next morning he died. 

About the same hour that the President's murder took place, a man came to 
Secretary Seward's house and demanded to see him, pleading pressing business. 
He was met by Frederick Seward, Mr. Seward's second sou, and an Assistant 
Secretary of State. After some colloquy had taken place betv/een them, the 
fellow suddenly struck young Seward with a "billy" on the head, injuring the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 363 

skrJl, and striking him down insensible. ITc tlien rushed into the Secretary's 
sick-room, wounded ]\Iajor Seward, his eklest son, stabbed two male nurses, 
who were also present, and next attacked Mr. Seward himself, lie stabbed him 
repeatedly in the throat and face. He then effect*^! his escape from the house. 
It is not certain that Secretary- Seward's Avounds are mortal, but it is feared 
that they will prove such. 

This is the story of a deed scarcely paralleled in the Avorld's history for brutal 
atrocity or wickedness. We look with fear and trembling for its results on the 
immediate future of America. The policy of President Lincoln, resolutely per- 
severed in during four long terrible years, had almost completed the suppression 
of a gigantic rebellion. So far, the President was successful; the first part of 
his great work was almost complete. But the second part was yet to be effected, 
and it presented difficulties absolutely stupendous. The settlement of the 
south — the organization of its society on an entirely new basis, the creation of a 
new system for it, the healing of the wounds caused by the war — this was the 
task which Mr. Lincoln had to perform in his second term of office. Yet 
gigantic as this undertaking was, the people of the North, and the millions of 
Avell-wishers to America in this country and elsewhere, looked with trusting 
confidence to its adequate performance by the great, pure, single-hearted man 
who, with unequalled moral courage and resolute perseverance, had steered the 
vessel of the state through such a time of trial as the world had never before 
witnessed. And now he has gone — gone with his work but half finished — gone 
in the midst of another great crisis in his countiy's history, when the eyes and 
hopes of all were turned on him, as the man above all best calculated to conduct 
the nation through the critical time — gone, having lived long enough to see hife 
country's enemies vanquished and broken, but falling before the Angel of Peace 
had spread her glorious wings over the land. Abraham Lincoln has died a noble 
martyr in the cause of America and of liberty. 

Nor should we forget to recognize the heavy loss which the United States 
have, v>-e fear, sustained in Mr. Seward. He was a statesman of the true Ameri- 
can type, Avitli some of the faults and very many of the virtues of his nation. 
For the people to be deprived of his services just when his great chief is struck 
down, and to lose him, too, in the same horrible manner, is a fearful intensilica- 
tion of the calamity. As we have said above, it is not certain that his wounds 
are mortal. We sincerely hope and pray that tliis may. not prove so. 

The crime is one which stands in horrid pre-eminence above all ordinary 
murders, and perhaps in its double brutality cannot be paralleled in history. 
Who were the assassins ? What impelled them to the commission of the crime ? 
It is stated that the murderer of the President is a "rabid secessionist " named 
Wilkes Booth; and that his accomplice, who struck down Mr. Seward and his 
son, is a man of similar character. Whoever these cowardly wretches inay be, 
they have assuredly earned for themselves the eternal execrations of civilized 
humanity. We do not believe that there is a single man in all the south, even, 
but will join in denouncing the deed, and in pursuing its perpetrators to the 
expiation of their monstrous guilt. What will be the ultimate result of the 
event it is impossible to say. The people of (he north are just now engaged in 
working out a great problem, the settlement of which will have a mighty m- 
ihience on the cause of liberty throughout the world. How the death of Pi-esi- 
dent Lincoln will affect this settlement, how it will modify the future^ policy oi 
America, both toward the south and to other nations, what will be its eflects 
on commerce, it is hard to indicate; but certainly it will have a marked influence 
in shaping these great questions. The hour of greatest trial for the north has 
arrived. Let us hope that the remarkable love of order which was displayed at 
the election a few months since, and on other recent occasions, will rci^train tlie 
people, and enable them to pass through the crisis unharmed. They deserve— 
we have no doubt they will receive— the sympathy of all free peoples. 



nG4 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

We confess that to us the blov,- is so sudden and so terrible that we find 
. ourselves, as yet, scarcely able to realize its truth, utterlj'- incapable of tracing 
its results. We had a deep respect and love for this man, who, quietly and 
unpretendingly, was doing a great work. We attempt no estimate of Mr. Lin- 
coln's character. If he vras not a man of brilliant qualities or showy accomplish- 
ments, yet he possessed great grasp and force of intellect, honesty and singleness 
of purpose, unsullied integrity, unshaken perseverance, firmness in authority, an 
ambition utterly unselfish, the qualities, in short, which go to make the truest 
and noblest patriot. In him, the preserver and restorer of the republic, the 
United States have lost a man worthy to rank with George Washington, the 
founder of it. There was a grandeur about his simple purity and truth which 
never attaches to more. selfish men, however great the height to which they may 
attain. The weapon of a vile and cowardly assassin has deprived us of one of 
the greatest men of modern times. England will mourn for him, mourn with 
her kinsfolks across the ocean. 

We of course presume that Mr. Vice-Pre.^idcnt Johnson will at once become 
President. In the first section of article II of the Constitution, it is declared: 
"In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, 
or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said ofiice, the same shall 
devolve on the Vice-President." In accordance with this provision, Vice-Presi- 
dent Tyler, in 1841, became President on the death of General Harrison, who 
died exactly a month after his inauguration. Again, Vice-President Fillmore, 
in 1850, succeeded President Taylor on his death. * * * * 

We have the fullest confidence that the American people will be ready to assist 
their new head in contending with the difiiculties of the position in which he 
is so suddenly placed. 

Some facts respecting Mr. Johnson's previous career have been published, 
which tend to prove that although he may be rough and lacking cultivation, 
he is still a man of mental powers and of energy. He educated himself 
while working hard for a livelihood as a journeyman tailor; and from this 
humble position he rose, by dint of perseverance and political talent, to the high 
position lie now holds. In 1835, when in his 27th year, he Avas elected to the 
Tennessee legislature. Eight years afterward, in 184-3, he entered Congress, 
in which he served till 1853. He was then cliosen Governor of Tennessee, and 
was re-elected in 1855. In 1857, at the expiration of his second term of ofiice, 
he was elected Senator of the United States for Tennessee. Mr. Johnson was, 
at that time, a democrat and a slaveholder; but when the rebellion began, he 
liberated his slaves, declared for abolition and the Union, and has siijce adhered 
firmly to the cause he then took up. He is said to be a man of decision and 
daring ; and in his military government of Tennessee, to which he was appointed 
by Mr. Lincoln, he gave many proofs of his administrative power, and of some 
truly noble qualities. 

Mr. Lincoln was born in February, 1809, and was consequently in the fifty- 
sixth year of his age. Mr. Seward was born in Florida, in New York State, in 
July, 1801; he will therefore be in his sixty-fourth year. 



[From the Caledonian Merciuy, Edinburgh, Thiu-sday, April 27, 1865.] 
"GOD MOVES I\ A MYSTERIOUS WAY." 

It is with a profoundly solemn sense of the inscrutable wonder-workings of 
Providence that we announce to-day the assassination of President Lincoln. 
The news is harrowing in the extreme. It has struck Edinburgh, and will 
strike Great Britain and the world, with terrible impressiveiiess. It has come 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 365 

.so unexpectedly, so unsuspectingly also, at the very time when the friends of 
the United States were rejoicing over the extinction of the great rebellion, and 
when even the opponents of the President and his government were reconciling 
themselves to fate and contemplating the immediate and peaceful winding up 
of the four years' war. It is no mere figure of speech, nor is it the slightest 
exaggeration, to say that when the telegraph first wafted the brief announce- 
ment through this city 

" The boldest held his breuth for a time." 
Nay, more, not a few strong men vrept as children, or as if a common father had 
gone. Among all classes— chiefly, of course, among the friends of the North^^ 
there was evidenced a feeling of astonishment, grief, and pain, which could not 
have been greater had the sovereign of our realm been taken to her last home. 
For ourselves, knowing as our readers do the intense admiration Ave have ever 
had of the calm, Christian, enlightened statesmanship of " honest old Abe," his 
firm and inflexible determination to abide by the Constitution of his country, and 
at the same time to blot out, through that Constitution, the infamous system 
and institutions of slavery, we feel bound to say that we have not language 
equal to the expression of our sorrow. President Lincoln was, in our judgment, 
" the right man in the right place" — the appropriately chosen ruler of a great 
people. He was admirably adapted for the arduous work Providence gave him 
to perform ; and that he thoroughly performed that work during his first term 
of office no one can deny. Those who take the most comprehensive view of 
the magnitude of the struggle in which the federal government was involved, 
and of the conflicting; interests to be consulted in that struggle, are most im- 
pressed when they reflect how he raised army after army and fleet after fleet ; 
how he equipped and supported them ; how he met, through sanitary commis- 
sions and Cluistian commissions, every requirement, temporal and spiritual, of 
which they stood in need ; and how, jmri 2^assu with all this, he smoothed down 
the rough angles of old prejudices, curbed the impetuous demands of wild and 
revengeful passions, and led the people on from victory to victory to the goal 
of universal and unconditional emancipation. Like Moses, he saw the people 
in bondage; like Moses, he sympatliized with them in their afflictions; like 
Moses, he led them through the lied sea out of the reach of their oppressors ; 
and, like Moses also, just as he was beginning to realize a Pisgah view of the 
promised inheritance he is taken away. There are and there will be many who 
in no irreverential spirit and with no idea of improperly associating the human 
Avith the divine will feel and say, in something like the same language as did 
the disciples on their way to Emmaus, " We had thought that it would have 
been he who would have redeemed Israel." It has no doubt been the earnest 
wish of tens of thousands of British hearts, as well as tens of thousands and 
millions of others in the States and throughout the world, that he would be 
spared to complete the work he so nobly and so chivalrously begun; that he 
would see the consolidation and regeneration of his country after its four years' 
terrible baptism of blood ; that he would long rule over a united, a happy, and 
a prosperous people, all the happier and all the more prosperous that both di- 
visions of them had tested each other's courage and skill, and that in the ordeal 
the original ground of quarrel had completely disappeared. The Great Disposer 
of events has ordered it otherwise. He has allowed, no doubt for His own 
wise and excellent purposes, as He allowed the rebellion itself to break out, 
President Lincoln to fall— to fall, too, by an assassin's hand. Is it not myste- 
rious ? Is it not confounding? Is it not another illustration of the solemn 
truth that " His thoughts are not as man's thoughts, nor His ways as man's 
ways ?" We cannot do otherwise than bow to that Sovereignty whose wisdom 
is infinite, whose judgments are as the floods, whose hand no earthly power is 
able to restrain, and to whom no creature he has formed can or ought re- 
piningly to say, " What doest thou V 



366 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

In view of the terrible calamity involved iii the death of President Lincoln, 
and the circumstances connected with it, the first question likely to arise is 
" v/hat effect will it have on the future of the war, or on the probability of an 
early and satisfactory peace? " To this we believe we can give an answer 
which the future will demonstrate to be correct.- The war will be proceeded 
with, and the work of reconstruction will go on as certainly, as surely, and as 
successfully as if the calamity itself had not occurred. The American people 
readily accommodate themselves to circumstances — adverse as well as favor- 
able — and while they will mourn v,nth sincerest sorrov/ the loss of one so emi- 
nently sagacious and good, they will also prosecute to its early and satisfactory 
completion the work he so faithfully and firmly showed them how to perform. 
Vice-President Johnson has already assumed the reins of office. He is a tried 
man, a more thorough abolitionist even than President Lincoln himself, and one 
also Avho will abate neither jot nor tittle of the national demands. Notwith- 
standing his unfortunate appearance at the occasion of his inauguration, he is 
believed in send trusted by the American people. He has done much good ser- 
vice to the state in his day ; he has displayed a firmness and fearlessness against 
the slaveholding fection which has endeared him to the thoroughgoing emanci- 
pationists of both north and south ; and while he will want the suave manner 
"and genial temperament and long-sighted perspicacity of " honest old Abe," he 
has other qualities -^v^hich not less fit him to be the wise and powerful ruler of 
the destinies of a great nation passing like refined gold out of a furnace of fire. 
We have no doubt he will rise to the dignity of his position and the responsi- 
bilities of his office, and that, carrying out the typical idea to which we have 
given expression, he will perfect, like Joshua with the judges, what Moses was 
not permitted to perform. Rulers die ; nations live ; God reigns. This is our 
comfort and consolation in the midst of sudden calamities, overwhelming the 
spirit and drowning the soiil in grief, and this is especially our consolation in the 
contemplation of the awful end of the father of a regenerated people. 

We do not and we will not discuss at present^because Ave have no certain 
information on the subject — the circumstances originating the assassination of 
President Lincoln. It may have been the result of a southern conspiracy — 
assassination being a crime almost unknown in the north, and unfortunately too 
well known in the south — or it may have been the work of a madman. The 
former seems to us much more likely, especially when the attempt on Mr. Se- 
ward the same night, and in his suffering chamber, is taken into account. We 
prefer, however, to await details and proofs. It is to be regretted that the genial, 
confiding, honest old man should have exposed himself unprotected at a time 
when " southern chivalry " must have been writhing under its terrible defeat. 
If it turn out that his death has been the result of a plot on the part of the 
southern leaders, then, need we say, it will be atoned for by a sweeping revenge. 



[From the Carlisle Examiner, Saturday, April 29, 1865.] 
THE CLIMAX OF INFAMY. 

A fortnight this Saturday, when the startling news was flashed through 
Europe of the fall of Richmond, the telegraph was carrying to the remotest 
cities of the north the story of an appalling tragedy. The capital of the 
confederacy and the great army of the confederacy were things of the past. 
The former had been evacuated a fortnight — the latter had surrendered a week 
ago. The people were rejoicing in the overthrow of the rebellion which they 
had made such mighty efibrts to crush, and on the advent of that reign of peace 
which was quickly coming with its attendant train of blessings. In the midst 
of their jubilations they were stricken with an awful blow. Their beloved 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 3G7 

President— lie whose steady hand and wise brain had guided the reeling shin 
through the hurricane, and was hut yesterday full of humane thoughts for its 
future career — lay dead, the victim of an infuriated assassin. Stran^-e, is it 
not, that the last of the ten thousand bullets of the war should be resei'ved for 
him ? But so It was. The greatest war of any time was consummated by an 
act to which history reveals no parallel, and which the Avorld will regard with 
feelings of unutterable horror. The death of Cicsar did not come widi such a 
shock to the assembled senators as the death of the President to his own peo- 
ple and to ours. The Roman had grasped power, and made the liberties of his 
countrymen and of alien nations subservient to his own imperial Avill. He 
lived in an age wheu Sic semjier tyrannis was a motto which commended itself 
to the highest minds. Even the assassinations of William of Orange, of the 
Russian Paul, of Kotzcbue, of Murat, of Percival, Avere justified by rigid phi- 
losophens, whose teachings the world has happily discarded ; and the still more 
recent attempt on the life of Napoleon was mitigated by many who regarded 
him as the author of Italy's thraldom. But Mr. Lincoln had nothing in com- 
mon with any of these high objects of the assassin's knife. He was a plain, 
homely man, whom the people had placed" in power once, and whom they rein- 
stated in power as the best evidence of their devotion. He had nothing of the 
tyrant either in his office or person. _Hc did nothing of an extra-judicial ten 
dency that was not sanctioned by the Constitution and by Congress. He 
neither rose to power on the burning ashes of a republic which he had de- 
stroyed, nor used a victorious army to enable him to override the laws of his 
coxmtry. As he was at the beginning, so he was at the end. He was sworn 
to execute laws which bound him equally with the prairie farmer or the city 
storekeeper. He would have been a traitor to his oath if he had not put those 
laws in force against those who souglit to dismember the Union he was charged 
to defend. He did so with a magnanimity unparalleled in the history of civil 
warsf for no man sufifered on the scaflbld for domestic treason. He brought the 
war to an end, and Avas glad of the opportunity it afforded of issuing a liberal 
amnesty. His generous plans have been frustrated by an event which deprives 
the North of a noble ruler, and the South of its best friend. 

It is almost needless to go over the terrible details of Mr. Lincoln's untimely 
death. He went to the theatre, accompanied by Mrs. Lincoln and a couple of 
friends, on the evening of the day appointed for a national thanksgiving. That, 
probably, explains the reason why Good Friday should have been chosen for a 
visit to such a place of entertainment. He Avas there, in his private box, shot 
in the head by a ruffian who had slipped in behind. He was never afterwards 
sensible, and died next morning. On the same night, and about the same time, 
an accomplice of the murderer made his way into the house of the Secretary 
of State. Mr. Seward was in bed, slowly recovering from iiis late accident. 
The villain rushed to the bedside, and instantly gashed his victim's head and 
neck. Two of Mr. Seward's sous Avere summoned by the domestics. One was 
knocked down with a bludgeon, and the other so terribly wounded that he was 
reported dead. One or two of the attendants Avere also so much injured as to 
leave little hopes of their recovery. It is doubtful, also, Avhether Mr. ScAvard 
will get better. It is said that Mr. Stanton, the Secretary of War, Avas marked 
by the assassins, and that General Grant, Avho Avas advertised to be at the 
theatre, but who did not go, Avas another expected victim. One of the mon- 
sters escaped, but the other was said to haA-e been captured. They had com;' 
to Washington on horseback, and had left their horses at a livery stable. 

The first question thai arises on reading the particulars of this atrocious 
series of crimes is, Avere they the result of accident or premeditation, the freak 
of madmen or the deliberate purpose of their employers ? 

The madman and fanatic theory falls to the ground at once as Avorthle...^ No 
lunatics would have come to the city on saddle horses, separated each on his 



3G8 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

diabolical mission, and tlien run awiiy. A fanatical patriot would liave bid de- 
fiance wben las revenge had been accomplished. Brutus justified liis deed, and 
less men than Brutus, inspired with the desire to kill a tyrant, would have 
quietly stood their ground. Not so the villains whose object was unquestion- 
ably to murder the entire cabinet. Mr. Stanton charges the crimes against " the 
enemies of the country," and says that "evidence has been obtained that these 
horrible crimes were committed in execution of a conspiracy deliberately planned 
and set on foot by rebels under pretence of avenging the South and aiding the 
rebel cause." It is further stated that the murders were to have been commit- 
ted in March, but were postponed " until Richmond could be heard from." Who 
were the conspirators at the rebel capital we shall probably learn before long, 
though they would have cunning enough to hide the written proofs of complicity. 
"We have not the shadow of a doubt that the actual assassins wei'e the wretched 
instruments of that slave power v/hich offered reAvards for the heads of the 
Washington government and plotted the murder of Mr. Lincoln at Baltimore in 
1S60. The chivalry which could starve Union prisoners to death, which could 
butcher negro captives, which could send out pirates to burn defenceless mer- 
chantmen, which could burn its own cities, which could break their solemn 
oaths and rob the public treasury, which could live in barbaric luxury on the 
spoils of human slavery, which could flog, imprison, and torture human beings 
as mere brutes, whose chief city was described by Mr. Russell, the Times cor- 
respondent, as " a hell upon earth," whose logical weapons for settling every 
dispute before the war were the revolver, the bowie knife, and the pine faggot, 
who planned the burning of New York and murdered the citizens of St. Al- 
bans — we have no hesitation in ascribing to some of them the authorship of the 
black list of assassinations. It is the worst job they have taken in hand since 
their famous treason. It will rouse the soldiers and people of the North to exact 
a measure of vengeance which Mr. Lincoln was the only man able to prevent. 
They have sent to an untimely, but not an inglorious grave, a man whose sim- 
ple, honest, grand life will place him next to Washington on the scroll of Presi- 
dents, and whose merciful nature would have stood between them and the block. 



[Extract from the Freeman's Journal, Dublin, Friday, April 28, 18G5. ] 

The assassination of the President created intense excitement over England. 
He was respected by all, and among the v/orking classes was as popular as he was 
in his own country. Simple in his habits — with no pride or pretension — acces- 
sible to all, and with a kind word for all — the warm friend of England, though 
from that country went forth some of the bitterest attacks on his person and 
character — his loss is the move deeply felt when the future is so uncertain and 
dark. All lament the good man and great statesman. We douht lohether modern 
Jdstory contains a grander cliaracter tlian the hnmhle lawyer of Illinois. Others 
had more genius, and, perhaps, a deeper insight into the political future, though 
in that prescience which is one of the highest and rarest gifts of rulers Abra- 
ham Lincoln was far from deficient. In high moral qualities, he teas unsur- 
passed by any j^uhlic character of the age. His hands v/ere as free from cor- 
ruption as his generous soul was indisposed to harshness. None of his enemies 
ever charged him with appropriating a dollar of the public money beyond his 
modest salary of four thousand pounds. His jmhlic virtue shone out as brightly 
as his private tcorth, and both 7nade him the best beloved, man in the United 
States. His loss is acutely felt in England and France, for his calm wisdom 
interposed a barrier against popular passions and mitigated national animosities. 
He sent as ambassador to England one of the first and most conciliatory of 
American statesmen, and his choice has been proved by the esteem in xchich Mr. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYrMATIIY. 3G9 

Adams is universallij held, ani the skill with which he has conducted the rela- 
tions hettoeen the two countries in many a perilous crisis. Whatever differences 
of opinion about tlie war may have existed in England, tlie horror wliich the 
murder excited has been universal. The House of Commons, as the represent- 
ative of the people, testified in a manner wliich will be appreciated in the 
United States its sense of the calamity. At the sitting Qf the house on Mon- 
day members of all shades — Englisli, Irish, and Scotch — liberal and conserva- 
tive — signed an address of sympathy to ]\Ir. Adams. Last night Sir George 
Grey stated that on Monday next he would move an address to' the Crown, ex- 
pressing the horror and condemnation the house felt at the assassination of the 
President, and praying her ]\Iajesty to convey that expression of feeling to the 
government and people of the United Stat(!s. In tlie House of Lords Earl 
Russell, in graceful language, made a similar statemcnit. Earl Derby wished to 
know whether in point of form such an address was regular. As to the sub- 
stance, the noble earl concurred in the indignation and horror which the atro- 
cious act excited among all ranks in England. The Queen will do her part. 
She entertains great regard for the American people, in which the Prince Con- 
sort shared. One of his last acts was to soften the tone of the despatches on 
the affair of the Trent, a fact stated by Earl Russell in the House of Lords. 
Her Majesty feels grateful for the universal hospitality the Prince of Wales 
received in the States, and we may be sure " the noble Queen," as Mr. Seward 
called her in his last speech, will convey to the American government and peo- 
ple more than a formal expression of the duty imposed on her by the lords 
and commons. Such displays are calculated to do much good. They soften 
resentments, soothe the sorrows, and draw closer the bonds of friendshi)) between 
nations. The American residents in London, in whom the late President had 
almost frantic admirers — we write, of course, of the northern section — met yes- 
terday to express their sentiments on the mournful occasion, and the Americans 
(who are still more numerous) in Paris will fallow the example. One of the most 
honored bodies in England — the Emancipation Society — founded in the middle 
of the last century, and which saw the consummation of its labors in the abo- 
lition of slavery, assembled for a similar purpose. In Liverpool, Manchester, 
Birmingham, Leads, Newcastle, and other great cities and towns, meetings are 
about to take place to address the American people. The common council of 
London — the first municipal body in the world — will also give expression to 
their fi.-elings. We rejoice to find Dublin active on the mournful occasion. The 
working classes will meet this evening at the Mechanics' Institute. A prelimi- 
nary meeting of gentlemen will take place to-day in Molesworth street, to pre- 
pare a requisition to the lord mayor to convene a meeting of the citizens on au 
early day. 



[From tlio Dublin Eveuing Tost, Satuidiiy, April 89, J8C5.] 
' THE MEKTINCJ AT THK MANSION IIOCSE. 

A requisition, signed by men whose names represent every shade of political 
■pillion, has drawn together at the :\Iansion House to-day a meeting of the citi- 
zens of Dublin, presided over by the lord mayor, to give language to their 
ietcstation of the crime which has just widowed the United Slates, and to 
iffer to the American people the expression of their heartfelt sympathy^ Dublin, 
IS might be expected, has borne itself wcu'thily on this occasion. We do not 
hink'it has ever before happened that a common feeling did so completely unite 
governments and populations, official and unofficial bodies, hostile parlies, and' 
varring opinions, in one spontaneous and irresistible expression ol sympathy 
vith a nation, and of homage to a man. There were doubtless many at that 



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370 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

meeting eutitlec!, by conscientious conviction, to withhold their sympathies from 
the cause, nobh} as we think it, which the victim President has further ennobled 
and consecrated by his death. Whatever differences of opinion may have ex- 
isted respecting the great struggle now all but terminated, thei'e is but one 
universal sentiment of abhorrence for the damning inftimy of the crime which 
has given so tragic a horror to its close. It is impossible, however, not to feel 
that every homage paid to the memory of the late President, and every mes- 
sage of condolence with the American people in the hour of their solemn grief 
sent forward to their government, more es2:)ecially from Ireland, will go to swell 
the universal tribute of civilization, not less to the cause than* to the man. 
There could not have been any divergence of opinion at the meeting, because 
no man, in expressing his abhorrence of assassination and parricide, makes 
sacrifices of political sentiments or partialities ; but we still feel that the ex- 
pression of sorrow, indignation, and sympathy, perfectly unexampled in the 
history of the world for breadth and intensity, which will be conveyed to the 
people of the United States from the ends of the earth, will and must be in- 
tei'preted as testifying to the greatness of the cause which, under the presi- 
dency of Abraham Lincoln, the American people had conducted to a glorious 
issue, and which, it is to be hoped, under the surviving inspiration of his firm 
but merciful policy, they will fix in abiding security. 



[From the Dublin Daily Express, Saturday, April 29, 1865.] 

The meeting convened for to-day is one in the objects of which all Irishmen, 
whatever their politics and whatever their predilections, v/ill combine. The 
assassination of President Lincoln is, without doubt, the most horrible catas- 
trophe which has occurred within the memory of man. Nay, it is even doubt- 
ful whether, in order to find its perfect parallel, we must not go back eighteen 
hundred years or more, and revert to the assassination of the first Coesar. The 
feeling with which the intelligence was received when the first vague sense of 
incredulity had passed away was one of overpowering sorrow. It was as though 
tliere were some great danger impending, some great personal bereavement to 
be endured, some vague and indefeasible horror to be undergone. The feeling 
was enhanced by the consciousness that we had not done justice to the char- 
acter or fairly estimated the career of the murdered statesman. We were all 
of us familiar with the descriptions of the homely and ungainly man — the mau 
that, born and bred a peasant, had carried, in some respects, the manners of a 
peasant into the lofty station which by his energy of character he had achieved. 
But we were only beginning to appreciate the homely common sense which had 
guided him Avhere mere astuteness would have failed — the homely honesty which 
in a community where political honesty is rare, had secured him the name of 
'' Honest Abe," the gentle, affectionate disposition which in the moment of tri- 
umph was ready to forget the past, and, in a broad spirit of philanthropy, to 
receive back his most deadly enemies as countrymen and friends. 

The loss of President Lincoln is great, but we must beware of exaggerating 
its greatness. The murdered statesman was not what is sometimes called " a 
necessary man." If the Emperor of the French were to be assassinated, his 
dynasty would in all probability be ended, France would be in a revolution, and 
all Europe would be shaken to its centre. The assassination of the President of 
the United States will, as fiir as we can forecast the future, be attended with no 
such terrible results, and the reason is easily to be discovered. In the one case 
the nation is the creature of the man, in the other the mau was the creature ol 
the nation. The Emperor is himself the empire. The French government is 
the realization of his ideal. He has impressed his individuality on France. The 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. o71 

Frencli people are not onlvrulod.tliey are governed, and animated, and impelled 
by him. The case was different with the murdered President. He was not a 
man of preconceived ideas and predetermined plans. Though he marched with 
unfeltering step at the head of American opinion, he can scarcely be said to 
have even led it. The nation urged him onward. The national thought in- 
spired, the national energy impelled him. The nation found in him it.s repre- 
sentative, its embodiment, its chief. And liere is to be found at once his true 
merit as a statesman and the explatiation of the fact that he Avas not indispensa- 
bly necessary to the States. If he was not in advance, he was never in arrear 
of public opinion. He yielded freely to the pressure from behind. Urged on- 
ward by the nation, he pushed tov/ards the end he did not see with honest pur- 
pose and unshaken courage. But his range of vision widened as he advanced. 
Dangers disappeared and difficulties chvared before him. At the outset of his 
eventful presidency he vvas scared at the prospect of secession. Secession, he 
said, M'as never contemplated by the Constitution, and the Constitution gave 
him no power of coercing a seceding State. For the moment the strong man 
seemed paralyzed. But Sumter was taken, and the national spirit was aroused. 
The nation rushed to arms, and the President caught the spirit of the nation and 
took his natural position at its head. Then cnme dark days of humiliation and 
disaster. Army after army v,\as defeated. General after general was deposed. 
But the heai-t of the President never failed him, and the nation's spirit rose 
higher the lower tliat its fortunes sank. There was aroused throughout the 
Nortli a firmer determination to sacrifice everything and to suffer anything rath(;r 
than abandon its destiny and renounce its place among the nations. Then, for 
the first time, came the thought that the negro might be emancipated, not, it is 
true, in obedience to the dictates of religion, not in the interests of humanity, 
but as a military expedient to meet the stern exigencies of the war. The sen- 
timent of the nation once more found expression in the homely words of its 
elect. If by maintaining slavery, he said, he coidd maintain the Union, he 
•would maintain it ; if by abolishing slavery he could maintain the Union, he 
would abolish it. His great, his only object was the Union. But it soon be- 
came apparent that the maintenance of slavery Avould not maintain the Union, 
and then arose a fierce, loud cry for abolition ; a cry in which were mingled the 
discordant voices of humanity, and wordly wisdom, and political rancor, and 
unrelenting war. The time was at length ome; the Pi esidcnt at length pro- 
nounced his emancipation proclamation, and slavery as an institution perished 
in the war which it had evoked. Then came the hour of triumph. Fo. tunc had 
changed, the tide had turned, the hour of darkness had passed away. Then 
followed in quick succession the march of Sherman, the capitulation of Savan- 
nah, tlie storming of the lines before I'etersbnrg, the capture of Ilichmond, the 
surrender of Lee, the virtual suppression of tin; great pro-slavery rebellion. But 
new tasks awaited the saviour of the republic. The Union was to be recon- 
structed ; a torn confederation of States was to be consolidated into a single na- 
tion. The element of division and disorder had disappeared with slavery, and 
the Constitution was to be remodelled to meet the exig.nicies of the new devel- 
opment of national existence. The pacification of the South, the determination 
of the future mtun of the blacks, the disbandment of the army, the consolida- 
ti(m of the debt, and the restoration of finances— these and a thousand other 
labors awaited the calm sai^acity and moderate counsels of the liomely states- 
man. But his hour was come. He was to be cut oft" in the midst of his triumph. 
His country A^■as to lose him. In one sense it .s an irrejiarable loss ; but tlie 
nation -survives, though the individual is dead, and the high qualities which 
have carried the American people through the terrible ordeal of war will, we 
doubt not, carry it through the ordeal— less terribh-, perhaps, but equally try- 
ing—of approaching peace. The spirit of the nation now, as heretot(n-e, will 
animate the spirit of its statesmen and its generals, and mould them to its will. 



372 APPEXUIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONi)ENCE. 

Graut is still at the head of the army of the Potomac, and the death of the 
President can exert no influence on the conduct of the war. Slavery periched 
in the lifetime of the murdered man, and cannot be resuscitated by his murder. 
The consolidation of the confederacy of independent States into a nation will be 
the work of time, but the process has commenced and cannot be arrested even 
by an assassination. The only peril with which America is really menaced by 
the catastrophe which has occurred is a reaction of popular sentiment against 
the South, The hand of the assassin has destroyed the man of moderate coun- 
sels and kindly heart, and those who have succeeded to his place have not, we 
fear, inherited his virtues. There is, in truth, peril. As for ourselves, the de- 
plorable event which has occurred has been attended Avith at least one poor con- 
solation and advantage. The universal horror which the intelligence of this 
foul assassination has evoked, the universal sympathy with the American peo- 
ple in its great bereavement which it has elicited, will go f;ir in the mind of a 
generous nation to obliterate all those angry feelings which necessary policy and 
unfortunate accidents have engendered. And the report of the proceedings of the 
multitude of public meetings throughout the length and breadth of the land, such 
as that which will be assembled to-day in Dublin, will prove to the American 
people that, whatever may have been our want of appreciation of the living, we 
honor and revere the dead, and cherish the memory of the second Washington 



[From the Dublin Eeformcr, Saturday, April 29, 1865.] 
THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

"Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States, was shot by an assas- 
sin on the 14th instant, and died the following morning." This was the intelli- 
gence which reached Europe on "Wednesday, the 26th instant, and never was 
greater consternation, horror, and grief exhibited, than that which appeared iu 
the faces of the millions who crowded the streets of European cities. * * * 
Were' it not that official information has been received confirming the diabolical 
butchery of a man equal in every respect to the immortal Washington, we 
should scout the statement contained in Renter's telegram as a most wicked 
and clumsy imposture. Information subsequently received, however, has gone 
too far to leave room for any reasonable doubt as to the lamentable fate of this 
great patriot, statesman, and philanthropist. In an age teeming with intel- 
lectual genius and refinement, Abraham Lincoln, the humble woodman, Avas 
called to play an arduous, noble, and conspicuous part in the great drama of 
civilization and progress. The earliest days of his presidency were employed 
in raising gigantic armies, money, and all the munitions of war, on a scale never 
before contemplated or necessary ; and which he had to draw from a peoj^le who 
adored peace, and who trampled on all the instincts of selfishness and individual 
aggrandizement, in order to raise their country to the highest pinnacle of social 
prosperity, political purity, and moral advancement. 

No people in the world have yielded to greater lengths in the cause of peace 
than the Americans. " Peace with all, and to all," was their motto, until Jefier- 
son Davis plotted for that brutal effusion of blood which has ended so charac- 
teristically in the cowardlj and brutal assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the 
good and the great. This last savage act was only one of the many that were 
planned and enacted by Davis and his secession aiders and abettors. Davis 
disappeared with a carpet-bag the moment a signal reverse attended his man- 
stealing government. And after the massacre by General Lee of the remnant 
of the army he opposed to Grant's forces, we have the most substantial reasons 
for believing that southern leaders would not stop at anything, and it would be 



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SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 373 

hard to entertain an idea tliat they are wholly free from complicity in the sava<z:e 
deed of blood which hurried Abraham Lincoln to an untimely but j^-lorious 
grave. As lately as the month of Fc^bruary last, General Lee is reported to have 
said that "he would startle the whole world," whicli he has not done since that 
date by his military successes ; and let us hope that the death of President Lin- 
coln, and the attempted assassination of a no less trustworthy and indefatigable 
public servant, Mr. Seward, are not the tragedies " which were to startle the 
world." Happily for America, before Lincoln fell, Grant had proved himself 
a man of honor, and a military commander of the highest genius, and Sherman, 
Sheridan, and Thomas had sii;nalized themseh^es as men of the same stamp, 
whose names, if not respected for their valor hy the South, will long be dreaded 
by the disturbers of the peace of a people who loathe and despise war, and seek 
greatness in the harmony and advancement of all nations. Before these men 
appeared on the stage Abraham Lincoln was left with armies shattered by 
intriguing and incompetent leaders, whose place could not be readily supplied. 
These armies were reorganized by Lincoln in his cabinet, who never allowed 
the war and public spirit to flag, until men of honor and consummate skill as com- 
manders led the desponding and almost panic-stricken troops of the xsorth to 
victory as complete as the contest was great. 

While engaged in directing great warlike operations, without leaders, except 
those who had not been fairly tried, but who have since shown themselves equal 
to the work, Abraham Lincoln held together the civil government intact, and 
left none of the duties of his high office undone. AVitli the greatest power ever 
placed in the hands of a single man, Abraham Lincoln never took upon himsidf 
any unconstitutional power, but openly conveyed his views and opinions to the 
criticism of public opinion, and acted in strict accordance with the popular 
voice. He was an American, and he breathed only for America ; and, horrible 
to think, the soil of America has drunk his blood. But great and deplorable as 
this calamity is, much as the sympathizers of the South may rejoice over this 
terrible deed, and secessionists may think that it will open the door to fresh 
tumult and bloodshed, the great republic, with all its giant powers, genius, and 
interests, will be safe, and handed down to posterity by Grant, Sherman, Sher- 
idan, and Thomas*. Four such men were never seen at any one time in a' single 
battle-iield, and if the armies of the North do not wreak their vengence on 
Mobile and the other confederate positions still holding out against the North, 
it Atill be simply because they respect and honor the names of tliose commatulers 
who have led them to victory, and delivered their country from further carnage. 
But before we conclude, we hope that the citizens of Dublin, and of the other 
large towns in Ireland, will follow the example of Liverpool, ^Lmchester, and 
other cities in England, and hold meetings to express the horror and dis- 
gust with which the assassination of President Lincoln has filled the pul)lic 
mind of Europe, and to offer the American peojjle all the condolence they can 
bestow on a nation who has suffered so great and so bitter a loss. 



[From the Gateshead Observer, Saturday, April 29, 18G.').] 

One of the foulest deeds in tlie annals of crime has been committed at Wash- 
ington. President Lincoln, sitting in the theatre, accompanied by his wife, was 
Bbot to death on the 14th instant by an assassin, who unfortunately escape«l, 
and had not been apprehended when the Nova Scotia, which reached Liverpool 
on Thursday, left New York. 

No wonder that so dreadful a murder, so far as Mr. Lincoln was concerned, 
and so great a calamity for the country which he governed with an ability which 
even his adversaries have not been the last to admit, has aroused the mdigna- 



374 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

tion of every people to wliich its perpetration Las been made known, and warmed 
even tlie coldest heart into sympathy Avith her who has been deprived not only 
of a husband, but of one whose management of state affairs has illuminated a 
brighter j^age in the history of his country than any which has been emblazoned 
since the death of Washington. 

The crime, indeed, the more it is looked at, intensifies in atrocity, for Mr. 
Lincoln, at the moment of his assassination and in the hour of victory, it is well 
knov/n, ai-id as we always believed would be the case, was desirous of securing 
peace with the least possible humiliation to ihe defeated party, and with a view 
to an impartial promotion of the interests of every State of the Union, the restora- 
tion of which was the great object of his incessant labor, and as he (we believe 
most honestly) believed the one thing needful to secure the power and happiness 
of the republic. 

The utter hopelessness of further resistance in the south had been proved by 
the surrender of' General Lee, with all that remained of his army, to the federal 
connnander. The terms given by the victorious general. Grant, to his gallant, 
although unsuccessful opponent, were of themselves an indication of that clement 
policy on which the President is said to have been resolved. There was no 
humiliation — no captivity for either officers or men — all the lienors of war were 
allowed by the victor, and the 'parole dlionncur of the vanquished Avas consid- 
ered sufficient security that no resumption of arms would be resorted to by 
soldiers whose conduct in the field had secured them respect both in the cabinet 
and the camp of the conf[uerors. 

The ruffian, in striking down the President, struck at the same time at the 
heart of a nation desirous of forgetting past differences and of changing a bloody 
war into an everlasting peace. He was the murderer not merely of the Presi- 
dent but of that disposition towards forgiveness which was beginning to manifest 
itself in almost every department and every class in the federal States. Indeed, 
it is difficult to say v/hether the deed ought to be most bitterly execrated in the 
northern or in the southern States. The death-wound of the President, it is 
true, laid a great man low, but it produced a paroxysm of anguish at the same 
time in every city, nook, and coi'ner of the vast territories which he ruled, and, 
we have not the least doubt, in those also which were endeavoring to secure 
their independence. Murder, in its ordinary acceptation, is a thing unknown 
to honorable warfare; and as such, we verily believe, this sad and sauguinuary 
act will be regarded in the Confederate States. 

It is to be deplored that so great a criminal as Wilkes Booth (as the wretch 
is called) even temporarily escaped. That he will succeed in evading justice 
for any considerable length of time we cannot believe. No community, even of 
literal savages, would harbor such a monster. The mark of Cain will be upon 
him, and we fain trust will facilitate his apprehension. We only hope that he 
may have gone to some Confederate State, because we cannot but believe that, 
despite all the asperities of which civil strife has been productive, he would in 
that case be immediately given up to the federal authorities ; and the doing so 
would tend to dispel suspicions, which in some quarters seem to prevail, that 
the iuurder Avas planned, not by one or two individuals only, but by the govern- 
ment of the southern confederacy — an atrocity of which Ave believe the latter 
to be utterly incapable. 

That there were two persons bent on murder on the 14th is evident, because, 
while Booth Avas shooting Mr. Lincoln, another ruffian, Avhose name is unknoAvn, 
and who has also escaped, was endeavoring to stab to death Mr. ScAvard, 
although lying in a state of great suffering, consequent upon a recent serious 
accident ; and not only Avas the life of Mr. ScAvard jeopardized, but his son Avas 
grievously Avounded by the assassin's dagger Avhile endeavoring to protect his 
father against the man of blood. Indeed, it Avas at first reported that young 
Seward had died of his Avounds, but this has been, since, contradicted. We 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 375 

sincerely hope that both father and son may yet live to serve their country and 
earn its gratitude. 

It is au eminently creditable as well as consolatory fact that, in every i)ortioa 
of the United Kingdom, the news of the bloody scene in Washington theatre 
jH-oduced a thrill of horror and indignation, and that all classes, from the Queen 
on her throne to the very humblest of her subjects, are desirous of testifying to 
the people of America their detestation of the crime and their sympathy Avith 
those whom the assassin's dagger has deprived at once of a father, a ruler, a 
statesman, and a friend. 

In both Houses of Parliament, on ]\[onday, an address to the Crown will be 
moved, expressive of sorrow and indignation at the murder of the Tresideut, 
and praying her Majesty to convey that expression of feeling to the American 
government. 

The corporation of London and the great commercial cities and towns of the 
kingdom have already taken steps for uniting with the lords and commons in 
giving expression to their feelings on this sad occasion ; and there is every 
reason to believe that faw communities of any magnitude or importance will 
fail to follow the example, for it is one of those special occasions when the 
hearts of nations throb in unison, and when, in addition, as in qur case, the 
impellent forces of a common origin raise from the lowest depths the well-springs 
of sympathy, commiseration, and affection. 



[From tlie Glasgow Herald, Monday moraiiig, May 1, 1865.] 

The profound and universal im])ression which the assassination of Mr. Lin- 
coln has made upon the public iniiid leads us to believe that the peo})le of 
Glasgow would be glad of that opportunity, which is likely to be affordeii them, 
of giving utterance to the horror and indignation with which this diabolical act 
has inspired them, and of expressing the profound and painful sympathy which 
is felt in this dark moment for the people of the United States, on wliom this 
terrible event has' fallen as a national calamity. It is a dark and portentous 
event for the South as well as for the ^orth. It is almost impossible, indeed, 
to conceive anything that could have occurred more disastrous to southern in- 
terests. Southern and pro-southern people will probably shudder at the deed, 
and execrate the doer as much as we do ourselves, and as we see they have 
already done to some extent in Liverpool. But, unfortunately, the act connects 
itself by an inevitable link with the political situation ; the simultaneousness 
of the murderous assaults on Mr. Lincoln and i\Ir. Seward indicates a conspi- 
racy ; and it is difficult for such deeds done on behalf of a cause to be entirely 
dissociated from that cause itself We can only pray God that in the present 
case it may be done, and that the people of the North, who have, even in the 
exultant hour of triumph, displayed such a spirit of noble and unexampled 
magnanimity, may be able to withstand the exasperating influence of this ac- 
cursed deed, and not allow it to change the voice of kindness and conciliation 
into a cry for indiscriminate revenge. Much will depend on the way in which 
the deed is regarded by the people of the South. Were it for a moment con- 
ceivable thai the southern people would accept it as their own — nay, that they 
would regard it otherwise than with utter detestation and abhorrence ; then, 
indeed, their cause would deserve execration, and their conflict— beginning with 
slavery and ending with assassination — would go down to future ages branded 
with an infamy that all the genius of its champions and all the devotion of its 
advocates would do nothiu"; to remove. This, however, is inconceivable. We 



376 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

are perfectly satisfied that tlie South will repudiate this foul deed with indigna- 
tion, and that southern sympathizers here would be prompt to participate in any 
public act which would express the abhorrence with which it is regarded in this 
country by people of every class and of every shade of political opinion. 

Under these circumstances, we are not disposed to take such gloomy views as 
many are taking of the probable consequences of this sad event. The conduct 
of the North during the whole course of this long and desperate struggle 
inspired us with a strong and unAvavering faith in her good sense, in her self- 
control, and in the moral grandeur and beneficence of her aims. Mr. Lincoln 
was not the leader so much as the fit representative of the great nation that 
elected him. When he did his best, as he ever did, to preserve the most frank 
and amicable relations with this country, even under provocation and abuse, of 
which we believe the authois to be now heartily ashamed ; and when, in the 
very hour of federal triumph, his language was full of mercy and conciliation, he 
was .icting, not upon his own sentiments alone, but upon the magnanimous senti- 
ments of the whole northern people. That people, inspired by the same generous 
and friendly feelings, still remain, tlmugh Lincoln, who represented them 
so nobly and so well, is gone. His fall is a loss to the world ; it is a loss in- 
flicted undfir most exasperating circumstances to them; but it will not — we are 
satisfied that it will not — change their policy. They have already shown them- 
selves most ready to forgive in the very moment when they were most able to 
avenge ; and, therefore, we are not without a strong and earnest hope that, even 
should the South regard the assassination of Mr. Lincoln with more callousness 
than we anticipate, the people of the North will crown their- recent acts of 
magnanimity and forbearance with a moral .victory grander and more triumphant 
than the capture of Ilichmond itself. 

In the mean time let us unite in expressing our deep and genuine sympathy 
with the people of the United States in their bereavement, and the indignation 
and horror with which we look upon the act that has deprived them of their 
constitutional head. Since the death of Prince Albert, we know of nothing that 
has filled this nation with such deep and universal sorrow. Poor Abraham 
Lincoln — " honest Abe " — the simple, the noble, the true-hearted; as blunt and 
unafi'ected, as simple-hearted, kindly and playful in his high position as Presi- 
dent of the United States as ever he had been when, in earlier days, he drove 
his team through the forests of Illinois ! The people of this country hud all 
come to love him. Even those who could or would see nothing in him at first 
but the quondam rail-splitter and mule-driver, came in the end to recognize the 
native grandeur and simplicity of his character, and the fitness there was in this 
blunt unassuming man to head a great people in passing through a national 
crisis, and doing battle for a higher civilization. There was not, we believe, 
one true British heart in these dominions that did not feel a pang of deep and 
iinaft'ected sorrow mingling with the horror that was excited by the intelligence 
of Mr. Lincoln's violent death. 

If there ever was a moment when we as a people could unite with deepest 
sincerity in expressing our sympathy with the people of the United States, it is 
now. Let us have an address of condolence prepared, in which the deeply agi- 
tated feelings of the community could find expression. Were such an address 
prepared, and a proper opportunity aff'orded, we belicA^e it would be signed by 
the whole population of this city. Let something of this sort be done before 
the time for it is gone. Let us join hands with our brethren in America, and 
mingle our tears with theirs over the grave of this simple, heroic man, Avho has 
brought the two nations nearer to each other than they were, and who has now 
fallen, honored and lamented by them both. 



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[From tlic Loiulou Moniiug Tost, April 27, 1865.] 

The startling intelligence wliicli has reached us from America will excite hut 
one sentiment in the minds of all, no matter what their political ])redilection3. 
Northerner and southerner, European and American, slaveholder^ and aholi- 
tionist, must equally concur in reprohating the dastardly crime which has just 
been consummated. The President of the United States of America has, in the 
moment of what he at least considered to be victory, and at the very instant 
when he had reason to believe that the gigantic enterprise to which he devoted 
himself was on the point of being crowned with success, fallen by the hand of an 
assassin. The event is so astounding that it is with ditlicnlty we can bring 
ourselves to realize its occxn-rence, much less to estimate its consequences. It is 
but a few short days since the great and crowning events of the civil war took 
place, since Richmond was evacuated and the army of Virginia laid down its 
arms, and since jMr. Lincoln, boasting once more to be not only de jure but de 
facto President of the entire American republic, proclaimed it to the civilized 
world, and appointed a day of general thanksgiving to inaugurate the com- 
mencement of a new and happier era. On Sunday, the 9th of the present 
month, General Lee capitulated ; on the following day Mr. Lincoln congratu- 
lated his fellow-citizens on the hapjjy issue of the arduous struggle in which 
they had been so long engaged, and besought their co-operation in that no less 
arduous work of reconstruction to Avhich he purposed devoting the second pe- 
riod of his ofScial career, and on the Friday following he was brutally mur- 
dered. In the annals of history there are to be found but too many instances in 
Avhich the chief magistrate of a stat^ has fallen by the assassin's hand, but we 
doubt if there is one which, by its surrounding circumstances, will retain a 
deeper hold on the memory of posterity than the murder of the American Pres- 
ident. What Mr. Lincoln might have been, and what he might have accom- 
plished, must always remain matters of speculation ; but that he should have 
been arrested midway in his career, and that the wishes of a great nation 
should be frustrated by the will of a rabid fanatic, points a moral of tlie futil- 
ity of all human projects, which, however trite, is not uninstructive. At the very 
time when most persons would have concurred in approving the policy of 
the northern States in again electing INlr. Lincoln to the presidential otlice, and 
would have gladly seen him endeavor to reconstruct the edilice which has been 
so cruelly shaken, he is suddenly carried from the scene. " The king is dead. 
God save the king." As it is in monarchies, so it is in republics. The same 
mail that tells its of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln informs us of the accession 
of his successor. * * * * 

The circumstances under which the murder of Mr. Tvincoln took place may be 
gathered from an official report published by Mr. Stanton on the morning after 
the commission of the crime ; and it is not the least remarkable circumstance 
attendant on the extraordinary event that at the same time that ]\[r. Lincoln 
was shot down in a theatre "Mr. Seward, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 
should be stabbed in the sick bed to which he had for some days been coniined 
by a recent accident. On the evening of Good Friday Mr. Lincoln, accompa- 
nied by his wife, another lady, and a Major Rathburn, visited the theatre, and 
at about half-past nine o'clock a man suddenly entered the box in which the 
President was seated, and before any one was made aware of his intention dis- 
charged a pistol at the President's head. The shot took fatal effect, the ball 
penetrating the back of the head, and probably lodging in the brain. 
After effeciing his object the assassin is said to have leaped from the box on to 
the stage, and then to have escaped. Whih; this scene was being enacted at 
the theatre another assassin succeeded in obtaining an entrance to Mr. Seward's 
house under the pretence of pressing business, aud inflicted on the Secretary 



378 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

•woiindg wliich it was believed would prove fatal. Mr. Seward's son, who 
was in an adjoining room, having hastened to his father's assistance, was struck 
down by the murderer, and is reported to have since died. In this instance, as 
in that of the assassination of the President, the ruffian succeeded in effecting 
his escape. Mr. Lincoln remained insensible until his death, which took place 
the following morning at half-past seven o'clock. At eleven o'clock Andrew 
Johnson took the oath of office, and was duly installed as President of the 
United States. 

The first sentiment, after that horror, which will be excited in the minds of 
most persons, will be one of surprise that such crimes as those we have recorded 
should have been committed. The late President had for an enemy every man 
who took up arms or was ready to take up arms for the southern cause. But 
they were open enemies, and, as the whole history of the civil war has shown, 
they were chivalrous enemies. We should not have believed it possible, nor 
can we believe it now, that in the entire mass of the southern population a sin- 
gle man would be found who Avould have committed the crime which has 
aroused the indignation of the entire world. We do not mean to say that a 
southerner may not be a murderer just as an Englishman may be, but merely 
that we fail to discover the motives which would actuate a southerner to this 
particular crime. Mr. Lincoln could not be held individually accountable for 
the cruel war which has made so many regions of the confederacy desolate, and 
none who took the trouble of considering the matter would fail to perceive that 
that war would, in all probability, have equally run its course if another indi- 
vidual of the same political opinions had been elected President four years ago, 
or if Mr. Lincoln had died at any period subsequent to his accession to office. 
The assassination of Butler in New Orleans would have been perfectly intelli- 
gible ; but that of Mr. Lincoln in Washington, at the very moment when the 
war had to all appearances come to an end, is apparently motiveless. The cir- 
cumstance, however, that an attempt, and probably a successful one, was made 
to murder Mr. Seward at the same time, shows that the double crime was the 
result of a carefully organized scheme. We must await the arrival of the next 
mail to be made apprised, as we hope we shall be, of the capture of the assas- 
sins, and then perhaps we may learn the circumstances under which they were 
led to commit so terrible a crime. 



[From tbo Loudon Evening Standard, April 27, 1865.] 

The startling news which was yesterday received from America is such as 
to throw into the shade even the tremendous catastrophe of the fall of Eich- 
mond and the surrender of Lee's army. Mr. President Lincoln has been assas- 
sinated, and is dead. Mr. Seward has been stabbed, and is reported in a hope- 
less state. Mr. Andrew Johnson is President of the United States. The blow 
is sudden, horrible, irretrievable. Never, since the death of Henry IV by 
the hand of Ravaillac — never, perhaps, since the assassination of Caesar — has 
a murder been committed more momentous in its bearing upon the times. In 
the very height and plenitude of his triumph — at the moment when all his 
hopes seemed fulfilled, all his labors rewarded, when the capitulation of his 
most powerful enemy had placed within his grasp that prize of empire for 
which he had so long and so earnestly striven, Abraham Lincoln was smitten 
to the earth by a dastardly assassin, who shot him through the head from be- 
hind. The commander of armies that the Macedonian or the lloman might 
have envied ; the leader in the most gigantic struggle of the nineteenth century; 
the ruler, or likely soon to be the ruler, of the most populous, and, in the opin- 
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Lad risen from low estate to a power as vast as was ever wielded by a mortal, 
whose recent success has astonished and bewildered the universe, is now re- 
duced to some poor six feet of common clay. All the texts and sermons of 
the mutability of human affairs, and the instability of life, pale int,(j insignifi- 
cance before this tremendous commentary. Much as we have condemned the 
attitude of the American people during this civil w|r, and though we have, 
from the first, op])Osed the policy and censured the acts of the late President 
of the United States, we must sympathize with the nation which is widowed 
by this sudden bereavement. Now that he is dead, the good qualities of the 
unfortunate Lincoln seem to come into the foreground. We remember his 
honesty and his manliness; we do justice to his consistency; we give him all 
praise for the spirit of conciliation which he has shown ; for his refusal to be 
borne along by the sanguinary counsels of his friends ; we make some allowance 
for his frequent and untimely levity; we almost excuse his obstinacy in the 
prosecution of the war. kSuch, we are persuaded, will be the sentiments of 
every right-minded Englishman; and they will be shared in by the vast ma- 
jority of the confederate people. The men who shot Lincoln and Seward 
were probably lunatics, or men who had been crazed by their misfortunes iu 
this terrible war. There is no reason to suppose that there was any southern 
conspiracy to take away the life of the only man in the northern government 
Avho was disposed to deal leniently with the South. The confederates, as a 
nation, are too magnanimous to plan or approve of such a cowardly method of 
revenge. Booth, who killed Lincoln, when he jumped upon the stage and 
shouted " Sic sempn- tyrannis,'' made an unworthy use of the proud motto of 
the State of Virginia. The wretched murderer has been caught, it is said, and 
will doubtless soon meet with the fate which he so richly deserves. But the 
most ignoble means may work a stupendous result. The dagger or the bullet, 
in the hand of the feeblest worm in human shape that crawls the earth, may 
alter the fate of nations or turn the tide of time. The unfortunate President, 
shot as he was through the brain, Avent unwarned and unprepared to his ac- 
count. iSTo portents accompanied the deed — no omens foretold it. No sooth- 
sayer bade him beware of the fatal 14th of April. He is gone ; the pilot is 
gone. His country is left to toss in the sea of a dismal anarchy, a revolution 
of which no man can presume to foretell the issue. * * * * 



[From the London Times, April 27, 16G5.] 

The American news Avhich we publish this morning will be received, through- 
out Europe, with sorrow as sincere and profound as it awoke even in the United 
States themselves, ^r. Lincoln has fallen at the hands of an assassin, and ^Iv. 
Seward has too probably shared his fate. While the President was sitting quietly 
with his wile and some friends in a private box at a Washington theatre on Friday 
week, he was shot by a man who entered the box under a treacherous prctenceof 
public business ; and, almost at the same hour, an accomplice of the assassm, 
with similar treachery, forced himself into Mr. Seward's sick-room and stabbed 
the Secretary of State four or five times in the face and throat. The President 
died the next morning. Mr. Seward, when the mail left, lay almost beyond 
hope of recovery ; and his son, who acted as his secretary, in attempting to 
withstand the murderer of his fother, was wounded to his death. Deeds ot 
such atrocity cover their perpetrators with everlasting infiimy, and discredit the 
cause tliey are presumably meant to serve. We trust it will appear tliat the 
crimes of Wilkes Booth and his accomplice were conceived and executed in 
concert with no one but themselves. The South, broken and defeated, cou d 
receive no possible benefit from the removal of :\Ir. Lincoln and .^h•. Seward; 



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the too probable effect of the crime is an accession of madness and anger, ren- 
dering all schemes of reconstruction impossible. On the other hand, the wav 
ing of a knife before the affrighted audience at the theatre, and the," Sic semjier 
tyrannis" pronounced by the assassin, indicate the vanity of men willing to 
immortalize themselves, like Eratostratus, though the Avorld should perish. 
Unjust as we believe iL to be, the confederate cause will not escape the dis- 
honor cast upon it by the wanton murders of Mr. Lincoln and the Secretary. 
The admiration won by the long and gallant defence of Richmond will be 
lessened ; the memory of Lee's lofty bearing and Jackson's deep religious 
feeling will be obscured by the atrocities committed in the name and on behalf 
of the South. Arson in New York ; theft, under the pretence of war, in Ver- 
mont, and assassination in the capital, dim the lustre of a four years' resistance 
to superior forces, and of many a well-fought field in Virginia. 

The critical condition of affairs in America ; the position of the southern 
States at the feet of their victorious antagonists ; the gigantic task of recon- 
struction which must be undertaken by the political leaders of the North ; all 
tend to exalt our estimate of the loss which the States have suffered in the murder of 
their President. But it would be nnjnst not to acknowledge that Mr. Lincoln was a 
man who could not, under any circumstances, have been easily replaced. Starting 
from a humble position to one of the greatest eminence, and adopted by the Ilepubli- 
can party as a makeshift, simply because Mr. Seward and their other prominent 
leaders were obnoxious to different sections of the party, it was natural that his 
career should be watched with jealous suspicion. The office cast upon him was 
great, its duties most onerous, and the obscurity of his past career afforded no 
guarantee of his ability to discharge them. His shortcomings, moreover, were 
on the surface. The education of a man whose early years had been spent in 
earning bread by manual labor had necessarily been defective, and faults of 
manner and errors of taste repelled the observer at the outset. In spite of these 
drawbacks Mr. Lincoln slowly won for himself the respect and confidence of all. 
His perfect honesty speedily became apparent, and, what is perhaps more to his 
credit, amid the many unstudied speeches which he was called upon from time 
to time to deliver, imbued though they were with the rough humor of liis early 
associates, he was in none of them betrayed into any intemperance of language 
towards his opponents or towards neutials. His utterances were apparently 
careless, but his tongue was always under command. The quality of Mr. 
Lincoln's administration which served, however, more than any other to enlist 
the sympathy of bystanders, was its conservative pi'ogress. He felt his way 
gradually to his conclusions ; and those who will compare the different stages 
of his career one with another will find that his mind was growing throughout 
the course of it. The naivete with which he once suggested to the negroes 
that they should take themselves off to Central America. because their presence 
in the States was inconvenient to the white population, soon disappeared. The 
gradual change of his language and of his policy was most nmarkable. Eng- 
lishmen learnt to respect a man who showed the best characteristics of their 
race in his lespect for what was good in the past, acting in unison with a recog- 
nition of wliat was made necessary by the events of passing history. But the 
growth of Mr. Lincoln's mind was subject to a singular modification. It would 
seem that he felt himself of late a mere instrument engaged in working out a 
great cause, which he could partly recognize, but which he was powerless to 
control. In the mixed strength and weakness of his character he |)resented a 
remarkable contrast to iMr. Seward, who was his coadjutor for more than four 
years, and who must, we fear, be reckoned his fellow victim. The Secretary 
of State, long before his elevation to office, was a prominent citizen of New 
York. More than a quarter of a century ago he was the governor of that 
State, and for twelve years he represented it in the Senate. In the Empire 
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never acquired. But llie experience of the politician had, perha])s, weakened 
the independence of Mr. Seward's character, and he never inspired the same 
confidence as his chief, because it was not known by what influences his course 
mi<:ht not be modified. 

Wliat may be the actual destiny of the United States deprived of the guiding 
hand of Mr. Lincohi and of the experience of ]\Ir. Seward no one would venture 
to foretell. * * * # The fate of a 

nation hangs in the balance, and we wait with anxiety to see whicli way it will 
turn. 



[Extract.] 
[From the London Daily News, Ajiril 27, 1S05.] 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

******** 

To trace the events of Mr. Lincoln's administration would be to write the 
history of the great revolution through which the United States have passed 
during the last four years, a task which does not come within the scope of this 
article. It would be foolish to pretend that Mr. Lincoln foresaw what no one 
could foresee, the extent and character of the work before him Avhen he assumed 
the presidency. It is sufficient if it can be truly affirmed that he brought to 
his duties qualities and a character which fitted him to grapple with the tremen- 
dous difficulties of his position as they arose. J\[r. Lincoln was thoroughly in 
sympathy with the interests of the American people, and completely imbued 
with reverence for those ideas of justice, freedom, and humanity which are ex- 
pressed in American institutions. His first words on taking office Avere suited 
to develop that trust of the nation iu itself, without which it was impossible to 
hope to sustain it in a war begun and carried on by an aristocracy based upon 
the denial of human rights. On his way to AVashington in February, ISO I, he 
said, at Indianapolis: "Of the people, when they rise in mass in behalf of the 
Union and of the liberties of their country, truly it may be said, ' Tlie gates of 
hell cannot prevail against them;' " and he concluded his address with the words : 
"I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you, and not with 
politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you, rests the 
question, shall the Union and shall the liberties of this country be preserved to 
the latest generation?" Again and again, in the short speeches made by him 
during his journey to Washington, ho dwelt on this idea. " It is with you, the 
peojjle, to advance the great cause of the Union and the Constitution." "I am 
sure I bring a heart true to the work. For the ability to perform it, I must 
tru^t iu that Supreme Leing who has never forsaken this favored land, thr(nigli 
the instrumentality of this great and intelligent people." And in an address to 
a returning Ohio regiment delivered last August, he said : " I wish it might be 
more generally understood what the country is now engaged in. AVe. have, as 
all will agree, a free government, where every man has a right to be cfpial with 
every other man. In this great struggle this form of government and every 
form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more in- 
volved in the contest than is realized by every one; there is involved in thi.s 
struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the 
privileges we have enjoyed." 'Hiese were in Mr. Lincoln's eyes the principles 
by which alone the republic could live; it was by them that slavery was to be 
stifled and overthrown. 

Mr. Lincoln's political course in reference to the rebellion was based on the 
doctrine laid down in his first inaugural address : " I hold that the contempla- 
tion of universal law and by the Constitution the union of these States is per- 



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petual." It has often boen said that bis successive measures against slavery 
were only adopted for political purposes, and to save the Union. This may be 
admitted with the explanation that in Mr. Lincoln's view only the necessity of 
saving the Union gave him a warrant to attack slavery by some of those meas- 
ures. At the beginning of the struggle he, in common with the mass of the 
people of the North, was ready to guarantee to the people of the South pro- 
tection for slavery within its existing limits. His oath as President to support 
the Constitution was interpreted by him as depriving him of all lawful right to 
interfere, directly or indirectly, with the institution of slavery in the States 
where it then existed. But the progress of events taught him, as it taught the 
people, that slavery, like every other partial interest or relation, Avas.subordinate 
to the general interest ; that it was subject to the (;onstitntioii ; that if, to pre- 
serve the Union, slavery must be destroyed, the Constitution, which formed the 
bond of tlie Union, could not be pleaded in its defence. His course in this 
matter was in accordance with the fundamental principles of his political creed. 
He never pretended to be a ciusader like John Brown, or the leader of an agi- 
tation, like Mr. Garrison. His duties were those of a statesman and a magis- 
trate, and the very fact that he had never uttered a single revolutionary senti- 
ment qualified him to accompany and guide the remarkable but gradual develop- 
ment of national opinion on this vital subject. He had to unite the people of 
the loyal States, and to keep them together. Had he not succeeded in this he 
could luive done nothing for liberty, nothing against slavery; and he did suc- 
ceed. 

In this country great alarm has often been expressed for the loss of liberties 
which it was supposed would ensue in America as a consequence of the excep- 
tional measures to which lie more than once resorted in times of emergency. It 
belongs to American lawyers to decide how far those measures were warranted 
by the Constitution ; and differences of opinion may well exist as to their neces- 
sity and policy. The American people, however, showed their appreciation of 
the trustworthiness of Mr. Lincoln by re-electing him after he had suspended 
the habeas corpus and suppressed newspapers. No alarm for the fate of their 
most precious rights and the establishment of the worst despotism over them 
prevented them from recording their votes for him last November. Their sen- 
timents on the siibject were, as they then showed, more in harmony with those 
of Mr. Lincoln's letter to the Hon. Erastus Corning, written on the 13th of 
June, 1863. 

"Nor am I able," said he, "to appreciate the danger apprehended that the 
American people will, by means of military arrests during the rebellion, lose tlie 
right of public discussion, the liberty of speech and the press, the law of evi- 
dence, trial by jury, and habeas corpus, t'lrougliout the indefinite peaceful future 
which, I trust, lies before them, any more than I am able to believe that a man 
could contract so strong an appetite for emetics during temporary illness as to 
persist in feeding upon them during the rest of his healthful life." 

It is given to few men to triumph over the most formidable obstacles, as Mr. 
Lincoln triumphed, by the mere force of honesty and sagacity. His simple 
integrity of purpose, firmness of Avill, patience, humanity, and the deep sense 
of accountability which marked every important act, united to form a character 
which has steadily and visibly gained upon the minds and hearts, not of his 
own countrymen alone, but also of the world. Even the enemies of his coim- 
try and foreign powers acknowledged in him a man whom they could trust. In 
this country Mr. Lincoln's name is mentioned with regret by many who four 
years ago half believed that he was the wretched imbecile he was described to 
be by the Richmond press. And even at Richmond Ave Avill undertake to affirm 
there are those, lately foremost in resisting his authority, who will deeply regret 
that the political changes which military events liave rendered necessary are not 
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feet sketch witli tlie words of one of tlie most aistinguislica of ^h: Lincoln's 
countrymen in the North American RevicAv : 

" The resuhs of the pohcy piir.-^ned hy Mr. Lincohi dnrin- his administration 
tlnis far are its own hest justification. The verdict of the future is not to be 
foreshown. ^ But there can be little doubt that history will record the name of 
Abraham Lincoln as that of a pure and disinterested patriot. She may find in 
his course many errors ; she may point out in his character many defects; she 
will speak of him as a man who had to contend against the disadvantages of 
imperfect culture, of self-education, and of little intercourse with men ot^high 
breeding. But she will speak also of the virtues which the hard experience ''of 
early life had strengthened in him; of his homely sincerity and simplicity ; of 
his manly frankness and self-respect; of his large, humane, and tender sympa- 
thies; of his self-control and good temper; of his truthfulness and sturdy hon- 
esty. She will represent him as actuated by an abiding sense of duty, as striv- 
ing to be faithful in his service of God and of man, as possessed with deep 
moral earnestness, and as endowed with vigorous common sense and f iculty for 
dealing with affairs. She will tell of his confidence in the people, and she will 
recount with approval their confidence in him. And when she has told all this, 
may she conclude her record by saying that to Abraham Lincoln more than to 
any other man is due the success which crowned the efforts of the American 
people to maintain the L^nion and the institutions of their country, to widen and 
confirm the foundations of justice and liberty, on which those institutions rest, 
and to establish inviolable and eternal peace within the borders of their land." 

Such is the man whom Providence, by a mysterious dispensation, decrees to 
be no longer necessary to his country. 

In the hour of his great work done, President Lincoln has fdlcn. Not, indeed, 
in the flush of triumph, for no thought of triumph was in that honest and humble 
heart, nor in the intoxication of ap})lause, for the fruits of victory were not yet 
gathered in his hand, was the chief of the American people, the foremost man 
in the great Christian revolution of our age, struck down. But his task was, 
nevertheless, accomplisiied, and the battle of his life won. So he passes away 
from the heat and toil that still have to be endured, full of the honor that belongs 
to one who has nobly done his part, and carrying in his last thoughts the sense 
of deep, steadfast thankfulness that he now could see the assured coming of that 
end for which he had so long striven in faith and hope. AVlio shall pity or 
lament such a death, while the tears of a nation fall upon his corpse, and the 
world softly speaks how true and good he was ? Who will not bow the head 
submissive to the Inscrutable decree which mocks our plans and fancies, but 
even in our sorroiv makes us feel that it is wiser, juster, kinder, than our vain 
■wishes might have been ? 

For in all time to come, not among Americans only, but among all who think 
of manhood as more than rank, and set worth above display, the name of Abra- 
ham Lincoln will be held in reverence. Rising from among the poorest of the 
lieople, winning his slow way upwards by sheer hard work, preserving iu every 
succ(;ssive stage a character unspotted and a name untainted, securing a wider re- 
spect as he became better known, never pretending to more than he was, nor being 
less than he professed himself, he was at length for very singleness of heart and 
uprightness of conduct, because all felt that they could trust him utterly, and 
would desire to be guided by his firmness, courage, and sense, placed in the 
chair of President at the turni*'ng point of his nation's history. A life so true, 
rewarded by a dignity so mnjestic, was defence enough against the petty shafts 
of malice which partv spirit," violent (;nough to light a civil war, aimed against 
him. The lowly calfings he had first pursued became his titles to greater respect 
among those whose respect was worth having; the little external rusticities only 
showed more brightly, as the rough matrix the golden ore, the true dignity of 
his nature. Never was any one, set in such high place and surrounded with 



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so many motives of furious detraction, so little impeached of anght blameworthy. 
The bitterest enemy could find no more to lay to his charge than that his lan- 
guage was sometimes too homely for a supersensitive taste, or that he conveyed 
in a jesting phrase what they deemed more suited for statelier style. But 
against these specks, what thorough nobility have we not set? A purity of 
thought, word, and deed never challenged, a disinterestedness never suspected, 
an honesty of purpose never impugned, a gentleness and tendern ss that never 
made a private enemy or alienated a friend — these are indeed qualities which 
may well make a nation mourn. But he had intellect as well as goodness. 
Cautiously conservative, fearing to pass the limits of established systems, seeking 
the needful amendments rather from growth than alteration, he proved himself 
in the crisis the very man best suited for his post. He held back the ardent 
while he gave confidence to the timid, his reluctance to innovate did not prevent 
him fi'om recognizing and accepting the changes in the situation which the pro- 
gress of events brought to pass, and the firmness with which he refused to pro- 
ceed faster than they warranted was equalled by the tenacity with wliich he 
refused to retire from the position he had at last thought it right to take up. So 
four years of trial convinced his countrymen that there was none among them 
who could better fill his place. And there can be no doubt that in his known 
respect for established rights, as well as in his known justice, impartiality, and 
benevolence. South as well as North had begun to look upon him as their surest 
friend, and as the safe arbiter in whom they could both trust to exact no more 
and to claim no less than might suffice to make their reconciliation perpetual. 

But he has fiillen, and by a southern hand. We cannot as yet tell the motive 
that urged the treacherous blow, but the fact that two had conspired to murder, 
the one the President, the other the Secretary of State, shows tliat at least there 
is not insanity to be reckoned as a possible explanation. But we will not, with- 
out overwhelming proof, let the horrible conspiracy, or the phrases of its actors, 
lead us to lay it to the charge of abettors in the South. We will not doubt that 
from what lately was the southern government and people there will come at once 
earnest disavowals of any knowledge of the meditated crime, and that if the 
murderer of Mr. Seward has reached the territory their power yet holds, he will 
be seized and surrendered as one guilty of a crime against humanity itself. On 
no other terms at least will their English sympathizers believe in southern 
"chivalry." For though some among us haveby growth of prejudice come to think 
slavery not sia, there is no E'uglishmau yet whom secret assassination does not 
horrify. And the kindly nature, the earnest desire to do right, which even his 
opponents confessed in Abraham Lincoln, will, now that he has gone, turn to 
him all sympathies and make all among us call with one voice for vengeance on 
his detestable murderer. 

But a harder task than vengeance lies yet on the North, which they must 
enter on before the first hours of mourning have j^assed. They have a govern- 
ment to carry on, a war to finish, a commonwealth to reconstruct. It wei'e vain 
to conceal how the difficulty of each part of their task is enhanced by the loss 
of their chosen and tried head. Nor, unhappily, have they made provision for 
an event so wholly unforeseen. The Vice-President, who, in virtue of the Con- 
stitution, has already taken the oaths as President for nearly the term of four 
years still remaining to be run, is not the man whom they would have selected 
had they thought of such an event as his sitting in the President's chair. Al- 
ready, too, there has been removed from his side the Secretary of State, who 
has during Mr. Lincoln's tenure of office shared most fuliy his confidence and 
his designs. It is a great and terrible crisis. But we have confidence that the 
people will meet it worthily, and, if they do, that they will surmount all their 
troubles. Chief among our reasons for this belief is the reflection that Mr. Lin- 
coln was himself rather a representative than a leader. His personal influence 
had not formed his party ; h? was only selected iu its exigencies to do its be- 



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hests. Admirably as he has done them, we must not think that he was the only 
one who could have substantially done the same. And thourrl, Andrew Johnson 
was not selected to represent the party, but only as a seoondarr compromise be- 
tween sections, this is an occasion which it may be hoped will exdiiguish sections, 
and unite all in a common effort. Round hiin will still stand the^'old leaders— 
Stanton, Chase, and Grant. The responsibilities thus thrust upon liim will, it may 
be expected, force him to -uide his acts by tiieir counsels, and by the j.ublic opin- 
ion of the people which has made him what he is, and which they jruide. But in 
the firm heart of the people, tried and ])uritied as it has been for four years in the 
furnace of affliction, lies, under God, our hope for the future. Eminentlv a law- 
abidin^c; people, they will follow, first of all, and as far as possible, the path tlieir 
Constitution points out. But if a chance more powerful than their will, if the 
perversity of this man or of that, renders tiie effort dan<^erous, they will know 
how to save the Constitution by sacrifice. Meantime, their great common sor- 
row, their great common danger, will obliterate division, and nerve them to 
energy. As when a beloved captain falls in fight, his men press forward with 
more impetuous and irresistible force to secure the post to which he led them, 
the fall of the captain of the people will fill them with the sterner resolve to be 
victors in the combat in which he was their leader, and to gain the object for 
which his life was given. 



[From the London Morning Star, April 27, 186.5.] 

The appalling tragedy which has just been perpetrated at \Yashington is 
absolutely without historical precedent. Not in the records of the fiercest Euro- 
pean convulsion, in the darkest hour of partisan hatreds, have we an example 
of an assassin plot at once so foul and so senseless, so horrible and so successful, 
as that to which Abraham Lincoln has already fallen a victim, and from which 
William li. Seward can hardly escape. Only in such instances as the murder 
of William of Orange, of Henri Quatre, or of Capodistria, have we any deed 
approaching in hideous ferocity to that which has just robbed the United States 
of one of the greatest of tlieir Presidents. But fmm the fanatic's hateful point 
of view there was at least something to be said for men like Balthazar Gerard 
and Bavaillac. They at least mi^ht have believed that they saw embodied in 
their victims the whole living principle and motive power of that religious free- 
dom which they detested. They might have supposed that with the man would 
die the great hopes and the great cause he inspired and guided. So, too, of 
Orsini. That unfortunate and guilty being believed, at least, that in Napoleon 
the Third there stood an embodied and concentrated system. But Abraham 
Lincoln was no dictator and no autocrat. He represented simply the resolution 
and the resources of a great people. The miserable excuse which fanaticism 
might attempt to plead for other political assassins has no application to the 
wretch whose felon hand dealt death to the pure and noble magistrate of a free 
nation. One would gladly, for the poor sake of common humanity, have caught 
at the idea that the crime was but the work of some maniacal partisan. But 
the mere nature of the deeds, without any additional evidence wliati-ver, bids 
defiance to such an idea. While the one murderer was slaying the President of 
the republic, the other was making his even more dastardly attempt upon tiie 
life of the sick and jirostrate Secretary. It does not need even the disclosures 
which have now, too late for any g.iod purpose, reached official quarters to prove 
that two madmen cannot become simultaneously inspired with the same mon- 
strous project and impelled at the oik; moment to do their sev(,-ral parts of the 
one bloody business. The chivalry of the South has had much European com- 
pliment of late. It has been discovered to be the fount and origin of all the 
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most noble and knightly qualities wliicli the world heretofore had principally 
known through tiie medium of mediaeval romance. Let it not be forgotten that 
southern brains lately planned the conflagration of a peaceful city. It never 
can be forgotten while history is read that the hands of southern partisans have 
been reddened by the foulest assassin plot the world has ever known, that they 
have been treacherously dipped in the blood of one of the best citizens and 
purest patriots to whom the land of AVashington gave birth. 

For Abraham Lincoln one cry of universal regret will be raised all over the 
civilized earth. We do not believe that even the fiercest partisans of the con- 
federacy in this country will entertain any sentiment at such a time but one of 
grief and horror. To us Abraham Lincoln has always seemed the finest char- 
acter prodv(ced by the American war, on either side of the struggle. He was 
great not merely by the for -e of genius — and only tiie word genius will describe 
the power of intellect by which he guided himself and his country through such 
a crisis — but by the simple, natural strength and grandeur of his character. 
Talleyrand once said of a great American statesman that without experience he 
"divined " his way through any crisis. Mr. Lincoln (bus divined his way through 
the perilous, exhausting, and unprecedented difficulties which might well have 
broken the strength and binded the prescience of the best trained professional 
statesman. He seemed to arrive by instinct — by the instinct of a noble, un- 
selfish, and manly nature — at the very ends which the highest of political genius, 
the longest of political experience, could have done no mure than reach. He 
bore himself fearlessly in danger, calmly in difficulty, modestly in success. The 
world was at last beginning to know how good, and, in the best sense, how great 
a man he was. It had long indeed learned that he was as devoid of vanity as 
of fear, but it had only just come to know what magnanimity and mercy the 
hour of triumph would prove that he possessed. Ileluctant enemies were just 
beginning to break into eulogy over his wise arid noble clemency when the 
dastard hand of a vile murderer destroyed his noble and valuable life. We in 
England have something to feel ashamed of when we meditate upon the true 
greatness of the man so ruthlessly slain. Too many Englishmen lent them- 
selves to the vulgar and ignoble cry which was raised against him. English 
writers degraded themselves to the levtl of the coarsest caricaturists when they 
had to tell of Abraham Lincoln. They stooped to criticise a foreign patriot as 
a menial might comment on the bearing of a hero. They sneered at his man- 
ners, as if Cromwell was a Chesterfield ; they accused him of ugliness, as if 
Mirabeau was a beauty ; they made coarse pleasantry of his figure, as if Peel 
was a posture-master; they were facetious about his dress, as if Cavour was a 
D'Ors:iy ; they were indignant about his jokes, as if Palmerston never jested. 
We do not remember any instance since the wildest days of British fury against 
the " Corsican Ogre," in which a fin-eign statesman was ever so dealt with in 
English writings as Mr. Lincoln. And when we make the comparison we cannot 
but remember that while Napoleon was our unscrupulous enemy, Lincoln was 
our steady friend. Assailed by the coarsest attacks on this side the ocean, tried 
by the sorest temptations on that, Abraham Lincoln calmly and steadfastly main- 
tained a policy of peace with England, and never did a deed, never wrote or 
spoke a word, which was unjust or unfriendly to the British nation. Had such 
a man died by the hand of disease in the hour of his triumph the world must 
have mourned for his loss. That he has fallen by the coward hand of a vile 
assassin exasperates and imbitters the grief beyond any power of language to 
-express. 

Had Lincoln been a vain man he might almost have ambitioned such a death. 
The weapon of the murderer has made sure for him an immortal place in history. 
Disappointment, failure, political change, popular caprice, the efforts of rivals, 
the malice of enemies, can touch him no more. He lived long enough to accom- 
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to speculate as yet upon the effect wliich hi^ cruel death ^^ill produce upon the 
political fortune? of his country; but the destinies of that country will be cared 
for. Its hopes are too well sustained to f lint and fill even over the grave of so 
great a patriot ^r.d so wise a leader as Abraham Lincoln. There are still fh>ar 
and vigorous intellects left to conduct what remains of Lincoln's work to a tri- 
umphant conclusion; nor must we allow one da^-'s unhappy inisconduct to make 
us forget the undoubted abilities and patriotic purpose of" the man so suddenly 
find strangely called to Hit Lincoln's place. Dramatic justice has, indeed, been 
marvellously wreaked thus far upon the criminal pride 'of the South. A negro 
regiment wms the first to enter Richmond, and now one of the poor whites, Uae 
"white trash" of a southern State, is called to receive from the South its final 
submission. We trust and feel assured that even in this hour of just indigna- 
tion and natural excitement the North may still bear itself with that magn'^nii- 
mous clemency wliich thus far has illumined its triumph. Bat it may be that 
the conquered South, has yet to learn that it too must mourn over the bloody 
grave to which Abraham Lincoln has been consigned by a southern assassin's 
hand. 



[Extract.] 
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

In the moment of victory Abraham Lincoln has been stricken to death. Not 
I on the battle-field, where so many noble patriots have laid down their lives for 
freedom, not by the unseen shaft of disease before which the greatest and nobhjst 
' must sooner or later fall, but brutally murdered by an assassin of the slave 
power while he sat beside his wife enjoying a much-needed relaxation from the 
heavy cares of state. Noble, generous, forgiving, his only thoughts since the 
capture of Richmond have been of mercy. At a meeting of the Cabinet on the 
morning of his death he spoke very kindly of Lee and others of the confed-^r- 
ates, and while his thoughts were thus all of forgiveness, the miscreant stole 
^ hind him and shot him through the brain. Unconscious from !he moment he 
•ei\'ed the fatal wound, the great and noble-hearted patriot breathed his last 
., on the following morning. Nothing else was needed to sanctify the name and 
(j memory of Abraham Lincoln to the people of the United . States, and to all 
\\ lovers of freedom throughout the world, than this his martyr death. Raised 
• ' from the ranks of the common peojde to take upon himself the responsibility of 
the most gigantic struggle the world has ever witnessed between the forces of 
freedom and slavery, he guided the destinies of his country with unwavering 
hand through all the terrors and dangers of the conflict, and j)laced her so high 
and safe among the nations of the world that the dastards of despotism dare no 
longer question the strength and majesty of freedom. Willi a firm faith in his 
I God, his country, and his principles of freedom tV)r all men, Avhatever their color 
r and condition, he has stood unmoved amid the shock of armies and the clamors 
• of faction ; he quailed not when defeat in the field seemed to herald the triumidi 
of the foe ; he boasted not of victory, nor sought to arrogate to himself the hon- 
ors of the great deeds which have resounded through the world: but, gentle and 
mode'^t as he was great and good, he took the chaplet from his own brow to 
place it on the. lowly graves of the soldiers whose blood has been so liberally 
poured forth to consecrate the s -il of America for freedom. He dies and raak(;3 
no sign, but "the impress of his noble character and aims will be borne by his 
country while timeendures. Hedies.but his country lives; freedom has triumphed; 
the broken chains at the feet of the slaves are the mute witnesses of his vict(uy. 
It was on the evening of the 14th of April, the day which saw the federal flag 
raised once more on Fort Sumter amid the hoarse reverberation of cannon and 



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the cheers of liberated slaves, that the President received his death-blow. The 
wretched conspirators who sought to destroy their coinilry that slavery might 
triumph over its ruins panted for Lincoln's life since the day he was first elected 
to guide the destinies of the republic. When in the act of passing from his 
home in Illinois to assume the reins of office, he was apprised by General ^cott 
that the barbarians of slavery had resolved to assassinate him. The plan was 
to raise a I'iot in Baltimore as he passed through that city on his way to Wash- 
ington, and in the midst of the tumult Mr. Lincoln was to be slain. The mes- 
senger who brought the news of the conspiracy to Mr. Lincoln at Harrisbiu-g 
was Frederick Seward, son of the statesman wliu now lies low beside his chief, 
stricken down by another desperate miscreant on the same day as the President. 
Mr. Lincoln, with his usual prudence, at once stopped in his triumphal progress 
towards the capital, and, disguised as a countryman, passed safely through Balti- 
more by the night train, and arrived at the White House in Washington. The 
speech which he made to his neighbors of Springfield when he set out on his 
perilous mission has a mournful interest in view of his sudden and awful death. 
At the railway depot on Monday, the 11th of February, 1861, a large concourse 
of his fellow-citizens had assembled to bid him farewell. "My friends," he 
said, " no one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this part- 
ing. To this people I owe all that I am. Here 1 have lived more than a quar- 
ter of a century ; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. 
I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me, which 
is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any man since the days 
of Washington. He never could have succeeded without the aid of Divine 
Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without 
the same Divine aid which sustained him. In the same Almighty Being I place 
my reliance for support, and I hope you, my friends, will all pray that I may 
receive that Divine assistance, without which I cannot succeed, but with which 
success is certain. Again I bid you all an affectionate farewell." The touching 
address was given with deep emotion, and many of the auditors replied to his 
request for their prayers by exclaiming, " We will pray for you." Thus this 
devout, simple-hearted, and courageous man went forth to his high task, not 
leaning on his own strength, but humbly trusting in the power of an Almighty 
arm. Those gentle utterances are but the key to all the speeches and procla- 
mations which he has made during his troubled career. No one ever heard him 
utter a bitter word against the rebels, but many have confessed that they felt 
rebuked in his presence, his manner was so calm, his thoughts and words were 
so magnanimous, his great heart was so full of gentleness and compassion. And 
yet it is this man who has been held up to the southern people by the lying 
politicians and most mischievous journalists of the south as a kind of human 
demon who delighted in blood, as a man regardless of law and justice, who, 
when he spoke of God or humanity, spake but in mockery of the sacred name 
and the sacred rights of the people. The southern heart has been fired, as the 
phrase went, by the most furious appeals to the passions of an ignorant people 
against a ruler who never would have touched a single southern right or harmrd 
a real southern man had these truculent politicians not crowned their frenzy by 
rebellion. Even in the midst of the late most sanguinary outburst of ferocity 
he has mitigated the woes of war and so tempered justice by mercy that not a 
single traitor has perished on the scaffold. We would that we could add that the 
passions of the southern demagogues were sought to be assuaged by the universal 
efforts of the press and the politicians of those countries where the American strug- 
gle excited an overwhelming interest. But history will proclaim, to the eternal 
humiliation of our country, how an influential section of the English press out- 
bade the journalists of the South in their slander and invective against the great 
man who has been so cruelly slain ; how his every action was twisted and tor- 
tured into a wrong, his every noble aspiration spoken of as a desire for blood, 



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his personal appearance caricatured, his h)\vly origin made the t lieme for scorn 
by men as base-born as he, but without tlie nobkniess of soul wliich made Lin- 
coln a prince amono; princes ; how even that prochimation which conferred lib- 
erty upon four millions of down-trodden slaves was reviled as a base effort to 
incite the negroes to servile war The men who permed those revolting slan- 
ders were probably alike ignorant and reckless of their effects, bat it cannot but 
be a painful reflection to Englishmen that the deluded southern rebels were en- 
couraged in their efforts to destroy a free nation for the purpose of building a 
slave empire on the ruins by the writings and speeches of men who could boast 
of free England as their country. Their virulent abuse, in all probability, never 
reached him whom it was designed to wound, and even if the miserable writers 
had been factious Americans instead of degenerate Englishmen, Lincoln would 
have had nothing but a smile for their malignant efforts. Nor had these un- 
worthy effusions any effect upon the great body of the people of England. 
They saw at once the sterling integrity and appreciated the high purpose of the 
American ruler ; they took the universal testimony of the people of the country 
over which he ruled in preference to the partisan abuse of the pro-slavery or- 
gans, so that long before the emancipation proclamation was issued the efforts 
and intentions of Abraham Lincoln were thoroughly understood by the com- 
mons of Great Britain. When, however, the moment had arrived for Lincoln 
calling a race to freedom, and tlie news was received in this country that, so far 
as the fiat of the President of the United States in the execution of his consti- 
tutional authority during a state of war could strike the fetters from the slave 
and purge the commonwealth from its foul stain, the order had gone forth, and 
the slaves had a legal title to their freedom, nothing could thereafter shake the 
faith of the people in the liberator. Many touching proofs of the sincerity of 
these convictions were afforded during the struggle. Li every public meeting 
of our countrymen, when the name of President Lincoln was mentioned it was 
received with a burst of ringing cheers. Perhaps the most notable occasion 
was when Henry Ward Beeclier addressed the inhabitants of London in f]xeter 
Hall. It was at a time when the pro-slavery press was most rampant, when for 
days they had been heaping upon the head of Mr. Ward Beecher, one of the 
pioneer abolitionists of the north, and upon Mr. Lincoln, as the leader 
of the abolitionist party, all the vials of their abuse, and when, if ever, 
it might have been supposed that the cause of right must be overborne 
by the power of slander and misrepresentation. No sooner, however, was 
the name of Lincoln mentioned by Mr. Beecher in the course of his speech than 
enthusiastic cheers, which seemed as if they would never stop, burst forth from 
the vast assemblage. It was the same everywhere throughout the country; and 
the American people now amongst us, stunned and overwhelmed as they are 
by the news, may believe that their feeling of an irreparable loss is shared in 
by the vast misses of the English people. For. in truth, a man like Abraham 
Lincoln is claimed by humanity as her own. He was in name and in heart an 
American citizen, and his great work had been appointed for him in that new 
continent where two great battles have alrtsady been won for human freedom ; 
but he soon showed hv his actions and the magnanimity of his character that 
he belonged to that iflustrious band whose work is ior the human race, and 
whose name and fame shall never die out amongst men. In his hands was 
placed a most sacred trust. In the United States the right of the majority to 
govern, and perfect freedom to all to take i)art in the business of government, 
was the basis of the Oon.-^titution. It had never been questioned untd the 
southern leaders, defeated at the ballot-box, souglit to acliieve by the sword 
what they failed to achieve at the polling-booth. The question was the exten- 
sion or the non-extension of slavery, and the ultimate issue was the truimph or 
failure of free institurious We need not recall how trinm|ihantly the enemies 
of freedom pointed their finger in scorn at what they called the failure ot the 



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experiment of free institutiotis. The very uprising of the southern slave poiver 
was held to be the end of the republic. They never dreamed that the obscure 
man of the people, who had been raised to the highest post of honor which it 
was possible for a citizen to fill, would grasp the helm with so vigorous a grasp, 
aud so pilot the ship of state among the fearful breakers as to bring her safe 
to port with colors flying and not a spar lost. Alas ! that the firm hand should 
'now be nerveless, the bold heart cold and lifeless, and that the cup of joy should 
be so rudely dashed from the lips of the great people whom he had so faithfully 
served in the crisis of their destiny ! 

The assassination seems unquestionably to have been the result of a con- 
spiracy to which various southern symj.athizi rs were parties. The villain 
whose hand struck down President Lincoln is stated to be a person named 
"VVilkes Booth, a brother of Edwin Booth, the actor, and in his trunk was found 
a letter which showed that the horrid deed was to have been perpetrated on the 
4th of March, when Mr. Lincoln's second term of office began. It has, there- 
fore, been no sudden inspiration of frenzy caused by the fall of Richmond, but 
the deliberate calculation of cold-blooded miscreants. The intention was not 
consummated sooner because some expected instructions, or aid, or encourage- 
ment, had not been received from Richmond. We cannot believe that the de- 
signs of the conspirators were known to and approved by the head s of the 
southern government, but it is not at all impossible that some leading seces- 
sionists may have aided in the conspiracy and encouraged its execution. It 
was known that the earlier attempt, Avhen Jlr. Lincoln was about to take office, 
was known to aud approved by many persons of influence and standing, and more 
than one influential fanatic in the course of the war has openly offered rew'ards 
for the heads of northern abolitionists. The murder was at length effected in 
the most cruel and barbarous manner. Seated in the theatre at Washington 
beside his wife and another lady, and attended by only one officer, a stranger 
suddenly made his appearance at the door of the box, and stated that he had 
despatches from General Grant. That general had been advertised to be pres- 
ent on the same evening, but he and his wife had gone to Burlington on a visit. 
The simple state of the republican President permitted the stranger easily to 
get access to his victim, who, it would seem, never turned his head — his thoughts 
probably far away on those fields of battle where so many have died that the 
republic might live. The assassin instantly raised his pistol and shot the Pres- 
ident in the back of the head, the bullet lodging in the brain. We have as yet 
no details of the scene of consternation in the theatre, the anguish of Mrs. Lin- 
coln, and the despair of the people when they saw one so beloved so basely 
smitten ; but there needs no description. It is easy to imagine it all — all ex- 
cept the unutterable anguish of the woman who has been the support and solace 
of the President during many weary months of anxiety and snil'ering. To his 
wife Mr. Lincoln was tenderly attached. His first action after receiving the 
notice of his election by the Chicago convention of 1860 as the candidate of the 
Republican party was to leave his political friends with whom he had been 
waiting for the news, and proceed home saving, " There's a little woman down 
at our house would like to hear this. I will go and tell her." The barbarians 
were not content with this one noble victim. About the same time another, 
aud even more callous, southern fiend proceeded to the residence of Mr. Seward, 
and, under pretence of carrying medicine to the sick-chamber, managed to get 
access to the chamber where the Secretary of State lay suffering from his re- 
cent accident. Mr. Frederick Seward, the son of the Secretary, attempted to 
prevent him, but was cruelly wounded aud has since died. A male attendant 
was stabbed through the lungs, and then the miscreant sprang forward to the 
bed and stabbed with many wounds the statesman who lay helpless. When 
the cries of the nurse and of a young daughter who was by her father's bed- 
side brought Major Seward, another son, to his father's apartment, the assassin 



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likewise foil upon him and severely wounded liim. :^[ost fonl deed that ever 
pen recorded or demon perpetrated ! A ?iok man lyin<? helpless on his conch 
of pain thus barbarously assailed, a son eager to save a father's life thus foully 
slam ! It illustrates in a yet more awful manner the innate barbarism of that 
system of society based on slavery which can breed criminals of so deep a dye. 
It is uo\y some years since the writer met Mr. Frederick Seward iu New York 
— au amiable, accomplished, intelligent gentleman, whose conversation showed 
him to possess a keen intellect and a cultivated mind. The conversation turned 
upon the sudden death of friends— (,f those who had sailed from home ami been 
lost at sea, or who had been suddenly cut off by some great calamity. Did 
the shadow of his own premature and tragic end even tluMi cast a shadow over 
bis spirit ? How many of his companions and friends have during thes(; few 
years passed away amid the din and fury of the battle-field ! and now, when peace 
seemed ready to come, and with her gentle touch restore all things, he too is 
snatched away to join the company of ti)e martyrs of the anti-slavery war. The 
official report of Mr. Stanton, which will be found elsewhere, expressly states 
that these deeds of horror were the result of a conspiiacy among the rebels, and 
the greatness of the enormities must now prove to the woi-ld that the att -rapt 
to set fire to New York, and to destroy in one horrible holocaust the women 
and children, the aged and infirm, of a populous city, was no haliucination of 
the federal government, but a grim reality of desperadoes — the spawn of the 
slave power. These are specimens of that chivalry of the South over wliich 
some English men and women have been heretofore shedding maudlin tears. 
It is a cliivalry which can murder a gentle and noble man in presence of his 
wife; which can stab a father with furious blows on his sick-bed in pre-ence 
of a little daughter who ministers to his wants, and which can ruthlessly sac- 
rifice two sons as they strive to save a fathei's life. 

******* 

(Here follows an account of the life and public services of Mr. Lincoln, con- 
cluding as follows:) 

The election of Mr. Lincoln was hniled with del'ght by the people of the 
northern States, little dreaming that their right to elect him would h ive to be 
sustained in so fearful a manner; and when the time came for him to proceed to 
Washington to execute the functions of President, the whole country watched 
Lis progress with intense satisfaction. As, he passed eastward he had to make 
speeches at almost every town of any note, and many of the expressions which 
then fell from his lips were sufficiently remarkable. When passing through 
Indiana he thus spoke of State rights: "By the way, in what consists thft 
special sacredness of a State? If a State and a county, in a given case, should 
be equal in extent of territory and equal in niunber of inhabitants, in what, as 
a matter of principle, is the State, better than the county? On what principle 
may a State, being not more than one-fiftieth part of the nation in soil and pop- 
ulation, break up the nation, and then coerce a proportionately larger subdivision 
of itself in the most arbitrary maimer? What mysterious right to play tyrant 
is conferred on a district of country, with its people, by merely calling it a State?" 
In New Jersey, he made use of a characteristic expression, which has been 
frequently quoted since: "I shall do all that may be in my power to promote a 
peaceful settlement of all our dilHcnlties. The man does not live who is more devoted 
to peace than I am; none who will do more to pr<;serve it; but it may be neca- 
sary to put the foot down firmly." How firmly, tin- South, the North, we and all 
men now know. When raising a flag in Phila(leii)hia, he asked whether the 
Union could be saved upon the D(^claration of IndependeHce, and iu answering 
his own question uttenid words which sound prophetical after the occurrence 
which has so troubled the country: "If this country cannot, be saved without 
giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assas.^inat.d on 



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this spot tlian gurreiidcr it;" and his last words on the occasion were, " I have 
said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of 
Almighty God, die by." He has stood by these principles during his life, and 
he had completed the most triumphant defence of these principles when called 
on to die; but, dying, he bequeathes a new life to the nation; and, being dead, 
he yet speaketh. 

Mr. Lincoln's policy was to woo the south to submission to the constitutionally 
expressed will of the people by every argument which would be supposed to 
have weight with American citizens. His inaugural address was a pleading 
with them to give up their mad design to break up the nation, and it was thus 
he conjnred them to think well upon the fatal step they were about to take: 
" I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be ene- 
mies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affec- 
tion. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot 
grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet 
swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as they surely will be, by 
the better angels of our nature." His appeal was vain. The men to whom it 
was addressed, for a long series of years, had been educating themselves into 
the mont^trous delusion that slavery was a divine institution ; that it was the 
natural basis for society; that a slave empire could be established so powerful 
that abolitionism would forever be abashed, and southern interests reign supreme. 
The politicians clamored for war, the editors wrote iip war, the clergy preached 
up a war for slavery, until the poor deluded common people rushed blindly into 
the conflict. The North had no choice ; Mr. Lincoln, as the President, had no 
choice but to enforce the laws, and to use whatever powers the Constitution gave 
Lim for the suppression of the rebellion. This is not the place to recount the 
varied fortunes of the field. In the west the national arms were almost uniformly 
successful ; in the east the forces of the Union failed to capture Richmond until 
weary years of effort had been wasted, and several successive generals tried and 
removed. But the elasticity of free institutions permitted of these changes of 
commanders, and the patriotism of the people supported the President in what- 
ever appointments he deemed best for the furtherance of the cause, until by his 
happy selection of Gram, who had proved victorious in the west, and Grant's 
no less admirable appointments of Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, and others, the 
power of the South has been completely crushed. President Lincoln, at first, 
incurred much odium among many sincere frieyds of the slave in this coimtry, 
and was taunted by the supporters of the slave confederacy because he did not 
from the outset inaugurate an anti-slavery war. But his true position began to 
be appreciated. Some of the border slave States remained loyal, and he could 
not at once attack slavery without encroaching upon the right of these loyal 
people to regulate their own affairs. The northern democrats, moreover, polled 
more than one million of votes, while the purely abolitionist element among his 
own supporters was comparatively small. Had heat once raised an anti-slavery 
banner, in all likelihood he would have retarded in place of advancing the cause. 
He repressed all attempts prematurely to proclaim emancipation, until perfectly 
satisfied in his own mind that he had the constitutional power during a state of 
war to do so, and that the proclamation would tend to lessen the power of the 
rebels and more speedily bring peace to his torn and bleeding country. The 
policy has been the saving of the Union. The slaves crowded the federal lines 
in order to gain their freedom, and eagerly availed themselves of the privilege 
to enlist under the federal banners to aid in the freedom of their friends and 
brethren of ihe negro race. The emancipation proclamation of Abraham Lincoln 
was a grand and sublime act; and when, in announcing his policy to Congress, 
he declared that they who were at the head of affairs in those times could not 
escape history, he truly shadowed forth that all who had in any way contributed 
to that crowning act of justice would occupy in history a most conspicuous and 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 393 

enviable place. The caiise of the Union has prospered from the day llie pro- 
clamation was issued, until at leno;th the greatest army of the rebels has surren- 
dered to the great soldier whom President Lincoln's sagacity selected as the fit 
man to lead the armies of the rejjublic. 

The personal appearance of Mr. Lincoln has often been described. He was 
six fuet four in height, and of that thin, wiry build, which is somewhat charac- 
teristic of Americans, But all observers unite in describing his countenance as 
singularly pleasing, and the eye mild and gentle. One English observer, not 
particularly prepossessed in his fiivor, describes his countenance as peculiarly 
soft, with an almost feminine expression of melancholy. While all oliservcrs 
unite iu thus describing the late President, those who kuew him more intimately 
are equally of one opinion as to his disposition being as kind, courteous, and 
gentle as his mild expression denoted. He was never heard to say a bitter word 
against the rebels, but invariably in his public proclamations and by his acts, 
he sought to win them back to that fealty without undue shedding of blood. 
But with all this gentleness, he was inexorably firm. ]\Ien of all parties have 
gone lo him to attempt to move him from some of his positions; but while 
listening courteously to their statements, he never failed to indicate that what 
he had himself resolved, after cireful consideration, he should abide by until he 
saw ihat it was unsuited to the circumstances of his country. He had an over- 
flowing and ready humor. This trait in his character has given many shafts to 
the venomous slanderers of the great man who has been so suddenly removed from 
his proud position ; but it is scarcely necessary to say that all the hon-mots 
attributed to the President are not genuine. One slander Avhich lias been often 
repeated by his enemies it may be as well to contradict here, once for all. It 
has been asserted and reasserted, and is now apparently deemed to be beyond the 
reach of cavil, that Mr. Lincoln, when riding over the field of Gettysburg, 
called for a comic song to drive away serious thoughts. The statement is a 
gratuitous and baseless calumny, invented by those who would as readily 
destroy a reputation as the southern assassins would wreak their vengeance 
upon a helpless victim. These have, indeed, accomplished the death of a noble- 
hearted patriot ; but while they have killed the body, they cannot touch his 
deathless fame; they cannot mar his glorious work; they cannot rob him of his 
immortal reward. 



un 



[From tlie London Evening' Star, May 2, 1805.] 

The Parliament of Great Britain, in a spirit worthy of its ancient fame, has 
lanimously expressed its deep and earnest feeling of sympathy with the gov- 
ernment and people of the United States in the hour of their dire atlliction. The 
addresses to the Crown which were voted by both houses last night were no 
merely formal acts. They represented the solemn and deliberate sentiments df 
both branches of the legislature— they embodied that sense of grief which has 
weighed upon the heart of the nation ever since the perpetration of the atrocious 
crime has been known in this country. The appearance of the two chambers 
indicated the serious nature of the business which was announced for discussion. 
The attendance of members was unusually large, and th.' languor of an uneventful 
session was once more broken by a mournful episode. The crowd which assem- 
bled iu Westminster Hall, and filled the corridors and lobbies, showed the deep 
interest which the subject excited among the classes who are never attracted to 
this quarter unless the po{)ular mind is stirred by some deep emotion. Wlnle 
such was the temper of the spectators, we may justly affirm that those who 
more directly assisted on the occasion were moved by no vague curiosity to bo 
present at th(; deliberations of Parliament, and that the chief actors i)ertormed 
their appointed task with befitting dignity and earnestness. It would be too 



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mucli to'say that the evil spirit of a faction which cruelly maligned the raartyred 
patriot when he was living was quenched ; but in the piesence of the awful 
calamity which has befallen our American kinsmen, it at all events exhibited the 
grace of silence and held its peace. Even that faction, while it could not recant 
its recorded opinions or atone for the past, with the memories of which it must 
be forever dishonored, without doubt concurred heartily in those execrations of 
the assassin's cruel deed which were uttered by the chiefs of the two great 
parties in the state. Both houses were absolutely unanimous in their expres- 
sions of horror at the crime; and no voice, no sound was heard which did not 
imply profound sympathy with the character of the illustrious man who, by the 
common qonsent of every civilized nation, has been elevated to a position in 
history which a long line of the world's greatest heroes have coveted, but in 
vain. , 

It would be difficult to say who among the speakers last night gave proof of 
the most discriminating appreciation of the peculiar excellencies of Mr. Lincoln's 
large-hearted nature. But although they differed in form; they agreed in essence. 
All combined to do justice to his manliness, his sincerity, and his gencriius 
feeling. Lord Russell, who appropriately reminded the assembly which he ad- 
dressed that the late President was twice legally elected the Chief Magistrate of 
the American nation, declared that he was exactly suited by his natural dis- 
position for the conjuncture which taxed his energies during his four years of 
power. With honesty and frankness he combined conciliation, the quality 
which would temper the pride of victory. The noble speaker was singularly 
felicitous in his eulogy of Mr. Lincoln's moderation on the slavery question, the 
gradual but sure measures he adopted to effect the abolition of what he saw 
from the beginning was the one criuie of his country, and the only source of her 
civil troubles; and he was equally just in pointing to the influence of that same 
moderation in smoothing over the ditHculties which had arisen from time to time 
between the two governments. If Lord Derby spoke in more guarded terms on 
the political aspects of the American war, he was not less energetic in his n^pro- 
bation of the dastardly murder which has disgraced the annals of that contest, 
and not less happy in the tribute he paid to the virtues of Mr. Lincohi's 
character, that singular wisdom and prudence combined with conciliation, which 
he said had distinguished his conduct of public aflff^irs. In the lower house 
Sir George Grey, in the unavoidable absence, through indisposition, of Lord 
Palmerston, proposed the motion in an admirable speech. The only expression 
of dissent was provoked by his perfectly true statement that the majority of this 
country have sympathized with the North during its arduous struggle. The 
few gentlemen below the gangway on the tory side of the house who sought to 
cast distrust upon the assertion, provoked a counter-cheer which served to make 
their own insignificance the more conspicuous. Sir George Grey dwelt forcibly 
upon the wise forbearance and generosity of President Lincoln — qualities which, 
as the speaker truly said, would, if he had lived, have added greater lustre to 
the fame he had already acquired. But to Mr. Disraeli once again attached the 
honor of elevating a mournful theme by the inspiration, not only of a genuine 
feeling, but of a classic eloquence. His words bleiuled the graces of the orator 
with an acute perception of the noble traits of Mr. Lincoln's nature and the true 
dignity with which death had invested him. It was a genuine power of dis- 
crimination and no mere trick of rhetoric which enabled him to point out that 
the homely and innocent character of the victim and the accessories of his latest 
moments "take the subject out of the pomp of history and the ceremonial of 
diplomacy, and make it touch the heart of nations and appeal to the sentiments 
of mankind." Never did the conservative leader appear to greater advantage, 
never did his acknowledged genius seem to be more closely allied with all that 
is great and good in human sympathy, than when he affirmed that President 
Lincoln in a time of sore trial had performed his duty with " simplicity and 



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Strength," and when he reminded the English people of his kinship with them, 
and expiessed his faith that the United States wonld emerge from the ordeal of 
discipline and suffering elevated and chastened by wiiat they had endured. 
The reassuring words, foimded upon the experience of mankind, to wliich he 
gave utterance, may well m ike us believe tliat the assassin's arm in striking 
down Mr. Lincoln had no power to injure the cause of which he was the elected 
representative ; but his profound declaration of sympathy with the American 
people will do something more than allay groundless alarms. ItAvill essentially 
assist to consolidate those friendly relations between England and America 
wliieh Lord Stratford de Kedcliffe and every other speaker desired to see 
established upon a firm and lasting basis. 

The two houses have agreed to address the Queen, praying that she would 
communicate their sentiments as well as her own to the government of the 
United States. In advance of the action of Parliament instructions had been 
sent out to the British minister at Washington to make known the feelings of 
the imperial government. There was only one other manifestation of grief and 
indignation at the great tragedy which could have been desired, and that has 
been gi/en. The Queen has with her own hand written a letter of sympathy 
to Mrs. Lincoln. The act is as graceful as it is touching. The royal widow 
seeking to afford consolation to her sister in affliction is an incident of which 
history will be proud. Every Englishman will feel that this last instance of 
tenderness on the part of the Sovereign — this truly gentle and womanly deed — 
binds him by a clof-er tie of loyalty and affection to the illustrious lady who sits 
upon the throne of these realms. It is an act which will serve as much as any- 
thing to bury all discord in a common grave. Queen Victoria is as much 
revered in America as she is in her own land ; and we believe that if .Mr. Adams 
had delivered his admirable speech to-day instead of yesterday, he would feel 
himself able to assert that no circumstance could have occurred which Avould 
be more certain to afford consolation to his countrymen or to reunite the two 
nations. 



[From the London Daily Telegraph, April 27, 18G5.] 
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

One universal feeling of horror and grief will thrill through the breasts of 
Englishmen this morning, if we do not mistake our countrymen, as they read 
in our columns the sad news which has come to us across tlie Atlantic. Abra- 
ham Lincoln has fallen by the assassin's hand; fallen as Julius C;rsar fell on 
those fatal "Ides of March," but by the hand of a baser Brutus; fallen as, to 
our human eyes and fallible judgment, he little deserved to fall— shot through 
tin; head with a pistol fired by a wretched conspirator, as he sat in a private^box 
at Ford's theatre, Washington, on the evening of the 14th instant. The 
wound, it was at once seen, was mortal, and the President expired soon after 
sunrise on the following morning; his colleague, Mr. Seward, having, about the 
same time and hour, sustained a similar attack from the dagger of the same or 
a fellow-assassin. 

Such is the sum and substance of the melancholy news which is told in another 
column, with additional victims and details of butcliery ; and we have elsewhere 
attempted to give an estimate of the probable effect df this^^ad event on the war 
and on the politics of America. It is our duty, however, to offer here an out- 
line of the career and public character of the eminent man who has thus been 
suddenly cut off when scarcely past his prime, and at tlie outset of a second 
period of rule, having fallen, as even the stauchest southerner must adnut. 



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like Epaminondas of old, and like Wolfe in modern times, in tlie very hour of 
victory. 

(Here follows an account of the life and services of Mr. Lincoln, concluding 
with the following :) 

The rest of the President's life, if we were to write it, would really be little 
less than' the history of the fearful and fatal war which has laid waste America, 
for the last four years. The chief event in it, perhaps, is the re-election of 
Abraham Lincoln to the presidential chair last summer. At that time, as will 
be remembered, the leaders of the abolition pai'ty seemed bent on withdrawing 
from him their support. He was, however, so firmly rooted in the affections of 
the mass of the electors, who identified him with the Union cause, th;it it was 
deemed unwise to bring forward a rival republican candidate. Had that party 
become divided, as seemed probable at one time. General McClellan would cer- 
tainly have been returned. Thanks to the forbearance and foresight of the 
abolitionists, Mr. Lincoln was elected by a triumphant majority, with full power 
to control the destinies of those States at least which had elected him for a new 
term of four yeai-s. 

" Man proposes, but God disposes." Within a few short months the assas- 
sin's pistol has set aside the wishes of the northern people, thrown transatlan- 
tic politics into the most sad confusion, and caused all New York to array itself 
in robes of black. 

The face of " Honest Abe " has been made f\imiliar to most English readers 
by the aid of photography ; but the following sketch of his person, from the 
pen of one who knew him well, is so perfect, that we maybe excused for repeat- 
ing it here. " Old Abe is a gaunt giant, more than six feet high, strong and 
long-limbed. He walks slowly, and like many thoughtful men — Napoleon and 
Wordsworth for example — he keeps his head inclined forward and downwards. 
His hair is black and wiry ; his eyes are dark-gray ; his smile is frank, sincere, 
and winning. Like most American gentlemen, he is loose and careless in dress, 
turns down his flapping white collars, and Avears habitually what we should call 
evening dress. His head is massive, his brow full and wide, his nose large and 
fleshy, his mouth coarse and full; his eyes are sunken, his face is bronzed and 
thin, and drawn down into strong corded lines, which disclose the machinery 
that moves his broad and formidable jaw." 

Honest, straightforward, practical, energetic, and indifferent to censure so 
long as he was conscious of his own integrity, xibraham Lincoln seems to have 
heen one of those men whose latent talents are called forth by great emergen- 
cies, and hence his sudden death is a national loss. Under a rough and even 
forbidding exterior he concealed a great and good heart, and it deserves to be 
recorded to his credit that, throughout this long and painful struggle, he never 
once signed the death-warrant of a political enemy, though often urged to do so. 
It is perhaps too early as yet to pronounce sentence definitively on his charac- 
ter; for that we must appeal from the bar of cotemporary criticism to the ver- 
dict of posterity; and there is little doubt that future generations will accord a 
very high position to him who, as President of the United States, has just fallen 
by the same cruel and horrible fate which half a century ago robbed us of our 
own Premier, Spencer Perceval. 

No fouler crime stands chronicled in all history than the murder of Abraham 
Lincoln. The sorry pleas of state necessity or political interest that have been 
advanced time out of mind to palliate assassination cannot even be heard with 
toleration in such a tase as this, for the act is one that outrages humanity and 
shocks the common conscience of the world. It is accursed and supremely 
infamous ; it is most cowardly, most cruel. Every war has its horrors, and the 
great fight between the North and the South has been no exception to the rule; 
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SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 397 

base than the sLuighter of a man who, during:; tlie years of sreat excitement, 
had scarcely made a single personal enemy. In the agony and crisis that pre- 
ceded Robespierre's reign ot terror, Dantou said, " The Revolution, like Saturn, 
is beginning to devour its own children ! " Abraham Lincoln was the child — in 
no invidious sense, we may even say tlu! puppet — of the passions of his time, 
and now he has become their victim. A fine spirit of popular enthusiasm made 
him Chief Magistrate of the greatest republic ever known ; the ferocity and the 
madness of a few desperadoes have abruptly ended a career which already 
loomed so largely. A wonderful life Avas Lincoln's — a life quite as startling 
aiid surprising as his death ; but, at any rate, the worst part of his work seemed 
over. The resistance of the South had been crushed. A sturdy, sensible west- 
ern man, with long limbs and a longer head, Mr. Lincoln had worked his way 
in the world without any dishonorable subterfuges or mean devices. Clear, 
direct, simple, and straightforward, he had already, during his brief term of 
office, outlived many suspicions, jealousies, misconstructions, and dislikes. He 
bore his honors well, and was settling down into a quiet simple dignity of man- 
ner, and a kindly moderation of thonght and temper. Terrible liad been the 
trial through which he had victoriously passed. He was emphatically one of 
the people, but his homespun virtues seemed to justify the people's choice. At 
any rate, he had diligently, faithfully, and not unskilfully, labored according to 
such light as was given him ; and now, as he seemed to touch the goal, his 
course is abruptly checked. To-day, all party feeling, all political jealousies, 
must be hushed and suspended; to-day, no man is a sympathizer with North or 
South; we are all mourners over the fate of an honest citizen. 

The war was practically over. When the news came that Lee had surren- 
dered, when people like Butler were crying for vengeance. President Lincoln 
stepped forward and made a speech that was eminently conciliatory. His last 
public oration was also his best; it was just, manly, sage, and charitable. We 
have uoAv the authority of Mr. Stanton for saying that in council his tune was 
precisely the same; and there is something which should touch all honest hearts 
in that one sentence, " He spoke very kindly of Lee." This was in the morning; 
in the evening of Friday, April 14, he was at a theatre in Washington. He 
had been to Richmond ; had authoritatively marched into Jefferson Davis's 
house ; had received the salutes of negro regiments in the Ci'.pital of the con- 
federacy ; but, so far fnnn allowing this singular turn in the; whirligig of fate to 
excite him, he grew more moderate; he had obviously mad(! uj) his nnnd to act 
as pacificator. He sat in a private box at Ford's theatre, with his wife, Jinother 
lady, and ]\Lijor Rathburn. It was easy enough to approach him ; that, iiuleed, 
had never been very diflicult. The Jacques Clement or Ravaillac of the occasiim 
had not to thrust his way through any guards, for Lincoln had always lived in 
the open air, fearlessly and frankly. At half-past nine o'clock the door of the 
box was opened, and before the President could turn round to meet the intruder 
•with his broad genial smile, a pistol was clapped to the back of his head. The 
shot went through his brain. The assassin, drawing a huge knife and bran- 
dishing it, leaped out from the box to the stage, yelled '' Sic temper tyrannis!" 
and ficd from the theatre. Abraham Lincoln was never again conscious. His 
last words had been said before he repaired to the theatre, and they were words 
of friendliness and conciliation. We do not know that he even spoke once after 
the bullet pierced his brain ; but he lingered on through the night, dying hard, 
as became a man of his tough, indomitable temper. Whilst he was thus agoniz- 
ing, another murderer had obtained admission to the sick-room of Secretary 
Seward, and had stabbed the sufferer in his bed ; then, confronted by his son, 
had stabbed ?um too, and made his escape. It was to have been a night ot wild, 
hellish butchery; for Stanton's life also had Ix'en threatened, and it is su])poscd 
that Ulysses Grant, who was likewise to have attended at Ford's theatre, was 
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Lincoln died; Andrew Johnson succeeded liim at the White House; and the 
assassin was arrested. He proved to be one Wilkes Booth, brother of Edwin 
Booth, an actor of some repute. The news is so sudden and so startling that 
its full import can hardly be realized at once. That shot in a private box — the 
wild stir and alarm of the audience — the horror of the actors, as the assassin 
jumped upon the stage and mocked their mimic drama by his own awful crime — 
these things picture themselves as a dim, confused, terrible vision, whose outlines 
can scarcely be traced even by the steadiest eye and the calmest hand. The 
deed seems all the more frightful because it was so easily committed; bec-iuse 
no soldiery with drawn swords and glittering helmets guarded the approach to 
Lincoln's box; because any citizen could approach him, just as any citizen the 
day before could have walked, scarcely questioned, into his official residence. 
This splendid reliance upon the people has hitherto been safe; but every land 
Las its felons, and the miscreant Booth has perchance murdered that mutual 
confidence between ruler and ruled which wixs the essence of republicanism. 

Abraham Lincoln's life was not particularly happy. He was a sagacious, 
toilsome, dogged, patient man ; he rose by his energy and his shrewdness from 
a very humble position to the presidential chair; but the presidential chair 
itself was not a luxurious resting-place, and even the strong Kentuckian frame 
of the man was sorely tried. Mr. Tennyson speaks of the fierce light which 
beats upon a throne; fiercer yet, even more broad, open, dazzling, and glaring, 
was that Avhich played so terribly around the President. It has lit up many 
noble points in his character, to which, as the years roll on and as party passions 
fade away, full justice will assuredly be done; but even viewed in this utter 
publicity, this sheer nakednsss of life, his character stands singularly clear of 
all that was mean or base. It was easy to caricature his ungainly form, and it 
was often necessary to dwell upon his mental limitations and defects ; his jests 
were sometimes in bad taste, his language exaggerated and heedless ; yet upon 
everything that he said or did there was the stamp of stron;^ individual man- 
hood. In truth, those who knew him best were convinced that his life was 
really sad; that his jokes were but the efforts of a jaded, melancholy nature to 
relieve its sense of weariness ; that, knowing he had no time to cry, he laughed 
as often as he could. Be this said to his honor — whatever cruel things have 
been done by his subordinates, Abraham Lincoln himself never sent a man to 
the scaffold. The journalists of his own country have not spared him ; yet, 
after all, the sum of their accusations was also the basis of his glory. Abraham 
Lincoln, who had been a " rail- splitter " and then a "village lawyer," contrived 
by shrewd mother-wit and robust integrity of character to win the esteem of 
the stout men of the west — a nobler type of Americanism than the motley tribes 
of New York ; whilst at last he became the foremost man in the greatest republic 
of the world at the hour of its supremest need. His acts are on record — they 
fill a large volume; and whoever may study them as a part of history, not as 
material for party polemics, they will prove, upon the whole, singularly sagacious 
and astute. It has often been our lot to blame them — often been our lot to 
question the wisdom of the policy which he pursued; nor do we retract what 
we have said, even now that Ave have to review it so solemnly and sadly. But 
from vulgar corruption, from factious hatred, from meanness, jealousy, inichari- 
tableness, this ruler was nobly free. The strange grim face, that was yet illu- 
minated so often by a gleam of honest humor or a glance of genuine kindliness, 
has been quietly covered by the sere-cloth; the almost gigantic frame, lifeless 
and limp, has been coffined and palled. He had given the republic all he had — • 
his time, his peace, his reputation, his children. One son, his eldest, he had sent 
to the front with General Grant; another he lost while the war was raging; and 
yet the office-seekers would not give him an hour's rest, but almost tortured him 
into madness by their imporiunitics. Throughout the dreariest time of national 
reverses and calamity, he never despaired. Almost solemn now are those well- 



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remembered familiar pliraseH, "I have put my foot down," and "We muf^t keep 
pegging away." They were bnt rough Irantdations of a sentiment which, ex- 
pree^:ed in more knightly phrase, we should regard as heroical. And at last 
came what seemed to be the fruition of his labors, the reward of his patience 
and his courage. He, the man of Kentucky and Illinois, entered Richmond as 
a conqueror; but he launched no decree of proscription; for the fight appeared 
over, and it was not in the man's large heart to bear malice against a beaten 
foe. "H ■ spoke very kindly of Lee," said Stanton; and on the night of tliat 
memorabl.; council, where he pleaded for peace and for mercy, a villain killed 
him. No: for Lincoln himself can the end be considered as unhappy. To the 
extent of his power he has done his duty, with singleness of heart, with honesty 
of purpose; and if ever man needed rest, he needed it. That rest he has 
obtained, and, with it, the reward that follows honest service. There is a won- 
derful old song of Shirley the dramatist — a song of which Charles II is said to 
have been strangely enamored — which tells us that "the glories of our birth 
and state are shadows, not substantial things," and which preaches the sublime 
equality, the sacred fraternity, of the tomb. In the last verse of that famed 
lyric we read: "Upon death's purple altar now, see where the victor-victim 
bleeds ! " The victor-victim of democracy was Abraham Lincoln, twice Presi- 
dent of the United Stales. 



TFroni the London Daily Telcf^rapb, April 28, I8G5.1 

Last night in both houses of the legislature the representatives of tlie English 
government announced tliat on Monday next our senate would give expression 
to the feeling of indignation which had been occasioned in tliis country by the 
murder of President Lincoln. The course taken is undoubtedly the best. Eveu 
on the most important night of the parliamentary year there would have been 
no lack of generous eloquence u])on such a theme ; but it was more especially 
desirable that the sympathy of the Avholc people should be fornifdly expressed 
by the Queen and her responsible advisers. Had the matter been left to the 
feelings of individual members, no delay need have occurred ; but then the words 
of condolence would haverepresented merely the personal opinions of thespeakers. 
In this case it was essential that not only the leaders of party and the chieftains 
of debate should rise to denounce the infamous atrocity, but that the voice of 
the British empire itself should be heard in solenni rei)robation of amost hideous 
crime. Nor are there many grander things in history than such an expression 
of a whi.le nation's mind. Doubtless from every court ujjon the eontiiuMit mes- 
sages of sympathy and regret will be forthcoming; but it behooved the one people 
of the Old World that is absolutely free to rise to the height of so great and 
terrible an occasion, and to speak in tones which would be remcmber(;d centuries 
hence. So, not disregarding ancient rule and order, but adapting ihem with a 
wise liberality to the actual necessities of the day, lords and commons will de- 
sire her Majesty to speak for them as well as for herself. Whatever may be the 
faults of our Parliament, it is in all cases involving national reputation or national 
sentiment substantial at one with the people. We never look to it in vain when 
tliere is an outrage to be resented or a generous action to be performed ; we can 
trust it safely Avith our honor— confide to it without misgiving the keeping of our 
conscience. France, Russia. Austria, young Italy, and the states of Europe may 
vie with each other in their expressions of regn^t ; but, unless the civil war has 
strangely altered the nature of Americans, the first iiuiuiry across the Atlantic 
must be, " What will they think of this at homer" Nor will they be lett long 
in suspense. Were the little, throbbing, eloquent, electric wire now workmg at 
the bottom of the ocean, there would have been Hashed hours ago a message 



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from Windsor Castle to Wasliington — a message from Queen Victoria to Andrew 
Johnson, which woukl have been practically a message from one great people to 
another. The petty jealouijics, the small bickerings, that may have been engen- 
dered in a time of war, must end in presence of so stern and horrible a fact. Be it 
ours, as a nation, to show that whatever we may have thought of the contest while 
it lasted, Ave sympathize with the affliction of a kindred race — that we loathe, 
we men of the old mother-land, the dastardly crime which has been committed — ■ 
that we honestly wish our cousins good speed through a sad time of trial. Party, 
as we have said, has nothing to do with this simple question. If anywhere 
abroad there is a notion that upon the American war we are split into two hostile 
factions of aristocrats and democrats, we may as well nail that base coin to the 
counter at once, before it passes, any further, and clear the good name, the honest 
repute of England in the eyes of the whole land. From the leader of the con- 
servatives — the fourteenth Earl of Derby, the Stanley whose ancestors influenced 
our history before Christnpher Columbus set sail for the "unknown world" — 
there will come as eloquent and as honest an expression of manly sympathy as 
from any radical member of the House of Commons. Our peers, our squires, 
the representatives of past glories, and the tribunes of modern wants, can have 
but one thought just now; and that thought will find its highest and most con- 
stitutional expression in the letter of the Queen herself. 

The people of England, however, who were not bound over to silence, and 
who had no considerations of parliamentary etiquette to guide or to restrain them, 
have already expressed in a hundred ways their abomination of the crime, and 
their sympathy for its victim. No man who walked in the streets of London 
at noon on Wednesday will readily forget the scene as the news spread through- 
out the great city. There was one vast, universal sense of horror and dismay; 
for the act, in truth, seemed an outrage upon humanity itself — an outbreak of 
devilish passion which menaced all society. That sense of abhorrence was not 
confined to London. We could only assume yesterday what we can assert 
to-day — that from one end of the land to the other there has been a cry of rage 
at this most foul assassination. The men of Liverpool have, on the whole, been 
southern in their sympathies, but when the news reached them they grieved as 
earnestly as the most fervid abolitionist of Massachusetts. A creature, indeed, 
there was — and we wish we could pillory the offender by his name — who cried 
" Hurrah," but a southerner seized him, and helped to kick him from the room. 
National, indeed, was the sorrow and the anger. Southampton heard the news, 
and instantly a meeting for condolence was resolved upon ; for away in the north 
Newcastle heard it, and the dwellers by the Tyne gave vent to their wrath with 
unmistakable Northumbrian emphasis ; Dublin learnt the liorrid tidings, and the 
warm-hearted Irish people at once grew eloquent in their indignation ; at Man- 
chester, at Birmingham, everywhere throughout the land — from the great centres 
of industry to the quiet little country towns — there was biit the same expression 
of opinion. The London press, always unanimous on such a point, had already 
spoken out, and its words of sympathy may have done more to restoi-e an abso- 
lutely friendly feeling between the two great sections of the Anglo-Saxon race 
•than a host of diplomatic despatches. The corporation of London — interesting 
whenever it becomes a spokesman for the whole metropolis — postponed all busi- 
ness until it had placed upon official record its "detestation of the atrocious crime." 
The demonstrations of feeling were not, of course, confined to Englishmen. 
The Americans in London assembled, under the chairmanship of a gentleman 
who was among the late President's political opponents, and although the 
meeting was adjourned, there can be no doubt that citizens of both sections of 
the States will join in expressing on Monday night their condemnations and their 
regrets. Meanwhile, the Germans in London had also gathered together, and 
helped to swell the general shout of human indignation — a shout which is now 
echoed from the other side of the channel by the journalists of France. 



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Little enough that is new has yet reached us from America; to-tlay we have 
only a summary that is but five hours Liter than the tele-iams we published yes 
tcrday morning, but in tliis intelHgeuce there are some items of importance 
Chief of tliese is the statement that hopes were still%ntertained of Mr. Seward's 
recovery, and that, at any rate, he was still living. We cannot prof'ss to feel 
very sanguine on this point ; the Secretary of State is growing old, and his re- 
cent accident was almost enough to kdl a stronger man, without the fonl sup- 
plementary violence of the assassin. As he threw himscdf from his carriao-e be- 
fore, so he seems, when the mnrderer's knife had gashed his face, to have thrown 
hunself from his bed, and thus to have escaped the last deadly thrust; but it is 
difficult for a man of his age to survive sncli an accumulation of physical calam- 
ities. His son, who was reported to be dead, survives ; but his condition is most 
cruical, and the many Englishmen Mdio knew Frederick Seward well must wait 
Avith a painful anxiety for the next telegrams. The last item in the news is the 
saddest; the assassins are still at large, and in such a time of general confusi..n 
they may possibly contrive to make their escape. If they go south and reach 
any part of the country which is still under confederate authority, their sum- 
mary arrest and subsequent surrender to their jairsuers may be reckoned as 
certain. Wherever they go, the curse of Cain is jjorhaps more markedly upon 
these men than on any other political murderers in the world's history. 



[From Hie Spectator, April 20, 1805.] 



THE ISIURDEK OF MR. LINCOLN. 



It is hard sometimes to abstain from accusing Providence of irony. In the 
supreme hour of his career, when the enfranchisement of a race and the future 
of a continent seemed to hang upon his safety, when, after four years of battle, 
the peace for which he had longed throughout appeared almost in sight, and 
after four years of depreciation tlie whole world at List recognized his value, 
when men had ceased to speak of the importance of his life because the thought 
of his death seemed to impugn the kindness of Heaven, America has lost ^Ir. 
Lincoln. It has lost him, too, in the only way in which his death could by ])os- 
sibility have neutralized any of th(; effects of his life. There never was a moment 
in the history of his country when firmness and shrewdness and gentleness were 
so unspeakably important, and the one man in America whose resolve on the 
crucial question was uiudiangeable, whose shrewdness statesmen indefinitely 
keener than hhnself could never balfie, whose gentleness years of incessant insult 
had failed to weary out, who, possessed of these qualities, was possessed also of 
the supreme power, and who had convinced even his enemies that the j)ower 
would be exerted under the influence of these qualities, has been taken away from 
his work. The future of the black race still oscillates between serfage and 
freedom, and the one man sure to have preferred freedom, and, preferring, to have 
secured it, has been removed ; the feeling of the white race liuctuates between 
forgiveness and vindictiveness, and the one man whose inlluence would have in- 
sured mercy has been murdered amidst the race who are striving to forgive by 
the class towards whom he forbade vindictiveness. As if to show that the South 
is unworthy of pardon, a southerner assassinates the ruler who on that very day 
was conteiuling with his cabinet for the policy of pardon to the South, and who 
must be succeeded by a man who, avowedly worshipping the people, can scarcely, 
even to conciliate that people, restrain his own desire for a policy of vengeance. 
AVhatever of vindictiveness is latent in iLe northern In-art has been sui)]died at 
once with an excuse which even the South will not deny, and with tlu; very 
agent whom vindictiveness in full swing might have prompted the nation 
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elect. It is the very irony of fate, a calamity for wliich the single cnnsolatiou 
lies in the old expression of a trust to -which political faith is mere suspicion, 
" Shall not the Judge of all the world do right ?" With the ship barely over 
the bar the pilot falls dead*upon the deck — and it must be -well, but the sailors 
may be pardoned if for the moment they feel as if the harbor would never be 
attained. It is hard to estimate even the immediate effects of a disaster so great 
and so unexpected ; the consequences are so vast, the data so numerous, that the 
mind is bewildered by the effort preliminary to calculation. The main datum 
of all is, however, secured ; the law-abiding North rejects the idea of revolution, 
and intends to accept Mr. Andrew Johnson as its Chief jMagistrate, and that fact 
once granted, two or three results will, we think, seem to reflecting men almost 
inevitable: I. The North has suffered an immense loss of power. 2. The pros- 
pect of peace has been weakened, if not materially, still perceptibly ; but (3) 
the triumph of the great cause itself is as secure as ever. 

1. The north has lost in ]\Ir. Lincoln an advantage of organization great al- 
ways, but greatest in a democracy — a ruler whose power was based upon the 
laws, but who was in action nearly absolute. Mr. liincoln entertained from the 
.first a high idea of his own responsibility as the elected representative of the 
nation, and four years of incessant strife passed almost without a blunder had 
secured him a popular confidence which made his will almost irresistible. Not 
originally a statesman, and always hampered by defective knowledge, as, for 
example, in finance, he had risen gradually above circumstances till his enemies 
denounced him as an autocrat, till his ministers became clerks, his generals in- 
struments, his envoys agents to carry out his commands. So thnroughly had 
the belief in his honesty and capacity penetrated the national mind tbat had 
he, five hours after the fall of Riclnnond, dismissed General Grant from the 
service without a reason, the people would, while still sore and wondering, 
have believed that the reason must be adequate. When once resolved on 
his course no politician ventured to dictate to him, no general to disobey him, 
no State to lock the wheels of the machine. " In the end," he said once, 
" the decision must rest with me," and the people had learned to know that 
it was best it should so rest. An authority so wide gave coherence to the 
national action, brought to it all the advantages of Ooesarism without the 
tendency to dependence which is apt to be its heaviest drawback. The nation 
still thought and decided for itself, but so perfect was the harmony between it 
and its head that his command had the irresistible force of an utterance uf the 
national will, against which any individual, whether he represented, like Fre- 
mont, a great territorial section, or like Mr. Seymour, a compact organization, or 
like General McGlellan, an entire party in the army and the nation, shattered 
himself in vain. JMr. Lincoln had come to be, like Cavour, a man whose spoken 
word carried with it the crushing authority of a popular vote, who, while in appear- 
ance only representative, was in reality as absolute as if the people itself had 
been embodied in him. Such a man is the necessity of every revolution, and in 
losing him the Union has lost the strongest link in its momentary organization. 

2. The chances of peace are diminished, to what degree it is impossible to say, 
but still diminished. The mad ruffian who has just murdered the representative 
man of his country as he would have murdered an opponent in a srfuthern tavera 
broil, has killed the one man on whom the South could have relied for justice 
and moderation. Mr. Lincoln's mere existence as President was a ])ermanent 
offer of peace upon unchangeable terms, a guarantee to every State in the con- 
federacy that if it would do certain acts it would at once be replaced in a certaia 
position, acts and position being alike endurable. Where is the guarantee now? 
Mr. Andrew Johnson is probably far more merciful than his talk, may follow 
his predecessor's policy, may indeed have only expressed a wish for severity! 
because as Vice-President he had no other means of being individual at all. But j 
there is and can be no proof of all this, and till it is proved, till, for instance, itj 



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is certain that tbo new Prosidenf is no advocate for confiscation, every State 
wliich can he^^itate, will, even if it? mind had been previous'lv made up. ^Alr. 
Johnson has lived the life of a border abolitionist, a man whose one "reat idea 
has forced bim dail,y to take bis life in bis band, who has learned to regard the 
slaveholders as deadly personal foes, to view them as a class deservinj^ neither 
mercy nor justice. _ That, as far as the system is concerned, is weU; but it 
is the worst mood in wliicb a reformer can approach the individuals whom his 
reform affects. The South by its o\vn act has exchan,a;ed a conqueror whom it 
could trust for a conqueror it has reason to dread, and it must therefore hesitate, 
if it can, to place itself finally in that conqueror's band. Add to this cause of 
delay the shock to the negroes, Avbo, bke all half-civilized men, understand a 
principle chiefly through a name ; the new excitement to southern imagination 
in the prospect of northern confusion ; the new hope Avhich will spring in southern 
statesmen that Mr, Johnson may atfiont France ot- menace England, and wo 
shall see ample cause to fear the protraction of the war. Fortunately the catas- 
trophe occurred when success had bf^en in substance achieved, and it is not the 
fict but only the time of victory which is in question, but still there may be 
delay. 

3. And yet the cause innst win, not only because Providence governs as wrdl 
as reigns — though events like the one we deplore force even politicians to recall 
the single certainty of politics — not only because a cause never hangs upon a 
single life, but because of the sjjecial circumstances of this individual case. 
This war, from first to last, has been a people's war, commenced, conducted, 
and sustained by the instinct of a whole nation, slowly shaping itself into action 
and finding for itself expression. The singular position of ]\[r. Lincoln, a posi- 
tion unparalleled, we believe, in modern history, or paralleled by that of Cavour 
alone, was that, while intensely individual, he was in the most perfect and com- 
plete degree a reflector of the national will. Ilis convictions, originally those 
of an average American of the western States, advanced in perfect independence 
at the same rate as those of the country, from recognizing the need of an expe- 
dition to enduring the sacrifices of continued campaigns, from a distrust of the 
extension of slavery to an iron resolve that it should cease, until at last his pub- 
lic utterances attained something of that volume of sound and depth and variety 
of meaning which belong to the expression of genuinely national opinions. 
When Cavour resigned after Yillafranca, men knew without telling that Italy 
bad made up its mind that Yillafranca should be a phrase; wlien Mr. Lincoln 
declared that, should the negroes ever be re-enslaved, "another, not I," would 
be the agent, the world perceived that abolition bad become a fixed constituent 
in the national creed. The people have lost their mouthpiece, but not the de- 
termination which lie so clearly expressed. His death, whatever else it may 
do, will certainly not diminish their hatred of slavery, or of that habit of vio- 
lence, that contempt of all obstacles, human and divine, when they stand in the 
way of self-will, which slavery engenders. " The black man resists, lash him ; 
the white man defies us, kill him;" that is the syllogism of slavery, which 
Wilkes Booth has worked out in the fVice of all mankind. He killed Mr. Lin- 
coln as be would have killed a man who preached abolition, or crossed bis spec- 
ulations, or defeated bim at cards, as men used to be killed every day in New 
Orleans, if they gave offence to men trained from boyhood to regard their own 
will as almost sacred. The North will not love the slaveholders the more for 
perceiving so clearlv whither their system tends, for realizing that in the murder 
of Mr. Lincoln, as "in the assault on Mr. Sumner, lawless force is the natural 
expression of the spirit of the institution. Slavery was doomed before, it will 
be hated now; and the motive power of the revolution is the necessity of end- 
ing slavery. Nor is the organization framed for that end shatiered by Mr. Lin- 
coln's dea\h. The framework has been terribly tested by that groaf shock : 
but it has stood. • »«••**• 



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MR. LINCOLN AND HIS FATE 

It is but seldom that meu kick against the pricks of a foreign political calam- 
ity as they do against those of a sudden private grief; seldom thn.t they feel as 
if to realize it were almost too painful, and feed their mind on those futile " ifs " 
and "might-have-beens" which give au intellectual relief by restoring the old 
natural point of view at the expense of the keener pang which reminds them 
that all these probabilities of yesterday are the impossibilities of to-day. Yet 
there were many Englishmen, not a Jew passionless Englishmen, who, though 
knowing nothing personally of the late President of the United States, felt thus 
rebellious against the news received on Wednesday of Mr. Lincoln's murder. 
This was no doubt in some degree due to the political anxiety excited by the 
murder of a ruler pledged to a policy of gentleness towards the South and peace 
towards the rest of world : and his murder in a manner likely to unloose the 
worst passions of civil war. But it was due in a far greater degree to the moral 
and imaginative shock of the event itself, to the striking incompatibility between 
1\\y. Lincoln's mild and patient temper and slow constitutional methods, and the 
deed of treachery and blood which has closed his career. No one felt this pe- 
culiar bitterness when John Brown, a man in some respects of more fascinating 
and picturesque, though not of more noble character, was hanged in Virginia 
for his attempt on Harper's Ferry. Then we could but say that " the blood of 
the martyrs is the seed of the church," and acquiesce in the noble old man's own 
expressed faith that he was " worth inconceivably more to hang than for any 
other earthly purpose." He had made up his mind to the chivalric duty of laying 
down his life for the slave, to precipitate the conflict between slavery and. free- 
dom ; and though many condemned this appparent impatience of the tflowly 
ripening purposes of Providence, all felt that it would not be laid down in vain. 
He had chosen his own fate, and there was something of satisfying moraCsub- 
limity in the tragedy of his heroism. It was impossible to blame a slave State 
for executing a violent destroyer of its institutions and invader of its peace, 
though our deepest sympathies Avere with the suft'erer and against his judges. 

But there is nothing of this consolation in the violent and apparently unmean- 
ing tragedy of this second and far more shocking martyrdom. Although Mr. 
Lincoln's official life began with a foiled attempt at assassination, and has closed 
thus awfully when he had just succeeded in nearing the end of the country's 
troubles^ — though his short four years' service in the cause of freedom has been 
framed, as it were, in blood — there is nothing which seems less consonant to 
Mr. Lincoln's character than the violent death which wicked men planned for 
im. Unlike John Brown, it was his first and dearest wish to avoid appealing 
to the sword. There w'as absolutely nothing of the impatience of revolutionary 
feeling about him, nothing of the spirit Avhich cries to (iod for vengeance on the 
oppressor. If there was any one remarkable characteristic about Mr. Lincoln, 
it was his almost undue disposition to wait upon Providenci', and not to act till 
the one duty that was cleaily visible to his mind and thoioughly grasped by his 
conscience required him to act. Instead of precipitating the conllict like John 
Brown, and appealing hastily to the arbitrament of the sword, Mr. Lincoln's 
Avhole heart was set on the desire to a iY'?V judgment, to see if God had not some 
better way in store for the salvation of the country than the fiery trial of l)at- 
tle. When in the autumn of ] 858, the year before John Brown's raid, .Mr. \ 
Lincoln canvassed the State of Illinois as senator against Mr. Douglas, (the ad- 
vocate of the spread of slavery into the Territories,) his speeches literally teemed 
with declarations of his ardent desire to delay and, it possible, prevent the con- 
flict which he anticipated. "I have again and again said," reiterated Mr. Lin- j 
coin, " that I would not enter into any of the States to disturb the institution j 
of slavery." All he demanded — and he demanded it expressly to avert this 






SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMrATTTY. 405 

otherwise inevitable conflict — was a "national policy with regard to the institu- 
tion of slavery that ackuowledjies and deals with that institution as being 
xcrongT This was two year? before the possibility of the presidency was even 
a dream to him. But all he said in this struggle with I\[r. Douglas M'as singu- 
larly characteristic of the future President — all was patience, moderation, con- 
spicuous lucidity as to matters of princijde, distinct determination not to huriy 
the course of events as to matters of ])olicy. He Avas as much the opposite of 
John Brown as one noble and g K)d man could be of another noble and good 
man. The one was anxious to cut knots with the sword, the other to loose tiiem 
gradually, though it should take generations, even centuries, to edect it. The 
one chafed under the slowness of Ciod's purpose; the other shrank from the rash- 
ness of precipitating His judgments through not adequately understanding them. 
The one was of the fiery, revolutionary temperament which assumes its divine 
commission and rushes into the battle ; the other of the vigilant, naturalistic 
temperament which watches the issue, and cAnnot believe that it has any com- 
mission to fight till the tide of war interferes with the discharge of some plain 
and long accustomed duty. Hence while the martyrdom of John Brown seems 
the natural close to a nolde but half-presumptuous career, the murder of Mr. 
Lincoln looks like an anomaly in history — an act of bloody personal revenge 
committed on the most impersonal, the most patient, the most tardy, though the 
most firm of rulers — a violent death inflicted on a cautious exponen.t of national 
convictions who never in his life expressed an uncharitable view of his enemies, 
who never stirred into activity one hostile feeling which could single him out as 
its individual object, who moderated, even while he gave effect to, the will of 
the nation which he goveriuxl. Such an end to such a man is less tragic than 
terrible, for it does not tend to ♦' purify by pity and by fear," but rather to distress 
by the jar of incoherent feelings. 

Yet from another point of view there is something grand and pathetic about 
the sacrifice. It is, we may fairly say, representative of the great conflict. We 
do not mean for a moment to suppose that this cruel and cowardly act has re- 
ceived any sanction from the confederate government. Even Mr. Davis is |no- 
bably not evil enough for that, and General Lee would abhor it with his whole 
soul. But, no doubt, as Mr. Lincoln may be fairly considered especially repre- 
sentative of the northern movement, this violent and treacherous Baltimore 
rowdy may fairly be called especially representative of the southern movement — 
of the party which proposed and atten^)ted to carry out the treacherous murder 
of a nation for the sake of revenging the genth; curb which had been imposed 
on their lust for extended power and extended slavery. The leaders in the 
South, nay, we believe, the mass of the southern people, have been better, far 
better, than the principle which impelled them into this strife. But what that 
principle was there has been no manner of doubt from the moment when the 
South Carolinian buHv, Brooks, half murdered Mr. Sumner in the Senate house for 
attacking slavery, and became hims.-lf almost an object of ajiothcosis in his native 
State, for his brutal and cowardly act, up to the moment when the evil passions 
of southern society culminated in this foul murder of Mr. Lincoln. _ ]S'o doubt 
Mr. Davis sanctioned these passions only in moments when he himself suc- 
cumbed to them, as when he called upon the Georgians the other day to "whip 
the Yankee si)aniels," and teach them their true masters ; but it is none the less 
true that he used these passions for his own purposes, and that without them he 
could never have hounded on the South to battle. Wilkes Booth may have, we 
trust has, no accomplice but the cowardly wretch who at the same time at- 
tempted and probably eff"ected the murder of Mr. Seward and his sou; but yet 
no one who looks at history can deny that his act is symbolic of the passions of 
the slave society, from which it proceeds, and is. indeed, but one new and more 
fatal explosion of the same destructive forces which engendered the rebellion. 
Mr. Lincoln, no doubt, has shown a spirit as much higher than the average spirit 



406 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

of the North as this dastardly act is below the average spirit of the South. But 
his murder by this self-styled tyrannicide is not on that account less representa- 
tive of the struggle; for it is the highest spirit in the North — the true birth of 
freedom, which has at last secured its conquest; and it is the worst spirit in the 
South — the true birth of slavery, which has at last secured its defeat. Mr. Lin- 
coln said at Philadelphia, when his life was first threatened, just before he as- 
sumed the presidency, in 1861: "If this country cannot be saved without giv- 
ing up the principle of the Declaration of Independence, I was about to say, I 
would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it ;" and the sacrifice 
was accepted. For refusing to give up that principle — the vital principle of 
northern liberty — he was some years later assassinated, though not till after he ■ 
had firmly secured, as we may hope, the triumph of that principle. 

And if he did not secure it by his life, we may hope that he secured it by 
his death. To all appearances, indeed, the prospect seems gloomy enough. 
Succeeded by a mm of very difP^-ent character, and called to lead a people 
whose first instinct can scarcely be otherwise than bitterly resentful, nothing- 
short of the example which Mr. Lincoln has set to the nation, no less than to his 
successor, could arrest revenge. But with Mr. Lincoln's administration before 
them — with the evidence they have of the sincere patriotism, the reverence for 
law, and the religious faith with which he took every great step in his short 
but eventful official life, it is scarcely possible that they should fall into the 
temptation of treating the South with southern passion. Only Wnshington 
among the Presidents of the United States could compare with Mr. Lincoln for 
temper and scrupulous self command iinder extraordinary trials. Indeed, when 
Mr. Lincoln assumed oftice, he did not disguise from himself that he iiad a part 
no less arduous than Washington to play, and that it could be played with 
equal credit only by the help of the same power. "My friends," he said, when 
leaving his home in Illinois, in 1S61, "no one not in my position can appreciate 
the sadness I feel at this parting. To the people I owe all that I am . Plere I 
have lived more than a quarter of a century, here my children were born, and 
here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A 
duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved 
upon any man since the days of Washington. He never could have succeeded 
without the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel 
that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him. In the 
same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support, and I hope you, my 
friends, will all pray that I my receive that Divine assistance v/ithout which I 
cannot succeed; but with which, success is certain.' The same tone of trust 
and self-distrust ran through all Mr. Lincoln's official acts, from the first mes- 
sage in which, before the war broke out, he declared his intention to do the very 
least that was consistent with his duty, by "holding" United States property 
wherever he had the power, to that last aifecting message in March last, when 
he confessed the complicity of the North in the guilt of the South, and while 
praying for peace, and for the opportunity "to bind up the nation's wounds," 
confessed that "if it he God's will that the scourge of war continue rmtil the 
wealth piled up by bondsmen during two hundred and fifty years of unrequited 
toil shall be sunk, and that every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be re- 
paid by another drawn by the sword, as it was said two thousand years ago, 
still it must be true, that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous alto- 
gether." With such an example of pure and self-forgetful patriotism running 
in their memories, it will be barely possible for the North to give themselves 
up to vindictive feeling. The memory of their simple-hearted and noble-minded 
ruler would be a greater hindrance to such a course than his living authority. 
And we may well hope that the strong and gentle nature whose last official 
words were words of sympathy for his foes, will inspire the future policy of 
the North as completely as if Mr. Lincoln could still rule them. The greatest 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 407 

revenge tlie Nortli conld take on tlie society wliicli nourished the spirit of Mr. 
Lincoln's assassin would be to make it reverence his memory. The time will 
no doubt come when the rustic Illinois lawyer who showed so great an equani- 
mity alike in adversity and success will be ranked with Washington by North 
and South alike, and when perhaps his murder may be spoken of as the turn- 
ing-point which taught his enemies to know what spirit they were of. 



[From the Jolm Bull, London, April 29. 18G5] 
THE NEWS FROM AMERICA. 

Among all the surprises by which this wonderful war in America has been 
signalized, none is so amazing in its dramatic outburst — none so fraught with 
the elements of pity and horror as the fall ot' Al)raham-Jjincoln, in the proudest 
moment of his triumph, by an assassin's dastard blow. The story discloses just 
sucli an argument as would have impressed itself most forcibly on the imagina- 
tion of a Greek dramatist ; indeed it may almost be said to be but a repetition 
of that tragixi theme which the greatest of Greek dramatists has wrought out 
with such consummate genius. Agamemnon returning to his home at the sum- 
mit of his pride — "the lord of ships and conqueror of Troy'' — only to perish at 
his own threshold by the stab of a murderess, does but stand out of the old epic 
legend as a type of the late President as he sat in the theatre on that eventful 
evening of the 14th of April. For four terrible years Mr. Lincoln had borne 
the weight of the most fearfnl responsibility which was ever cast upon man. He 
had felt himself called upon by an imperious sense of duty to plunge his coun- 
try into a civil war, and he had seen that war deepen and widen beyond all cal- 
culations that could have been formed — he had seen the opposition arrayed 
against him erect itself into a power which bade fair to beat back even the 
swarming soldiery which his vast resources had enabled him to call forth — and 
had still held on with a tenacity which all must own to be heroic, and which 
would have been sublime if it had been shown in a better cause. And now it 
seemed as if the reward had come. The North had at all events made up its 
mind that the capture of Richmond and the surrender of Lee amounted to a 
virtual overthrow of the "rebellion;" and when i\[r. Lincoln took his seat in 
the theatre it was perhaps under haugiitier circumstances of success than ever a 
ruler of men secured for a public appearance, lie has Avrestled with the Titans, 
80 he mny think, and has overthrown them. There is a yet more difficult task 
before him — the task of reconstruction. But there is a glory about this task 
that may well compensate for the ditliculty. If he can accomplish it, surely his 
name will be one of the most memorable in history. As he stands between so 
grand a past and so glorious a futuie, the foot of the crawling assassin is behind 
him, and he drops a dying man on the floor. 

Who shall say that we live in a tame and jirosaic age in the face of the mar- 
vels which recent events in America have yielded us v It has been a surprise 
to many to see the utter houhrersement of those theories which Avere built on 
the assumed regard of Americans for popular rights— to find the solemn fornnda 
that all legitimate power is based on the will of the people, treated with as much 
contumely by the northern majority as ever it could have been by some mcar- 
nation of oriental despotism decked with all the pomi. of barbaric pearl and gold. 
Those shrewd observers, who were fully prepared to see the greed and insoh-uce 
of human nature crop out under the brave words which inaugurated American 
republicanism, were still confounded by the unexpected tenacity with which 
the American people, both North and South, clung through blood and rum to 
the purpose which they had respectively formed, carried forward to the most 
terriiic reality that which was at first regarded as merely a game of brag, and 



408 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

gave couclusive evidence that even in America there are popular passions astir 
that can at once override the influence of the " almighty dollar. " The most 
sanguine calculations as to the resources of America must have been dwarfed by 
the stupendous efforts made on both sides, and the gigantic scale on which the 
war has been carried on. And it is more startling than all — to an Englishman 
no less startling than humiliating — to find that, while among ourselves the out- 
break of a war passion is assuming a more and more del ascd type, all the fero- 
cities engendered by civil discord were not sufficient to prevent the Americans 
from carrying into their great contest much of that chivalry and generosity 
which was characteristic of medieval warfare. The worst atrocities of Butler 
leave him a paladin and courteous knight in comparison with many an English 
" officer and gentleman" who claimed honor and reward at the hands of his 
coimtry for services rendered during the Indian mutiny. The most rowdy 
journals of New York would never have stooped to degrade themselves to the 
brutalized level of our Anglo-Indian press at the same period. And if there 
were at the time of which we speak peculiar circumstances of aggravation that 
might palliate the popular yell for blood, we must not forget that during the 
Kussian war — a struggle remarkably free from any elements of popular excite- 
ment — many of our journals at home turned the same cowardly thirst for human 
slaughter to excellent pecuniary account as far as they themselves were con- 
cerned, and left us to bear the discredit and the pain of so unpleasant a remem- 
brance. And now, last of all, comes this assassination of the President, rivalling 
in its appalling interest the blow which Brutus struck at the foot of Pompey's 
statue, the murder of Henri IV, and the avenging arm of Charlotte Corday up- 
lifted over Marat's bath. 

What will be the result of this foul crime, and in what manner is it likely to 
modify the future history of America ? It is difficult to speculate on the an- 
swer to this question. Mr. Lincoln had not certainly during the period of his 
power shown himself a statesman of high capacity. It may be doubted whether 
if he had had the opportunity he would have proved himself equal to the hercu- 
lean and delicate task of reconstructing the American Union — even assuming 
that its constituent States are willing to be united. 



[From the London Pauch, May 6, 1865.] 
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
Foully assassinated April 14, 1865. 

You lay a wreath on murdered LiN'COLN's bier ; 

You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace. 
Broad for the self-complacent P.ritish sneer. 

His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face. 

His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, 
His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, 

His lack of all we prize as debonair. 

Of power or will to shine, of art to please : 

You, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, 
Judging each step as though the way were plain : 

Reckless, so it could point its paragraph. 
Of chief's perplexity, or people's pain. 

Beside this corpse, that bears for winding-sheet 
The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew, 

Between the mourners at his head and feet. 
Say, scurril-j ester, is there room for you ? 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLEN'CE AND SVMrATIIV. 409 

Yt'S, be luul lived to sLaaie me from my sneer, 

To lame my pencil, and cuufuto my pen ; 
To make mo own this hind of princes peer, 

This rail-splitter a true-born kiuf^ of men. 

5Iy shallow jud<^nnent I had learnt to rue, 

Notiuc^ bow to occasion's height lie rose. 
How liis quaint wit made home-truth seem more true. 

How, iron-like, his temper grew by blows. 

How humble yet bow hopeful he could be; 

How in good fortune and in ill the same ; 
Nor bitter in success, nor boastful he ; 

Thirsty for gold uur feverish for fame. 

He went about his work — such work as ^qw 

Ever had laid on head and lieart and hand — 
As one who knows, where there's a t;usk to do, 

Man's honest will must Heaven's good grace command ; 

"Who trusts the strength will with the burden o-row, 

That God makes instruments to work his ^^il], 
If but that will we can arrive to kno\v. 

Nor tamper with the weights of good and ill. 

So he went forth to battle on the side 

That he felt clear was liberty's and right's, 
As in his peasant boyhood he liad plied 

His warfare with rude nature's thwafting mights. 

The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil, 

The iron bark, that turns the lumberer's axe. 
The rapid, that o'erbears the boatman's toil. 

The prairie, hiding the mazed wanderer's tracks, 

The ambushed Indian, and the jjrowling bear. 

Such were the needs that helped his youth to train ; 
Eough culture, but such trees large fruit may bear. 

If but their stocks be of right girth and grain. 

So be grew up, a destined work to do. 

And lived to do it ; four long-sutferiiig years' 
Ill-fate, ill-feeling, ill-report, lived through. 

And then he heard the hisses change to cheers, 

The taunts to tribute, the abuse to praise, 

And took both with tiie same unwavering mood ; 
Till, as he came on light, from darkling days. 

And seemed to touch the goal from wliere he stood. 



[From the Liverpool Daily Post, April 27, 18Go.^ 
ACRAIIAM LI.VCOLN. 

In the Lour of northorn victory the uortlicrn President lias been martyred. 
His faithfulness to his sworn duty has cost him his life. A few hours after he 
had uttered in council sentiments of kindness and conciliation towards the pros- 
trate South, the remorseless aim of au assassin robbed the almost reunited 



410 ArPEXDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPOXDENCE. 

republic of its wise and honest guide. The world will echo with loud and 
hitter detestation the hellish act by which Abraham Lincoln was sacrificed ; 
while those who have watched with sympathy the conduct of the departed 
President will rejoice that he lived just long enough to be consoled by apprecia- 
tion and success. 

It were futile to endeavor to express the feelings which the horrible occur- 
rence at Washington has excited, for as yet they are too poignant for utterance. 
The A'ast issues which impend almost daze the understanding and numb the 
sensibilities. It is only possible at such a moment to retrace the story of the 
life so sadly ended, and to balance with forced calmness tlie elements of the char- 
acter which now lies like a fallen tree, unchangeable, with no trait to be 
developed and no lineament to be added. If there ever was a man who in 
trying times avoided oilence it was Mr. Lincoln. If there ever was a leader in 
a civil contest who shunned acrimony and eschewed passion, it was he. In a 
time of much cant and afiectation he was simple, unaffected, true, transparent. 
In a season of many mistakes he was never known to be wrong. Where almost 
all were dubious, he was clear; where many were recreant, he was faithful. 
Yet there was nothing ill-timed or blunt in his sincerity and straightforwardness. 
Ey a happy tact, not often so felicitously blended with pure singleness of soul, 
Abraham Lincoln knew when to speak, and never spoke too early or too late. 
True from the first to his solemn purpose, the restoration of the Union, 
many M^ho remembered that he had been chosen as a man opposed to slavery 
deemed him almost a traitor because he did not constantly thrust forward, 
as imprudently as they hoped he would, the principle of emancipation. But 
those who approached him never failed to discover what was nearest his heart 
and what most truly animated his policy. The result has justified his conduct, 
for it was Abraham Lincoln who put an end to American slavery, against which 
men who seemed greater — for Heaven's ways are not as ours — had long contended 
in vain. 

It is especially to be remembered that one of the sublimest state papers of 
modern times was that simple message in which, at the turning point of the war, 
Lincoln expressed, in language worthy of the grandest theocratic eras, his faith 
in the justice of Heaven, and his devout v/illingness to accept in common with 
the leaders of the rebellion the character of instruments in the hand of Provi- 
dence. The English press deserves little honor for its behavior towards 
America ; but the Americans will not forget that, even before success had tinged 
Mr. Lincoln's cai-eer with what has sadly proved a setting glory, the simple 
grandeur of his recent speeches, delivered, be it observed, at the earliest proper 
moment, had extorted even from organs which deeply sympathized with the 
confederacy the acknowledgment that he was a good, a strong, a generous, a 
stately man. Fine gold such as this could not be dimmed by the breath of 
calumny, nor will it be shattered by the shot of the assassin. The mortal part 
of Abraham Lincoln will be consigned to an honorable and long-remembered 
tomb ; but the memory of his statesmanship, translucenr, in the highest degree, 
wise above the average, and openly faithful more than almost any this age has 
"witnessed to fact and right, Avill live in the hearts and minds of the whola Anglo- 
Saxon race as one of the noblest examples of that race's highest qualities. Add 
to all this that Abraham Lincoln was the kindliest and pleasantest of men, that 
he had raised himself from nothing, and that to the last no grain of conceit or 
ostentation was found in him, and there stands before the world a man whose 
like we shall not soon look upon again. 

Happily it is not needful as yet — let us hope it will not be — to sketch the 
character of Mr. Lincoln's Secretary of State. 3Ir. Seward may yet recover; 
and though nothing can mitigate the horrors of the attack to which he was sub- 
jected, every one would be well pleased to evade the duty of dwelling upon an 
event so horrible. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATIIY. 411 

As to tlie future, tbo speculations of yesterday were very anxiou.-^. The re- 
puted cliaracter of the Vice-President, Mr. Lincoln's legal and actual successor, 
tilled many who were friendly towards the United State<? with vague uneasiness, 
and more than one scheme was suggested by which the dangers of ]\[r. Johnson's 
accession might be averted. Some told us that General Grant would at once 
become jn-ovisional dictator, and keep Washington calm and the ark of the 
Union secure, until some new and safe arrangement could be made for the carry- 
ing on of the government. Others suggested that Andrew Johnson would be 
induced to resign, so that both offices niight be left vacant, an understanding 
being entered into with him that he should here-elected to his old office of Vice- 
President. These were the most moderate of the ideas which prevailed, many 
not hesitating to anticipate anarchy of the wildest khid, and a complete collapse 
of American iustitntioiis. But, before the afternoon had worn over, the telegraph 
bore to us a rebuke of these imaginings. The Americans have di-ne the best 
thing possible to reassure the world, and to attest the iufmobility of their 
government. Immediately after Mr. Lincoln's decease, the Vice-President 
was sworn in before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and Andrew 
Johnson is now de jure and de facto President of the United States. It is said 
that he exhibited the most appropriate emotion, and indeed the circumstances 
could hardly have tailed to solemnize any miud ; but the satisfaction to be 
derived from his demeanor is not so solid as that which is afforded by the regular 
and simple manner ih which the installation of ^Ir. Lincoln's successor has been 
proceeded with. No Amurath ever succeeded Amurath, or Harry Harry, with 
more certainty or less disturbance. The Americans know, if we do not, that 
institutions such as theirs depend upon no one man for their stability. Even 
when assassination rudely severs the line of the presidential succession it is 
instantaneously and noiselessly re2:»aired. Englishmen have learned much of 
late about America and the Americans. They have now an 0})portunity of 
understanding that to an American the idea of a break in the chain of his gov- 
ernment's history is as little likely to occur as is the notion of a hiatus in the 
English succession among ourselve>. 

We shall indulge in no guesses as to the effect of Mr. Lincoln's assassination 
on the settlement of American affiiirs. Some prophesy the application of 
vengeful rigor to the defeated South. We Avould rather foretell such a ready 
and unanimous l)urst of manly indignation throughout the southern States as 
Avill efiectually disarm the North and unite the whole republic in abhorrence of 
the atrocious crime which ha.s sullied the conclusion of a gallant war, and in 
yearnings for a renewal of the Union which was the object of the dead President's 
dutiful devotion. Who can believe that men wlu) have astounded the world by 
the noblest virtues of warfare, and the boldest determination of policy, could be 
driven even by the chagrin of failure to the degrading, cowardly, and criminal 
expedients of the bravo and the cutthroat? liaiher let us suppose that these 
horrible catastrophes were the result of individual fanaticism, or even, as the 
name of Booth suggests — though one laments to find a name long linked with 
genius associated with crime — from theatrical and bombastic excitement. Any 
hypothesis rather than aflrx to a brave and noble people, who but lately were 
deemed a nation, the bkck blood-guiltiiusss of these terrible deeds! Thero will 
probably be no violence and no general vengeance; but in repentant mouruful- 
ness the ashes of good, brave, sterling Al-raham Lincoln will be strewn upon the 
grave of civil discord. 



[From The Leeds Mercury, Thursday, April 27, 18G5.] 
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

The heart fails and the hand trembles as we record the fearful news which 
reaches us like a knell from the other side of the Atlantic. The North has gamed 



412 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

its triumph, but the great man to whose wise counsels and brave spirit that triumph 
is so hirgely attributabh3 lies a corpse in the capital of the States which he had 
once more united. On the 14th of April, on the very day after the federal flag 
had been triumphantly hoisted on the fort at which the first shot was fired, 
President Lincoln fell by the hand of an assassin. His chief Secretary of Stale, 
not yet recovered from the effects of the injury he had sustained by his recent 
accident, was a second victim, and was lying apparently at the point of death 
when the mail which brings this fatal news quitted America. Grod only knows 
to what this terrible crime may lead. For ourselves, we tremble to think of the 
possible consequences. In that one head and heart seemed to be shut up the 
better genius, of the reconstructed States. There are times when the fate of 
even the strongest nations seems to hang upon a thread, when a little event, the 
murder of a. single man, may determine its doom for weal or woe, almost for life 
or death. Vv^hile the vessel is in the open sea, it can matter little whether the 
helm is turned a trifle too much to the right hand or to the left. Bat when 
driving through narrow and intricate channels, v^ath dangerous banks and sharp 
ledges of rock on either side, the smallest mishap in the guidance of the rudder 
may send the vessel to destruction. God grant it may not be so with that noble 
vessel, which, after surviving a tempest of unparalleled fury and duration, 
seemed at last, in calmer seas, but through winding and difficult channels, reach- 
ing the longed-for haven ! We have still faith in that large-hearted, broad- 
minded view which the mass of the northern people have continued to hold, 
even in the midst of the great agony which has convulsed the nation for the last 
four years. A certain amount of froth and folly there has been, as in all great 
disturbances, but underneath this spray of angry words and hasty counsels, the 
deep, strong, majestic-roll of the thoughts and feelings of a mighty naiion, basing 
its strength on justice, and animated by motives at once pure and elevated, has 
been visible to every discerning eye. But the greatest and wisest nation needs 
at the head of its executive one who can give form to its feelings and practical 
expression to its wishes. Lincoln has been the very man to embody the national 
policy at such a moment. As a lawyer, acquainted with technical forms and 
deeply imbued with the spirit of the written Constitution, he was admirably 
qualified to carry out the great half-conservative, half-revolutionary work of 
reconstructing the nation on the old basis, made new" by the excision of slavery, 
Avithout shocking those prcy'udices or violating those principles to which the' 
American mind always clings with such peculiar tenacity. As-a man of great 
good sense and cool judgment he was able to read the signs of the age with 
more clearness than most of his contemporaries, and thus acquired the rare 
faculty of not only doing the right thing, but of doing the right thing at the 
right time. His great resolution, shown by his unflinching firmness of purpose 
during four of the most eventful years in the world's history, would have en- 
abled him steadily to pursue his wise and benevolent purpose amid all the 
conflict of opinions and the confusion of counsels by which he was surrounded. 
Lastly, his large-hearted philautliropy, the truly patriotic and Christian spirit in 
which he has ever viewed this great national crisis, woidd have shut out any fear 
of that bloody retribution which in almost any other countiy, and in any other 
age, would have visited the leaders, and perhaps even the people, of the re- 
volted States. Was ever such a man cut off at such a season ? Truly it may 
be said in this case that " man proposes, but God disposes." The prop and 
hope of the nation suddenly broken. The destroyer of his country's peace 
marked out by the popular voice for forgiveness; its restorer struck down by 
the shaft of a vengeance which counted everything noble and good its mortal 
foe, a vengeance which we earnestly pray may not bring down a fearful retri- 
bution on the heads of those in whose supposed interest the blow was struck. 

President Lincoln's career has been one of the most remarkable ever recorded. 
Boru in Kentucky ; educated, so far as he was educated at all, in Indiana ; in 



SEXTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMrATIIY. 413 

youtt settled in tlie rccontly formed State of Ulinoir* — be spent his whole life 
far away from the rcfiniuj^j influences of large cities and poli.slied society. Un- 
couth iu figure, plain in features, endowed with neither the natural advantage 
of a good address nor the derived advantage of a careful education — an orator 
only ill the greatness of his thoughts, not in the purity of his language, the 
poetry of his ideas, or the graces of his manner — modest in demeanor, utterly 
averse to all ostc-utatirm or idle display — he seemed the very last man in the 
United States liliely to captivate the multitude, or to win the lofty position to 
which he vfas twice elected, and from which ho has now at length been deposed 
by the hand of the great leveller. The speeches which won him so high a repu- 
tatiou as to suggest his name for the Presidency of the Union are not spoecliea 
which in this country would be called fine or eloquent; still less are they speeches 
of the kind usually supposed to constitute the staple of American oratory. 'J'hc 
crowds which flocked from all parts of Illinois to hear his great encounters with 
thii celebrated Douglas, the crowds Avbich filled the Cooper Institute when he 
addressed the republicans of New York after the canvass of his own State, 
were not drawn by any hope of listening to withering invective, ex((uisite hu- 
mor, delicate path(»s, grand bursts of oratorical splendor, or loud-sounding praises 
of the country and thattery of the national prejudices. Never were speeches 
more devoid of clap-trap. Ki' treats his opponent with a calm respect and 
courtesy from -which jieitlier the sarcasms with which he w;is attacked nor the 
growing warmth of the contest ever induced him to swerve. He dealt with 
slavery as one who strongly disapproved it, but was prepared to leave it wherever 
it constitutionally existed, and was n(,'ver for a moment led to confound the sys- 
tem with the men, or to denounct? the slavi'holders in tiie language of indignation 
and invective. Uor the rest, his speeches are remarkable only for the clear, 
broad (tetiniti(m of constitutional j)riiiciples, the unerring logic with which he 
applies these principles to existing facts, and the startling fairness and candor 
with which he always states the arguments of his opponents. Many men can 
speak eloquently who caimot act wisely. But no man ever spoke with the 
sound sense, clearness of viev*', and definiteness of ptu-pose wliich mark his 
speeches, without having the wisdom which will make him great in action. His 
sjieeches are a photograph of his character. I'ull of transparent honesty and 
candor; without the smallest infusion of political rancor or })crsonal vanity ; 
singular in their forgetfulness of self, singular in their devotion to the cause of 
truth ; never skimming the surface, but always grappling fairly witli the whc.le 
question at issue; never shirking difliculties or sin inking from admissions, but 
meeting the one, and uiaking the other, as cahuly as if they were a part of his 
own case; overflowing Avith great thoughts, and strong in manly sense, wliich 
the very boldness of expression seemed, like the sm-ere simplicity of the Egyptian 
architecture, to set off" in more massive prqtortioiis Such were his speeches; 
such was his mind; such, too, was his j)olicy. 

Apart from the future, there is something singularly aff.cting in his munler 
at this particular crisis. His great work of crushing the rebellion, a work 
especially uncongenial to such a spirit, at last accomplished ; the bright dawn 
of peace already breaking, and his heart beginning to expand to the hajipier 
duties which seemed now about to engage his attention; the dark frown van- 
ishing from his brow, and the smile of gentle loving welcimic beginning to^ 
lilav upon his features; a.ll that was necessarily stern and repulsive in the 
character of his administration clearing away, and sunshine and brightness 
bursting out over the scene; at such a mmnent to be quenched in terrible, total, 
sudden eclipse! It is indeed a hard fite. And by whom was this ever-de- 
testable crime, which will rank its authors with the worst assassins in liistoiy— 
with the murderers of William of Orange and of Henry IV of France— by whom 
was this act of hideous wickedness committed ? By the South we cannot 
and will not say. With all its crimes, the nation '.\ hich produced Lee and 



414 APPEiS"DIX TO DIFLOMATIC COKRESPOXDEIsCE. 

Jackson cannot be cliargeable witli such a deed. But by a party, a faction, a 
knot of dark, cowardly assassins in the south, wbose names and numbers it is 
impossible yet to kno^y. Yes, it was the moment when his mind was revolving 
schemes of reconstruction and reconciliation, when his heart was yearning to 
forgive all that it had suffered, Avhen peace was in all his thoughts and mercy in 
all Iiis. words, that this treacherous blow was aimed at his life. His gieat work 
was cut short, its sadder features alone brought to light, its brighter hidden 
and now blotted out forever. But posterity will give him his due. It will tell 
that though his work was bloody his heart was kind ; it will tell with what joy 
he was preparing to cast aside the sword, and welcome back those who had 
forced him to use it; it will tell how he loved peace, how he sought it, and 
how, when it seemed on the point of coming, when his arms were stretched out 
to welcome it, he fell dead, struck down by a murderous hand, at the post of 
duty and of honor. It will tell, too — and distant generations will repeat the 
story with growing enthusiasm — how, before his day's toil was done, the colos- 
sal fobric of negro slavery had been shi^'Kred to its base. For this he lived. 
His work accomplir^hed in the appointed way, he met his tragic end. While 
the echo of joyful salvoes was yet ringing in his ears, joyful to him more be- 
cause they heralded peace than because they celebrated victory, he passed 
away — leaving the world half stupefied v/ith the horror of the crime and the 
magnitude of the loss. 

liistory, Avhich embalms few reputations so spotless and so sacred as his, will 
do justice to his memory. The present generation, and especially his own 
countrymen, can be^^tmark their sense of his worth by following in his footsteps. 
In the few dignified words which he so lately uttered when asked to consecrate the 
cemetery of the heroes who fell at Gettysburg, President Lincoln said, " It is 
not we that conseci-ate them, but they that consecrate us." May his own memoiy 
consecrate the great nation it was his lot to rule. His successor is unfor- 
tunately very unfavorably known, atid is certainly not the person we should 
like to see in the place of the gi-eat statesman whose office he how holds. But 
Andrew Johnson, with all his faults, is not a man wiihout abilities or without 
virtues. Iiis words on accepting the new office were words indicating a due 
sense of the solemn nature of the duties he is called upon to perform. With a 
cabinet trained to official duties under his noble predecessor, with a people reso- 
lute in maintaining the wise and moderate policy to which they have so mag- 
nanimously adhered, there is no reason to despair of the prospects of the federal 
States. They have had a fearful loss, but the greatness of Lincoln was that he 
embodied the public feeling, not at all that he created it. In a free state this 
feeling will find its natural expression, and Lincoln's work may survive, and 
Lincoln's spirit may still rule, though his voice is quenched in the silence of death, 
and a bleeding nation mpurns over his tomb. It may Avell mourn — but it may 
also rejoice. In that tomb lies the corpse of slavery. 



[Extract.] 
ABRAHAM LI.\COLi\. 

The great man whose assassination has left so remarkable a blank in the his- 
tory of the world was not one of those who enjoyed the favors of fortune. He 
was bi-ed in poverty, and whatever greatness he attained was attained by his 
own abilities and his own exertions. 

(Here follows an account of the life, services, and assassination of Mr. Lin- 
coln, concluding with the following :) 

So died this gieat and g'ood man, after one-half of his work was completed, 
but while another half, which no one can execute as he would have done, re- 



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mains to be finished. Tlic mildest and most peace-loving of men, it was reserved 
for him during the comparativelj short period in which he has played a promi- 
nent part in the history of the world to be but the minister of a terrible and deso- 
lating war. Tlie firmness of his character, the comjirehensiveness of his acts, 
the wisdom of his policy, have been fully displayed. The largeness of his heart, 
the noble forgivingness of his nature, and the temj^-rate wisdom which can at once 
concilitate and command, have been nippt-d in the bud. Alas fur ihe hopes of 
the country that has lost such a man ! 



[From the Renfrew shire Independent, Paisley, Saturday, April 29, 18G5.] 
THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.— THE CONFEDERATE CUT-TIIROAT.S. 

The " chivalry" of the American slave States has found a frightful vindication 
in the assassination of President Lincoln, and the attemritcd assassination of Mr. 
Secretary Seward. Tiiis crime — the most atrocious political outrage of modern 
times — is but a fitting close to the revolt of the southern slaveliohh'rs — the 
horoes of the lash, the bowie-knife, and the revolver. When General Lee had 
surrendered, and had washed his hands of the filthy business of did'ending the 
right to lash black meu and outrage black women, it is not an unexpected result 
that the confederates should have chosen to put in force a mafin-ed plan of as- 
sassination, and have attempted to win back by the dagger what they had lost 
by the sword. In the south, where assassination has been an habitual practice, 
the murder of " Honest Abe Lincoln" will be received with applause, and will re- 
new confidence in a lost cause. When the brute Brooks of South Carolina at- 
tempted to assassinate Senator Sumner at Washington, instead of being execrated 
for his ruffianism, he became a hero in his own State, and was especially honored 
by the " ladies" of the south, who have a real admiration for ruffianism, especially 
when practiced on such helpless people as negro men and women. On this side 
the Atliintic the execrable dead already finds abundance of apologists in the com- 
mercial scoundrelism that has been engaged in blockade-running ;irid building 
privateers. The public organs devoted to *lie interest of our commercial specu- 
lators, and the whole class of Jews and hucksters who desire the perpetuation 
of slavery, take care to express no exultation^ but they at the same time show 
the want of that indignation which every honest heart must feel. There is, 
Heaven be praised, a class undemoralized l)y the ledger and the yard-stick, and 
to them the infamous tragedy is a sincere regret. Those Englishmen who in 
reality abhor slavery have had reason to r.-gard President Lincohi as in 8om3 
measure the scourge of the curse, raised up to crush it, not by the merciless 
sLmghter of all who dared to defend it, but by a combination of military and po- 
litical measures that have finally trampled out the accursed system. Recognizing 
in the federal President an instrument of Providence appointed to fill one of the 
most merciful missions ever committed to man, liberal and intelligent men have 
watched with an anxious dread every step of the avenger. How wiscdy, how 
humanely, and how effectually he has fuKiiled his beneficent duty, his bitterest 
enemies have at last been obliged to declare. No paper has more ferociously 
vituperated Honest Abe than the London Times, and but a few days since, and 
when no warning of the President's death had reached that journal, it passed 
an culogium upon him such as no man of our day and generation dare lay 
clsim to. The London Times has declared that during the trying ordeal of 
his presi iency — an ordeal unsurfiassed for danger and difficulty, as his death 
has proved it to be— Abraham Lincoln had done nothing he had any means 
to feel ashamed of. The warmest admirer of President Liticolu, and tho 
hottest partisan of his administration, could have said nothing further in lauda- 
tion, and we shall not attempt to add a higher compliment. That tho abjmi- 



416 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

liable and odious language used towards the President by a large section of our 
own press was false and calamuioas could find no fuller refutation than the 
Times has written ; but it is to be feared the brutal words of low-bred scribblers 
nray have produced effects the recantation of the Times will not suffice to efface. 
That the republican party of the States should have had the sagacity to pick 
out of a private station a man so j'arely gifted for the work he has had to do is 
a wonderful tribute to the sagacity of the American people. And the election 
of Mr. Lincoln has no less clearly proved the intense dislike of a large section 
of our mercantile and aristocratic classes to the progress of such liberal institu- 
tion.s as flourish in America. Because Abraham Lincoln had begun life as a 
rail-splitter, had educated liiuT^elf, and, we may add, did not consider it proper 
to own human cattle, the Tory papers, written to please the upper-class flunkies, 
and the unprincipled journals that serve the interest of the upstart commercial 
gentility of Glasgow and other commercial coiumunities, described the Presi- 
dent as a vulgar, low-bred fellow, a brute, buffoon, tynint, and baboon. Snch 
language can only fall back upon those who so undeservedly have made use of 
it; but the liberal class, and especially the Avorkiug men belonging to it, should 
never forget the ebullition of rage which has been directed ugainst a plain man 
of the .people like Honest Abe, because he had it in his power to dictate terms 
to "a real gentleman" like Jeff. Davis, Avho had aristocratic notions about keep- 
ing negroes under the lash. The language which has been used by a portion 
of the public pvess of tiiis country to support the cause of slavery iu the con- 
federacy, and vituperate those who have attempted to suppress it, has been a 
scandal the most abominable that has befallen us for many a year, and we must 
confess that it is passing strange no voice has been raised against it, even in our 
own town, among a population so sensitive to political questions of import. 
But, indeed, the ignorance and prejudice shown iipon the American question by 
the same class of working men who have in past times been in some measure 
regarded as political oracles leads to the suspicion that political zeal is dying 
out, and that a generation of idlers and fools are supplanting the same race 
whose int(dligent views and energetic action won in times past for the middle 
classes such large concessions from the upper. While we thus lament over the 
untimely death of good honest Abraham Lincoln, and, worse still, gneve over 
the vile spirit of tyranny and oppression so rampant among ourselves, Ave do 
not think the federal cause will now suffer much from the loss of its ablest 
leadcT. The struggle between freedom and slavery was closed by the capture 
of Ilichmoud and Lee. The confederates still in the field might safely be left 
to one of the armies now in ])ursuit of them. The remnant of troops still led 
by Joe Johnston are being pursued by Sherman's army, Grant's troops, and 
Hancock's division. If they shou.ld escape from the Caroliuas, Thomas, who 
is in Alabama, will fall upon their rear ; and if Davis and an escort of runaways 
reach the ^lississippi aiul escape into Texas, it is more than can be expected. 
Some of our Tory jiapers believe that the confederates will escape to the llocky 
mountains — a sad plight, it must be confessed, for the heroes who were to burn 
Washington and New York ; but if they do, it will be but a scattered remnant 
Vvho will fitul a fraternal refuge among the savage Indians and outcast thieves 
of the far Avest. While the armed hordes of the confederacy will thus be 
speedily accounted for, the new federal President, Andy Johnson, Avill lind 
means to pacify the South in a way which may prove to the assassins of Lincoln 
that in him they have lost their best friend. Educated among "southern gentle- 
men," and habituated to the paradise of a slave State, Johnson, it is believed, 
will turn out to be a man after the southern heart. Belonging to the slave State 
of Tennessee, the new President, it is rumored, has imbibed the savagery so 
characteristic of southern chivalry, and has already been advocating the gal- 
lows pretty freely. Abraham Lincoln was not the man to desire his dpath to 
be avenged in any way, but it is feared Andy Johnson v/ill take upon himself 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND .SYMPATHY. 417 

what he may consider to he a public duty with some zeal for the work. Now 
that Robert Lee has left behind him tlu; patrons of the assassin Booth, not much 
reg-ret will be expressed among the humane and intelligent of this country if 
Jeff. Davis and his whole gang expiate on the gallows the crime they have b^'cu 
guilty of in instigating a rebellion v/ithout better reason for it than the preser- 
vation of southern rights in human cattle. If it be still denied that slavery 
was the mainspring of the revolt, we have but to j)oint to the demands of t!ie 
southern leaders to save the confederacy by making soldiers of the negroes, and 
to the fact that up to the last hour the slaveholders would not part with their 
black chattels. There is not, however, a shred of argument to support the 
southern revolt, and it is bnt fitting that those who inspired it for the m.ost f ml 
purpose should now suffer for the guilt of all the desolation that has been 
caused. In Andy Johnson vengeance may have a terrible minister, bnt let us 
remember that the crimes committed against the negro race for half a century 
have likewise to be cast into the scale. As for the pacification of the South, 
that will be an easy matter. Some two hundrcni thousand black troops quar- 
tered upon their old masters, and officered by a i'ew Butlers and Blenkers, will 
solve the difficulty readily enough. It may perchance happen that under such 
a regime the white men may occasionally get their throats cut, and the white 
women may find their old servants rather unpleasant masters ; but if murder an 1 
outrage occur, it will only be a continuance of southern customs, with the dif- 
ference that black instead of white men will be in the asccmdant. We write 
with an indignation of the fiendish crime committed that we expect will appeal 
to not a few of our readers; and to these we especially recommend the pro- 
priety of some immediate public expression of sympathy with the fmiilies <.f 
President Lincoln and Secrevary Seward. The contem}»tible silence Paisley 
has obs(;rved during the whole course of the American confiict goes fir to blot 
out the recollection of the public and libeial spirit our town once had a reputa- 
tion for ; but the present emergency offers an opportunity for asserting our sym- 
pathy with the triumph of emancipation on the Anu'riciui continent, and the 
admiration we had for the honest old man wliose life has been so ruthlessly 
sacrificed in the struggle. 

In furthering this pm-pose we will readily aid in any way, give publicity to 
letters, or make public such suggestions as may be communicated to us, and we 
nuly hope the proposal may meet with an immediate and fitting response. 



[Extract from tl.e West Surrey Times, Saturdiiy, April 20, ISCw.] 

Abraham Lincoln, the kind and good President of the United States, has beeii 
assassinated, and amongst all the news of startling import which reaches us thia 
^ve(•k— the death of the amiable Czarowitz of Russia, the uncertain stale of the 
health of the king of the Belgians, the assassination of tiie assistant secretary of 
the Russian legation at Paris, the capitulation of his army by General Lee, ami 
the confession of the murder of her little brother, five years ago, by Constance 
Kent— that is the one subject which engrosses public attenlion and oecupies 
the minds of all thinking nu-n. A full account, so far as it has yet reached us, 
of the assassinatiu of the President will be found in another colnnui. Let us 
briefly recapitulate a few of ihe events which have been hurrying forward with 
such terrific rapidity in the United States within the last few weeks, ami drop 
a tear to the memory of a man who, in circumstances of unparalleled d.fiiculty, 
did as much for his country as any of his predecessors in the high oihce 
which he held — AVashington or Adams, Jefferson or .Madison, Monroe <.r 
(.Hiiiicy Adams, Jackson or Van Buren, Harrison or Tyler, I'olk or 'laylor, 
Fillmore, Pierce, or Buchanan ; and these names constitute the whole ot the 
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418 ■ APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPOXDENCE. 

men wlio have presided over the United States of Korth America since their 
government was fairly established on its present basis in 1789. 

Lincoln was, withal, so good a man ; his country looked to him so earnestly 
in her hour of need ; his patriotism was so gi'eat ; his honesty so sterling ; his 
clemency so marked; his piety so pure; his firmness so inexhaustible, that 
none but miscreants such as these could have entertained for a moment the 
atrocious idea of a crime like this. In the magnificent language of Macbeth, 
when soliloquizing upon the proposed murder of the gentle Duncan — 

" He Iiath borne his faculties so meek, hath been 
So clear in his great office, that his virtues 
Will plead like angels, trunipet-tongued, against 
The deep damnation of his takiug-otl'; 
And pitj, like a naked, new-born babe, 
Striding the blast, on Heaven's cherubim horsed. 
Upon the sightless couriers of the air. 
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, 
That tears shall drown the wind." 



[From the Ulster Observer, Belfast, Thursday, April 27, 18G5.] 

The startling and melancholy intelligence which reached our shores on yes- 
terday is of a nature to overawe with terror and bow down Avith sorrow every 
humane and generous heart. President Lincoln has been coldly and delib- 
erately assassinated. At the same time and the same hour his sick and suffer- 
ing Secretary of State was stabbed in the bed to which illness confined him; 
and a double crime, unequalled in infamy and unsurpassed in atrocity, has 
been perpetrated at a time when consequences of fearful moment and import- 
ance are likely to throw into temporary oblivion the enormity of the guilty, 
deeds that have produced them. 

When war was fiercely raging, and the angry passions of desperate men 
carried away by the whirlwind of unrestrained fury, made every hour preg- 
nant with incalculable danger, even the terrible catastrophe which has now 
unexpectedly befallen the government of the United States would not then 
have taken the world greatly by surprise. When impiety raises its head crime 
rears aloft its blackened trow, and the iron does not clasp more suddenly nor 
cling more tenaciously to the magnet than do the patrons of a bad cause to the 
evil agencies by which all wickedness strives after its forlorn ends. But that 
such a catastrophe as has at once afflicted and disgraced the republic of America 
should have happened at a moment when all hearts were glad and full of joy- 
ous anticipations — at a moment when all danger was seemingly past and all 
enmity apparently on the decline — is a calamity as unexpected in its occurrence 
as it is likely to be terrible in its results. The fiery flash which shoots across 
the summer sky, heralding the thunder and the storm, is but a faint illustration 
of the sudden and terrible event which shrouds in gloom the joy and hope of a 
jubilant nation, and turns their hour of triumph into one of mourning and deso- 
latiou. A few days ago and Europe heard with delight the intelligence that 
the bloody strife which for four years had been wasting the strength and ener- 
gies of a noble people was drawing to a close. The civilized world regarded 
with admiration the magnanimity which rose, spontaneously and with the 
haughtiness of virtue, in the breasts of the northern people, and turned the 
occasion of victory into an opportunity for the display, not merely of mercy, 
but of brotherly sympathy atd love. The feeling which welled up from the 
heart of the nation found a fitting recipient and fitting exponent in the breasa 
and tongue of him who lies wrapped in a bloody shroud to-day ; and there it 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 419 

no friend of liberty and luimanity who will not sorrow over the f;ite, go Piuldeu 
and so undeserved, of one who was a champion of both, and who is the latest 
and noblest martyr in their cause. 

Abraham Lincoln has follcn at his post. The assassin's hand may take 
aAvay life, it cannot wonnd that which is more precious and enduring thaii^ life — 
the reputation which is based on tried goodness and proven greatness. In this 
respect the admirers of the. President of the United States have nothing to 
regret. His life has been long enough for its purpose — his end is conducive to 
his fame. With more reason and more truth than tlieir author could claim he 
might, on the 4th of ]\Iarch, (the day at first marked out by his murderers for 
his doom.) have used the memorable words uttered by CiBsar in the senate, and 
declared that he had lived long enough for his own glory and his country's 
welfare. He was raised up in a season of danger to be a guide to the state in 
its difficulties and perils. With steady hand and unfaltering purpose he fulfilled 
his allotted task. Through good report and evil report ; in the midst of the 
raging storm of battle, Avhen all the land was convulsed and no ark of refuge 
appeared on the troubled waters ; and at the no less dangerous crisis when the 
tide of victory set in, and vengeance, with glaring eye and bared arm, sought 
to lead the van of conquest, he was true to his duty, and true to that high 
mission from which his sense of duty derived its inspiration. Fearless in 
danger, unshaken in adversity, hopeful when the bravest all but despaired ; 
calm amidst the wild, contagious excitement of success ; as imperturbable in the 
general ecstacies produced by triumph as he was resolute in the general des- 
pondency produced by misfortune, he displayed, from first to last, the rare 
qualities of a good man and a wise ruler. His simplicity of character was 
mistaken for ignorance ; his firmness of pi\rpose was characterized as obsti- 
nacy ; his perseverance was regarded as infatuation. Caricatured, reviled, and 
calumniated ; sometimes hardly pressed by fortune, and sometimes hardly 
pressed by designing hostility, he rose, by the sheer force of his integrity and 
ability, above all opposition and enmity, and, in the day of final triumph, had 
his full share in the halo of glory which crowned ^he conquering arms of the 
republic. It was not, it is true, permitted him to see the end he would have 
most delighted to behold. His golden dreams of restored peace and union ; 
of equality without reserve and jvxstice without curtailment ; of the full plen- 
itude of righteous freedom poured out upon the laud, have been extinguished 
in his blood ; but, having watched through the night, and seen the lustre of the 
dawn, it may be said that he witnessed the consummation for which his soul 
longed. And who will say, looking to his zeal and labors, that, had he fore- 
seen his doom, and that his life would be required for his country's triumph, 
he would not have willingly bowed to destiny, and, accepting his fate, have 
cheerfully, and with a nunc divuths on his lips, paid the penalty, which is no 
less a sacrifice because the red hand of the cowardly assassin has exacted it? 

It is such thoughts as these that afford to the sympathizing mind its highest 
consolat'ion under'such trying circumstances. Lincoln has not f dleu before the 
cause to which he devoted his life has been rendered secure. The victorious 
arms which crushed out the rebellion and drove slavery from the continent 
cannot be affected by the loss of one man, although he be the most important 
man in the state. It is the privilege of repul)lics to be free from th.' perils 
which beset countries in which power is centred in an individual or a dynasty. 
The loss of the Tresident of the United States is great, but the Con^tituii.ui 
can repair it. A thousand daggers, successfully wielded by a thousand assas- 
sins, could not cut off the race of rulers. So long as the people exist, their 
ranks will supply the men necessary to conduct the administration ; and m the 
present cri.-is, terrible and pressing as it is— so fraught with danger and c;.lainity 
—those who have steadily watched the history of the past cannot doubt that 
the future will prove the stability of the institutions that have survived so 



420 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COKRESPONDENCE. 

many rude and awful ?lincks. Long after the present panic pball have passed 
away, and the peace and liberty which have been so dearly purchased shall 
have been consolidated on a basis too permanent for disturbance, men will look 
back on the last fearful act of the terrible trag-edy that has drawn to a close, 
and see in it not a peril to the state, but the most valuable pledge of its safety. 
Great blessings are purchased by great sacrifices, and human suffering is the 
road to real glory. When President Lincoln penned the sentence which liber- 
ated forever millions of his fellow-creatures from bondage, and gave a death- 
blow to slavery throughout the world, he did an act which entitled him to ever- 
lasting fame. That act is now sealed with bis blood ; and the consummation, 
so devoutly wished and prayed for, has received its crowning sacrifice. 

Eut what will be said of the perpetrators and instigators of this horrible 
deed ? If the life of the President appears, as it is, a precious offering on the 
altar of liberty, the crime by which it was destroyed stands as a hideous blot 
on the hideous cause in whose behalf it was accomplished. Slavery, born of 
murder, has ended its days in murder. The hands that gloried in wielding the 
lash have found congenial delight in the pistol and the dagger. The chivalry 
which was brave in the scourging of defenceless men and unprotected women, 
has given one more proof of its valor and spirit ; and the assassin who levelled 
his pistol at the back of an unslispecting man, filled with kindness and pity 
for him and his, and the assassin who, with lying tongue and stealthy step, 
plied his dagger on a defenceless invalid, are worthy companions of the heroes 
who swept the seas in quest of unarmed vessels, pillaged a defenceless village, 
and shot, in cold blood, its inhabitants, and made a daring attempt to bury iu 
the smoke and flames of their burning homes the population, young and old, 
of a crowded and unoffending city. It may be that tie assassination of Presi- 
dent Lincoln, and the atten)pted assassination of Mr. Seward, are solely attribu- 
table to the criminals directly engaged in them ; but in the account which has 
reached us of the infamous and cowardly deeds, there is evidence of a con- 
spiracy, in which the character of the South is seriously implicated. The mur- 
derer of the President had fixed on the 4th of March for the perpetration of 
his crime. His accomplice refused to act with him until he received further 
instructions from Kichmond. This points to a deliberate plot, formed in the 
confederate capital, for the perpetration of the foulest crime that human wick- 
edness could commit; and, when it is borne in mind that the St. Albans raiders 
and the incendiaries who sought to fire New York boasted of having obtained 
their commission of guilt not merely in the confederate capital, but from men 
high in authority in it, there is justification for the suspicion that the latest act 
of southern vengeance has had more than the savage ferocity of individual des- 
peration to prompt it. If this be so, and if, on investigation, it be found that 
the South, beaten in the field, has h.ad recourse to the bandit's weapon and the 
assassin's snare, air infamy greater than even slavery has brought upon her 
Avill rest upon her name forever. It is melancholy to think that even one man 
could be found among a people claiming the character of a brave and gallant race 
to perpetrate, in the name of liberty and independence, a crime which strikes at 
the root of all justice and humanity. But tyranny is a bad teacher of morality, 
and traffic in human liberty leads, by a short road, to disregard of human life. It 
did not need this last awful crime to leveal to the world the ferocious spirit by 
which but too many of the defenders of slavery are actuated. There have been, 
heretofore, fitful gleams of the fierce truculence which the system could not 
fail to foster, and an indignant world will shudder at the excesses in which it 
has eventuated. But it is time to draw a veil over the terrible tragedy, and 
from the haggard South — wasted, -worn, and infuriated — crying out like the 
Medea of the poet's creation, iu mingled dread and resentment, 

"Est-ce assez, ma vengeance, est-ce assez de deux mortes?" 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 421 

We invite the atteution of our readers to the 'spectacle presented by the 
North, where fortitude and magnanimity, constancy and hope, are still in the 
ascendant. Nor can we for a moment doubt that, in spite of temptation, and 
in defiance of example, the people Avho have proved so noble in suffrring will 
not yield to provocation, and that even the dead body of their murdered chief 
will not rouse within them the baser passions which he would have been the 
first to control. It is a great trial for the people and armies of the north ; but, 
the greater trial, the greater will be the glory of the victory, which all friends 
of civilization must pray may be theirs. 



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GREECE. 



[Translation.] 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 

Athens, May 9, 1865. 

The infamous assassination attempted lately against the person of Mr. Lin- 
coln, the President of the United States of America, as also against the 
enlightened Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mr. William H. Seward, has filled with 
horror and indignation the whole Greek nation and the government of his Royal 
Highness, so much more as at the moment when this dreadful crime was being 
perpetrated the end of the sanguinary war was being ushered in which for so 
many years had shaken a free and intelligent country to which Greece has 
never ceased feeling the greatest sympathy. 

The death of a man of such high fame as the now immortal Lincoln is an 
irreparable and common loss felt not (mly by the United States, but by mankind 
in general, because as a truly great politician, Mr. Lincoln proved by results 
that he knew how to protect the real interests of the nation by turning the 
laurels of his victorious troops towards the common good of his country and 
mankind, and by endeavoring to cement a union by clemency. 

You are solicited, Mr. Botassi, to express, officially, to the government of the 
United States the deep sympathy of the Greek nation and the condolence which 
it would convey to them for the disaster which has occurred, and you will add 
in your despatch that we will in Greece pray that the United States will pass 
unshaken through this ordeal, being confident in the capacity of the man who 
has succeeded in the government of his country. 

The Minister, 

D. BRAYLAS 

Mr. D. N. Botassi, 

Consul of his Royal Higness in New York. 



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HANSEATIC REPUBLICS. 



]\I/\ Rosi//s- to Mr. Hunter. 



IIaxsk \Tir Legatiox, 

Wash i)ig ton, April IG, 1S65. 
Sir: It was with deep commotion and profound sorrow that I h^arned the sad 
events of which your note of yesterday bears intelligence. 

The death of President Lincohi will be lamented throughout this country not 
only, but throughout the world. 

My heartfelt sympathies are with the much-tried Secretary of State and the 

Assistant Secretary. A benign Providence may spai*c their precious lives and 

let them witness their nation's resurrection from the mortal blow it has suffered. 

I trust President Johnson will inherit the people's respect and confidence of 

which his predecessor was possessed to such a remarkalde degree. 

"With feelings of high personal regard, sir, I have the honor to be your most 
obedient servant, 

JOHAXXES ROSIXO. 
Hon. William IlrxTER, 

Acting Secretary of State of the United States, Washington. 



B R E 31 E X . 



[Tniuslatiou.] 
The Senate of the city (f Bremen to Fresidenl Johnson. 

The appalling news of the atrocious deed which brought to so sudden an end 
the life and labors of President Lincoln has caused horror and indignation M'her- 
ever it has gone, but perhaps nowhere in a higher degree tli;in in our city, whose 
citizens have ever since the first foundation of the American Union maintained 
with its people uninterrupted friendly relations of commerce and personal in- 
tercourse, and which at the present time has more numerous connections, com- 
paratively, with the great transatlantic republic than any other state of the 
European continent. 

Indeed the loss which the government and people of the United States have 
sustained by the hand of a fanatical assassin is felt the same as a public calamity 
in our midst, and it is this universal sentiment of deep sorrow and indignation 
which prompts us, the representatives of the Bremen republic, to express to your 
excellency, as the successor of President Lincoln, the feelings of hearty sym- 
pathy with which we in common with all our citizens regard this severe visita- 
tion upon your country. 

May Almighty God, who, in His inscrutable providence, has permitted Hie 
commission of this awful crime, avert a similar calamity from the United 
States in all future time, and may He by His richest blessings heal the wounds 
from which the Union is suffering, and crown by an early peace the patriotic 
labors in which Abraham Lincoln has died as a martyr. 

We avail ourselves of this mournful occasion to commend ourselves, and the 
republic which we have the hon.n- of representing, to the friendly consideration 



424 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

of your excellency, and to express to you our sentiments of distinguished esteem 
and regard. 

The senate of the free Hauseatic city of Bremen. 

The President of the Senate, 

I. D. MEYER. 
His Excellency the President 

of the United States, Washington, D. C. 



[Translation.] 



Address nf sympathij and condolence of the Hremen House of Burgesses to the 
United States, on the occasion of the death of President Lincoln. 

Bremen', May 3, 1S65. 

In consideration of the assassination of President Lincoln, the committee of 
the House of Burgesses of the free state of Bremen wishes to express its warmest 
and most cordial sympathy with the United States for the loss of a man who 
devoted his life to the cause of freedom and equality among all men. 

At a moment when the deceased President and the people of the United States 
were hoping to see the end of a terrible war that had been waii'ed for years, with 
desperate efforts to perpetuate the work of the immortal Washington and his 
successors, and to restore a lasting peace to the country by conciliation and 
lenity, the weapon of a ruthless murderer desti'oyed the man who did not Avaver 
in days of the greatest trouble, but humbly bent before the Lord of Hosts, and, 
always mindful of his high duty, marched before his fellow-countrymen in the 
path of rectitude, giving them and the world a grand example, to show how a 
real honest citizen could finally accomplish a difficult and dangerous task by 
constancy and determination. 

While we earnestly lament the death of such a distinguished man, who had 
already merited the highest consideration for his civic virtues, understood and 
appreciated by the citizens of Bremen before all other political corporations, we 
regret the attack made on his true and consistent friend and helper Mr. Seward, 
the Secretary of State, and cherish the hope that it may please Divine Providence 
to pi'eserve that distinguished statesman yet many years to do good to his native 
land and bless his fellow-countrymen. 

The close and friendly relations which have long existed between the United 
States and the free state of Bremen, the deep interest we take in the success of 
3'our aft'airs, and the just indignation which the bloody deed of assassination has 
caused among our people of every rank, induce us to hope that the expression of 
our sympathy and condolence with the people of the United States will be kindly 
received as a feeble testimonial of our good wishes, to be added to the many 
honors that have already been paid by many nations to the memory of your 
lamented President. 

May his successor, by the help of Providence, be enabled to carry out the great 
plan of peace, the result of distinguished victories, and show the world that a 
republican government has been saved thi'ough all its trials and troubles, and 
that the helm of the ship of state is placed in strong and skilful hands. 

In conclusion, we beg you to act as the interpreter of these our cordial senti- 
ments to your fellow-citizens, and request you to communicate this address to the 
proper authorities, while we remain your devoted friends of the free state of 
Bremen. 

In the name of and by order of the Bremen House of Burgesses : 

Dr. FPtlEDRICK ADOLPH MEYER, President. 

Mr. Henry Borxstein, 

Ufiited States Consul, j^Tcsetit. 



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H A 31 B U R G. 

The Senate of the city of Ilamhurg to President Johnson. 

IlAArBURG, May S, 1865. 
Mr. Prksidext: The news of tlie criminal dood which so iinexpoctedly 
terminated the life and usefuhiess of President Lincohalias, as every where else, 
evoked in all circles of our republic just indignation and sincere <^rief. The 
many friendly and important relations which connect our two republics forcibly 
urge us to express to your excellency our warmest sympathy for the great loss 
which the United States have sustained in the death of their esteemed President 
by the hand of an assassin. 

The assembly of citizens of Hamburg, in their session of the 3d instant, re- 
solved unanimously to join us in the expression of our feeling of profound 
mourning. IMay it please Providence to avert further calamities from the United 
States, and allow them soon to enjoy again the blessings of peace of which they 
have been so long deprived, and may your excellency be convinced that we shall 
always take the warmest interests in the destiny of the United States. 

"With the assurance of our distinguished regard, Ave subscribe ourselves, the 
Senate of the free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg. 

N. F. HALLEPt, Dr., 

The President of the Senate. 
W. CROPP, ]:>r.. Secretary. 



Hamburg, May 2, 1865. 

At a meeting of American citizens held this day in Hamburg, it was 
PusoUcd, That whereas our Almighty Father has permitted to be removed 
from us our beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, we afflicted citizens, at this 
time distant from our country, desire to place on record the overwhelming grief 
which this sad event inspires. God in his mercy permitted him to live long 
enough to impress upon us a deep and everlasting affection for his virtues, and 
in our hearts he can never die. His memory will remain to us, and he will share 
with the " fother of our country" the honored place of being first in the hearts of 
his coimtrymen. 

Fu'solred, That our chairman, Hon. James 11. McDonald,_ vice-consul of 
the United States in this city, send a copy of this resolution, with our heartfelt 
condolence, to Mrs. Lincoln and the Secretary of State. 

JAMES Pv. Mcdonald. john h. ktjppurt, of Ohio. 

ALEX. SOTTAX. FPEHERICK WIPPERMANN. 

TH. lAIEISNER, New York. JOHN R. AVARliURG. 
EMANUEL LYOX. P- J- BENJAMIN. 

RUD. BORMAX. ' EDWARD NIEBUIIER. 

And 30 other names. 



L U B E C . 

Mr. ScJmmachcr to Mr. Seiiard. 

Bai-timorr, June 3, 1865. 
Sir : The Senate and people of the republic of Lubec, not content with the 
oral assurance of their sincere sympathy for the loss the American nation has 
suffered in the untimely end of their beloved President— which the undersigned 



426 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Lad the honor of giving in their name — desire also to add a testimony in writing 
of these sentiments. They are embodied in the accompanying letter, which 
you are respectfnlly requested to hand to his Excellency the President ; and if, 
as I hope, he will favor the Senate with a reply, it will afford me pleasure to 
transmit the same to that body. 

I remain, with sincere regard, your obedient servant, 

A. SCHUMACHER, 
Acting Charge dWffairs of the Hanseatic Rejmhlic. 
Hon. William H. Sewaru, 

Secretary of State, Washington. 



LuBEC, May 10, 1S65. 

Excellency : The news of the assassination which terminated the life of the 
vmiversally honored and very worthy President, Abraham Lincoln, has filled 
our city with equal horror at the crime, and pain and sorrow for the loss of the 
distinguished man who fell a victim. 

It is this sentiment of sincere participation in the mourning for Abraham 
Lincoln pervading our Senate, citizens, and the entire community, to which we 
now desire to give heart-felt expression. 

We comprehend the magnitude of the loss which the government and people 
of the United States have sustained ; we most sincerely v/isli prosperity to the 
Union, and commend our republic to the good will of your excellency, feeling 
ourselves honored in tendering you the assurance of our particular regard and 
unaltered esteem. 

The senate of the free and Hanseatic city of Lubec. 

H. BREHMER, Dr., 
Presiding burger master. 

C. H. OvERBECK, Dr., Secretary. 



DUCHY OF HESSE DARMSTADT. 

Consulate of the Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt, 

Philaddphia, June 7, 1865. 

Sir : I have been directed by his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse, 
through his prime minister the Baron von Dalwigk, to express to your excel- 
lency the sincere sympathy of his Royal Highness, and of all his faithful sub- 
jects, at the assassination of the justly beloved and esteemed Abraham Lincoln, 
late President of the United States of North America, and the wish and hope 
that under your excellency's administration the constitutional authorities may 
soon be re-established, and that peace and plenty may reign again over the whole 
of the land. 

Enclosed I have the honor to transmit to your excellency a letter of condo- 
lence (with a translation attached) addressed to me by the prime minister of 
Darmstadt, the Baron von Dalwigk, and I avail myself of this opportmiity to 
renew my expression of abhorrence at the luihallowed crime which deprived this 
country of its first magistrate, and at a moment when friend and foe began to 
pay their just tribute of admiration to the deceased martyr for the almost 
accomplished suppression of a rebellion that finds no parallel in the jiast, and 
which, it is to be hoped in God, will never be equalled in the future. Allow me 
to express the hope that under your excellency's administration this land may 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 427 

again tceni with plviity, that its? commerce may flourish more tlian fever and mi- 
molested in all the waters of the world, under "the bright stars and stripes under 
which such glorious deeds have been achieved. 

I have the honor to remain your excellency's most humble servant, 

C.F. HAGEDOIiX, 
Co7isul General of Hc.ssc Dannstadf. 
His Excellency Andrew Johnsox, 

President of the United States of Anienca. 



[Translation.] 

DariM.stadt, Maij 12, 1865. 

Sir : It has pleased Providence to cut short, by the hand of an assassin, the 
life of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States of North America, 
at the moment when the great and just cause to which his life had been de- 
voted was on the point of obtaining a complete triumph through the victories 
of the armies of the Union. 

The news of this tragic event was received here, as in all the civilized States 
of the Old and the New World, with the most painful surprise, and the grand 
ducal government fcicls itself impelled to give utterance to this feeling to the 
government of the United States. 

By order of his Royal Highness the Grand Duke, my most gracious lord, I 
therefore request you, sir, to express to his Excellency Andrew Johnson, the 
present President of the United States, in a becoming manner, the sincere sym- 
pathy which is felt here at the much to be lamented decease of President Lhi- 
coln. At the same time 1 request you, sir, to express the wish and the hope 
that the Union, which has become the second fatherland of so many Germans, 
and especially of so many who belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse, under 
the guide of the present President, will soon rejoice in the re-establishment of 
the constitutional authorities over the whole of its territory, and with it the en- 
joyment of a new period of peace and prosperity. 

Allow me to avail myself of this opportunity to express to you the renewed 
assurance of my perfect esteem. 

BAPvON VON DALWIGK. 

C. F. Hagedorn, Esq , 

Consul General of the Grand Dvchy of Hesse Darmstadt. 



428 APrEXDIX TO DIPLOjVIATIC coerespondence. 



HAYTI, 



[Translation.] 

Haytien Legation in Washington, 

New York,' April 17, 1865. 

Sir : Your note of the 15tli instant brings me sad confirmation of the lioniil 
crime that ended the days of President Lincoln, and news of the atrocious at- 
tempt to assassinate Mr. William II. Seward, Secretary of State, and Mr. Fred- 
erick Seward, assistant secretary. 

These unfortunate events, which have thrown the whole United States into 
consternation and mourning, will everywhere excite the same wail of sorrow and 
condemnation. 

I trace these lines with a wounded heart, and I can judge by my own feel- 
ings how his Excellency the President of Hayti and his people will be affected 
by the calamity of the 14th of April. 

You will oblige me greatly by having the enclosed documents transmitted to 
their destination, and at the same time I beg you to express to the family of 
the late President, and of the Secretary of State, my profound sympathy for 
them in their deep affliction. 

You inform me that Mr. Andrew Johnson, the Vice-President, has formally 
assumed the functions of President, in conformity with the Constitution of the 
United States, and that you are authorized by him to fulfil the duties of Sec- 
retary of State till farther orders. 

In expressing my wishes that Providence may watch over the American 
Union and its new chief, and restore Mr. William H. Seward and Mr. Freder- 
ick Seward to perfect health, I beg you to accept the assurance of the respect- 
ful consideration Avith which I have the honor to be ever your most obedient 
and humble servant, 

D. BRUNO, 
Secretary and Acting Charge of the Haytien Legation 

near the Government of the United States. 

Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State, JVas/iington, D. C. 



SEXTIMEXTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMrATHY 429 



HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



New York, April 21, 1S65. 

Sir : I have tlie lionor to acknowledgo the receipt this day of your letter of 
the ISth instant, ench;)sing a progmmuK; of tlie obsequies of the hite President, 
and. inviting- my attendance at the religious services at the Executive mansion. 

Indisposition having prevented my presence at Wasliington on this sad occa- 
sion, I take this opportunity to assure you that it was with the deepest regret 
that I learned the great bereavement which, under such heart-rending circum- 
stances, had befallen the late President's family and the nation. In this regret 
I am sure his Majesty the King and his government will ])articipate. 

Seldom are the living called to mourn the death of a ruler whose noble deeds 
had gained for him such universal respect and esteem. 

I pray you will be pleased to express to the family of the late President the 
sentiments which I feel on this mournful occasion. 

I have the honor to be, with great consideration, your obedient servant, 

S. W. F. ODELL. 

Hon. "William Hunter, 

Acting Secretarf/ of State, Sfc, Sfc, iVf. 



New York, Ajj/U 29, 1865. 
Sir : I beg to express to you the great satisfaction I have in the continued 
ftxvorable reports of the convalescence of the S(,'cretary of State, as well as of 
the improving health of his son, the Assistant Secretary. It gives me great 
pleasure to be able to announce the same to the Hawaiian govc'rnment by the 
mail closing this day. 

I pray you will kindly make known to the Secretary of State the deep inter- 
est 1 ieel in the recovery of himself and son, ]\[ay the all merciful God long 
continue their lives in the service of their country. 

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, 

* S. \V. F. ODELL. 

Hon. "William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary/ of State, S^x , f^-c, Sfc. 



[Translation. ] 

The residents of the district of Lahaina, Hawaiian islands, met in the church 
at Maui on the Pith of May, 1865, at 2 p. m., on account of the death of Abra- 
ham Lincoln, the President of the republic of America. 

Th-e meeting was opened with prayer by the llc^v. D. Baldwin, after which, 
on nomination of D. Baldwin. U. Ihilie was chosen chairman, and D.Ivahawhlio, 
secretary. On motion of I). P.aldwin, Mr. J. W. H. Kawnahie read his resolu- 
tions expressive of the sympathy of Pahaiiia, on account of the assassination ot 
Abraham Lincoln. The resolutions as approved ani as follows, viz : 

Kin killeth kin; countryman murdereth countryman; surely this rebellion 
and calamity verify Sacred Writ— "a man's foes shall be they of his own 



430 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

liouBchold." It well becometh us of Lalia,ina-Matii, Sanclwieli islands, to la- 
ment and weep togetlier with the n^public of America for the murder, the assas- 
sination, of the great, the good, the liberator Abraham Lincoln, the victim of 
bell-boru treason — himself martyred, yet live his mighty deeds, victory, peace, 
and the emancipation of those despised, like all of us of the colored races. 
Therefore — 

Resolved, That we of Lahaina mourn together with the republic of America, 
and deeply deplore the death of their Chief Magistrate, Abraham Lincoln. 

Resolved, That we unite our voice of lamentation with that of the widows 
their cruel war has made, iu sympathy with the now widowed mother of all, 
Mrs. Lincoln. 

Resolved, That a committee of eleven be chosen to present our sympathy in 
this national bereavement to the American consul of this district. 

Resolved, That, while weeping with those who Aveep, we bow in submission 
to the Divine decree of Him "who doeth all things well;" for thus are we 
taught, and thus shall we be blessed. 

Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be forwarded for publication in the 
newspapers Ke au 0-Koa and in the Commercial Advertiser. 

Resolved, That a copy be placed iu the hands of the American consul for 
transmission to the afflicted widow. 

Resolved, That the committee of eleven present to the American consul the 
assurances of our highest esteem and regard for the President of the United 
States. 

On motion of D. Kelupuo the resolutions were read a second time by Charles 
Kalu, and on motion of J. D. Kahookano were fully approved. 

On motion of J. W. H. Kawnahie the following committee of eleven were 
chosen, viz : Hon. J. W. H. Kawnahie, his excellency D. Nahaolelua, M. Hiiki, 
M. Kenui, C. W. Kenui, J. D. Kahookano, Charles Kalu, Leni Keliipio, D. 
Alvolo, D. Kahawlilio, and Kaniaw. 

On motion of J. W. H. KaAvnahie it was decided to incorporate the minutes 
of the meeting Avith the resolutions to be forwarded. 

On motion of Charles Kalu the meeting adjourned. 

D. KAHAWLILIO, 

Secreta7-y. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 431 



ITALY, 



2Ir. Marmora to Mr. Marsh. 
[Trauslation.] 

TuRi.v, May 6, 1SG5. 

'Mm. ■^^I^I^TER : I have received the note which you have done me the honor 
to address me under date of j\Iay 5, transmitting^ to me n copy of a circular of 
the Department of State at Wasliington, which conveys the official announce- 
ment of the assassination committed on the person of tlie President of the United ■ 
States, and of the accession of Mr. Andrew Johnson to the presidency. 

On the 28th of April last I hastened to transmit to the minister of Italy at 
Washinj^ton the address which the Italian Parliament has voted to the Conj^ress 
of the Union, in order to express to that body its sentiments of lively syrapatiiy 
and the indignation which the execrable crime of which Mr. Lincoln has been 
the victim has excited in Italy. 

The King, my august sovereign, and his government, fully concur in this 
manifestation, and I renew to you, Mr. Minister, the warmest expression of the 
sentiments they have felt in common with the whole Italian nation on this sad 
occasion. 

In forming sincere wishes for the prosperity of the States of the Union, and 
their worthy President, ]Mr. Andrew Johnson, I beg 3'ou to accept, Mr. Minister, 
the assurance of my high consideration. 

ALPHONSE LA MARMORA. 



[Tiiuislation.] 

'WvATi, April 2S, 1865. 
Sir : The news of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has caused through- 
out Italy the deepest and most painful sensation. 

The Italian Parliament, by spontaneous act, has resolved to express to thb 
American nation, in this their sad bereavement, all those sentiments of genuine 
jidmiration which our nation entertained for the eminent man who, through 
times so fraught with danger, so wisely and steadily directed the policy of 
emancipation of the noble republic of North America ; and at the same time to 
represent with what consternation and horror that honoriible body apprized the 
terrible event. The house of rei)resentatives, in the morning session of yestiT- 
day, on motion by Hon. Mr. Crispi, seconded by several other members, with 
the entire approval of the ministry, unanimously concluded " That the flag upon 
the front of the Carignani palace be clad in mourning during three consecutive 
days, and that a message of condolence be sent to the Congress of the United 
States." 

Herewith I enclose you said message, received from the president of the 
house, with my special desire that you will transmit it to its address, and oifer 
in the name of the King's government to the President of the United States 
renewed expressions of the sympathy and grief which our nation feels, and 
sincere vows for the welfare of tlie rc[)ublic. 
Accept, sir, &c., «^c., 

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, 

ALPHONSE LA MARMORA. 
Commander Berti\atti, 

Minister Fknipotcntiary of Italy, at Washington. 



432 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

Turin, April 27, 1S65. 
HoxoRABLK Sir : The aunouncement of the assassination of President Abm- 
liain Lincoln has caused a profound and painful sensation in the Italian house 
of representatives. From every political j)arty into which this house is divided 
a common cry was spontaneously raised of condemnation of the deed, and of 
high conimisseration and sympathy for the illustiious victim and the great na- 
tion of which he was the worthy chief. 

The house, by unanimous vote, has resolved, " That, in sign of grief, the na- 
tional flag be clad in mourning during three consecutive days ;" and requested 
me to express, in a special message to you, the great sorrow which Italy her- 
self and all the friends of freedom and civilization universally share. 

A similar feeling has been awakened by the news of the attempt to take the 
life of Secretary Seward. 

Having thus fulfilled the melancholy duty assigned me, I beg you now, hon- 
orable sir, to accept the assurance of my sympathy and high personal con- 
sideration. 

The President of the Hoitte, 

G. B. CASSINIS. 
Hon. Mr. Speaker 

(>f th c House of Representatives of tli e Vn ited States of America. 



[Translation ] 

Italian Einiigratioiv Society, 

Ancona, May 4, 1865. 

When a unanimous cry of sorrow arose from every corner of the earth, la- 
menting the tragic end of your distinguished President, Abraham Lincoln, and 
of execration against the authors of the atrocious crime, ihe Italian emigration 
resident in the " Marshe," struck by such a misfortune, shared the common 
s orrow and covered with black crape the flag of the Tibcrian wolf and Adriatic 
lion. 

•Lincoln, promulgator of liberty, defender of the rights of man, a faithful fol- 
lower of the doctrine taught by the gospel, desired to banish slavery from free 
America, and to put and end to this stigma upon a civilized people. Seeing 
that any compromise with the oppressor was impossible, he was able, through 
the energy of his will and eloquent words, to initiate a holy war, which, owing 
to the valor of his soldiers and the free sacrifices of the northern people, was 
finished by federal victories and the planting of the holy flag of humanity upon 
the fortified strongholds of the slaveholders 

Infamous and cowardly men \ guided by fanaticism and selfishness, through 
the arm of an assassin struck the man of the people and benefactor of hu- 
manity, with other illustrious victims, at the very moment when the Americans 
were rejoicing over their triumph, believing the end of the fratricidal contest to 
be at hand. 

Lincoln was the true friend of humanity. 

Lincoln was a citizen of the whole world. 

Lincoln is a martyr to a holy principle. 

The Italian emigration, faithful to their principles of liberty, brotherhood, 
and sympathy with oppressed nations, have always followed, with great 
anxiety, the alternations of this war between civilization and barbarisni, and 
rejoiced at the triumph of their brothers, while they wept over their defeats. 
^o\v, filled with the most intense sorrow at this tragic and unexpected deed, 



SENTIMENTS OF CONODOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 433 

^liey scarcely know how to express their feelin.Q:^; tliey can only pray God for 
the pacificatiou of the Uiiited State?, and for the abolition forever of the mar- 
ket of beincjs made in the image of God, tliat puhlime object which was the 
aim of the illustrious martyr of whom we now lament the' sudden and bloody 
death. 

The commission charged to present this address beg yoii to receive and 
transmit it to the United States government as au expres^siou of their friend- 
ship and sympathy. 

• M. URGOLTNUCCI, 

O. CERRNI, 
G. BKRXAIJDINI, 
S. DORIA, 

Co)7imittec. 
The Consul Gsxeral 

(>f the United States, Florence. 



[Translation.] 

The Italians of Ahruzzo to the people of the U/iitfd States of America : 

From the summits of our mountains, the bulwarks of liberty, from the banks 
of our rivers and the shores of our seas, a people who wish to be united, free, 
and independent have long bent their eyes upon events in the great republic 
whence they expect a new light to radiate upon the world, with a new era of 
democratic civilization. 

Your history is the same as ours. From Camillus and Cincinnatus to Frank- 
lin and Washington, from Lincoln and Seward to Garibaldi and Mazzini, the 
tradition of the great struggle between good and evil, liberty and slavery, civil- 
ization and barbarism, national autonomy and the rule of foreign despots, has 
ever been the same. 

The roar of your battles was borne across the ocean and av»-aked an echo in 
our Appenines. Your victories were the triumph if humanity. But very soon 
the electric spark, drav,'n from the clouds by Franklin, told us that a parricidal 
band had taken the life of Abraham Lincoln, when the destinies of his country 
and partly of the world were trusted to his care, and, at the same time, an- 
nounced the savage attack upon Mr. Seward and his family. 

A voice of detestation and of horror arose throughout the world ; the sym- 
bols of liberty were draped in mourning everywhere; anguish |illed our 
hearts; but we rejoice that the cause of humanity cannot perish. The blood 
of new martyrs fertilizes the earth, and makes it tlie mother of frcedmen. 

Abraham Lincoln gave his life to save the integrity of the Union and the 
grandeur of his country, to rescue the colored man from slavery, to give to all 
men liberty and equality. 

When peace shall be restored the white and black races will juiii hands 
above his grave, and the sjjirit of liberty, rising from his se[(ulchr(;, will reno- 
vate the surface of the earth, and make the return of any tyranny imi)0ssible. 
YALEXTIXO XOTINI, FABliO CAXXELLALF, 
A. ODOLOXE, LEUSINI AXGELO, 

PIETRO MARRELLT, FIORE CAR IF, 

DOXATO DE CARIS, GAETAXO DI PRE! ORG, 

PASQUALE MARRELLL GIUSEPPE MAXXETTI, 
AXGELO PELLIGRIXL AXtiELO DI GIXLIU, 
MATTIO VALEXTLXL AXTOXIO CEXTI 
FILIPPO TARTAGLLi, AXGELO TAR'iAGLIA, 
CAMILLO LEOSIXL AXGIOLO CIXAXL 

28 A 



434 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Traiislatioii.] 

To tlie peo])lc of the United States of America, from the citizens of Acireale^ 

Sicily: 

AciRRALE, May 10, 1865. 
Your President, Abraham Lincoln, has fallen the victim of an assassin's arm ; 
may his blood weigh in the balance for the regeneration of your States. We, 
a committee, desire to transmit to your proud and brave people a word that 
may avail to express the intense grief expei'ienced here on the announcement of 
the death of so great a man. We assure you that throughout the nation, as if 
it were one individual, the human heart could not restrain its grief, and stag- 
gered beneath the weight of so great a calamity. 

Abraham Lincoln was not yours only — he was also ours, because he was a 
brother whose great mind and fearless conscience guided a people to union, and 
courageously uprooted slavery. 

Brothers, the trial is not ended ; the country calls for fresh martyrs — the last- 
contest — and on the ucays of your victory we will rejoice with you, as we now 
grieve with you. 
The committee ;. 

PAOLO GRAEJA DIGA, 

GIUSEPPE GIIAZIE, 

AVE MAR I AN E COSTANZO, 

F. ROSSI MUSMEIZ, 

DR. FRANCESCO LEOTTO, 

DR. GIUSEPPE VIGO LEOXARDI, 

TYNAYIO BARBAGALTO, 

GIUSEPPE COSTARELLI, 

SALYATORE CASTARINA. 



[Translation.] 
Italian Society of United Workmen of Alessandria. 

Alessandria, May 5, 186-5. 
Ho\. Sir : The society of united workmen of Alessandria, impressed with 
horror at the mighty crime that deprived Abraham Lincoln of life, that great 
defender of the oppressed and champion of liberty, has resolved to drape its 
banner in mourning for thirty days, and cherishes the most ardent hopes for 
the good of humamty and ihe liberty of the world, that the grand and holy- 
work begun by this illustrious victim of treason may triumph in the end ,- and 
that the brave people of America, in the future development of their glorioue 
republican institutions, may continue to serve as a model to free nations, and bs 
a comfort and hope to those that mourn under the yoke of oppression. 

PA STORE CAMILLO, President, [l. s.] 
Hon. Geo. P. Marsh, h^-c, h{c., 4'c. 



[Translation.] 

Barga, May 12, 1S65. 
Hon. Sir; The Workingmen's Society of Barga, (near Lucca,) at a meeting 
on the 7th instant, commissioned me, the undersigned, to express to you, the 
worthy representative of the United States in Italy, its profound sorrow for 
the death of your most virtuous President, Abraham Lincoln, who fell by the 
hand of a treacherous assassin. 

The horrid crime caused' a shudder in the bosoms of all good men, and a 
aorrow that will never be blotted from the hearts of those who love liberty and 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SY^[rATIIY. 435 

fe-ee institutions like the immortal rleceaseJ ; but it will not delay, for a momont, 
the triumph of the federal cause, the abolition of slavery ami tlie cmancipatiou 
of the people. 

Accept, illustrious sir, for the generous nation you represent, the best M'ishes 
of the Workingmen's Society of Barga for its permanent prosperity and happi- 
ness. 

ANTONIO :\ioin)ixr, 

President and jnemicr of the Italian Parliament. 
IIou. Pkrkixs' Marsh, 

United States Minister to Ita/i/, Florerice. 



[Trans;lation.] 

Mkchanics' j\Iutual Aid Society ok Uukscia, 

May 10, 1865. 

The announcement of the death of President Abraham Lincoln, slain by the 
hand of an assassin, has impressed our society with sincere and honest sorrow. 
The sad news that justly caused consternation and grief in the hearts of all 
lovers of justice and liberty must deeply move the feelings of all industrial 
associations, as they have lost a person dear to humanity, a being who was the 
living incarnation of the principles of equality and fraternity, the embodiment 
of true patriotism, of honest intentions, of firmness, and integrity. 

But if the death of Lincoln was a sad and serious event, like that of Christ, 
it may be the cause of the complete triumph of the humane and holy principle 
of true liberty, contended for by the great citizen, and wbicli, in the generous 
American nation, does not depend upon one man, is bound to the life of no 
single individual, but will resurrect with more beauty and effulgence, and reflect 
its genial rays over Europe with heneficent effects. 

With these sentiments, springing spontaneously from the hearts of the mem- 
bers of our association, we beg you, sir, to be their inteipre'er to Mr. Andrew 
Johnson, th« worthy successor of Mr. Lincoln ; and while we express our best 
wishes for the restoration of the American Union, and foi- the pros]jcrity, hap- 
piness, and glory of its j)eople, we ask you to accept the exjiressions of our 
greatest consideration and esteem. 



[L. S.] 



VIRGILIO CIIITO, 

President. 

ANDiiEA salsi:(;hi, 

GIAO()M() 1)11 AO III, 
GIUSEPPE EOCCIIINI, 
D. PIANCIII, 

Meinher.i. 
FAUSTINO PALAZZT, 

Seeretary. 
A. FRIGERIO. 



The United States Minister. 



[Translation. J 

Workingmen's Society of Bologna. 

(General Gariualdi, Honorary 1'resident,) 

Bologna, May 11, 1865. 
Citizen President: Universal grief and mourning was spread abroad at 
he sad announcement of the violent death of that most virtuous republican, 
V^braham Lincoln, and the greatest iudignation and horror was felt by all good 
leople against the brutal j^arricide. 



436 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

He was barbarously assassinated on the eve of the completion of his great 
task, the abolirion of slavery. 

May the malediction of God descend upon those who conceived and consum- 
mated the most abominable deed ! 

But the profound sorrow that affected all was j^reatly alleviated when it was 
known that the great American nation had called you to be the worthy suc- 
cessor of the ilhistnous deceased Chief Magistrate ; because it is hoped that 
you will follow in his footsteps and complete the great task that he begun; and 
not only that, but give aid to a neighboring nation whose people are now sub- 
jugated by a foreign sovereign. 

In expressing these sentiments of our society, inspired by republican and 
humanitarian principles, we cherish the firm hope that the day is not far dis- 
tant when the glorious country discovered by our Italian Columbus will again 
flourish as foimei ly among the great nations of the earth. 

Accept, Mr. President, the assurances of our highest respect and esteem. 

r g. ANNIBALE CALZONI, 

*- ' ■-' Vice- President. 

DOMENICO SANGIORGIO, 

Sccreiari/. 



[Trauslatiou.] 

Bologna, Mai/ 12, 1865. 

The Ladies' Society of Bologna, of which Teresita Garibaldi is honorary 
directress, by its committee, beg you, Mr. Minister, to send the enclosed address 
of condohnice for the assassination of the illustrious Abraham Lincoln, to Mr. 
Andrew Johnson, the new President of the United States of America. 

The society hall bhall be hung with mourning, in token of condolence for the 
memory of the illustrious marlyr of liberty, whose holy image shall ever be 
graven in the hearts of all the members of this society. 

Accept, citizen ambassador, the sentiments of our particular esteem, and be 
kind enough to acknowledge the receipt of this note. 

MARIA TECINI, Directress. 
^INA BONFIGLIOLI, 
CLAUDIA CAMUZZINI, 
CARLOTTA TREBBI, 

Cominittce of' the Mcmhers. 
Hon. George P. Marsh, Turin. 



[Trauslatioa,] ; 

i 

Address of condolence from the Ladies' Society of Bologna to the President. \ 

Abraham Lincoln was barbarously assassinated at the moment when the | 
abolition of slavery, the only aim of all his hopes, had just been accomplished. ; 
May the grace of God reach the wretch, for man cannot pardon him ! j 

But the cause of nations is not weakened by private misfortunes, and though j 
our hearts are deeply stricken, we are consoled by the thought that the Ameri- i 
can nation has chosen you, Mr. President, as the worthy successor of the illus- j 
Irious deceased, knowing that you would follow in his footsteps, put an end to ; 
the civil war, and fly to the help of a neighboring nation that a foreign power ; 
wishes to oppress. 

The maidens, spouses, and mothers of that nation are sending up their prayers i 
for the salvation of their country ; and we, maidens, spouses, and mothers of : 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 437 

suffering Italy, are waiting liopofully for the time when America, re^^tored to her 
former strength and glory, and to her rightful station am'ing the great nations 
of the earth, will come to our aid and relieve us from foreign oppression. 

Accept, citizen President, the assurance of our most distinguished consider- 
ation. 

For the Ladies' Society of Bologna : 

]\rArvIA TECIXT, Directress. 
NINA liONFKJLIOLI, 
CLAUDIA CAMUZZINI, 
CAKLOTTA TREBLU, 

Committee <>f [he Members. 



[Translation.] 
[Extract.] 

No. 106 CoNGRKSS Street, 

Brooklyn, L. /,, Ju/i/ 20, 1865. 
I have the honor of informing you that the citizens of Canzo, Province of 
Como, Lombardy, Italy, wishing to express their veneration and symjjathy for 
the great martyr to the cause of emancipation and the Union, our latnented 
President, Abraiiain Lincoln, unanimously passed a resolution to call after his 
name the new scpiare by the side of the national road in their town. They 
wished their resolution should reach your Excellency's hands, and intrusted 
to me the care of fulfilling their desire. 

Please receive my highest feelings of regard, &c. 

ACIIILLE MAGNL 
His Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States of Ayncrica. 



[Trauslation. ] 

resolotion. 



Participating in the sorrow of the rest of the world for the violent death of 
the President of the United States, the common council of Cniizo, in token of 
sympathy for the champion of imman freedom, and sorrow lor his death. 

Resolve, That the new square fronting on National street shall be called 
Lincoln square. 

The municipal council is charged with the proper inscription. 



[Translation.] 

Mutual Aid Society of the Workingmen ok Carru, 

April 30, 1865. 
To the United States Minister in Itahj : 

Even we, honest workingmen of an Italian village, were struck with horror 
and indignation at the unexpected and sad news from the United States of 
America, just at the time when all Europe was rejoicing over the splendid 
victories of the federal army. Even we felt it our duty to express to you, 
iWustrious citizen and worthy representative of the United States in I^aly, our 
profound condolence for the atrocious nmrder of your Preside.nt, Abratiam Lin- 
coln, the martyr to a cause that interests all humanity. 



438 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

As soon as the unlucky news readied us Ave draped our banner in mourning-, 
as a token of tlie deep affliction of our lieartg. One thouglit comforts us : the 
cau^e for which Lincoln hved and died is now triumphant ; the name of the 
man -whose death we lament, crowned with immortal glory, shall shine in history 
Avith that of AYathington. If one Avas the father of the great republic, the other 
Avas its saviour. 

Unanimously adopted by the Mechanics' Mutual Aid Society of Carru, at a 
general meeting on the 30th of April, 1866. 

GIORGIO ANTONIO FILIPPI, President, 
GIORGIO BATTISTA GIANINb^TTO, Vice-President, 

PlETRo Mado.\i\o, tSccretary. 



[Translation.] 

Mutual Aid Society of Chieti, May 9, 1865. 
To the Penjilc of the United States: 

Brothek.s: The news of the death of Abraham Lincoln, caused by the hand 
of a homicide, at a moment Avhen America Avas about to gather the fruit of fom* 
years of immense sacrifice and continued struggle for liberty against the privi- 
leges of race, has found a mournful echo AvhereA'er the sound of your s]dendid 
A'ictories has penetrated, and your glorious triumphs have carried the enthusiasm 
of magnanimous undertakings. 

FelloAV-Avorkmen : Bound to you in the bonds of brotherhood, Ave earnestly 
hope for our oavh social emanci])ation. Your efforts in a most holy cause have al- 
Avays had our sympathies, and Ave noAV share the indignation you feel at the 
attack on Mr. Seward. 

AVe are sure the assassin's dagger cannot stop the Avork of liberty noAv nearly 
finished ; and Ave hope the blood of the victim Avill cleanse the country of bar- 
barism. 

For the society : 

GAETAXO CARUSI, President. 
GENNARO DE CARLO, Vice-President. 
DANIELE POLIDORO, 
[SEAL.I FERDINANDO SANTONl DE SIO, 

FRANCESCO SIOAIIDI, 

Committee. 



[Translation.] 

Common Council of CJiieti to the jfcoplc of the rejiuUic of the United States 

of America. 

CiiiETi, Ma7j 11, 1865. 

At a time when the Avhole civilized Avorld was ha ling the triumph of the 
abolition of slavery in your free country, the sad news of the violent death of 
Abraham Lincoln, the fearless pilot of liberty, changed the universal joy to 
mourning, and all humanity has raised a single united cry of malediction upon 
the authors of the horrid deed. 

Let our expressions of condolence be joined to the many manifestations of 
sorroAv that come to you from every part of the Avorld ; and accejit the fraternal 
greeting of the common council of Chieti, Avith its wishes for your future pros- 
perity. , _^ 

Your sacrifice Avas immense in the four years of gigantic war for the great 
principles of brotherly love between black and white, and for the murder of 



SENTIMEXTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 439 

Jolm Bro^yn, on the 14th of April; but yon may be proud of it noxv, for a 
holy cause was never more bravely sustained with greater abne"-ation in the 
paths pointed out by Washington, Franldin, and Liuculn, and vou may be sure 
it wdl not tail to reach the glorious bourne. " 

For the common council: 

YINCEXZO V1':R0. President. 

CAMILLO JULIAN!, 

GIUSEPPE DE SiPlO, 

GABRIELE DE SANCTIS, 

Committee. 
i RAXCESCO Saxcuore, Secretary. 



[Trauslation.] 

The Worliivg men's Vnion of Catania, Sicily, to tlic uimeriean jieople. 

Catama, May 11, 1SG5. 
Brothers of America: The capture of Richmond was the triumph of 
civilization over barbarism, and we rejoice at the restoration of peace in a great 
nation that is our friend. 

But the news of i\Ir. Lincoln's assassination has sent a thrill of horror and 
indignation through the civilized world, and its echo has penetrated deeply into 
our hearts. 

Americans: The Workingmen's Union, of Catania, joins tliis day in the sen- 
timents of sorrow felt for you by all free people. Accept our congratulations, 
our best wishes, and our fervent hopes that the national will may complete the 
w^ork of peace begun by a great citizen, to. restore to America her former splen- 
dor and great prosperity. 

MARCELLTNO PIZZARELLT, President, 
FR ANCESC( )R E b' ANC( )RE, Virc- President, 
SEBASTiANO YlLLANl, Second Vice-President, 

Committee. 

A true copy: 

^lAUlO TROFEO, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 

T/ie democratic society caUed the Sons of Lahor, in Catania, to the heroic 
nation the United States, in condoltnce with their i^rief. 

Catama, May 4, 1S65. 
, Brothers : You fought the war of liberty and indeix^ndencc against slavery 
• and tvianny. With the anxiety of those who hope and fear, we waited for the 
news from your battle fields. The victories your gallant soldiers gamedwcre 
victories for us, and their dangers seemed to be ours ; but the good g.-nius ot 
humanity, as unerring as destiny, will lead you triumphantly on in tiie.palh ot 
progress. You were victorious at Richmond, and lunnan rights triumpl.cl with 
you in your victory there. It was a great advance in the path of ngl.t and 
justice; joy was suppressed in the struggle, for it was terrible, and will be long 
remembered. But, sad result ! Abraham Lincoln, the Campion of your rights, 
the great, victorious citizen, remained tiie victim of a vile assassin. Lursetl De 
the spirit of evil! Brothers, we feel the blow that struck you: acc-pt the 
greeting of love and consolation the Sons of Labor send you as a sol.-mu trib- 
ute of profoundest sorrow. But, brothers of America, now that your counli> 



440 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

is free, swear, upon the tomb of your deliverer, to rescue your brethren from 
the bonds of slavery. His memory will be the terrible leader in your battles — 
the compact of alliance that binds you close together. His love shall be the 
example to guide you against those who seek to disunite you. The name of 
the wicked shall perish from off the face of the earth. 

Be united, and extend the hand of pardon to your wayward brothers, and 
thus you will demonstrate to tyrants that the spirit of revenge is blotted from 
your hearts. 

TOMMASO OLMATO, FrcsidcTiL 

\.^- ^--1 GIAMBARTOLO EOMEO, Secretary. 



[Translation.") 



The patriotic Catanese and youths of the university to the people of the United 

States of America. 

Catania, May 5, 1865. 

Brothers : The fame of your victories rapidly spread through the world, 
and humanity applauded your virtues in the strife for emancipation ; but her 
exultation was brief, and was cut short by the terrible neAvs of the assassination 
of Lincoln. 

Nations have aspirations in common ; princes and peoples entertain them in 
common and abide their destiny. Your victories are the victories of the whole 
people ; such also are your disasters, and in like manner your griefs are in 
common. The most powerful arm lent by the Almighty in aid of the rights of 
humanity has been cut ofF, and all thoughts now dwell on that mournful theme. 
But the wailings poured forth over the grave of the heroic dead are not in vain ; 
such grief strengthens and graces and renews the virtuous purpose. May you, 
who have enjoyed the vast benefit of the counsels and example of the hero, 
renew to him your vows consecrated by the blood of millions of martyrs, that 
the work of emancipation to which he guided you may not remain incomplete. 
Wherever man moves on earth, let him be regarded as a brother and tread on 
free soil ; remember that liberty is powerful ; give aid to the oppressed in dis- 
tant lands ; listen to the divine idea of Lincoln — free America for Americans ! — 
and humanity, blessing his memory, Avill also bless the virtues of her brave and 
generous sons. 

The committee in charge, 

PAOLO GASTORTNO. 

COSMO DI AN ICY. 

PAOLO BETEINA. 

CARLO VICCIOLI. 

PAOLO GRANDE. 

GIOACHINO POTERVO. , 

COSTILLO BISCARIS. : 



[Translation.] 

Society of Operatives of Chiavenna. 

Chiavenna, May 7, 1865. 



RESOLUTIONS. 



Filled with profound grief for the death of Abraham Lincoln, a benefactor of 
humanity, convinced that the sudden death of such a man is an irreparable loss 
for the democracy of every country, and a true catastrophe for all the oppressed 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 441 

still in bonds, but persuadod that the brave sons of free America will not lose 
coiiraj^e at a moment when thev most need it to secure the fruits of victories 
gained, the Society of Operatives of Ohiavonna in this general meeting resolve— 

1. To put mourning upon their fhig for tliirty days. 

2. To inscribe the name of Lincoln beside those of Garibaldi and Mazzini in 
the list of honorary members. 

3. To write to the United States consul at Genoa our word of cheer for the 
brave operatives of the American Union, to whom tlie il'ustrious dead belonged 
by his birth, by the sympathies of his heart, and bv llie virtues of his life. 

C' PEDIIETTI, President. 



[Transhitiou.] 
Mcclianics' Socicfij of Dogliani to the people of tlie United States of America. 

Humanity is seized with terror ; a horrid crime has thrown th(> miiuls of every- 
body into the most afflicting consternation. Abrahran Lincoln, the industrious 
working-man, the deserving citizen, who, like Cincinnatus, cousented to direct 
the destinies of his country in calamitous times, is no more. The viU' assassin's 
hand has depri\ ed America of its guide, its leader, its father, its second Wash- 
ington ; and now two worlds are lamenting the loss of a man wliom only yes- 
terday they were applauding. 

Oh, generous man ! the weapon of the homicide that took your life has also 
wounded the future and the hopes of a people that were anxiously awaiting the 
conclusion of your work of glory and redemption. 

Oh, brothers of the New Woild, accept as a pledge of mutual affection these 
few but sincere expressions of condolence, sent you by the huml)le but independ- 
ent Society of Mechanics of Dogliani, children of that Italy which has always 
struggled against ignorance. Our banner is draped in mourning as a symbol of 
our sorrow and affliction. 

Let us trust to the unchanging laws of progress. In vain will villains oppose 
the sword and calumny to arrest the people in their course to happiness and in- 
dependence. The goal will be gained, and the day will soon dawn when the 
barriers of tyranny, prejudice, and ignorance shall be removed, and men shall 
call each other truly brothers. 

May liberty and independence endure forever! Long life to the republic of 
North America ! 

In the name of the society : 

[l. s.] GIOVANNI CERRINO, President. 



[Trauslivtion. ] 

MUNICIPALITY OF FERMO. ♦ 

Resolution of the Municipal Council f Fermo, at the session of Maij 10, 1SG5. 



PRCl'OSITION. 



The mayor presiding, the Marquis Chevalier Joseph Tgnatio I revisan. read 
to the council a resolution of the municipality .,f Palermo, by which pul. ic 
homage is rendered to the glorious name of Abraham Lmcoln, 1 rrsulent ot the 
United States of America, barbarously murdered by the j-ropagamlists ot sla- 
very. After approving the action of said municipality, he proposed to tlie coun- 
cil the following order of the day : 



442 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

This council, struck with horror at the violent death of Abraham Lincoln, 
President of the United States of America, considering that the abolition of 
slavery, in the triumph of which he was sacrificed, is a matter which interests 
humanity at large, and wishing, by a public dcnionstration, to do honor to that 
great name — 

Resolrc, 1. To give the name of Abraham Lincoln to the new street opened 
on the south side of this city. 

2. To communicate to the United States consul general at Florence the pres- 
ent deliberation. 

All present, standing, applauded the motion of the mayor, which was adopted 
by acclamation. 

G. TREVISANI, Mayor. 

C. SILVESTRl, Senior Alderman. 

L. TllANQUILLE, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 



The Worlcingmcn's Mutual Aid Society of Foggia to the j^eojde of the 

American Union. 

Fogg I A, May S, 1S65. 
Bkothers of America : We comprehend the sorrow tluit afflicts you in the 
triumphant hour of your humane cause. "When Abraham Lincohi, your glori- 
ous helmsman of liberty, was struck down by the cruel hand of a vih; assassin 
your generous souls were tilled with mourning. The sad news reaches us in 
Italy like the messenger of a day fatal to the destinies of a people, and every 
true Italian heart was saddened by its coming. Even in th i humble families 
of the Avorking men of Foggia the deepest grief was felt, and a shrill cry arose 
for the extermination of the vampires of humanity. 

Brothers: be consoled by the thought that Abraham Lincoln, in the greatest 
trials, showed himself something more than the President of a transatlantic 
republic, and that the assassin's pistol was only the instrument of the dealers 
in human flesh. Lincoln's tomb with you, and Garibaldi's misfortunes with us, 
will be known in history as the irrevocable decrees of reason against barbarism 
and tyranny ; but you will let future ages know the good intentions of llie two 
illustrious victims. Be brave, then, brothers of America, in your desolation, 
and defend the sepulchre where the secret of the emancipation of all the slaves 
in the world lies buried. 

FERDINAND CIPRO, President. 

MICHELE FIGLiOLINO, Secretary. 



Mr. Marsh to Mr. Hunter. 

[Extract.] 

\ No. lis] Legation of the United States, 

Turin, April 29, 1865. 
Sir : Two days since a telegraphic message, forwarded to this city for trans- 
mission to Constantinople, brought lis the first announcement of the fearful crime 
to Avhich the Chief Magistrate of the Union has fallen a victim. The want of 
direct intelligence and the brevity of the telegram led many to suspect that 
it was a false rumor, invented for purposes of speculation, but it was con- 
firmed by later messages, and the post of this morning brings us many of the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 443 

details of the assassination, as well as a notice of your ai.poiatmont as Acting 
beerctaiy ot btate. ° 

Upon the reception of the first messao^e members of the Italian senate and 
chamber ot deputies, which were then there in session, called at my house for 
information as to the truth of the report. This, in consequence of the acci- 
dental failure of telegrams to and from Mr. Adams, I was unable to give ; but 
knowing, as I do, the character of the enemies with whom the late President 
had to contend, and remembering the threats of which he was often the object, 
I have long thought such an event probable, and did not hesitate to say that 
I so considered it. 

You will receive from nearer sources abundant evidence of the rei)robation 
and horror which this enormous offence against humanity has excited through- 
out Europe; and I am happy to say that the most eminent friends of Italian 
liberty are not behind the foremost in condemnation of the crime, and in regret 
for the sudden removal of a public officer who, at the moment of his death, 
enjoyed the reverence of the civilized world in a higher degree than any other 
man of our times. 

The minister of foreign affairs has requested me to assure my government of 
the special regret and sympathy of the King of Italy, and of the present ad- 
ministration of the kingdom, and most of the foreign ministers at, this court 
have expressed to me similar sentiments. The senate and the chamber of depu- 
ties have passed ap|iropriate resolutions on the occasion, but as these will be 
oflicially communicated to the government, through the Italian minister at 
Washington, I forbear to transmit them. * '■- ^: * * 

Great interest is naturally felt and expressed respecting the probable policy 
of Mr. Lincoln's successor, and the effect of the President's d(!atli on the politi- 
cal interests of the United States. It has been a great satisfaction to me to be 
able to testify, from personal acquaintance with the present incumbent of the 
presidential office, to the purity and elevation of his character, and to his sound- 
ness, ability, and integrity as a statesman, and at the same time to profess a 
confidence in the stability of our institutions whicli excludes all fear, either of 
a dangerous shock to them or of a temporary derangement of their normal func- 
tions from even so calamitous an event as this. 

It would be ungracious at this moment to inquire jealously into the sincerity 
of the official expressions of European regret, or into the probable effects of Mr. 
Lincoln's death on the policy of foreign powers toward us. Happily the pro- 
gress of our arms has secured us fntm all visible danger of European intervention; 
and if there arc governments which, in earlier stages of the rebellicm,^ might 
Lave availed themselves of sucli a coiijuiicturt; as this for evil ends, it is now 
too late to make it an occasion of successful wrong-doing by any European state 
to the people of the United States. 

We are yet without definite information as to the condition of the Secretary 
of State, and of his son and assistant, but the telegraphic intelligence seems 
favorable to the life and com|)lete restoration of both of tliem. 

The great wisdom and ability with which ]\Ir. Seward has conducted the for- 
eign relations of the United States are universally acknowlcdg.d, and are. in- 
deed, so deeply felt that his decease at this moim nt would be regarded by Eu- 
rope as a loss to his country hardly less than that of the President himself, and 
I most earnestly trust both that his life may be saved, and that he may be 
spared the heavy affliction of the loss of a distinguished son. 

I am, sir, with high respect, your obedient '^^''^'J^'^'^,^ .j, p ^j ^p^^jp 

Hon. W. Hr.\Th:R, 

Acting iSccrctary of State. 



444 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE 

[Trauslatiou.] 
Democratic Republican Association of Florence. 

Sir : As soon as it became known that the southern rebels had been defeated 
by the federal armies, the Societa Democratica Republicana of Florence com- 
missioned the undersigned to present to you a congratulatory address, and to 
assist in a public demonstration of satisfaction, which the liberals of Florence 
had decided to give to you, as the representative of the republic of the United 
States, when unexpectedly the intelligence of the murder of Mr. Lincoln changed 
their hymn into elegy, their joy into sorrow. 

The society which sends us to you as interpreters of its sorrow is composed 
of men who, loving and hoping, followed the various fortunes of the mighty war 
that your people have sustained, not for their own liberty, but for that of others ; 
not for an idea, or an interest circumscribed by the boundaries of a nation, but 
for the great principles of morality and justice. 

If upon the death of Mr. Lincoln your people for a moment trembled before 
the dangers that seemed to threaten your republic, they soon reassured them- 
selves, knowing that he but reflected the character, will, and soul of his coun- 
trymen. 

Mr. Lincoln has been assassinated, but the nation is immortal. It M'ill ac- 
quire new strength and vigor from this great misfortune, and will know how to 
crown the work which was brouuht almost to an end by its chief, because the 
ancient race and virtues of the Puritan Pilgrims, who first landed in New Eng- 
land, have been transmitted, unchanged, from generation to generation to their 
present descendants. 

A people in whom energy is nature, liberty an instinct, equality a belief, law 
a religion, of Avhich republican institutions are the necessary expression, may 
suffer great affliction from the tragical and unexpected death of a man like Lin- 
coln, yet it must be bat a passing and surmountable misfortune. 

Sir, the democracy of Europe owe to your people an eternal debt of gratitude 
for preserving, intact and pm-e, their great republic, from the model of which 
the nations of the old world may yet be formed anew. 

Receive, sir, the assurances of our profound respect, 

A. I)E GU BERN ATI, 
G. DOLFI, 

A. MARIO. 

B. ODICINI, 

Delegates of the Democratic Rcpuhlican Association. 
The Consul General oftJie United States, Florence. 



[Translation.] 
To the free people of the United States of America. 

Democratic Association of Florence, 

May 8, 1865. 

Brothers of the A.aierican Union : A few days have passed since your 
people prepared themselves to celebrate, in the decisive victory of Richmond, 
the proximate, infallible triumph of liberty and of the Union over servitude 
and disunion, when sad intelligence troubled the sincere joy of all the friends of 
liberty, and stopped on our lips the festive expressions of triumph and our glad 
■wishes for the future. 

Lincoln, the honest, the magnanimous citizen, the most worthy Chief Magis- 
trate of your glorious federation, a victim of an execrable treason, is no more. 

The furies of despotism and of servitude, deceived in their infamous hopes. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 445 

incapable of sustaining any longer their combat against liberty, before falling 
into the abyss wliicli tlireatened them, strengthened the arm of a murderer, and 
as they opened the fratrici 'al v/ar with the gibbet of the martyr of the cause 
of abolition, John Brnwii, so they ended it, worthy of themselves, in the most 
ferocious and stupid of all crimes, the murder of a great citizen. 

Now liberty, in stigmatizing the cause of her enemies, will have only to show 
to the world this gibbet and this murderer, and the people looking upon them 
cannot do otherwise than recollect that despots have had a share in tliis : that in 
some courts of Europe, IMason, Slidell, and the ferocious piratoi of the Alabama, 
found protection, encouragement, and applause, and finally the wicked instiga- 
tor of the civil war, Jefferson Davis, oljtained consolation, praises and hopes, 
even in the paternal benediction of the Pope. 

Brothers of the American Union, courage ! The groat cause for which you 
have supported four years of Titanic combat is the cause of humanity ; its 
triumph can never more be doubted, and has been delayed only for a moment 
by the worst of actions committed by an abject murderer. 

Tyranny, it is true, could sometimes be destroyed by the murder of the tyrant, 
because it has life only in him , but liberty, whicli lives in the people, has, like 
the people, au immortal origin and destiny. 

Democratic Association of Florence, May, S, 1SG5. 
For the committee : 

P. D. ANNIBALE. 
A. COKTl, Secretary. 



[Tianslatiou.] 

Floreate, May 4, 1S65. 
Sir : The masonic lodge II Progresso Sociale, of the ancient accepted Scot- 
tisb rite established in Florence, at their meeting of the 3d instant, after ren- 
dering funeral honor to the great martyr of liberty, Abraham Lincoln, and 
adopting mourning for three weeks, have resolved to make known their pro- 
found sorrow to the noble nation which you represent in Italy, at ^ the same 
time expressing the confident hope that, notwithstanding the loss of tneu- presi- 
dent, the nation and its institutions will continue as enduring as the great pnn- 
ciples for which they are contending. ^^.....,r -,, 

^ '' B. ODICIM, Master. 

F. PULSZKY, Senior Warden. 
C. BETTINI, Jmior Warden. 
A. TilAKTlNATl, Orator. 
M. LE .SAlllO, Secretary. 

Hon. Col. T. B. Lawrexce, , ^ ^ , 

United Stales Consul General far Italy. 



[Translation.] 

Fraternity of artisans of Italy to the people of tU Umted States. 

Florence, April 27, 1SG5. 

C.T.ZENS: When the ^legram brought the !'f •^^Jwanl' t ^u ' in- 

civilization and .justice had obtained a glorious 7,^^^;^ of • t ns w- . aLn"t 

domitableconstancy and ^^'V^^X t:St^^^^-^'^^ou, 

to testify in a public and ^f;-" ^;\^^^ ^^^^ j'^s'-es the complete triumph of 
free citizens, e^a■ry heart whchb^^^^^^ ._^^,^^J^ ^^^^_^^^^.,^^ ^^l,, 

the rights of huinauity. But, alas . me u.iuu 



448 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

ageut, doubtless, of a mysterious and iniquitous plot prepared against the natianal 
liberty) has taken a\ray the precious life of your Chi^f Magistrate and placed 
in great danger another one not inferior to it. Tiiis barbarous and execrable 
deed has filled with deep sorrow the souls of our fraternity, and having in con- 
sequence cast aside the thou,t;hts of any joyful demonstration, the committee, as 
interpreter of the sentiments of their association, has resolved, to drape with 
mourning the flag of the society for fifteen days, to express to you their indig- 
nation for the terrible murder committed, and to address to you a word of fra- 
ternal sympathy. * 

Free citizens ! may ihe name of Abraham Lincoln be to you a watchword 
whereby you may better accomplish the sublime mission which you have be- 
gun, and through the sacrament of his blood may all tyrannies be destroyed. 

Long life to the American republic ! ' Long life to the federal Union ! 

GIUSEPPE DOLFl, President. 
FRANCESCO PECINI, Secretary. 



[Translation.] • 

Constitutional RigJits Association to the Piesidmt of the United States. 

Florexce, Maij 9, 1865. 

Sir : At the very moment when all the friends of liberty and civilization on 
this side the ocean were rejoicing over the approaching close of a contest sus- 
tained by you for the great humanitarian principle of the abolition of slavery, 
sad news arrived to alloy our joy, and we learned with horror of the assassina- 
tion of the man elected by the American nation as its chief. 

Thus the martyrdom of him who promulgated the solemn decree of emanci- 
pation (true sign of equality among men) consecrated the second great epoch 
of your history, not less glorious than that of your independence itself. 

America, discovered by our sailors, illustrated by our historians, celebrated 
by our poets, is for Italy more than a friend — she is a sister, towards whom 
she looks anxiously during the revolution through which she is passing in her 
reconstruction. 

We Italians, associated to maintain and keep alive the sacred fire of liberty, 
send a word of affection and condolence, trusting that the federal flag which 
was kept aloft by the iron strength of President Lincoln, and which is now 
di'oopiug over the tomb, too soon, alas ! opened for Honest Old Abe, may not 
again be attacked by internal enemies or rebellious cilizens. 

Prof. EMILIO CIFIIIAXI, President. 



American meeting in Florence on account of the death of Abraham Lincoln. 

Florence, Italy, May 2, 1865. 
Pursuant to a call of the consul general, the citizens of the United States 
resident or temporarily staying at Florence met at the consulate on Tuesday, 
May 2, to take such measures consequent on the death of President Lincoln as 
might seem appropriate. The meeting, numbering n^rly one hundred Ameri- 
can gentlemen, was called to order by Hiram Powers, esq , and, on his motion, 
Col. Lawrence, the consul general, was appointed chairman, and Dr. B. B. Ap- 
pleton, of Boston, chosen secretary. 

Col. Lawrence, on taking the chair, addressed the meeting as follows : 
Fellow-coUx\trvme.\ : We have met here to day, united as mourners and 
companions in a common sorrow, to take counsel together in a national calamity, 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 447 

in an unspeakaLle and overwhelming grief, wl.icl. hows our lieads and fills our 
hearts. One of the hest of Presidents, one of the jiurest of statesmen one of 
the truest of men is no more, and the lamentation which arises from every part 
of our land finds a responsive echo in our own hosoms. The apr.allin"- tra"-edy 
which has removed our Chief Magistrate is ahsolutely without paralleUr prece- 
dent lu history. Cicsar found a Brutus hecause he had trampled upon the lib- 
erties of his country ; Henri Quatre fell by the hand of an insane fanatic ; but 
it ^as remained for the nineteenth century, for a period when civilization and 
CHristianityare supposed to exert greater influence than ever before, to produce 
a cold-blooded and cowardly assassin to strike down a I'resident acknowledged, 
even by his enemies, to be possessor of the highest virtues, and to have been 
actuated throughout his public career solely by a single-hearted and unstlfish 
patriotism. 

It is not my belief that this fearful deed is either indorsed or approved by 
the people of the south ; I believe at home and abroad that they are sincere in 
ignoring the infamous crime. But the broad f ict nevertheless exists, that with 
the institution of slavery the pistol and bowie-knife have gone hand in hand, 
and that under its dominion personal revenge has avowedly been permitted to 
take precedence of established law. As a result of slavery, tlierefore, we owe 
this awful deed, and let us thank the xVlmighty that, as an institution, it has 
perished forever. 

Gentlemen, it is unnecessary for me to pronounce a eulogy upon President 
Lincoln — he needs none ; there is his record — the world knows it by heart. His 
memory will gain new lustre as time rolls on, and history will accord him a 
niche in the temple of fame second only to that occupied by our immortal 
Washington. 

At the conclusion of Colonel Lawrence's remarks the following resolutions 
were draughted by a committee appointed for the purpose and adopted unani- 
mously : 

The American residents and visitnrs in Florence, desiring to give expression 
to their profound horror and grief on account of the atrocious crime by which 
our beloved country has been deprived of its honored and revered Chief Ma- 
gistrate, hereby resolve — 

That while we see in the assassination of President Lincoln an act of bar- 
barity unparalleled in the annals of crime, yet we are constrained to regard and 
denounce it as natui ally and logically related to the grand conspiracy which 
has aimed at the overthrow of our republican institutions. 

That whi'e we recognize the hand of Providence in this great calamity which 
has plunged the nation into mourning', we yet feel that the Divine power and 
goodness will so overrule it as to give stability and prosperity to our people, 
and to render lastingly triumphant the cause of freedom. 

That while we appreciate the great and patriotic work accomplished by our 
late President, which will secure for him an undying place in history, we be- 
lieve that his violent death will but lend additional lustre to the noble and ^ 
manly virtues of this worthy successor of Washington. 

That, in common with all loyal Americans at home and abroad, we hereby 
express our heartfelt sympathy with the bereaved family of the President in 
this hour of desolating affliction. 

That in token of our respect and sorrow we will wear a badge ot m.nirning 

for thirty days. . . i • t. i 

It was voted that a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to his Lxcel- 
lency the President of the United States. 

The chairman stated that deputations from various iniblic associations ex- 
isting in Florence had waited upon him to express their sympathy m the due 
calamity which had befallen the United States, and that addresses to the same 
effect had been received by him from other cities of Italy. 



448 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

After a vote of thanks to tlie chairman for his opening remarks, and for his 
acceptable manner of presiding, the meeting was dissolved. 

T. BIGELOW LAWRENCE, Chairman, 
B. B. APPLETON, iiecrttary. 



[Translation.] 

The Mechariic's Society and the Society of Progress of Forli to the Ajncrican 

yeople. 

FoRLi, May 1, 1S65. 

Brothers of America: Our soul is grieved because our first utterance to 
you must consist of woi'ds of sorrov/ and consolation; and our grief is more 
poignant as the personage whose death we mourn was the idol of a respectful 
worship, and deserved the homage of the civilized world. The real design of 
his assassination is a secret still hidden in the mysteries of a deep policy, and 
we have not the divining power to find it out; but we must trust that the finger 
of Providence was concerned in it, and permitted it to be done that some great 
good might arise out of it. 

The illustrious deceased has left you his glorious principles as an inheritance, 
and if you obey them you will not fail to consummate the great aim of freedom, 
and will extend its influence to Europe, the only counay on the globe that is 
called civilized, while the descendants of your great discoverer are enslaved in 
spite of your eSbrts to establish liberty and independence in every corner of the 
earth. 

Lincoln and Booth ! these are two names forming different periods of history ; 
the first promises a future; the second belongs to the horrid past; is a concen- 
tration of all villany past and present — the wickedness of a Nero and a Caligula 
combined, or of other monsters cast up from hell to seek the most illustrious 
victims. 

Lincoln's is a great name, that will ever be remembered as the name of the 
champion of all democratic virtues. He has unmasked monarchy by giving true 
liberty and independence to a weary world. His martyrdom will be a baptism 
more powerful than that required by the Roman church; it is a sacrament of 
blood — the other is of water. Lincoln and progress are synonymous ; his course 
was but the great principles proposed by AYashington. 

Brothers, your President was one of those wonderful men, like our ]M.azzini 
or Garibaldi, who tower abpve the meanness of common humanity, and show 
how great a true man can become. All nations ought now to join with one 
assent, and inscribe this epitaph upon the stone that covers the remains of your 
distinguished President: "Here lies buried all the wisdom, all the virtue, all 
the patriotism that ever lived." 

Americans, accept, in fine, these words of sincere sorrow, of fraternal love, of 
congratulation to a people with whom we sympathize and to whom we wish a 
lasting peace. 

Committee of the Mechanic's Society : 

AMADIO CAMILLO. 
GIUSEPPE MURATORL 
VINCENZO DANIELE. 
GIOVANNI TRASFINETTL 
GIUSEPPE YKZ'Ll, Secretary. 



Committee of the Society of Progress : 



PANCIATICHI POMPEO. 
GIUSEPPE CAPOCCiNL 
FEDERICO BONDL 
FABIO CORTESE. 
LIVIO ^k^VAK^l, Secretary. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 449 

[Translation.] 

Genoa, May 28, 1865 
Sir : While from all part, of the civilized world your great and noble country 
receives daily solemn assurances of condolence and of sorrow for the oxe 
crable crime which has taken away your Chief Magistrate, permit the under- 
signed to send from the city which produced the immortal discoverer of America 
our word of condolence, and at the same time our word of admiration— of -rief 
for that loss which is a loss not only to the United States, but to all humanity 
of admiration for the majestic solidity of a social and political edifice in which 
so great a misfortune does not disturb the movement of public affiiirs 

Abraham Lincoln lived long enough to see the triumph of the hoiy cause of 
human liberty which he spent his life in defending, and M^e most warmly desire 
that the people who, with heroic valor, have fought to obtain this triumph, may 
soon gather the merited fruits of their toils under the smiles of peace and 
prosperity. 

Oil behalf of the citizens of Genoa : 

Y. VALERIO. 
GEROLAMO BOCEARDO. 
E. G. TRABBI. 
M. SCHRATHINANO. 
The Consul General of the United States, Genoa. 



[Translation.] 

Genoa, May 4, 1865. 

Honored Sir : While the demociacy of Europe was exulting with joy at the 
late victories of the Union, which had secured the triumph of the holiest of 
causes, the news of an execrable crime suddenly filled them with consternation 
and mourning. Abraham Lincoln has been assassinated. The death of this 
virtuous and great citizen is a universal misfortune. All humanity was struck 
down fn its benefactor, the emancipator of the black race. 

In the midst of manifestations of public grief which come from every part of 
Italy to the representatives of your nation, the Union (tf the operatives of Genoa 
raise their cry against the murderers of Lincoln, and send, through you, to your 
brothers in America, the assurance of their profound grief. Wo hope that the 
calculations of the assassins will fail, and that this great crime will not arrest 
the successful progress of your cause. 

Your fellow-citizens will have the magnanimity to avenge this crime in 
a manner befitting a great nation, by consolidating the work of emancipation 
initiated and carried forward by Lincoln with such intclligonce and courage. 

We feel certain that your great republic, which in a {ii\v years has displayed 
so many miracles of valor, constancy and sacrifice, as to fill the world with sur- 
prise, purified from the foul stain of slavery, regenerated in blood, and blessed 
by all humanity, will be more glorious and powerful than before the war, iurnisli 
a model for European nations, and lift up the beacon of hope for oppressed 
peoples. 

Faithful to the Monroe doctrine, you will not, we are sure, tolerate the plant- 
ing of a foreign monarchy on the borders of your own land, which la the sacred 
asylum of liberty. 
29 A 



450 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

We beg yovi to convey to your government and fellow-citizens tliese senti- 
ments of admiration and affection which we cherish for your country and her 
cause. 

MICHELE BOERO, 

And others, Consuls. 

I^OTE. — The Union of Operatives has unanimously voted this address, and fur- 
ther resolved to drape its flag in mourning for one year. 



[Translation. ] 



Citizen Presidknt : The members of the Fraternal Association of Artisans 
of Leghorn send to the American people a word of sincere condolence and bro- 
therly grief on the occasion of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. They are 
aware that the valorous champion of the American Union was born an artisan, 
and that liberty made him great and powerful, not to oppress but to strengthen 
and ennoble an entire nation ; for this they have loved him as though they had 
been his sons or brothers. 

The living Abraham Lincoln we looked upon as a hero ; dead, we mourn him 
as a martyr, and his memory will ever remain in the heart of the artisans as the 
symbol of a true faith — the faith of liberty. 

From the seat of the Fraternal Association of Artisans at Leghorn, May 21, 
1865. 

G. PENEO, President. 
0. CAMP ANA, Secretary. 

Hon. Citizen President 

of the United Sta'es of America. 



[Translation. 



The Lodge Anziani Virtuosi, Orient of Leghorn, Tuscany, to the President of 
the United States of America 

Health ! 

Abraham Lincoln is dead, not from disease in his own bed, surrounded by 
friends and parents, but in consequence of a wound inflicted by an unknown 
hand. Nothing positive yet is known as to the reason why the fatal shot was 
fired ; but, unfortunately, men who are useful to their country either die before 
the accomplishment of the work they had undertaken, or hands bought with the 
gold of their enemies cut the thread of their lives, hoping that the trunk being 
severed, the tree will not blossom ; but if the roots are sound, it will, though late. 
So you, citizen President, ought to do. Falter not, because the life of your pre- 
decessor was taken, for it is your duty to finish what he traced out, and not only 
is the most powerful part of America with you, but the whole world represented 
by the people who, when they love, love from the heart and shed their blood 
for any just cause. Yours is one of the most just, and let the great try to crush 
the people, and cry out that they are of no account ; they are the elect of God, 
and their cause will triumph, for all the peoples of the earth have their hopes and 
sufferings in common, and, call a man Abraham Lincoln, or any other name, it 
matters not, for it is not the body or the soul but the party he represents which 
calls oiu" attention. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 451 

Abraham Lincoln tlie strenuous defonder of the rights of the people, is no 
more; but you, Andrew Johnson, having- taken his place, have the task of 
completmg the work. 

Receive the best wishes for the prosperity of your republic, from the brothers 
of the Leghorn Lodge Anziani \ irtuosi, Orient of Leghorn. 

ALESSANDRO NELLI Y ■ 

^RA^x^Esc() AX Din: AX I • 

B ALD ASS A RE PAGIIIX I .-. 
LUSTRO V. COEX.-. 
ADRLIXO CORRAXL-. 
GIOVAXXI CORRAXL-. 
GIUSEPPE GIAXXARDL-. 
ISAAC PIPERXO.-. 
DAXIEL PIPERXO.-. 
RAPHAEL DAVIS.'. 
M. P. PIPERXO.-. 
FRAXCESCO PASTOR!.-. 

Secretary. 



[Translation.] 



Translation of letter from Masonic Lodge he hume e la Verita, hi Messina, 

dated June 10, 1SG5. 

To his Excellency AiXDREW Joh.\son, President of the United States : 

We, inhabitants of distant regions, ultimately address a word to you, citizen 
President, to manifest to you the great grief that atHicted our hearts on the 
melancholy intelligence of the assassination of the illustrious President, Abra- 
ham Lincoln — mourned for nine days in the temple of our mysterious works. 

In vain did that sacrilegious hand raise itself to smite such virtue, for his 
name will last to eternity. In him America acknowledges the Washington of 
liberty ; to him the slave to-day pours out his benedictions that his chains are 
loosed, and the civil people irom all quarters of the globe spread flowers and 
tears on the tomb of the just. 

It is but too true that the country of virtue is heaven, and its temple the 
world. 

Accept, citizen President, this tribute of regard towards the late Illustrious 
which all the fraternity of this respectable lodge dedicate to him. In the mean 
time we beg you to manifest our grief towards the American nation, which is 
to-day so nobly given to you to represent. 

Signed by the venerable 

GIOVAXXI PIXOTTA, 

And others. 



[Translation.] 

An address of condolence, dated the 21st of June, 1865, from the municipality 
of Messina to the constil of the United States of America. 

To honor the name of a great citizen, one of the most liberal among nations, 
and to transmit his name to posterity, the mnnicipal council voted in then- sit- 
ting, the 1.3th of May last, and decided on giving the name of Ai)raliain l^ncoln 
to one of the principal streets which is shortly to be opened in the- new cpiartcr 
of Terranova in this city. /. . ■ ^ 

This is au attestation of affection to the United States of America, to honor 



452 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

tlie memoiy of their indefatigable President, who fell a victim to treachery, but 
surrounded by the light of a sublime idea, " the freedom of slaves." It is, 
finally, an homage to the great principles of liberty, without which whatever 
may be the civil event is false and illusory. 

Be pleased, worthy sir, to accept, and have accepted by his excellency Pres- 
ident Johnson, who now represents the government of the United States, thi'^i 
testimony of grief and sympathy which the people of Messina tribute to the 
great American nation. 

The Mafjor, President, 

G. CHANCIAFARA. 



[Translation.] 

Milan, May 17, 1865. 
Brothers of the United States of America : 

Our grief for the death of Lincoln is as great as our faith in the triumph of 
the cause for which you fight. The holiness of your cause is equal to the 
greatness of its martyr. 

For the Working Meu's Mutual Help Association in Milan, 

MONDOLFO, President. 
FILIPPO BUIDA, Vice-President, 
And many others. 



[Translation.] 



Province of Molise, District of Isernia, 

Monteroduni, May 1, 1865. 
To his Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States of America : 
The entire world, with different feelings, has anxiously awaited the termina- 
tion of the great contest, the civil war that has lacerated the limbs of the great 
and happy republic. Tyranny and double-faced diplomacy attempted to rivet 
the chains of slavery upon the universe; democracy struggled to break the fet- 
ters and crush the head of despotism with them, and sound the hymu of victory 
and liberty. The hour of victory has struck for liberty ; tyranny, pale with 
rage, gnaws its own viscera, and trembles upon its tottering throne. 

Long live the government of Washington ! Long live the great republic of 
the United States! They overthrew the slaveholders of the south, who had 
ruled the country for three quarters of a century ; but the brave republicans 
broke off" the manacles of millions of slaves, raised them to the dignity of man- 
hood, and now embrace them as men and brothers. 

But amid the victorious jubilation came the horrid rumor of Abraham Lin- 
coln's barbarous assassination ! lie was the honored parent of the new-born 
liberty; but yoit, Mr. Johnson, will be the foster-father of the new republic. 
Lincoln is dead; but grateful humanity will erect a splendid monument to the 
memory of the sublime martyr of liberty, and Avill appease his spirit by scatter- 
ing the ashes of the cursed assassin Booth to the four winds of heaven, and 
destroying tyranny and slavery that prompted him to the horrid deed. 
GIUSEPPE GIACOMO. PASQUALE D'ELIA. 

ANTONIO GUGLIELMI. SALVATORE SCIOLI. 

SALVATORE GUGLIELML FRANCESCO SCIOLI. 

ICILIO D'ELIA. NICOLA TRIVISON. 

DOM IN ICO FORTE. SILVIO FORTE. 

CLODOMIRO DE GIACOMO. ANDREA SCROLL 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 453 

[Translatiou.] 
Marsala at the to>?ih of Ahraham Lincoln. 

Marsala, tlip. heroic and enliglitcncd city, through its mayor, has elevated its 
voice at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. 

On the 6th of May, 1SG6, in the city hall of ]\[arsala, a meeting wa^ called 
by the inayor, and presided over by the sindic, who gave official information of 
the horrible crime perpetrated on the ilhistrious Abraham Liucohi, Prc-^ideut of 
the United States of America. 

That atrocious deed confirms the political axiom that the glories and misfor- 
tunes of a nation are the glories and misfortunes of all mankind ; and young 
Italy, though rejoicing in her new destiny, now joins in tasting the bitter cup 
of American misfortune. 

"We Italians see in the misfortunes of America repetitions of our own misfor- 
tunes, and all Italy deplores the lamentable event that overwhelms a sister 
.nation ; and its sorrow is the greater because its people are united to us by 
ancient traditionary ties, a people whose country was first discovered by a sou 
of Italy. 

Christopher Columbus, Italy's immortal son, discovered the vast continent of 
America, and carried Christianity and civilization to its benighted shores; and 
the good and noble Lincoln, late President of the United States of the New 
World, delivered the descendants of the children of Africa from the curse of 
infamy, the yoke of servitude. 

It is the duty of every free people to express their sorrow and pay their 
homage at the tomb of great men, who are to be revered next to God; there- 
fore, the president, as the interpreter of this meeting. 

Resolves, That the inhabitants of Marsala, on this occasion, express their 
horror at the crime perpetrated upon the person of Abraham Lincoln, and signify 
their sympathy for the American people in this address to the new President 
and Congress of the United States of America. 

The above resolution was unanimously adopted. 

G. N(3TAR FIGLTOLT, 
TOMMASSO PlPlLONE, 
A. GRIGNANI, 

Coimcihncn. 

ANTONIO SPANO, 

Secretary. 



[Tiauslatiou.] 

Naplks, May 20, ISGo. 
Sir: Great was our affliction on the news of the death of your predecessor, 

Abraham Lincoln. . ,., , . ..^ 

We men of labor and of the people, bent on the conquest of liberty and justice 
for all! we cannot but express our profound grief for .«o great a loss. 

Lincoln was, like you, the defender of the rights of the people and the eman- 
cipator of the slaves. We feel our hearts pulsatmg violently at the though 
that a horrible crime has deprived the American nation of a generous and honest 

'^'H;ppily the principles, if actuated by man, have th.-ir origin in the rights of 
the people, and find in it the force of expansion and of durability. 

We, Workmen of Naples, have felt the great misfortune which ha nk 
humanity, on the loss of President Lincolr, and we, tl'-^-f-"'; <^^ '''r^ '' 
solemn council that an address of condolence to the American peopl ' "^^ ''J^ 
presented, and that our great standard should be m mourning for thnt) (la>,. 



454 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

"We send, moreover, a salute to all the American people, but particularly to 
our brothers, the workmen, and we remind them that Italy works assiduously 
for the accomplishment of her liberty and independence ; that she confides in 
herself as well as in the sympathy of free nations, and hopes to see her ardent 
wishes accomplished. 

To you. President, we intrust our fraternal salute, and avc are certain that 
you will communicate it to your people, reminding them that the Italians feel 
a profound affection for the great American nation. 

JOSEPH F. DASSI. 
Honorary Perpetual Vice-President. 
FRANCISCO ZAVA, 

President General. 
CESARE FREARI, 

General Secretary. 
CESARE BATTAGLIA, 

Secretary. 
Mr. Andrew Johnson, 

President of the JJni'ed States of America. 



[Translation.] 

Garibaldian Mutual Aid Society, 

Naples, August 30, 1865. 

Sir: In execution of the resolution passed to-day by our assembly, legally 
convocated, I have the honor to offer you, in the name of our society, the most 
sincere and heartfelt condolence for the great loss the American nation has 
sustained in the death of the late President Lincoln. 

Alas ! the noble and generous republic, and together with her all the Euro- 
pean nations, have received a cruel wound. We Garibaldiaus were profoundly 
afflicted by the sad news, and can only compare our present aftlictiou to that 
we have felt when our chief and father, Garibaldi, was wounded at Aspromontie. 

Abraham Lincoln was the true and tried friend of liberty. His virtues and 
undaunted courage were about to achieve a great work, when the hand of an 
assassin deprived him of life. 

But we despair not. We still hope in the sublime mission of the American 
nation. The effulgent spark of true liberty shall yet come to us through the 
American republic. 

Italy mingles her tears with America, and all deplore the sad event, but 
place strong reliance upon the hapj)y results which your renowned talents and 
patriotism are certain to produce, the re-establishment of the glorious Union, so 
long the admiration of the world. 

With sentiments of high esteem, I have the honor to be, most respectfully, 
yours, 

GIUSEPPE DASSI, President. 
EUGENIO MONTINI, Secretary. 

The President of tlie United States ef America. 



[Translation.] 



Workingmen's Benevolent Society of Naples, 

Najjles, May 4, 1865. 
Citizen Consul : The Workingmen's Benevolent Society of Naples, in the 
midst of its exultation at the nev/s of the triumph of a holy and benevolent 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 455 

cause, were suddenly struck with horror at the aunounccraent of tlie cruel death 
of your excellent President, Abraham Lincoln. 

Our grief is beyond expression; for he who can tell the anguish of his sorrow 
does not feel it deeply. 

Deign to be the interpreter of our sentiments, citizen consul, to the noble and 
generous people whose welfire is so much desired by us. Tell them the sad 
tidings of their loss was brought to us upon the wings of the wind, and left ua 
petrified with horror and indignation. Our only comfort was the thought that 
grand ideas, by the inscrutable commands of Providence, make their way 'through 
a thousand obstacles, and only gain their goal by passing through a sea of mar- 
tyrdom and blood. 

Liberty has grown and flourished in your land; and we are sure it has taken 
root so deeply in your soil, it will never be in want of generous souls to inherit 
the legacy of love for poor suffering human beings, an inheritance left to them 
by one who was their apostle and a martyr for them. They have been redeemed 
from the ignominious yoke of slavery — those poor men who were fastened to 
the sod, deprived of half the spirit that God had given them entire at their 
birth. The earth has now no race to till its soil with grievous sighs, and water 
it with servile sweat; but the men who mourned in their labors now work with 
joyous songs that sweeten toil and render the fruits of their labor more abundant. 

Tell them we rejoice in this change — we who believe in progress and the 
indefinite development of benevolence, thanks to union and mutual assistance — 
and hope to see the working classes elevated to a more cheerful and respectable 
condition. We are glad that so much glory falls to the lot of a people who 
jealously guarded the light-house of liberty, a divinity banished from the Old 
World to find a refuge in the New, whose once vast solitudes are now filled 
with inhabitants. Our eyes have long been turned to that beacon, and arc bent 
ou it now, hoping to see that torrent of light shed its blessings upon this old 
and corrupt hemisphere. 

• We beg you, citizen consul, to convey these sentiments of the Workingmcn's 
Benevolent Society of Naples to the American people, and accept our sincere 
expressions of reverence and esteem. 

The society committee: , 

LUIGI FAZIO. 
PA8QUALE CARTLLO. 

C Liberty, labor, ) "^^^^^^^ ^^ll^^^^nn TO 

) aud V STEFANO CAPOllKGGIO. 

( Progress. ) ANTONIO DE'FELICE. 

PA8QUALE CI. MINE 

TOPtlNELLl NICOLA. 



[Tran.slation.] 

Americans of the Union : Despotism, priestly and political, diplomatic 
hypocrisy, and a tradition of blood have fettered the Italian emancipanou 
with so many snares that we, overwhelmed with grief and disgusted with 
this depraved Old World, turn with confiding looks to the ^ew one, and our 
souls rejoice at the grand spectacle you show us. Oh, Americans ! you who 
have conquered your own independence by your virt.u' only in the sacred- 
ness of the laws constitutesonly one a free family without kings or myrmidons, 
without priests or deceitful idols. , ... , 

We followed with our ardent wishes the titanic struggle which J^'" '■■'^•«;"'- 
tained against the ungodly insurrection of slaveholders Oh ! cou d sla e y 
exist any longer among men as free as you are ; can one be ix-e by t';^' ^ ' . 
amidst slaves ? This stain you have blotted out with your blood, and ^^ ith the 



456 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEEESPONDENCE. 

sacrifices you have made of your men aud money for the complete liberty of 
your country. 

On the fall of Richmond the soul of the European democracy was exuberant 
with joy. We Italians of the south were preparing to send you a salute of 
congratulations, when the news of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, your 
President, filled us with grief. 

Abraham Lincoln, the generous man who neither tarnished nor stained his 
triumph ; the virtuous Cincinnatus of America, the redeemer of those men 
whose primitive fault was no other than the color of their skin, has been assassi- 
nated. However great is our grief, how much greater must be yours ! Oh, 
American brothers ! you who have twice confided to Abraham Lincoln the jeal- 
ous deposit of power ; for you have found in his honesty, his intelligence, and 
his patrotism the immovable rock of liberty, and certainly your cause of war 
was a holy one, if such a noble creature has been sacrificed, the propitiatory 
oftering of an inexorable demon. 

Americans of the Union, every one in Europe does not hold for its divinity 
the cotton or the sword ; permit that our crowns of laurel and of myrtle go to 
garnish the tomb of Lincoln. Let our flowers be mixed with yours, with yours 
our tears, and with yours our oaths ; to gratify the spirit of Lincoln for the com- 
plete destruction of slavery, we will encourage and imitate you in the battle for 
the redemption of humanity. 



For the studious youths of Naples 



SAYERIA FRISSIO, Deputato. 
ENRICO MARIANO, Caprwe. 
GENEYOSO BOZZIUS. 
CINCOTTA ANGELO. 
CARLO DACONO. 
LORETO PAISCHE. 

And some thirty others. 



[Translation. J 



The juvenile Society of Progress to tlie jfeople of America on the occasion oj 
the assat^sination of Abrahavi Lincoln. 

Naples, Ajn-H 30, 1865. 
Accept a word of condolence, aud also of encouragement, which the Society 
of Progress of Naples send you. We, also, like you, have felt misfortunes. 
We also know what it is to suffer, so we can feel for others ; but the road of 
civilization and progress is made in that way, and it is necessary to traverse it, 
though the footsteps of the nation are bathed in blood. Misfortunes are seeds 
which carry fruits that are never lost. For your great deeds we paid you a 
tribute of praise; now for your misfortunes we offer you a word of sympathy, 
of encouragement, and of condolence. 

CARLO REBEECHI, President. 

PASQUALE GALLUCHIO. 

FIDELE ALBANEJE. 

BALDASSARRE CIBO. 

SALVATORE MENEOHILLO. 

VINCENZO PADAVANI. 

BARRABA ANTONIO. 

LUGI MENICHINO. 

GIOVANNI LAVASTANO. 

VINCENZO LABANCA. 

MORANO ROMAJO. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 4t»7 

[Translation.] 
Italian Electoral Associatioti— General Garibaldi, honorary/ president. 

Naples, Mai/ 2, 1SG5. 

With an arc^nt lieart we join in the universal grief occasioned by the death 
of Abraham Luicoln. This event has moved the world more than it has ever 
done before, or will ever do at the death of a pope or reigning emperor, hj the 
will of God, because the man whose loss we deplore was not raised in virtue of 
chimerical rights, but by the free vote of the people. 

And we, iu expressing to you these sentiments in the name of the Italian 
Electoral Association, for whom the national sovereignty is a sacred cause, and 
whose first duty is to preserve tbe popular rights, we think we interpret correctly 
the sentiment of the country which fosters Garibaldi for the one that fostered 
Washington. 

S. RICCIARDE, President. 



I Translation.] 
The municipal council of Kajylcs. 

Naples, May 5, 1S65. 

Illustrious Sir: The common council, which has met this morning in an 
extraordinary sitting, has unanimously voted the following address, which you, 
illustrious sir, will have the kindness to transmit to your government : 

"The municipality of Naples, full of horror for the execrable crime which 
has deprived the great American nation of its magnanimous President, Abraham 
Lincoln, express to his successor, who represents that generous peoj)le, the 
profound grief which struck us on the news of that great calamity, and wish 
that the noble cause to which Lincoln's life was consecrated, and for which 
it was lost, will soon obtain the full triumph, which will be the greatest con- 
quest of modern civilization. " 

Accept, illustrious sir, the testimonies of my esteem. 

F. DE SUROVA, Mayor. 

The Consul of the United States at Xaplcs. 



LTianslation.] 

The juvenile Scientifc, Literary, ami Political Association of Naples. 

Naples, April 28, 1SG5. 

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln has deeply moved all the hearts of 
those who recognize in him the indefatigable suppoi t of the greatest humanitary • 
principles, the assassin striking him at the moment when a series of glorious 
victories seemed to have put a stop to the sanguinary war which for five years 
agitated the finest and most intelligent part of America. .,.•,., 

This association, honorable sir, has manifested itself that you might be the 
interpreter to the American assembly of its sentiments of gn.f for the unex- 
pected death of a man whom General Garibaldi called the "bb.p of L.b.M-ty. 
The name of Lincoln must be placed at the head of those brave men who have 
devoted themselves to the triumph of a great idea, defying courageously all 
danger, proud in the sacredness of tlunr task. , i .i i „.. 

The idea of Lincoln will not die with liiin ; that was not struck by the dagger 
or by poison. That it will triumph in America is the wish of this association, tor 



458 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

henceforth will be the struggle of civilization against barbarism. All know on 
which side will be the victory. America cannot regret having given birth to a 
man capable of committing such a crime. Assassins, like traitors, have no 
country. 

Accept, illustrious sir, the salutations of our consideration. ^ 

FELIPE DELLI TRA^I^f President. 
PtAFAELE DE ASARY, Secretary. 
The Consul General of tlie United States, Naples. 



[Translation.] 
NAPLES. 



This morning took place in the court of the University the reunion of students, 
of which we gave notice yesterday, assembled to vote an address for the death 
of Lincoln. There were about two hundred of them present, having accepted 
the address already printed, which was read to them by the deputy Friscia. If 
we do not mistake, they named a committee of ten young men who met at the 
office of the president, from whence they proceeded together to the residence of 
the United States consul. 

Having obtained the banner of the University, and covered it Avilh black 
crape, they proceeded in good order and without noise to the Riviera di Chiaja. 
They were joined on the way by a large number of the " Societa Cliovanile," 
who, also with their banner, took place in the cortege. Arriving at the resi- 
dence of the consul, the committee went up and presented to him the address, 
accompanied Avith many words full of sympathy for the American nation, and of 
condolence for the sad end of the honorable man who so worthily represented it. 

The consul, moved by such a demonstration, thanked them in reply for such 
a proof of sympathy given to his country and to the great man which humanity 
had lost, and promised to transfer the address to his government, with a faithful 
narrative of what had taken place. 

After having taken leave of the consul, the delegations, with the same order 
and quietness, went to take back their banners from where they had taken them. 



[Translation. ] 



Ancient and accepted Scotch rite, M.-. | ^j C.". V.-. of Parma, E.-. V.-. United 

Italy, Orient of Parma, No. 126. 
A.-. G.-. D.-. G.-. A.-. D.-. U.-. 

and * 

D.-. N.-. P.-. S.-. G.-. D.-. S.-. 

To you, S.-. F.-. U.-., Suhject : 

On the announcement of the death of Abraham Lincoln, the j ■ | Italian Una, 
in the Orient of Paima, at the regular session of the 28th of April, 1865, E.*. 
v."., inscribed the following Tav.*. 

" Lincoln was taken from ten-estrial existence ; his noble head was elevated to 
pay the tribute to eternity of a great and finished work, when it was crushed by 
the assassin's bullet ; his strong form was full of the joy of the great triumph of 
humanity. Now no more ! But Lincoln's personality had reached that point 
where the individual man disappears and the incarnation of a prince beams forth. 
Such was Lincoln, and as such it was not in the power of any violence to de- 
stroy him. He lives in a strong, brave, and determined people ; he lives in the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 459 

midst of Ptrnggling. lumiaiiity, whoPo faith has boon iiicroasod, wliosc heart haa 
been purified, and whose intellect has been enlnrged by the example of his virtue." 

Had, m eternity, spirit of Lincoln ! Thou hast gone to the ( mbrace of 
Washington ! Look down from the supernal spheres with the smile of pardon 
and faith in the human beings that are contending for the triumph of the eternal 
laws of moral progress. 

O, great spirits, welcome the greeting and love of those who remain to struggle, 
and may your thoughts of great things and of the constant virtue of sacrifice 
inspire us all, men and nations, to continue in the right. 

The Ven'bl .-. A. OLl VA. 
A.-. 0.*. of Parma, Italian Una. 

A. DORNI, Secrclarij. 



[Translation J 



EuvAL Umvrrsitv of Pa VI a. 

Par/a, May 12, 1SG5. 
Honored Sir : A number of the students of this Royal University assembled 
yesterday to vote an address for the ceremonies about to take place in Florence 
in honor of the great Italian poet, (Dante;) and remembering the sad event in 
the LTnited States that put an end to the life of Abraham Lincoln, they hereby 
express their profound sympathy for your people, who place justice and liberty 
above all things, and beg me to be the interpreter of these unanimous sentiments. 
With esteem and devotion, 

GEL ANTON I, Rcdur. 
The United States Minister in Italy. 



[Translation.] 



To tlie President of the Congress of Bvprescntatives of the United States of 

America. 

Honoijarle Sir: A member of the juvenile politico literary associations of 
this illustrious Italian city, I have the honor to signify to you, in the name 
thereof, the sorrow occasioned to our hearts by the unhappy news of the assassi- 
nation committed on the person of President Abraham Lincoln, in whom nature 
and fortune interchangeably blenrled to render him the man of Providence for 
bettering the condition of the United States of America. Our grief is not, there- 
fore, the less great and profound than that which affects the hearts of all our free 
citizens, of alf honest and true lovers of the progress of every people and nation 
in the universe. Nor was tiie sorrow different that was caused to us by the 
attempt on the life of Secretary Seward. 

We have, however, most confident hope that, in compensation of the bittor 
grief flowing from such great calamities, the United States of America wi 
gather in the future new acquisitions of greatness, liberty, and power, which will 
suffice to sustain and render lasting their civil and political existence. 

In fulfilling this very sad duty, I pray you. sir, to accept the expression of 
the sentiments of my highest regard and consideration. 

Por the Politico Literary Society of Perugia. 

Perlgia, Blaii 7, 18G5. ^^..^ . m/-v ^r • vx-TXTr 

■^ PIETRO DE DONATO GIANMNI. 



460 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation. ] 

The University of Perugia to tlic representative of the United States near the 

Italian government. 

We, the committee of the students of the University of Perugia, respectfully 
request you to convey to your government the feelings excited in our breasts 
by the intelligence of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, and the attack on Mr. 
Seward. 

These two great men, who, with General Grant, completed the great work of 
emancipation begun by Young America, deserve our greatest admiration and our 
most sincere thanks. 

As our opinions are not influenced by fear or political expediency, and as 
sincerity is common to young minds, we hope it will not be thought improper 
that we should join our voices to those of all Europe in detestation of the horrid 
crime that robbed the republic of the United States of its illugtrious chief, whose 
death we mourn with all lovers of liberty. 

We hope that the spirit of enterprise will revive with renewed vigor after 
the term of sorrow, and that the martyr's blood may prove a pledge for future 
victories. 

We have our martyrs too ! Let not America forget that she has our sym- 
pathy, and let her people remember that we weep with them in their misfortunes. 

In the consummation of this mournful duty, we beg you to accept the expres- 
sion of our greatest respect and most distinguished consideration. 

PlETkO DE D(3N ATO GIANNINI, 
EMPEDOOLE NAOITO, 
LEOPOLDO TIBER J, 

Committee. 

Attested by the rector of the University, this 11th day of May, 1865. 

Tj^^j^. FRANCESCO ANTINORI, 

'^' '-• Secretary. 



[Translation.] 

The Montanelli Association for Mutual Education and Assistance, G. Garibaldi, 
honorary president, to Mr. Andrew J. Stevens, United States consul in 
Leghorn. 

Pisa, May 12, 1865. 
Sir : Have the kindness to send the enclosed letter to your President. It 
was unanimously approved by the Montanelli Society of Pisa, on ihe 10th 
instant, at 9 p. m. 

ALFONSO GIARRIZZO BUETTO. 



[Translation. J 
To the President of ihe United States of America : 

ExcKLLENT SiR : The thunderbolt's revenge prepares the poetic rainbow that 
glimmers in a cloudless sky ; so a baptism of blood prepares a regeneration 
■which is a fatal symptom in the poetry of the age, but will beam forth on the 
morrow in glorious magnificence and sovereign splendor. 

Abraham Lincoln fell a victim to a sacrilegious assassin, but his name is fixed 
among the stars as the saviour of a nation. We lament his death, but a century 
of hope and not of mourning is inscribed upon the tablet of his tomb by the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 4G1 

une^Ting hand of fate. Lincoln left a testament of indignation and not of tears • 
uL :/:;:; ''te':;:^ encouragement to refbrn.. " My grave den.onst^atesU e 
justice of wai, be says; "ay flowers upon it without a thought of reven-o and 
warm your hearts to a resolution of reform. Then will a plelsant day cawa for 
all— a day of fraternity and peace." ^ ^ 

Your martyr while living was the apostle soldier; and now d(-acl, he is the 
guardian angel of your liberties ; he had no other ambition. You ca mot br ! 
him back, but you can imitate his heroic patriotism and sound the fame of one 
who gave the greatest blessing to the whites as well as the blacks. We sin' 
our feeble elegy to the memory of a man who fiilliUed his holy mission. Receive 
It and make it known to the American people, and tell them we join in their 
general sorrow. '' 

The above address was unanimously adopted by the council, and a resolution 
was passed to send it to the President of the United States of America, throu-h 
the consul in Leghorn. It was also resolved to open a subscription to erect" a 
monument in Pisa to the memory of the great man. 

A true extract from the original : 

ALFONSO GLIRRIZZO BUETTO, 

-n /-( r. ^ President. 

i!. (jAGLIArdi Sforza, Secretary. 

Unity, liberty, fraternity ! The Montanelli democratic society in Pisa. 



[Translation.] 



Reggio, April 30, 1865. 

The Patriotic Mutual Aid Society, at a meeting held on the 30»h of April in- 
stant, adopted the following address : 

The Patriotic Mutual Aid Society of Reggio, in Emilia, was preparing an ad- 
dress to Mr. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, when 
the sad news of his assassination was announced. 

The much afflicted society now addresses the Vice-President, Mr. Andrew 
Johnson, who by right becomes President, and sends him its best wishes for 
his efforts to consummate the labor for liberty and equality. 

President Johnson, the premeditated assassination of tlie illustrious Abraham 
Lincoln and his unfortunate colleagues calls for revenge, and it is your duty, Mr. 
Johnson, to see it carried out. 

You must rend the sombre veil that hides the iniquitous scheme, and bring the 
demons to light, so that all good men may curse the traitors tu their country and 
humanity. 

The regeneration of the country is intrusted to your care, and you must renew 
it, and restore it to a higher rank than it ever held ; thus demunstrating that, 
though the standard-bearer has fallen, the great battle is not lost ; the true cause 
triumphs, strengthens, and crushes all disloyal enemies. 

You must make the light-house of liberty beam more brilliantly before its holy 
temple, where even your greatest enemies will finally seek a sanctuary and con- 
fess in shame that their tyrannical course was the way of wickedness, full of 
tribulation and sorrow. 

Citizen President, finish the humane work of the complete emancipation of 
the slaves, to which you have already contributed much, and your name will 
gain the greatest glory to which it can aspire— the blessing of the redeemed, 
joined to the benedictions of the entire world, whose eyes are now bent upon you. 

And remember, also, that besides the poor blacks, there are many political 



462 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

slaves not less afflicted and oppressed, crying out for their lost liberty, robbed 
from them by a foreign power ; they expect fraternal aid from you in shaking 
off the yoke imposed upon their necks by brutal force. Help them, and proclaim 
to the world that America belongs to the Americans. 
For the society : 

ANGELO MANINI, President. 

C. GRASSETTI, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 

Republic of San Marino, 

May Z), 1S65. 

Hon. Sir : The news of the horrible assassination committed upon the person 
of Mr. Abraham Lincoln has caused a feeling of profound indignation and sorrow 
in the bosoms of all our people. 

In execrating the atrocious deed with the rest of the civilized world, we mourn 
the loss of the great chief of a sister nation, and remember him as the most il- 
lustrious among his fellow-creatures, the greatest among the friends of humanity. 
Be pleased, sir, to accept this token of our condolence with your people, and 
as a sincere tribute of remembrance of the illustrious deceased. 

SETTIMIO BELLUZZI, 
GIACOMO BERTI, 

Chief Regents. 
Hon. Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States of America. 



fTranslation.] 

Genoa, May 7, 1865. 

Citizen Const'l : We all raised a cry of indignation and horror at the news 
of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, whom we had hailed as a new Washing- 
ton. In him we revered a man, who, guided by the genius of free institutions 
and the love of his fellow-men, found a way to jjromote the doctrines of human 
equality by a great act of emancipation, and in our last meeting we voted an 
address, expressing our sorrow and sympathy for this great misfortune of the 
American people. 

The good cause has suffered truly a great loss in the death of such a leader, 
but there remains no doubt that his and the people's firmness of character, spirit 
of sacrifice, and courage had already triumphed ; and wc are convinced that this 
horrid crime will give greater force to your cause, and a speedier recognition of 
human equality. 

Happy, American people, are you who secured your liberties with your 
own blood, and have had the courage to maintain them at the same great sacri- 
fice. Eirm as a rock in the sea, you may defy those of your enemies who still 
govern in the name of divine right in every corner of the world, and especially 
in our Europe, where they are stronger than elsewhere, and fear that the bless- 
ing of liberty enjoyed in your country may stimulate the people to imitate your 
examples and overturn those rotten edifices which are called thrones. 

To us, who enjoy a shadow of liberty, there remains no other path to the 
blessings which you possess than to take you fur guide, and move after you to- 
wards a true democracy. 

Virtue and constancy. 

For the union of operatives at San Pier d'Arena : 

ROTA CARLO, 

And others, Operatives. 

\ 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 4G3 

[Trauslatiou.] 

Democratic Society of Sie.wa, 

Maij 22, 1805. 

Sir : The undersigned, fraternizing Avitli all those Avho work for the emanci- 
pation of the human race, cannot but highly revere the name of him who has 
headed the armies of freedom. 

Abraham Lincoln shone like a star in the heavens ! The hand of an assassin 
attempted to extinguish it, and for the moment succeeded ; we say for the moment, 
because he has now arisen again, crowned with the glory of a martyr. 

The intelligence of the infamous crime horrified every one who professes to 
believe in liberty and progress. 

We, not the last to curse the ball which crippled the hermit of Caprera, shed 
our tears to-day over your great misfortune, and have resolved that the name of 
the republican emancipator of the slaves in America should be placed in the hall 
of our meetings, as a proof of our friendship, and as an evidence to posterity of 
our eternal condemnation of this infamous assassination. 

Desiring you to be the interpreter to your countrymen of the sentiments which 
animate the members of this society, 1 have the honor to be, sir, your most 
obedient servant, 

F. CELLESr, President. 

The Consul GE^fERAL qfi/ic United Stales, Florence. 



[Translation. ] 

Italian Union Committee of Sienna, 

3Iay IS, 1S6.5. 

Sir: The assassination of the illustrious defender of the sacred rights of 
humanity, which has cost your country such precious blood, has created a sen- 
sation of horror among the nations of tlie world. 

The free fatherland of Washington and of Benjamin Franklin, a hospitable 
soil to all who emigrate from the despotisms of ancient Europe, mourns, in the 
murder of its new liberator, an event the equal of which does not exist. 

In every civilized nation, upon the arrival of the news of his death, there was 
a day of mourning; as for ourselves, we cursed the infamous assassin and thought 
it impossible sufficiently to deplore this atrocious and ini(iuitous crime. 

There are in the world some beings who, when they die, like liimmous planets 
when they set, leave behind them only gloom and obscurity. Lincoln was one 

of these. , . i c ^i 

The committee of the Italian Union in Sienna, sharmg the sorrow of the 

generous sons of America, send you a word of sincere condolence, witli a sad 

salutation. „ ^ ■, 

Noble President ! may you be able to dry the tears of your countrymen and 

of ourselves. ,, .,^,vt i~. -7 . 

F. 13ARNARDL President. 

F. INNOCENTl GKINI, Seeretary. 
The President of the United States. 



[Translation.] 

SisSA, (near Parma,) May 8, 18G5. 
Mr. President: The sad news that came with lightning spoed from the Xew 
Worid .announcing the vile assassination of the illnstnous Abrahaut LnK.>^n by 
the treacherous hand of a hired murderer, has spread over the whole e.uth, and 



464 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

brought sorrow to the hearts of all lovers of liberty. Yes, the champion of true 
liberty, the glory of a free people, is no more : but his name and memory will 
shed a new refulgent light over the benighted world, and may arouse the spirit 
of progress in the darkness of Europe. Yes, the father of humanity is fallen; 
but the joyous smile of the emancipated slave, now a man and brother, will 
resurrect his spirit in a better world. The members of this society mourn the 
death of this worthy successor of Washington, and heartily execrate the perpe- 
trators of the crime that took him from this world. 

To express their sorrow in a proper manner the members of the Mechanics' 
Society of Sissa have unanimously resolved to drape their banner in black for 
six months, as a sign of mourning for the loss of a man so dear to the repub- 
licans of the United States of America. 

Accept our sympathy and friendship as brothers ; for we are hoping the day 
is not far distant when we will be free, and can call you really brothers of cue 
family — a smiling, free, and happy people. 

Receive our fraternal greeting, 

GIACOMO SGORBATI, President. 

His Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States of America. 



[Translation. ] » 

Province of the Levant, 

CitT/ of Spezia, May 2, I860. 
Sir : The common council of this city, during its sitting of yeste^da3^ agree- 
ing to the proposition made by the members, Mr. Lorenzo Chiappeti, Mr. Paul 
Crezza, and Mr. Cesare De Negro, and having draped in mourning their na- 
tional flag, now floating from this building during the sitting of the council, 
have voted to the government of the United States of America, and in partic- 
ular to the present consul, William T. Rice, as also to the United States naval 
storekeeper, Colonel William L.Long, who both so worthily possess tlie esteem 
and the kindest regard of all our citizens, an address expressing their sincere 
sympathy at the mournful event which deprived that nation of the great re- 
storer of her liberty. 

The undersigned, therefoi-e, beg to express to the representative of the 
American nation in this city their feelings of sympathy and of grief, in which 
all members of this council unite, at the loss of this great man. 

In conclusion, the writer begs to forward to you, sir, this present communi- 
cation, trusting that you will accept and forward to your government, so ably 
represented by 3'ourself and by the much esteemed Colonel Long, the assurance 
of the sincere sympathy and feelings of condolence which the undersigned, in 
the name of the municipal corps, now present to you. 

MARQUIS F. CASTAGUOLA, 

Mayor. 
The Honorable W. T. Rice, 

United States Consul, Spezia. 



[Translation. ] 
The Society of the Workmen of Spezia. 

May 4, 1S65. 
Citizen : The Society of the Workmen of Spezia are powerfully affected 
by the news of the infamous assassination committed on the honored person of 
President Lincoln, and on that of his worthy minister, Seward. This informa- 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 465 

tion, wliich, with reason, lias saoldened all humanity, and which has given hirtli 
to a feeling of hoiTor towards the assassin and his accomplices, could not other- 
wise but find a painful echo in the hearts of the working classes in this city. 
Representative citizen, Lincoln also was a workman — workman for all hu- 
niaaity ; his aim, the abolition of slavery, the fraternizing of races — liberty ! 

The memory of the great ^citizen cannot die ; and the memory of tliis second 
Washington will remain sadly everlasting, not only in the New, but also in the 
Old World. 

The v.-orkmen, members of this society, who have draped their flag in mourn- 
ing in consideration of this great affliction, address yon, sir, expressing to you 
and to your fellow-countrymen the feelings of their grief. At the same time 
that they express these sentiments, coming from their very hearts, they make 
the warmest wishes for the triumph of the great principle of emanci])atiou from 
slavery, the Union of America, and the prosperity of her glorious people. 

From the hall of the working classes at Spezia. 
For the society : 

LUIGE URlilNI, Prcsidoit. 
G. SISMONDI, Secrctanj. 

The Honorable Kepresextativk Citizen 

(if the pcojjle of the United States of America, city of Spezia. 



[Translation. ] 

Municipal council of Salza Jipina. 

The entire municipality of Salza Irpina, full of horror for the assassination 
consummated upon the person of the illustrious President, Abraham Lincohi, 
deliberated unanimously to express tlieir sentiments of grief for that horrible 
event ; also, of the sentiment of sympathy which this population feel for the 
people of America, and for the sacred cause courageously fought for by the 
martyrs Avho are noAV pitied by all Europe ; and the municipality begs the mayor 
to send a copy of this act to the American consul at Naples. 

CAYALIERE MICHELE QXV07.ZI, Mayor. 

FELICIAXO PASQUALE, Assessor. 

CARMINE DE PAISOLE, Secretary. 

[Translation.] 

Letter of condolence from the common council of Somma Vesuviana, near Xa- 
pies, on the death of Freshnnt Lincoln. 

Somma Ykscviana, May 29, 1865. 
Sir : The common council of Somma Vesuviana, at the ordinary session of 
the 2.5th instant, on motion of Counsellor Giova Errico, unaunnously adopted the 
following resolution, which you will please bring to the knowledge ot your g..v- 

ernment : ^ ■, , , i . ^ 1 1 • i i 

The municipality of Somma Vesuviana, horrified by the detestable misdeed 
that dei,rived the great American nation of its magnanmious 1 resident, Abra- 
ham Lincoln, desires to express to his successor, as a worthy representative ot 
that generous people, the profound sorrow it felt at the announcement ot the 
great misfortune, .and hopes that the noble cause to winch that life was conse- 
crated, and to which it was sacrificed, may soon regain its former glory ^Mth 
the greatest triumph of civilization. 

Accept ,be protest, of my most P-^'J-'f^-'-^HELE PEIXEGEIXO. 

The United States Consul in NajAcs. 
30 A 



466 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 
Mutual Help Association of Sassari, island oj" Sardinia. 

The assassination of Abraham Lincohi has awakened a feeling of horror and 
indignation in every honest mind. The head of a generous and illustrious na- 
tion, which with noble perseverance he was laboring to restore to concord and 
power, his death marks a memorable epoch in the history of the United States, 
that in which the unfortunate African race was emancipated from the cruel 
hands of slave power. The death of a great man is certainly an immense mis- 
fortune ; but Lincoln has left behind him in America a great people, who share 
his generous ideas and maintain the holy cause of humanity ; and though de- 
plorable blindness, low interests, or fouaticism, have feloniously removed the 
glorious head of the American republic, there retuain men educated in his polit- 
ical ideas, a whole people trained under wise institutions, and the flag of the 
Union will be respected and feared from the Mexican Gulf to Canada, from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific. 

The Mutual Help Association of Sassari believes that it would fail in its du- 
ties to the solidarity of peoples if, in the sorrows of a brother people in America, 
it failed to protest against the abominable ci'ime which has quenched a life spent 
in the service of the most sacred human interests, and to express its deep mourn- 
ing for this calamitous event. 

Sons of a nation which but recently vindicated its liberties and independence 
against foreign and domestic opjiressors, and which suddenly lost a great man 
who, more than any other, contributed to our national enfranchisement, tlie Ital- 
ians, above every other people, can appreciate and share the grief of the Amer- 
icans. 

Be pleased, Signor consul, to report these sentiments to your government, and 
be assured of the respect with which, in the name of the ]\[utnal Help Associa- 
tion of Sassari, I have the honor to sign myself your most obedient servant, 

S. SOLINAS, President. 

The United States Consul, Genoa. 



[Translation.] 
The coinmon council of Torre del Greco to the United States Consul in Naj?les. 

Torre del Greco, May 6, 1865. 

All those who have human hearts, and desire the improvement of the human 
race, have been moved by the news of the assassination of that illustrious patriot, 
Abraham Lincoln. The announcement of the unfortunate incident sj)read 
feelings of horror throughout Europe, and excited our deepest indignation. 

The common council, as interpreter of the feelings of the inhabitants of this- 
town, in its session of the 80th of April last, resolved to send the enclosed 
address of condolence to the American Congress. 1 have the honor to send it 
to you, Mr. Consul, rerjuesting you to forward it to its place of destination. 

ANTONIO A. BRANCACCIO, JUayor. 



[Translation.] 

Extract from the minutes cf the covunon council of Torre del Greco, in the 

jnovince of Naples. 

April 30, A. D. 1865. 
The common council met in its hall, the seventh ordinary meeting, in presence 
of the mayor, Antonio Agostino Brancaccio, the following councilmeu being 
present : Rafaele d'Amato, Stapino Brancaccio, Silvestro Costabile, Giuliauo 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 467 

Dedilectis, Luigi Dolce, Antouio d'lstria, Roberto Lullo, Agnollo Lvillo, IJiondo 
Palomba, Antonio di Bartolomeo Palomba, Francesco llajola, Vincenzo Scog- 
namiglio, Francesco Maria Sorreutiuo, Stefano Sorrentino, Cavalier Andrea 
Vitelli, Micbele Villano, making a qnornni of seventeen out of the thirty mem- 
bers of the council, excluding the mayor and secretary. 

On motion of Biondo Palomba, in regular order, the council unanimously 
adopted the following address of condolence for the cruel drath of Abraham 
Lincoln, President of the republic of the United States of Americ;i, and ordered 
it to be sent to the American Congress, through the United States consul iu 
Naples : 

" He who, like Lincoln, constitutes himself the redeemer of liumanily, has a 
right to the love and gratitude of all succeeding generations. Such a person ia 
immortal, and the whole world mourns his death. If the grief is great when 
such a man dies a natural death, how much greater it must be when he is 
hastened to an untimely tomb by the hand of an assassin ! Such a crime is 
scarcely comprehensible to a reasonable mind, and the being who commits it can 
sfearcely be reckoned as a hiiman being. 

" The policy advocated by Mr. Lincoln is victorious, and will endure forever 
His successor, inspired by the glorious example, can easily remove any obstacles 
that might arise to impede his progress. 

" The common council of Torre del Greco, in condoling with the American 
people for the assassination of Lincoln, is sure his phvn will be carried out by 
Mr, Johnson." 

The above is a correct copy of the minutes adopted by the council, after 
hearing it read ; and signed by the mayor, as president, by Ciivalier Andrea 
Vitelli, the oldest member present, and by me, the secretary. 

ANTONIO AGOSTINO BRANCACCIO, 

JP)esident. 
ANDREA VITELLI. 
FRANCESCO PERLA, Secretary. 

< VICTOR EMANUEL, ? S COMMON" COUNCIL ) 

\ King of Italy. 5 ^ of Torre del Grc-co. i 

[Translaliou.] 

To the Congress of the United States of America : 

While the recent victories of tlie federal army were aimouncing to the world 
the prompt termination of that gigantic struggle by which the principles of true 
liberty would be established in America, the terrible news of the assassination 
of Abraham Lincoln cast a shade of consternation and mourning over the spirits 
of all lovers of liberty and civil progress. Like all those who had such princi- 
ples at heart, the Juvenile Association of Torre del Greco was struck witii pro- 
found indignation and grief. c ^ ^^ 
In unittng with the many voices that are heard in every part _ of the world 
proclaiming their horror for a crime that should not be recorded in history for 
respect to humaniry, and their sympathy for the great and free nation ot which 
Mr! Lincoln was the worthy cliief, our society is assured that in him society 
has lost the bravest champion of its rights, and will welcome bis idea, to which, 
like so many other great men, he was ^l'^;;[*-;j'^:';;^'^VAi";>!\^t""^ 

BENIAMINO SAVARESE, 
ILARIO SONEN, 
DOMENICO ASCIONE, 
ANGELO MIXICACCI, 
RAFAELE ^TTELLI, 

The i>oriety Committee. 
LUIGI SINE, Secretary. 



468 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

The Italian Society of United Mechanics of Turin, to citizen George Perkins 
Marsh, Envoy, S^c, &;c., S>fc. 

The Italian Society of United Mechanics of Tui-in, wliicli is prond to have 
Giuseppe Garibaldi as honorary president, the man who contended in Italy for 
the triumph of that same principle for which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, 
cannot remain silent on this great occasion. 

Impressed with profound sorrow for the misfortunes of the United States of 
America, the officers of our society beg you to act as our interpreter to your 
countrymen, to express to them our high regard, particularly for one mechanic 
like us, who was born in Kentucky, and whose genius elevated him to the 
highest rank in the nation that trusted its destiny to his care ; who served his 
country so well that the enemies of all good were forced to arm the hand of a 
hired assassin to take his precious life. 

May free America find a successor worthy of Abraham Lincoln, and may the 
Monroe doctrine prevail for the good of the country. 

Given in Turin, in the Society hall, the 30th of April, 1865. 

ANDREA BONA, President. 
[L.S.] GIOVANNI GIROMPINI, Vice-President. 

GIAGOMO SALZA, Counsel. 
ENRICO SAPPIANI, Secretary. 
CARLO BENEDETTO, 
DOMENICI MARLI, 
PIETRO GIORGIO, 
GIUSEPPE MUSATTO, 

Memhers. 



[Translation. ] 

A.-. G.-. D.-. G.-. A.-. D.-. U.-. 

GRAND ORIENT OF MASONRY IN ITALY. 

The G:. M:. regent of Masonry in Italy, to the most honorahle citizen G. 
Marsh, representative of the government of the United, States in Italy. 

Turin, April 28, 1865. 
The great man who has just disappeared in consequence of a horrid crime, 
Abraham Lincoln, was the powerful cause by which the abolition of slavery 
has become a reality ; Abraham Lincoln is, in this respect, not only a great citi- 
zen of your country, but one of tlie principal benefactors of humanity. 

Masons in every part of the world owe him a tribute of gratitude, of respect, 
and of veneration. 

Permit me, sir, to beg you in the name of the one hundred and eleven ma- 
sonic lodges of our commiTuion to have the kindness to transmit to the govern- 
ment and people of the United States the expression of our sorrow, and our 
most sincere wishes for the entire completion of the work so well begun by the 
illustrious deceased, through the effect of the power of your republican insti- 
tutions. 

Our masonic lodges have put on mourning for nine days. 

Accept, Mr. Minister, the expression of my profound respect. 

FRANCOIS DE LUCA, 33. 
[l. S.] The Grand Chancellor, 

M. MACCHI, 33. 



SEJ^TBIENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 469 

[Translation. ] 

Turin, May 4, 1865. 
Dear Sir : The nudersigned, representatives of tlie Italian emigrants, Ve- 
netians, Ireutmes and Istrians, exiles from their homes, are mournint^ for their 
mother country and praying for a Lincoln to sever the chains of forei-n slavery 
while they place this expression of indignation at the assassination of the Pres- 
ident of tae United States, a martyr of duty, in your hands, offering their 
most sincere condolence and fervent vows for the free prosperity of the glorious 
nation where the acts of its supreme magistrate demonstrate that govcTumeut 
13 made for the people, and not the people for the government. 

Accept this testimony of our profound respect and admiration, 

ITLIPPO DE BONI, 
President of the Council of Representatives, 

and tkirtcen others. 
Hon. Gko. p. Marsh, 

TJnited States Minister to Itahj, Turin. 



[Translation.] 

Ti'Ri.v, May IG, 1SG5. 

Hon. Sir : The terrible catastrophe that has plunged your country into the 
deepest mourning has been echoed throughout the world, attaining the propor- 
tions of an universal calamity. T'he loyal and generous hearts of all true men 
have paid the tribute of regret at the to ub of the great man who deserved their 
esteem and admiration. The Polish emigrants in Turiu, joining in the general 
grief, beg you to accept this expression of their sorrow and condolence, and offer 
their humble wreath to decorate the monument of the American martyr. 

Abraham Lincoln had no equal ; born in the ranks of the people, his merit 
elevated him to the highest position. He had not the help of fortune to secure 
his second election to the chief magistracy of a great nation. The corruption 
and intrigue of opponents did no harm to his cause ; the independence and firm- 
ness of his character was his defence. He was indispensable to his country in 
the crisis it was suffering ; his patriotism was increased by obstacles ; new diffi- 
culties only served to develop new qualities in him, brought out by his devo- 
tion to the people's welfare. He marched forward, unterrified by the clamors 
of egotism and envy, uninfluenced by mean considerations. His appeal to arms 
to sustain the rights of humanity was greatly applauded on this side of the 
Atlantic. Stimulated by his example the Poles, eternal pioneers of independ- 
ence, recommenced their struggle against oppression and tyrauny ; they were in- 
censed that the Old World should enslave whites, when America had just freed 
her blacks ; but alone, weak and unsupplied, they had to yield, uncon.|uered. 
The hour of justice had not come for them. They sought peac(> in exile, hoping 
that the sacred principles of Abraham Lincoln— the emancipation of oj[)pressed 
humanity — ^would soon prevail throughout the wnrld. ^^^, , 

VALDLMIK COUNT SZOLDOSIvI, 

And sixty-two other Polish signatures. 

The U- S. Minister, in Turin. 



[Translation.] 
Merchants' Association of Vercelli. 

VERfELLl, Jifay 14, 1SG5. 
Hon. Sir : The sad and horrible assassination of Abraham Lincoln while it 
astounded all free and civilized nations, profoundly afllicted the great mass ot 



470 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

mercliants aucl artisans who saw in the great President of the North American 
republic the noble principles of true democracy, the great redeemer of the slave, 
the magnanimous benefactor of humanity, who, from a man of the people, ele- 
vated himself by his genius and his virtue to the highest office in the gift of the 
nation. 

The committee of the Merchants' Association of Yercelli, acting as interpre- 
ter for the society, expresses its horror at the abominable deed that has thrown 
the civilized world into mourning and consternation, and cherishes the most sin- 
cere hopes for the glorious and cheerful future of America, which, now that sla- 
very is abolished, may be reunited in peace and harmony. 

Long may America flourish ! Glory to the memory of the immortal Lincoln, 
whose name will be recorded in the eternal pages of history, as the greatest ever 
h-onored by humanity. 

The same horror is felt at the iniquitous attack upon the illustrious minister, 
Seward, who was providentially preserved from the vile assassin's dagger for 
the good of the American people. 

In discharging this sad duty, the committee begs you to accept the expres- 
sion of its highest consideration and esteem. 

GLIELLE GIUSEPPE, President. 
GIUSEPPE GUGLIELMONI, 

Secretary. 

Hon. Geo. Perkins Marsh, 

U. S. Minister to Italy, at Turin. 



SENTLMENTS OF COXDOLEXCE AXD SVMPATnY. 471 

JAP AX. 



Mr. Fortman to Mr. Seward. 

'^^ ^° J Legatio.v of the Umteu States l\ Japax, 

Yedo, Juhj 5, 1S65. 

Sir : Late in tlie evening, of the 3d in.fant, the dny of the arrival of the mail 
at Kanagawa I received a .ne.sage from the Gorogio to the effect that severa 
officers of rank M'lshed to visit me on this day. I was accordinglv M-aited on by 
the governors for foreign affairs with a numerous suite, who, inMie name of his 
Majesty the lycoon, and his government, came to request me to convey to the 
1 resident and yourself the sentiments of profound pain with which they had 
\eai-ned the assassination of Mr. Lincoln and the attack on yourself, and al«o 
tneir smcerest wishes for your speedy recovery. I assured these officers that I 
should not tail to comply with this request at the earliest opportunity. 

I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your most obedient servant 

A. L. C. PORTMAN, 

TT TT- ^ Charge d" Affaires ad interim. 

Hou. \\ illiam H. Seward, 

Secretary of State, Washijigton. 



Mr. WincJiester to 2[r. Portman. 

YoKOifAMA, June 9, 1S65. 
Sir : It is with unusual emotion that I propose to discharge the duty of ex- 
pressing the sentiments of profound pain and regret which the confirmation of 
the intelligence of ]\[r. Lincoln's atrocious assassination has caused me in com- 
mon with all her Majesty's subjects in this country. 

That such a deed should have been perpetrated by one of our common i*ace 
is in itself «ufScient reason for profound indignation which this great crime has 
excited in the hearts of Englishmen. And 1 can only express my sincere hope 
that Providence, in permitting the removal of so good a man, under circum- 
stances so awful, from the task of composing the difficulties necessarily following 
civil warfare, will raise up other instruments for carrying it out in the humane 
spirit of the deceased President. 

I have the honor to be, sir, vour most obedient, humble servant, 
CHARLES A. WINCHESTER, 

H. B. M. Charge d' Affaires in Japan. 
A. L. C. PORTMA.X, Esq., 

Charge d' Affaires ad interim of the United Slates in Japan. 



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LIBERIA; 



Whereas Ihe lionorable Abraliam Linci)]i], late President of the Uiiited 
States of America, a rxiler ordained of Heaven, has, hy the ru'hless band of 
the assassin, been removed from bis sphere of usefulness in this life ; and 

Whereas in the death of that great chief the American nation has sustained 
a severe loss, in which the interests of nations, as well as those of mankind 
generally, have participated ; and 

Whereas the government and people of the republic of Liberia, which is Ic- 
g'timately an offspring of the great American republic, f istered during tlie 
period of its colouial growth by a society of American citizens, and recently 
greatly favored and sustained by the United States government, recognized 
in the late President of the United States one who utterly abhorred slavery — 
a friend of the negro race and a promoter of the interests of Liberia ; and 

Whereas, by the sudden and lamentable death of this great ruler, not only 
has a nation been deprived of its head, but a home and a hearth are desolate, 
and kindred hearts are broken, and tears of grief are shedding b}' those whi^ 
by reason of a foul murder, have been deprived of a companion, a father, a 
friend : Therefore, 

Resolved by the Presidcfit of llie repvhJic of Liberia and Jiis cabinet in 
council, That it is with sincere regret and pain, as well as with feelings of 
horror and indignation, the government of Liberia has heard of the foul assassi- 
nation of the honorable Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States 
of America 

Resolved, That the government arid people of Liberia deeply sympathize 
with the government and people of the United States in the sad loss they have 
sustained b}- the death of so wise, so just, so efficient, so vigorous, and yet so 
mercifiTl a ruler. 

Resolved, That while with due sorrow the government and people of Li- 
beria weep with those that uioirrn the loss of so great and good a cliief, they 
are, nevertheless, n)indful of the loss they themselves have experienced in the 
death of the great philanthropist whose virtues can never cease to be told so 
1 mg as the republic of Liberia shall endure; s ) long as there survives a mem- 
ber of the negro race to tell of the chains that have been broken ; of the griefs 
that have been allayed ; of the broken bearts that have been bound up by him 
who, as it were a new creation, breathed life into four millions of that race 
whom he found oppressed and degraded. 

Resolved, That our prayers are also on behalf of him who has been called so 
suddenlj"^ to assume the reins of government, the honorable Andrew Johnson, 
President of the United States of America ; that we trust that the God who 
controls the destinies of nations will endue him with all wisdom necessary to 
rule so great a people, and continue to guide the nation in its rapid progress to 
the consummation of its greatness and glory. 

Resolved, That we express, moreover, our sympathy for the efficient states- 
man, the profound diplomatist, the honorable William H. Seward, Secretary of 
State of the United States, who, with the Assistant Secretary of State, had nigh 
fallen a prey to that horrible conspiracy which has rubbed the American nation 
of its brightest jewel. 

Resolved, That while we are reluctant to invade the sacred precincts of do- 
mestic sorrow, we cannot refrain from expressing here our sympathy for Mrs. 
Lincoln, the estimable widow of the late President, exhortius- her to receive to 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 473 

herconsolationtliewoidsof Holy Writ, "Whom llie Lord loveth Tie chastenetl) " 
and to be sustained by the promises of Almighty God, who will bo a husband 
and a ftither to the widow and orphans of him who, in hia hfetime, was not only 
the ruler of his own people, but a father to millii.ns of a race stricken and op- 
pressed. That, while wicked men have desolated her home by th(> pei pel ration 
of a crime too horrible to be uttered, the renowned chief, the beloved compan- 
ion, the tender fatiier, has died to redeem a nation, a race; and, dyin^-- in the 
performance of so noble a work, he has left behind a monument more^ lasting 
than brass, and generations yet unborn shall call him the mighty ruler, the 
great cmancijintor, tlie noble philanthropist. 

Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be presented to tlie United States 
consul general in :\[onrovia, Aviih a request that he forward a copy to the proper 
authority at Washington, and also one to Mrs. Lincoln. 

By order of the President : 

n. B. w. jonxsox, 

Secretarij of Stale. 



ExEcuTiVK MA.\sro\, 

Monrovia, July 4, 1S65. 

Sir : I congratulate you upon your succession to the presidency of the 
United States of America, recently made vacant by the death of your illustrious 
predecessor, President Abraham Lincoln. 

The distinguished position places you at the head of a great peoj)le, a nation 
whose exhibitions of valor, might, and power in war, during the four years just 
past, have struck the world with wonder and astonishment. They have astonished 
even the nation itself making them. 

Identified as are the people of the republic of Liberia, over whose national 
afiairs I am, in the providence of God, at present ju-esiding, with millions of 
their race in America, and being so sensibly and gratefully impressed with a 
knowledge of the numerous favors directly and indirectly received from the 
ignited tr-tates government, first in their struggle to gain these shores from op- 
pression, and then in their efforts to establish here a home and build up a negro 
nationality this side of the waters for themselves and their chddren after them, 
it were impossible for them to be indifferent to the grave events now taking 
place in that country. 

They have been looking, and continue to look, with intense anxiety and con- 
cern upon those events. They have been duly impressed with just views of the 
great contest now going on in America between truth and error, between liberty 
and oppression, and have longed to see the contest cease, and a bright day of 
peace dawn upon that land, scattering far and wide the dark cloud which has for 
many years been hanging so portentously over it. They have ardi'utly wished 
that both the originating cause of the unhappy civil discord now distracting a 
great people, and every circumstance contributing fuel to keep it at such li(-at 
and proportions as the world has witnessed and heartily lamented, could be tor- 
ever done awav. , , 

The«e were^sorae of their sincere desires and cherished liopcs ; and they wore 
consoling themselves in the belief that they should soon realize thonv 

But when they received the distressing intelligence of the death of Iresuleut 
Lincoln, that able Chief Magistrate, who had for four long, consecutive yoar.s 
and under the severest mental anguish, been defending the cause of liberty, and • 
endeavoring to open "the prison to them that are bound, that the prisoners 
might go f'ee, their hear.s were saddened, and they could not suppivss the deep 
son-ow they felt at so mournful and sad an event, and now more than before 
they sympathize with the American nation in the deep troubles it is at tins time 



474 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPOXDENCE. 

experienciiig. They record their deep grief at tlie loss it has sustained in the 
death of so indulgent, kind, liberal, and fatherly chief as it found in President 
Lincoln, and I feel that I can assure you, sir, of the sj'mpathy of these people 
of Liberia for yourself, and of their unfeigned hope that you will be fully sus- 
tained by the great God of nations in the execution of the mighty duties de- 
volving upon you, and in the prosecution of the great undertaking now before you. 
May you be greatly prospered by Him by whom "kings reign and princes 
decree righteousness," and finally be crowned with honor in heaven which fadeth 
not away. 

I am, sir, very respectfully yours, 

D. B. WARNER. 
His Excellency Andrew Joh.xson, 

President of the United States of America. 



Mr. Finney to Mr. Hunter. 

LiBERIAN LkGATIOX, 

Ncio York, April 17, 1865. 
Sir : TV'ith deepest j^ersoual soirow over the sad intelligence, I have the 
honor to acknowledge your communication of Saturday. 

The assassination of President Lincoln and the attempt upon the life of the 
Secretary of State have made us a nation of mourners, and all loyal hearts are 
agonized by the dieadful tragedy. 

The republic of Libeii;i will deeply sympathize with us, as in the sudden 
death of our President she suft'ei\s an irreparable loss. AVhat we have done and 
proposed in her behalf will ever be gratefully remembered. 

Much of that great flood of tears shed over this great sorrow will flow from 
the childien of Africa, who looked to him especiall}' as their deliverer. 

The telegraphic news which we to-day received, as to the decided improve- 
ment of Secretary Seward and his son, greatly alleviates the prevalent sadness, 
and the hope is universal that they may speedily recover. 
WitLi distinguished consideration, I am truly yours, 

J. B. PIXNEY, 

Charge d'' affaires. 
Hon. W. Hunter, 

Acting Secretary oj^ State. 



Address delivered hrj hev. E. Concin, in Fort street church, Honolulu, before a 
crowded assembly of American and other foreign residents, Tuesday, May 9, 
on the reci2}tion rf the neics of the murder of President Lincoln. 

American Fellow-citizens: No wonder that so many are congregated 
here to-day to testify their heartfelt sorrov^ for our nation's loss. And no won- 
der that so many of almost every clime and every nationality, deeply sympa- 
thizing with our grief, are here with us in the sanctuary to-day. That thrill of 
anguish which every loyal American felt all across yonder continent, as the sad 
tidings were borne to them that President Lincoln had fiiUen by the hand of an 
assassin, has been felt not less deeply by every one of us. Why, yesternight, 
did strong men, little accustomed to weep, shed tears as they met each other on 
our streets ? Why v/as there mourning in so many households ? our children 
saddened as if b}^ the tidings that one of our dearest kindred had died? Why, 
but because we all felt that this was to each one of us a personal bereavement — 
to every true American the saddest intelligence that had ever reached these 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMrATIJY. 475 

shoves ? Our isolatiou from our futlierland has not bleached out our love of 
country. Act all the waves that roll between us and yonder far distant -liore 
could wash out our patriotic devotion to that dear land from which for a time 
we are voluntary exiles— as not all those waves could sullice to wash out that 
organized crime which to-day causes a whole nation to mourn as they never 
mourned before. -Xot that Al.raham Lincoln, gi-cat and good as he was, was so 
much greater or so much better than all others of our ilhistrious dead. But as 
none had ever borne the responsibilities of Chief ^Magistrate dnriu"- such 
troublous times, and thus been permitted to live so useful a life, so neither had 
any of our great men ever died such a death. The nation, sorely bereaved, had 
wept for its departed statesmen and heroes bi fore, but never had it mourned the 
untimely death of so illustrious a martyr. The fathers of the republic, with fit- 
ting honors, had been laid to rest. The ]»eople, devoted to their chosen rulers 
with that intelligent devotion which liberty alone can foster, had shed tears of 
commingled sorrow and gratitude, when the only Washington the centuries could 
aflord died in a good old age in quietness and full of honors. Such statesmen 
as Clay and Webster, too great to be I'residents, had been almost idolized by 
the people while living, and sincerely mourned by them when they died. Twice 
before had they carried to the grave their Chief Magistrate when as yet he had 
served but a small portion of his official term. But never before have they 
mourned, as now they mourn, for one stricken down at the very heiglit of his 
popularity, from the very pinnacle of earthly glory, not by the act of God, but 
at the instigation of the devil ; not by the gradual approach of disease, which 
might have prepared us for the shock, but suddenly, by the blow of a fiend in 
human form, a rash and foolhardy, yet calculating and deliberate assassin. 

But it is no part of my purpose to rouse your indignation or to intensify your 
grief, as it is alike needless and impossible to increase your abhorrence of this 
monstrous crime. Let me the rather, as a minister of the gospel of peace, whose 
mission it is to comfort the afflicted, indicate some of thoee elements of consola- 
tion which, while they serve not to mitigate the crime or to lessen our loss, may 
help to assuage our grief. 

Think not alone of the nation's loss in the President's death, but also of what 
the nation has gained by his most useful and laborious life, through more than 
one official term marvellously preserved. 

Nobody doubts that this same malignant, murderous spirit, which has at 
length culminated in organized assassination, has been cherished in the hearts of 
multitudes at the south and the north ever since this infernal treason was 
hatched. It plotted and thought to consummate its hellish purpose at Balti- 
more, before the man of the people, that man of common honesty and common 
sense, should be installed in the ^lace of his imbecile predecessor, who was con- 
tent to see the nation die under his hand without remedy, and Avho knew of no 
way in which rebellious States could be coerced ; and it has been breathing out 
threats of assassination and offering bribes aiul large rewards for assassination 
ever since. But He, the all-wise preserver of the man and the nation, thwarted 
the fiendish purpose fur more than four long years. The marvel is, n.it that he 
is slain at last, but that God has shown His great love to our nation by preserv- 
ing him so Ions. Think you that he who for those long anxious years had 
held with a steady hand the helm of state, while the vessel was outriding the 
protracted storm, and had, under God. guided it safely through the breakers till 
it had almost reached the port of peace— think you that when Richmond wa.s 
taken and Lee surrendered he was not ready to say, with one ot old, " .Now et 
me depart in peace !" Ah yes, if it had only been in peace, then we could the 
better have borne it. But to die a violent death in the midst of his usefulness 
when as yet the work was not finished, and the proclamation of peace, signed 
bvthat honored name, Abraham Lincoln, had not as yet been issued to t i o 
w-orld-to be murdered when there was seemingly less cause than ever to anti- 



476 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

cipate it — to fall a victim to that malice wliicli struck at tlie bead of tlie nation, 
only because it utterly despaired of destroying the nation itself — to come, like 
Moses, to tlie very border of the promised land, and by faitb to behold, as from 
the heights of Nebo, the future glory of the republic, and yet not be permitted 
to enter the land and see the promise fulfilled — this seems sad indeed. But 
what if the nation had been left \vithout their great leader while as yet wander- 
ing in the wilderness, and no promise of peace had greeted their longing eyes 1 
Yes, even in the bitterness of our sorrow, there is this occasion for gratitude : 
the dark cloud is fringed with this golden edge, and we can say, thank God, he 
lived to see the promised land, towards which, with the patience of a patriotic 
faith, he had so long been journeying. Yes, thank God, he was permitted to 
behold that promised land ready to become the perpetual and peaceful heritage 
of a great and strong and united people; but he knew not that the time and 
manner of his own death should be the miracle by which the Jordan waves of 
difficulty and doubt should be rolled away, that the united tribes, bearing the 
sacred ark of liberty, might at once go over to possess it. 

O, our bereavement is bitter ; our loss is great ; our hearts are very heavy ; 
but we accept all that God has permitted, with an unfaltering faith that He will 
bring great good out of the monstrous evil, and that He will, by the sympathy 
of their mutual griefs, bind the hearts of loyal Americans together, as they could 
have been bound together in no other way. 0, my countrymen ! was such a 
sacrifice needed to seal Avith more than royal blood our bond of L)ve to our 
country, and our covenant of faith in freedom ? Who shall say that he who 
has died for that faith would not willingly have offered himself a voluntary 
victim ? 

It is also comforting to think that Abiaham Lincoln, the poor man's friend, 
the emancipator of the oppressed, the chosen champion of liberty and law, died 
at a time and in a manner most favorable for his own already illustrious fiime ; 
and so,^ as a martyr for liberty, is his memory most securely embalmed in the 
gi'ateful hearts of an aft"ectionate people. 

Have you ever thought if Moses, the great leader and lawgiver of Israel, had 
lived to enter Canaan and to attempt the adjustment of all the difficult ques- 
tions pertaining to the driving out of the heathen and the peaceful settlement of 
the tribes, he might have left some slight blot upon the record of his fair fame, 
and somewhat tarnished the transcendent brilliancy of a most illustrious ca- 
reer 1 History has no record of shame to make on all those pages devoted to 
the life of Abraham Lincoln. As his best legacy to his bereaved country, ho 
leaves a clean record and an unsullied name. 

Nor less may Ave derive comfort from the thought that this awful, this aggra- 
vated crime, sweeps away the last vesitige of an apology from those misguided 
sympathizers with treason, at home and abroad, who had done so much to weaken 
our faith in human nature, and to make us almost ashamed of the race to which 
we belong. The true spirit of the rebellion is by this act written as in letters 
of fire across the very heavens, that all may see it, declaring that in theory and 
in fact it is nothing less than organized assassination. He who in his very heart 
condemns the crime and detests the perpetrators, the instigators and the sym- 
pathizers with it, as the basest of villains, may claim to be your friend and mine. 
But he who in his heart rejoices, or by Avord or look justifies it, is our worst 
enemy. He is himself at heart a murderer, as well as a traitor, and we cannot 
fellowship him Avitliout ourselves partaking of his guilt. 

This event, in itself so evil, will bring forth its legitimate fruits of good if it 
shall serve, as it surely will, to show to all men how vile the intent, how ma- 
lignant the spirit, and how fiendish the hate of those Avho planned and instigated 
that wholesale assassination which has slain so many victims, bereaved so many 
households, and, Avithout a cause, spread desolation and avoc oA'er one of the 
must favored lands that yonder sun in the heavens ever shone upon. 



SENTIMENTS OF COXDOLEXCE AND SYMPATHY. ' 477 

Nor less is it a comfort to tliink tliat tliis event, in its? immediate eflVct, h an- 
other illustration of the fact, of late so often impressed upon us, tliat God mik- 
eth the wrath of man to praise Him, and turneth the counsels of the wicked 
headlong. What those assassins sought to do was to paralyze the nation. But 
they have only been the unwitting instruments of rousing it to new life, and of 
calling forth all its latent energies. They thought to help the already doomed, 
hopelessly doomed, rebellion, but they only wrote its death-warrant in the l)est 
blood of the nation, and robbed the South of its most kind and conciliatory 
friend. That mock-tragicat shout of the fleeing assassin, Sic semper (ifrannis, 
was the death-cry of despair, destined to be applied to the real tvrants over the 
revolted States, the lea<lers of the rebellion. It was, in behalf of those leaders, 
a decree against themselves, saying — since in their madness and folly they liave 
rejected the terms of peace so often extended to them, and consummated their 
guilt by instigating the murder of the most lenient of rulers, the kindcst-he.'irted 
of men — so let them perisli ! Vindicative, but not vindictive, our rulers had 
been disposed to deal too tenderly with traitors — erring, if at all, on the side of 
mercy. But those plotters of treason have by this act demanded strict justice 
instead. Henceforth there can be no compromise with traitors ; no sacrifice of 
principle ; no permission to talk and think treason, much less to act M. To this 
standard of patriotism and this test of nationality has this last act of inf;nny 
brought the great bulk of the nation; throughout the length and breadth of 
that liind treason can no longer be tolerated in thought, speech, or behavior. 
Henceforth the only basis of settlement is unconditional surrender and uncom- 
promising loyalty. And what more shall I say, but that this act, if it does not 
seal the lips, brands with lasting shame the brow of every apologist for that in- 
stitution, hated of man and accursed of God, which has so far debauched the 
conscience, and perverted the reason, and maddened the heart of those who, be- 
cause of their devotion to slavery, have willed that the nation should die, ami 
that liberty should perish. Go read the record of our heroes slain, who have 
freely poured out their blood, and willingly yielded up their lives to maintain 
the integrity of the nation ; ask who slew all these, and from the tomb comes 
back but one response — slavery ! Go look at that casket, all unpolished, whicli 
held a diamond of rarest worth — an honest patriot's soul — ask who dealt that 
death-wound, and listen to the verdict of a mourning nation — it Avas slavery ! 
Go stand by the bedside of that great statesman who, with such masterly abil- 
ity, has "conducted the foreign correspondence of the government for more than 
four years, maintaining the honor of the nation abroad, saving us from ever- 
threatening complications, and extorting honor and victory from apparent con- 
cessions and apologies — go ask who struck that helpless sick man with the knife 
of a cowardly assassin, and there comes back but one response — slavery ! 

As Hamilcar, the father of the greatest of the Carthaginian generals, led his 
sou Hannibal to the altar in the temple, at the age of nine years, and there, lay- 
ing the hand of that son upon the bleeding victim, bade him swear eli'rnal hatred 
to'Home, so let every American father bring his son into the temple of liberty, 
and there, laying his hand all reverently upon the bleeding victnn, exhort lum 
to svv-ear eternal fealty to freedom, eternal hatred to slavery. 



MoN'RoviA, Africa, .Tali) 19, 1SG'>. 
Whereas the sad and most affecting intelligence of the assassination of hi.^ 
Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States o North America 
has reacbci this body ; and whereas the loss of so great good, and wise a n.an nnist 
be most keenly felt by the American people, over whom he was c;.llrd to ml , 
as well as by humanity every where ; and whereas we ieel that our lac. n. 



478 ' APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

common witli all others, lias sustained a loss in the death of this most excellent 
man, which possibly time will not repair; and whereas, through this most 
flagrant act of violence, sorrow and mourning have been made to enter the 
precincts of a once quiet, happy, peaceful home : Therefore, 

Resolved hy the mayor and city council men of the city of Monrovia in 
council assembled, That this body has learned with feelings of profound regret 
of the assassination of his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the 
United fStates of North America, and that we regard with utter horror and 
detestation the crime by which a great people have been bereft of a great man. 

Resolved, fiirtlier. That we do hereby express our sincere and profound 
sympathy with the American people in the loss they have sustained by the 
sudden and untimely taking from among them their Chief Executive, by the 
ruthless hand of the assassin, in the month of April last. 

Resolved, further. That in the person of the late President of the United 
States of North America, his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, no less as a private 
individual than as a public ruler, the negro race have lost a valuable and 
inestimable friend, who, while living, not less by his actions than by his words, 
exerted himself for the amelioration of the condition of that part of our race 
who have so long been in chains and slavery ; and that we highly appreciate 
the many good acts that mark his life; and that we regard with high esteem 
his sense of justice and righteous acknowledgment of the right of all men to 
that boon of Heaven, equal freedom of life, limii, and thought. 

Resolved, further. That our heartfelt sympathy is with Mrs. Lincoln, the 
most estimable widow of the late President, and with the present ruler, who 
has been so suddenly called to preside over so great a people. 

Resolved, finally. That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the 
United States commissioner and consul general in Monrovia, with a request 
that he will forward them to the proper persons in Washington. 

A true copv from the original : 

W. FISK BURNS, 
Clerk of Common Council of Monrovia. 



Mr. Hanson to Mr. Seward. , 

[Extract J 

No. 38.] Legation of the Uxited States, 

Monrovia, July n, 1865. 

Sir: On the 30th ultimo the very melancholy tidings reached us of the sad 
loss which our nation has sustciined by the death of our honored President, 
and also of the murderous attempt made upon your valuable life and that of 
your bf loved son. 

I assure you my grief at this great national calamity is profound, and my 
sympathy with you, in your sore aiiliction, deep and sincere. 

It is my daily and earnest prayer that 3'ou and yours may be speedily 
restored to health, and that God may continue to guide and support you in 
your aiduous duties, and that our President, Andrew Johnson, may be endowed 
with wisdom from on high. 

The universal sympathy of the people of Liberia is accorded to us in our 
deep distress. Flags at half-mast have been floating daily from all the principal 
residences, &c., and expressions of condolence come to me from every quarter. 

It is gratifying to my feelings to forward to you, herein, a proof of the in- 
terest felt in our affairs by the President of Liberia and his cabinet. At 12 m. 
yesterday a deputation, comprising all the members of the cabinet, called upon 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 470 

mC, fit the legation for tlie purpose of presenting a preamble and certain resoln- 
tions adopted f^t a full meeting of the President and his cabinet, with a rc([uest 
that I would forward them to their proper destination. 1 left my bed of r-ick- 
ness to entertain them. 

The honorable H. R, W. Johnson, secretary of state of the republic, on 
presenting the documents, made some very tender and eloquent remarks, to 
which I endeavored to make a suitable reply ; bnt I am fearful that they will 
all have passed from my memory before I shall have strength to pen them 
down. However, you can well conceive what they should be. 

* * * :); :!; * * * 

I have the honor to remain, sir, with deep sympathy and profound respect, 
your very obedient servant, 

ABRAHAM HANSON. 
Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



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MEXICO. 



[Translation. — Official. ] 

DEPARTIMEXT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS AND GOVERNMENT. — DEPARTMENT OF 

GOVERNMENT, FIRST BUREAU. 

[Circular. ] 

The cfficial confirmation has been received that the President of the United 
States of America, Abraham Lincoln, died at Washington, at seven o'clock and 
twentj-two minutes, on the morning of the 15th day of April last, in conse- 
quence of the wound inflicted upon him by an assassin at half past nine o'clock 
on the previous night. Tlie deplorable end of President Lincoln is a cause of 
great regi'et to the government of the Mexican republic, and to all its good 
citizens, by reason of his eminent personal qualities, and because, during his 
administration, the government of the United States has continued in the most 
friendly relations with that of the Mexican republic in the difficult state of the 
affairs thereof. 

With the view that the manifestations of the public sorrow for that sad event 
may be adopted, the citizen President directs that the national flag be hoisted at 
half-mast upon all the public buildings and at all the military stations during 
the day subsequent to the reception of this circular, and that all the authorities, 
functionaries, and employes, both civil and military, clothe themselves in 
mourning during nine days. 

Independence and liberty! Chihuahua, May 16, 1865. 

LEPtDO DE TEJADA. 

The Citizen Governor of the State of . 



President Juarez to Mr. Rojncro. 

[Translation. ] 

[Extract.] 

Chihuahua, May 11, 1865. 

My Dear Friend : * * * We also received the day before 

yesterday the newa of the total defeat of the confederate army on the 9th of 
April. The great pleasure this news afforded us was marrred by the very sad 
impression which the shocking intelligence of President Lincoln's assassination 
produced upon us. That great misfortune has profoundly impressed me, as 
Mr. Lincoln, who worked with so much earnestness and abnegation for the cause 
of nationality and freedom, was worthy of a better fate than the poniard of a 
coward assassin. I do most earnestly hope that Mr. Seward's Avounds would 
not be mortal, and that his son, too, may have been saved. I beg of you to ^aay 
a private visit to Mr. SeAvard in my name, expressing to him my grief for the 
misfortunes befallen upon him, and my best wishes for his speedy and complete 
recovery. 

******* 

BENITO JUAREZ. 
Senor Don Matias Romero. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 481 

Mr. Romero to Mr. Hiinfer. 
[Translation.] 
Mexican Lrgation in the United States of America, 

Washl/i<r(on, April 15, 1865. 
Mr. Secretary ad interim : Tl,e grief 1 felt this morning, on hearing of 
the death of the Pre8idont of the United States from a wound received la.st 
inght in a theatre of this city, and of the serious wounds of the Secretary and 
Assistant Secretary of State, has not been less than yours expressed in the note 
of this date informing me of those uniileasant events, and which 1 have just 
received. '' 

Your note also informs me that, according to the Constitution of the United 
States, the honorable Andrew Johnson, Vice-President of the United States, 
formally assumed the functions of President to-dav, and auihoriz.-d you to dis- 
charge the duties of Secretary of State ad iuteriin till further orders. 

Though the occasion is a sad one, I embrace it to renew to you, sir, the 
assurances of my distinguished consideration. 

M. ROMERO. 
Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secrelanj of State. 



Governor Glhert to Mr. Elmer. 
[Translation. ] 

La Paz, Maj/ 1, 1865. 
My Dear Sir: I have received your note of April :29tli in which yon advise 
me of the sudden death of the Chief Magistrate of the United States, who was 
assassinated during a period of great national rejoicing. 

Entertaining the same sentiments as yourself, this government cannot do less 
than express its sincere sorrow for the unfortunate event. 

I have the honor to repeat my assurances of respect, &c , &;c., 

F. GIBERT, 

Llurenior, La Paz. 
Seuor Don F. B. Elmer, 

United States Consul. 



[Translation.] 

At Providexcia, May 3, 1S65. 

My Dear Sir : The Golden City, arriving in your port on the 29th ultimo* 
with her flag at half mast, announced with this sign of mourning, even before 
coining to her moorings, one of the most treacherous murders that history will 
record. So it was, indeed. The periodicals received come to announce to us, 
with their columns clad in mourning, the assassination of the President of the 
United States, Abraham Lincoln, and the dangerous wounds of the honorable 
Secretary of State, Ur. William H. Seward. 

Sufferi^ig under the terrible impression which this calamity has produced 
upon the inhabitants of this State, and to myself, 1 address you these lines as 
the sincere expression of my deep sorrow for the great loss the people of the 
United States have sustained in the person of their first :\Iagistrate. 

With distinguished appreciation, I am, very respectfully, your obedient 

servant, 

D. ALV.VREZ, Gorernor. 

Mr. Cilbert M. Cole, 

United States Consul at Arapnlco. 
31 A 



482 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 
Mexican Republic, Political and Military 

GOVERNAIENT OF THE StaTE OF TaBaSCO, 

San Juan Baufista, July 4, 1865. 

Mr. Consul : The kindred people of this continent, united in the lovely bonds 
of democracy, ought to share miitually in its joys and its sorrows. For this reason 
Mexico will ever deplore the unfortunate event of the 14th of April last, the death 
of the illustrious champion of liberty in the city of Washington. For this I'eason 
will Mexico forget her past misfortunes, in the midst of her present trials, and 
congratulate the great and heroic people of the United States on this day of 
glorious memory. 

Accept, then, Mr. consul, on this day — the annivei'sary of that auspicious 
day when your ancestors proclaimed their independence in the city of Philadel- 
phia — my sincere congratulations, as a private- individual, and as the representa- 
tive of this State, of whose sympathies I believe myself, on this occasion, the 
most faithful interpreter. 

Accept also, in the name of your government, the demonstrations of esteem 
and good will from the garrison of this place, who have kindred sentiments, and 
trust that Mexico in general, and Tabasco in particular, will be worthy mem- 
bers of the great democratic family that people the world of Columbus, in spite 
of the mean strategy now used to divide us. 

I make vows to Providence for the happiness of the United States, and pray 
that the peace the great republic has just conquered at such a great sacrifice 
may last long, for the good of humanity. 

You will please accept, on this account, the assurances of my personal esteem 
and consideration. 

Republic and liberty ! San Juan Bautista, 4th of July, 1865. 

G. MENDEZ. 

Leon Alejo Torre, First Officer. 

B. N. Sanders, 

Consul of the United States at this port, Present. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 483 



MOROCCO. 



Mr. McMath to Mr. Hunter. 

!N"o. 26.] CONSULATK OF THE UmTKD StATRS OP AMERICA 

FOR THE Empire of Morocco, Tangier, May 4, 1S65. 

Sir : The lamentable news of the assassination of his Excellency Abraham 
Lincoln, President of the United States, reached this consnlate by telegraph 
via Madrid, on the ,28th ultimo. Tl-.is intelligence, has produced the most in- 
tense feeling of sorrow in the minds of all our population, native and foreign. 
The event is so astounding that it is witli difficulty I can bring myself to realize 
its occurrence or estimate its conserjuences. Tlie blow is sudden, horrible, and 
irretrievable. Never has a murder been committed more momentous in its bear- 
ing upon the time. A nation mourns the inestimable loss of one of the greatest 
and purest statesmen that ever lived. He dies surrounded with the brightest 
halo of glory that has ever crowned the labor of a statesman, and his work will 
survive him, and the greatest victory of liberty and humanity will not have been 
won in vain. I am as yet without details which can give me the slightest idea 
of the cause of so grave an event. However, it seems difficult to suppose that 
a crime committed on-the President had not been dictated by a political motive; 
and I may say this crime is not only odious but useless, for Providence will not 
fail to raise up worthy successors of him who has (alien a martyr to liberty, 
humanity, and constitutional government. To my bleeding and grief-stricken 
country I offer my sincere sympathy and condolence. 

This consulate has gone into mourning tor thirty days. 

Immediately ui)on the receipt of this distressing news, I informed my colleagues 
that, as a mark of respect to the illustrious and unfortmiate deceased President 
Lincoln, the flag of the United States would be disj)layed at half-mast for a 
period of three days at this consulate, and stated that on this mournful occasion 
I would be pleased to see my flag accompanied with those of their respective 
nations. To this each of my colleagues assented, and at the same time ex- 
pressed their sincere sympatliy and condolence for the great national loss sus- 
tained in the untimely death of iiis Excellency President Lincoln. I have also 
communicated this sad intelligence to my vic(!-consuls on the coast, and have 
requested them to display their flags at half-mast for three days, and request 
their colleagues to accompany it with those of their respeotive nations 

The melancholy news of the attempted assassination of the honorable h.'cre- 
tary of State, and liis son, the Assistant Secretary, reached me one day later tl.an 
the former. Since then I have been advised by the latest news from London 
that there is a probability that both may recover from the wounds inflicted upon 
them. I sincerely hope and pray to Almighty God that both may b.; spcydily 
restored to our common country, and to each my sincere sympathy is ..liered 

In profound grief for the events which have taken place, I have the honor to 
be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ^^^^^ ^ McMATH. 

Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. 



484 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 



THE I^ETHERLANDS. 



Mr. Van Liimburg to Mr. Hunter. 

[Translation. J 

New York, May 16, 1865. 

Sir : In the Netherlands, as everj^where else, the news of the assassination of 
President Lincoln, and of the attempt on the life of the Secretary of State, has 
caused an universal shock and deep indignation. 

On the part of the royal government, the minister of foreign affairs would have 
wished to request Mr. Pike to be so good as to transmit to Washington the 
assurances of the sorrowful impression caused throughout the Netherlands by this 
double crime, but the temporary absence of the minister resident of the United 
States not putting that in my power, it is in virtue of the King's order, and iu 
accordance with a resolution adopted by a council of ministers, that I am charged 
to present, without delay, to the American government the assurance of lively 
sympathy iu the loss and profound indignation at the crime, in which all the 
Netherlands partake with the King. 

I am charged to express, sir, at the same time, the wishes of his Majesty and 
of the royal government that Divine Providence may preserve the life of Mr. 
Seward, so precious to the people of the United States. 

In acquitting myself of this duty, sir, I have the honor to repeat to you the 
assi;rances of my high consideration. 

ROEST VAN LIMBUEG. 

Hon. William Huater, 

Acting Secretary of State, Washington., D. G. 



Mr. Van Limburg to Mr. Hunter. 
[Translation.] 

Detroit, May 25, 1865. 

Sir: The minister* of the King for foreign affairs has just given in charge to 
me, to communicate to you, a resolution passed on the 2d instant by the Second 
Chamber of the States General, tending to invite the royal government to make 
known to the government of the United States the sorrow and indignation the 
Chamber has felt on learning the perfidious and base outrage of which President 
Abraham Lincoln has been the victim. 

On the occasion of this resolution, its mover, Mr. de Zuylen de Nywelt, re- 
marked that in the Netherlands it was caused, more perhaps than any like 
resolution could be elsewhere, not alone by the ties of friendship and of alliance 
which for a long period have existed between the two countries, but moreover 
by the circumstance that a great many old families of Holland have established 
themselves in the United States, and that our country at a period already re- 
mote contributed much to the sowing of the seed from which the great American 
nation has sprung forth at a later day. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 485 

The minister of foreign affairs, fully adopting this principle, expres.es anew 

TT'n,>!T'if t"^^^^""'"'" ",* '}"' '''"•'""•^« crimes by wbic-U the President of the 
United States was snatched aNvay from his great task at the mouK-nt when 
achieving the object of his efforts, and by which the lives of the Secretary and 
Assistant becretary of State were put in peril. 

It was in the nature of things, said Mr. Cremers, that the assassination of a 
man whose character bore so great a resemblance to that of the noble founder of 
our liberties should make a profound impression. Here, where the name of 
Balthazar Gerard (the assassin of William of Orange) is, even now, never pro- 
nounced without horror, a crime resembling his must excite extraordinary sym- 
pathy and indignation. "^ 

I take pride, sir, in being again instructed to express to you similar senti- 
ments; they cannot but convince you, as well as the President and peoph" of tbe 
United States, of the lively and sincere friendship which attaches the Nether- 
lands to the United States of America. 

Please accept, sir, the fresh assurance of my very high consideration. 

_ „ EOEST VAN LIMBURG. 

Hon. \\ iLLiAM Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State, ifc., ^r., ^-c. 



Mr. Pike to Mr. Hunter. 

[Extract.] 

No. 164.] United States Legation, 

The Hague, May 3, 1865. 

Sir .***** 

The announcement of the assassination of the President, the news of which 
reached here last week, fills me with profound emotion. The dreadful suspense 
we were in, for many days, in regard to the Secretary of State and the Assistant 
Secretary, is happily removed by this mail. The tenor of our first advices was 
such that we had not dared to hope for the recovery of Jlr. Seward, while we liad 
taken for granted that the xVssistant Secretaiy was no longer among the living, 
It is an inexpressible relief to receive the assurance that the lives of both are 
saved. 

I have forwarded to the department a copy of Galignani's Messenger, contain- 
ing one day's summary of the public commentary upon the hideous crimes com- 
^ mitted by the assassins, which is but one of a series of the same character. 
By this record you may, in some measure, judge of the violent shock these mon- 
strous assassinations have given to the European public. It would be diilicult 
for me to exaggerate it by any description I could give. 

I have been called upon by numerous gentlemen of high politicil distinction, 
among them the ministers of foreign affairs, who have desired to manifest their sym- 
pathy with the government in its distress : to bear their testimony to the pure 
and lofty character of the deceased President, aud to express the universal 
horror and indignation at the foul deeds which have at once robbed the nation 
of its head and daringly put in imminent peril the life of his first cabinet olhcer. 

I have the honor to be, with great respect, your most obedient servant, 

^ JAMES S. PIKE. 

Hon. "W. Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State, Washington. 



486 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Mr. Pike to Mr. Hunter. 

No. 165.] United States Legation, 

The Hague, May 4, 1865. 

Sir : Yesterday the Second Chamber of the national legislature, the onlj 
branch now in session, passed resolutions instructing the ministers of foreign 
affairs to communicate to the cabinet at Washington their sense of the great loss 
sustained by the United States in the death of the President, to tender to them the 
sympathy of the Chamber, and to express their horror and detestation of the 
foul crimes by which the President's life has been terminated and that of the 
Secretary of State endangered. 

These resolutions were supported in debate by the minister of foreign affairs 
on the part of the government, and by M. Van Zuylen on the part of the opposition, 
and were unanimously carried. 

To-day the minister of foreign affairs has called and communicated to me this 
action on the part of the Second Chamber, and requested me to transmit it to the 
government at Washington, and to add that nowhere in Europe has there been 
a profounder emotion felt than in Holland over the awful tragedy enacted in 
the United States, and nowhere can its condemnation be more heart'elt and 
unanimous. 

1 have the honor to be, with great respect, yovu- most obedient servant, 

JAMES S. PIKE. 

Hon. W. Hunter, 

Actmg Secretary of State, Washington. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 487 



NICARAGUA 



[Tiauslation.] 

GovERXMKXT Hor.«M, Lko.v, 

May 18, 1865. 

Mr. Minister : Hi? excellency tlip cai)taiiijiviieial, pn'sidcnt, has been made 
acquainted with yourdet^patch of the 17th instant, in which he is notified throujjh 
me of the unfortunate events which occurred in Washington on the Utli of Apdl 
last, the assassuiati.n of his Excellency the President of the United States of 
North America, Mr. Abraham Lincoln, and the serious wounds inflicted by the 
hand of another assassin on the person of the very illustrious Secretary of State. 
Mr. William H. Seward. I am also notified in the same communication of the 
elevation to the presidency, by virtue of the laws, of his Excellency the Vice- 
President, Mr. Andrew Johnson, and to the ministry temporarily of the chief 
clerk, Mr. Hunter, until the recovery of Mr. Seward which now st-ems probable. 

The f^overnment and people of Ncaragua are not nor could they be indifferent to 
an event which has so great effect on all classes of society, as Avell on account of 
the welfare of the country which Mr. Lincoln governed so worthily, as because of 
such excesses. In a republic, too, like the United States — model of civilization 
and of grandeur — it seems impossible to conceive the existence of a man that, 
even by the means of the most exalted imagination, could conceive the design of 
applying his treacherous hand against the life of him who, by the general choice 
of the people, had been called for a fixed period to the presidential chair. 

But the deed is done, sir, however extraordinary it may seem to those who 
know its magnitude ; and while it meets solely with universal condemnation, let 
us indulge the grateful hope that his principles may be securely preserved for 
the United States of North America under the presidency of a successor worthy 
of the immortal Lincoln, for which we trust in the co-operation of Mr. Seward, 
that veteran Secretary, whom Providence has so marvellously preserved lor the 
benefit of his country. 

These are the sentiments of his excellfucy the President of Nicaragua, and in 
transmitting them to your excellency, with the expression of my sincerest sym- 
patliy, I have the honor to subscribe myself once again, 
Your affectionate servant, 

BASILIO SALINAS. 

His Excellency A. B. DifKRNSON, 

Minister Resident of the United States, Sfc, S^c, cVf. 



[Trauslatiou.] 

GOVKRXMK.NT TIoi'SE, 

Leo/i, June 19, 1865. 
Sir • Althou-h this government has already paid its due compliments through 
the minister resident of the United States, I have to say, in ^.nswer to your es- 
teemed despatch of the 18th April, ultimo, and the mournful new., it contams 
that the assassination of the illustrious Pr-sident of the L mted htales, Al.rah.am 
Lincoln, and the barbarous assault on the persons of the honorable Srcivta y 
and Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Seward and h.s son, martyrs ^^f ^ £ " 
rious cause in which they were happilj wnmn.g v.ct.n-y, have been n. ^ •"«^'"^^. 
as well as in all Central America and over the whole civilized world, the douico 



488 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

of a general feeling of hoiTor and sadness. Sympathy for the administration of 
Mr. Lincoln, for the canse he maintained of freedom of the human kind, and 
with the impulse this same doleful event imparted to the triumphant opinion, 
cause this government religiously to cherish the glorious memory of the illus- 
trious dead, to heartily hail the providential salvation of the honorable Mr. Se- 
ward and his son, whom we duly honor, and to behold with the highest esteem, 
respect, and our best wishes the heroic decision with which Mr. Lincoln's worthy 
successor comes forward ready to perfect the sublime but untiuished work which 
falls to his lot. 

The President trusts you have, in anticipation of the desire and well-known 
feelings of his administration, interpreted them with your usual faithfulness, 
near the government of the United States; and directs me to authorize you to 
leave a copy of this despatch with the honorable Secretary of Slate. 
I am, sir, your obedient servant, 

PEDRO ZELEDON. 
His Excellency Don Luis Molina, 

Envoy Extraordinary aiid Minister Plenipotentiary 

of Nicaragua, Washington. 



Mr. Dickenson to Mr. Hunter. 

[Extract.] 

No. 101.] Legation of the United States, 

heon de Nicaragua, May 19, 1865. 

Sir : Your despatch No. 69, dated April 17, conveying the painful intelligence 
of the assassination of President Lincoln and the murderous assault upon the 
Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State, has been received and read with a 
mixture of indignation, horror, and grief, altogether beyond the power of words 
to express. 

That even the rebellion itself, black and terrible as are its crimes, could be guilty 
of murdering our honored President, who was well known to harbor the kindliest 
feelings and the most forgiving spirit, even towards his enemies, and so cowardly 
assaulting with murderoixs intent his chief adviser and supporter, while in a help- 
less state on a sick-bed, for the purpose of robbing the nation of two of its ablest 
defenders, was beyond belief, until the iiendish acts themselves, with their sur- 
roundings, proved to be a part of its atrocious work. 

It would seem also that the avenging arm of the sU'm patriot who is now o\;r 
President was justly feared by the infamous traitors, and that he also was to 
be stricken down with the other strong pillars of the state, in order that the 
whole national fabric might thus be pulled down, Samson-like, and crushed to- 
gether with the rebellion. 

But even while we mourn for the long list of illustrious dead, headed by our 
honored chief, we can still thank God tliat our country survives their loss, to be 
held only the more precious and sacred hereafter because of the blood which has 
been shed in its defence. 

Since the receipt of the melancholy news I have had the flags kept at half 
mast and the legation draped in mourning. I also take due note of the order 
to wear crape on the left arm. 

I am, sir, your obedient servant, 

A. B. DICKENSON. 

W. Hunter, Esq., 

Acting Secretary of State. 



SENTIMENTS OP CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 489 



PRUSSIA. 



Count Bis7)iarcJc to Mr. Judd. 

[Tiiinslation.] 

^. . Bkrliv, April !?7, 18G.5. 

The roya government is profoundly moved by the intelhgence winch reached 

here yesterday of the as.ussination of President Lincoln, and the simultaneous 

attempt on the life of the Secretary of State, Mr Seward 

TT -^v TZ ""^ ^\ '° '''^l'l''^>^ ^''^'^^"- ^^■'"»^":^ relations between Prussia and the 
United States, the undersigned cannot forbear to express to their government 
the snicere sympathy of the royal government with the great loss that this crime 
has mflicted upon them. He therefore requests the envoy extraordinary and 
minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America, Mr. Judd, that he 
will convey the expression of these sentiments to his government, and he avails 
himself of this occasion to renew to Mr. Judd the assurances of his distinguished 
consideration. 

^r >T T. T BISMARCK. 

Mr. N. B. Judd, ^r., <^., 4-c. 



English translation of tie address of the nmn'iers of the Prussian House of 

Deputies. 

Sir : "We, the undersigned members of the Prussian House of Deputies, beg 
you to accept the expression of our profonndest sympathy in the severe loss 
the government and people of the United States have suffered in the death <if 
President Lincoln, and alike the expression of our deepest horror at the shock- 
ing crime to which he fell a victim. 

We are the more deeply moved by this public calamity inasmuch as it oc- 
curred at a moment when we were rejoicing at the triumph of the United States, 
and as the simultaneous attempt upon the life of the faithfal jjartuer of the Pres- 
ident, Mr. Seward, Avho, with the wisdom and resolution of true statesmanship, 
supported him in the fulfilment of his arduous task, betrays the object of the 
horrible crime to have been, by the death of these great and good men, to de- 
pi-ive the people of the United States of the fruits of their protracted struggle 
and patriotic self-sacrificing di'votion, at the very moment when the triumph of 
right and law promises to bring back the Idessiiigs of a long-desired jirnce. 

Sir, living among us, you are a witness of the heart-felt sympathy which the 
people have ever preserved for the people of ihe United States during this long 
and severe conflict. You are aware that Germany has looked with pride and 
joy on the thousands of her sons, who in this struggle have jilaccd themselves 
so resolutely on the side of law and right. You have seen with what joy tiie 
victories of the Union have been hailed, and how confident the faith in the final 
trium[)h of the great cause and the restoration of the Union in .ill its greatness 
has ever been, even in the midst of adversity. 

This great work of the restoration of th<' Union will, we confidently hope, 
not be hindered or interrupted by this terrible crime. IMie blood of the great 
and wise chieftain will only cement the more firmly the Union for whicli he lia.s 
died. This the invi(dable resjiect for law and love of liberty whicii the people 
of the United States have ever evinced in the very midst of the prodigious 
struggles of their great war abundantly guarantees. 



490 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

"We request your good offices for giving expression Avith your government to 
onr sincere condolences and our sympathies with the government and people of 
the United States, and proO'er to yourself, sir, the assurances of our distinguished 
consideration. 

Dr. FRESE, 
E. FROWNING, 
HAEGER ZIEGLER, 
BARON VOX VAERST, 
VON CARLE WIG, 
VON KATHEN, 
Dr. KALAN VON DER HOFE, 
VIESEN, 
KNUPFEL, 
And two hundred and fifty others. 



[Translation.] 
Remarks of Deputy Dr. WdViani Loewe in the. Prussian House oj" Deputies. 

Gextleimrn : I have ventured to request the president to permit me to make 
a communication, for which I claim your sympathy. That which I wish to 
request of you does not, indeed, belong to the immediate field of our labors, but 
it goes so far beyond the narrow circle of private life that, in union with, a num- 
ber of our colleagues, 1 have ventured to call your attention to it. A considera- 
ble number of our colleagues feel the need, under the dismay produced by the 
shocking news of the unhappy death of President Lincoln, to give expression to 
their feelings in regard to his fate, and their sympathy with the nation from 
whom he has been snatched away. Abraham Lincoln lias fallen by the hand of 
an assassin, in the moment of triumph of the cause which he had conducted, and 
while he was in hopes of being able to give to his people the peace so long 
desired. 

Our colleagues wish in an address to express the sympathy not of this House — 
this I say in order to remove all apprehension of a violation of the rules of the 
House — but the symjiathy of the individual members of the house in this great 
and unhappy event. This address we desire to pix'seut to the minister of the 
United States. 

Gentlemen, I will lay the address on the table, and I beg those of my col- 
leagues who share with me the feeling of warm and heart-felt sympathy in the 
lot of a nation which is united by so many bonds with our own people, to give 
expression to those feelings by appending their signatures to the address. 
These sympathies I regard as all the more justified, as the United States have 
won a new and splendid triumph for mankind through the great struggle which 
they have been carrying on for the cause of true humanity, and whicli, as I con- 
fidently ho])e, in spite of this murder of their chief, they will conduct to a suc- 
cessful termination. In expressing our feelings of pain, we desire, at the same 
time, to prove our hearty sympathy with the American nation, and those of our 
brothers who have taken part in the struggle for their cause. I^he man, gentle- 
men, who has fallen by the murderer's hand, and whom I seem to see with his 
simple honest countenance — the man who accomplished such great d( eds from 
the simple desire conscientiously to perform his duty — ;he man who never 
wished to be more or less than the most conscientious and most faithful servant 
of his people, this man will tiiid his own glorious place in the pages of history. 
In the deepest reverence I bow my head before this modest greatness, and I 
thiak it is especially agreeable to the spirit of our own nation, with its deep 
inner life and admiration of self-eacrilicing devotion and effort after the ideal, to 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 491 

pay the tribute of vraeration to such o-reatne«^ Pvihorl n- ,-f i •. • i- • 

aud .node.ty. I beg of you, genth.u^;:::::;ji:^i ^^ fjh .uh^ i^^ s ii:'.^ 

veneration tor the grctt dead, which, without di^Hnc>il..V ,' m^ 'i^ oti^ o 
him as a true servant of his state, and of the cause of pure huLmnity 



[Translation.] 

The Poli^sh members of tlie Chamber of Deputies of Trussia, at this moment 
present in Berln. joni their German colleagu.i in expressing dl th l.Tef am 
iruhguation th.ey have experienced on h-arnh.g of the abomi.urbh. crimo''to wide 

S the^sSou;;:^ of^;::^;;:''^^^^ '^^^ ^^^"^" ^ ''''--' ^ --^y^ ^^ ^^^ ^-- -- 

AUGUSTE MIEZKOWSKI. 
Dr. LlllETT. 

BOGU STAVE LUBIENSKL 
LYZBOWSKI PILASKI. 
THOHAVSKI. 
Z YC II L I X8KL 
DAMILEWSKI. 
STANISLAU MOTLEY. 
LEON WEGNER. 
JOSEPH POTUTICKL 
KAD 1 M I RZ GUI APOWSKI. 
F. RESPAZDEK. 
JOSEl^H BOLEWSKI. 
CASLAIIR KANTAK. 



[Translation. J 

Prussian Legation i\ "WASin.\(;To.\, 

April IG, 1S66. 

The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotent ary of lijg 
Majesty the King of Prussia, has been honored by a note from Mr. William 
Hunter, Acting Secretary of State of the United States, informing him of the 
assassination of the President of the United States, and the atrociou.s attempt 
upon the lives of the Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, ami his son 
Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, on the niglit of the 14tli of this 
month. The attack resulted in the death of the Chief Magistrate of the republic, 
and the critical situation of the Secretary of State and his assistant from the 
serious wounds given by the assassin's hand. 

The undersigned promptly expiesses to Mi'. Hunter his profound sorrow and 
indignation at the unheard of act of cruelty and ])()litical fanaticism of which 
the President, Abraham Lincoln, was the victim, at a time when his devotion 
and constancy in efforts to re-establish the Constitution and the laws were 
crowned with success, and gave hopes of returning peace. 

The undersigned is also informed by j\[r. Hunter that Mr. Andrew Johnson, 
Vice-President of the United States, has entered upon the dutii^s of Prc-^idint 
of the United States, in conformity to the Constitution, and that 'Mr. William 
Hunter is charged with the affairs of the Secretary of State till further orders. 

The undersigned embraces the occasion of renewing to Mr. Hunter the assur- 
ances of his most distinguished consideration. 

BAEON GEROLT. 

Hon. William Hum'er, 

Acting Secretary of Slate, 



492 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE, 

Mr. Judd to Mrs. Lincoln. 

United States Legation, 

Ber/in, Maij 1, 1865. 
HoivoRED Madam : I have tlie honor to inform jou that to-day Captain Von 
Lucadou, personal aide-de-camp of his Royal Hig-hness the Crown Prince of 
Prussia, called at this legation, by command of his Royal Highness, charged to 
convey to you, madam, through me, the sympathy that their royal highnesses, 
the Prince and the Princess Royal feel for your deep affliction, in the death of 
your worthy and honored husband, and their anxious desire for your health and 
well-being. 

In executing that request, permit me to add, on my own behalf, the sincere 
sympathy I feel for your loss, and the deep grief that overwhelmed me at the 
death of one to whom I was bound by the strongest ties of friendship and love. 
I am, madam, your obedient servant and friend, 

K B. JUDD, 
United States Minister, Prussia. 
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. 



[Translation. ] 

Aix-la-Ohapelle, May 5, 1865. 

The undersigned, mayor and members of the municipality of the city of Aix- 
la-Chapelle, allow themselves to express to you, much honored Mr. consul, 
representative of the United States for the Rhenish provinces and Westphalia, 
their sympathy for the great and irretrievable loss which your country has suf- 
fered by the atrocious murder of your highly gifted and noble President Lin- 
coln. 

The horrible and abominable crime which deprived a country of its chief, in the 
very moment when his presence was most needed to heal the wounds, and secure 
the results of a war of several years, in defence of the noblest cause, has filled 
all Europe, and especially Germany, with abhorrence and dismay. We are more 
especially penetrated with these sentiments as our city has been in relations, 
for so many years, with your native land, and has the satisfaction of being the 
seat of the consulate for the Rhenish provinces and Westphalia. 

We beg you, honored sir, as the worthy incumbent of the consulate, to bring 
the present resolutions to the knowledge of the government of your country, and 
to accept the assurance of our highest esteem. 

C. E. DAMEN. RUMPEN. 

E. VANGULPEN. ER'D NACKEN. 

F. ERASMUS. GOMEL VAN GUAILA. 
ED. KEPELKAUL. SOMMER. 
COUTZEN TH. ESSER. 

N. BOCKLEN. D. RODERBURG. 

COUNT NELLESSE¥. D. HAHM. 

VRANAUX. V. MENHEIM. 

VON PR \.UGBE. HOYER. 

D. MULLER. FRED. CAYIN. 
W. ZURRBELLE. JUNGBLUTH. 
A SLARTZ. 

M. Vesey, Consul of the United States 

for the Rhenish Provinces and Westphalia. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY." 493 

Mr. Judd to Mr. Seward. 

■^°- ^^J United States Legation, 

Ber/in, April 27, 1865. 

Sir: Iiitolligence of tlie aspaspination of Presidcjit LincoJn, aiul of the mur- 
derous attack upon yourself and mauy members of your household, reached 
Berlin at about two p. m. yesterday. The statement had such an aspect of 
horror that I did not believe it. At the Exchanf);e, where it was first received, 
it was pronounced a stock-jobbing report. I telegraphed immediately to lAIr. 
Adams, and his reply was a confirmation of the dreadful tidings. Your con- 
dition, as reported, gives occasion for the most intense anxiety, and no words 
can express the feelings with which I await further despatches. The report 
states that your son, Frederick W. SeAvard, was killed in dffpiuling the life of his 
invalid father. A noble death for one so young and promi.-nng, though sad and 
mournful to surviving relatives and friends, to know that he died by the hand of 
an assassin. The terrible and tragic death of JVEr. Lincoln, and the calamities 
that befel your household in that fearful night, are heavy blows for one 
enfeebled by previous illness. JMay He who saved your life amidst all its 
horrors give healing to your wor.nds, and restore you again to herJth and 
usefulness. 

I cannot realize that Mr. Lincoln has been assassinated. He was saved from 
the Baltimore demons, when on his way to Washington, to be slain now in the 
midst of friends, and just at the moment when jmblic affairs have assumed their 
brightest aspect,, and peace and order are about to return to the country he 
loved so well. 

All the afternoon and evening yesterday the legation was thronged with 
anxious and inquiring friends, and many tears fell from the eyes of strong men. 
Berlin talks of nothing else to-day. Expressions of horror and indignation at 
the foul murder of our great and good President, and of deep sympathy and 
condolence for our stricken ]ieo[)]e, mingled with fl'rvent wishes that you may 
recover and survive this terrible affliction, are on the lips of all; on the lips of 
foreigners and strangers, who see in you the trusted friend and counsellor of our 
martyr President, and the man who for four years, so fraught with dangers and 
trials, has preserved peace with Europe. 

The legation is draped in black, and the passing world beholds that this is a 
house of mourning. 

1 am, sir, your obedient servant, 

-^ KB. JUDD. 

Hon. William H. Seward, 

Score fart/ of Slate, Washington. 



Mr. Judd to Mr. Seward. 

["Extract.] 

^ „ . -, Umted State.«« Leoatiov, 

^'^- ^*-J Berlin. Aj>r>l 2S, 1865. 

Sir • I have to-day received a communication fi om the minister president and 
minister of foreign affairs, Herr von Bismark Schoenhauseu, ;''-f;;-'"S ;;: 
deep sympathy of his Majesty's government with '^^' ^'^^''''''^'1} ''l^' ^ ^^ 
StaL^at Ihe death of Mr. Lincoln, and the attempt on your I'*'; ""l ;"'.'^^ 
me to convey the expression of their sympathy to my f^"-'' ";' ' . " . ., ,*^^ 

Thile, undersecretary of state for foreign '^^^}'^' ::'^'\'^''r'r'^ ^'^ ^^r^^^^^ 
the note in person, and came to the legat.on w.th it. In doing so, he expie«scd. 



494 * APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

ill the warmest terms, for himself and his p^overnment, the deep feeling the sad 
occurrences have occasioned. 

My colleagues of the diplomatic corps are all calling to express their sym- 
pathy with us in this affliction, and their abhorrence of the foul deed. 
I am, sir, your obedient servant, 



Hon. William H. Sfavard, 

Secretary of State, Washington. 



N. B. JUDD. 



Mr. Judd to Mr. Seward. 

No. 95] United States Legation, 

Berlin, April 29, 1S65. 

Sir: Telegraphic advices from the United States, by a later steamer, reached 
here at noon to-day, and it afi'ords me sincere pleasure to learn that the first 
report of the death of Mr. Frederick W. Seward has been erroneoiis, and that, 
although in a critical condition, he still lives, and tliat notwithstanding the cruel 
and savage wounds inflicted on you by a cowardly assassin, in addition to the 
severe injuries sustained by your late accident, your condition was considered 
hopeful. 

All of the members of the diplomatic corps have paid me their visits of regurd 
and condolence. So have the King's chiefest officials, and many of the distin- 
guished men of science and letters. 

As the details of the horrible crime become known, the interest and excite- 
ment in every circle and among every class of men increases. It is the one 
theme of conversation and discussion. The public journals here and elsewhere 
arc entirely filled with it. One intense and spontaneous burst of sorrow and 
indignation is ringing throughout Germany, and eveiy one, high and low, great 
and humble, is e^iger to bear testimony of his admiration and grief for a great 
and good man departed. 

Yesterday the subject was brought before the House of Deputies, by one of 
its most distinguished members, Dr. William Loewe, well known among our Ger- 
man citizens in the United States, from his long residence in New York, as a 
political exile from his fatherland. In eloquent and feeling terms he paid a 
warm tribute to President Lincoln, and at the close of his remarks called upon 
the House to unite with him in an address appropriate to the occasion, to be 
presented to the American minister here. Nearly the whole House rose in token 
of concurrence, and the address, as drawn up by the speaker, is receiving nu- 
merous signatures. It is to be presented to me by a deputation of members, 
headed by the president and the two vice-presidenls of the House. Dr. Loewe 
has conferred with me, and it is arranged that the address is to be presented on 
the afternoon of jNtonday next. 

At my invitation the Americans at present at Berlin have met at the lega- 
tion, and it has been decided to have divine services in memory of the late Pres- 
ident, on Tuesday next. May 2, at 4^ o'clock p. m., in the Dorothea church, the 
use of which for that purpose has been kindly granted us by the city authorities 
and the pastors of the church. President H. P. Tappan, formerly of Michigan 
University, will conduct the services for us. 

1 am, sir, your obedient servant, 

N. B. JUDD. 

Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary (if 6tatc, WasJiington. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 405 

Mr. JuJclto Mr. Seward. 

^^' ^^J United Statks Lkgatiox, 

Berfin, May 1, 1865. 
Sir : This forenoon Captain von Lucadou, personal aide-de-camp of his Royal 
Hig.ness the Crov/u Prince of Prussia, presented himself at the h-ation and 
informed me that he was charged hy their Royal Highnc^sses tlie Prince and 
Princess Royal of Prnssia to request me to transmit on their behalf to the gov- 
ernment of the United States, their condolence at tlie sad event thai had trans- 
pired and desiring me also to convey to Mrs. Lincoln their kind sympathies in 
her affliction. 

I am, sir, your obedient servant, 

Hon. VViLLiAiM H. Skwari), 

Secrelanj of State, WasJtington. 



Mr. Judd to Mr. Seicard. 

No. 97.] UiMTED States Legatfo.v, 

Berlin, Mat, 2, 1865. 

Sir : In my despatch No. 95, you were informed that I had named 3[onday, 
the first day of May, as the time to receive from the members of tiie Prussian 
House of Deputies, their address of condolence on account of the death of Pres- 
ident Lincoln, and the attempt to assassinate yourself. A note received in the 
morning of that day appointed five o'clock p. m. as the hour at which the 
deputation would be at the legation for that purpose. 

I had concluded, from some casual remark of a member, that the deputation 
would be composed of some six or eight members ; but, to my pleasurable sur- 
prise on its arrival, I found it numbered twenty-six of the most talented, cele- 
brated and influential men of the Chamber, headed by the venerable President 
Grabow, first vice-president, Herr von Unruh, and second vice-president Herr 
von Backum Dolffs. The additional names of the members of the committee 
were as follows : 

Deputies. 

Dr. William Loewe ; Prof. Dr. Virchow ; Baron von Vaerst, Stavenhagen ; 
Dr. Jur. Waldeck; Parrisius ; Von Bonin, (ex-minister;) Bassenge ; Schra'- 
der; Dr. Zicgert ; Duncker ; Lent; Baron von Zedlitz and Kurzbach ; Ru'bold ; 
Schneider; Dr. Johann Jacoby ; Raffauf; Von Saucken, Tarputschen ; Dr. 
Siemens ; Dahlmann ; Dr. Krebs ; Dr. Von Bunsen. 

The title of doctor repeatedly recurring indicates a university degree and 
not that of a physician as used in our country. Dr. Loevve, who had the honor 
of your p<'rsonal acquaintance when he resided in New York, (th.-pnluical 
troubles of 1848 and 1819 having caused his temporary absence from 1 russia.) 
as stated in a former despatch, presented the address, with a few remarks in 
German expressive of the deep feeling in all Germany at the death of Mr. 
Lincoln, and your narrow escape from the same fate at th. hand of an assassin, 
which he followed by reciting the address in full. After apologizing in German 
for my imperfect use of that language, and asking to be allow.-d to r.spoml ,u 
Engliih, I expressed the thanks of the government and the p.-oph' of the 
United Stales for this sympathetic manifestation of interest in our affliction, 



496 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

assuriHg them that the latest advices happily stated your improving condition, 
although the danger had not yet fully passed. That they might rest under the 
certain conviction that the object sought to be accomplished by the conspirators 
in these horrible and murderous attacks would not succeed. The government 
would not be paralyzed, but move stoutly and firmly forward in the political 
and social regeneration of the communities in rebellion. That the experience 
of the last four years had demonstrated, beyond question, the power of a peo- 
ple, under a republican form of government, to resist and overcome interior 
commotion and rebellion. That the administration of public affairs has passed 
to a new President, habituated to public life and to deal with national questions, 
and whose talents and firmness of purpose would speedily bring into submission 
what little remained of the rebellious spirit. That revenge was no part of our 
national character, but security for the future was the essential element that 
would control and guide the conduct of public affairs. That the people of the 
United States appreciated the sympathy of the German people during this ter- 
rible rebellion, and that the soldiers of German birth, many of whom not even 
citizens, would be held in lasting remembrance by a grateful people, and that 
their memory would be bound with the laurel common to all who had fought 
this battle of freedom, without distinction as to nativity or color. One mem- 
ber of the committee, ]\Ir. Schneider Sagan, was then in mourning for an only 
son killed at Petersburg, Virginia, and another, Deputy Raffauf, has now a son 
serving in the army of the United States. The German heart has been more 
moved by these awful occurrences than by any event in their own history since 
the year 1813. In the minds of the great mass of German readers, Mr. Lin- 
coln had come to symbolize the republic in all its attributes of the liberty and 
equality of all men, and their aspirations and hopes turned to him with admira- 
tion and affection. They feel that in him all humanity has lost a pure and 
noble champion. 

After the close of my remarks some time was spent in friendly conversation 
with the various members of the committee, and I parted with them at last, 
deeply gratified and consoled by this mark of generous and noble sympathy 
with imr people and our cause. 

I enclose herewith the original address, with an English translation thereof 
by the secretary of this legation, j\[r. Kreisniann, who was present during the 
interview. It is signed by two hundred and thirty-eight members of the Cham- 
ber, and I feel persuaded that a fit place will be assigned by you for this inter- 
esting document in the archives of the State Department. 

Your old acquaintance and friend. Professor Tellkampf, a member of the 
upper house, sought and obtained leave to add his signature. You will readily 
find his, to you, familiar hand writing. 
1 am, sir, your obedient servant, 

N. B. JUDD. 

Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of iState, Washington. 



Mr. Judd to Mr. Setrard. 

No. 98.] United States Legation, 

Berlin, May 2, 1865. 

Sir : To-day, at one-clock a deputation, composed of Count Joseph Potulreki. 

and Mr. St. Motty, both members of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies, presented 

to me an address, on the subject of the late terrible calamity to our nation. 

signed by the Polish members of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies, with a 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 497 

request to have the same ];iid hefnre the -ovevnraent «nd peonle of the United 
States. I assured them of our full appreciatinu of this act of sympathy, and 
that I woukl not fail to immediately forward the address to my government 
1 am, sir, your obedient servant, 



Hon. AV. H. Seward, 

Scare tar ij of State, WasJdngton, D. C. 



N. B. JUDI). 



Mr. Jadd to Mr. Hunter. 

^0. 99.] , U.MTEu Statks Legatio?*,. 

Berlin, May 4, 1865". 

Sir: Your official circular, dafed April 17, is received. The intellij^fMice of' 
the assassination of President Lincoin, and the attempt upon llv. Sfward, 
accompanied by the wounding- of jMr. F. W. Seward, otHcial notice of which is 
contained in your circular, reached Berlin on the 2Gth of April I need not 
repeat a^ain the grief and honor fidt on n-ceiving- the tidings of the sad event. 

The Americans in Berlin jnetat this legation, and resolved to hold appropriate 
divine services in memory of the lamented President. The original intention 
of meeting in the little chapel ordinarily used by us for relig'ioiis worship had 
to be abandoned, on account of the almost universal desire of men of all cla-^ses 
here to afford them an op[)ortuiiity of participating in the services, and min-^ling 
their grief with ours, in paying a last tribuie to the great and good man de- 
parted. We therefore sougbt and readily obtained of the Berlin city authorities 
the use of the Dorothea church, one of the most spacious buildings of public 
worship here. It was arranged that the Reverend II. P. Tappan, D. D., of New 
York, now temporarily in Berlin, should conduct the services and deliver an 
address, and the German part of the exercises was intrusted to the very- 
distinguished author and divine. Rev. Dr. Krummacher, chaplain to his 
Prussian Majesty at Potsdam, who kindly had consented to otHciate on the 
occasion. AVe also obtained the services of the choir of the royal cathedral ; 
the church was draped in black, and the American Hag hung in mourning. 

The services were among the most significant and solemn ever held in 
Berlin. The attendance was so large tliat many persons were unable to obtain 
admission, and remained standing outside in the churchyard. His ^Majesty the 
King was represented by Major General Von lioyen, his aide-de camp. The 
})resident of the ministry of state, and minister of foreign aiFairs, llcrr Von 
])ismarck, was also present. So were the members of the diphmiatic corps 
in full, a large number of the I'russian House of Deputies, and v«-ry many of 
the distinguished men of science, letters, and art. It was indeed a noble tribute 
to our martyr President and the cause in which he had died. I beg leave to 
enclose the order of exercises as printed for the occasion. 

The addresses by Dr Tappan and Dr. Kiuinraacher were chxpient and Irding^ 
tributes to the public and private virtues of the deceased, and to the genius of 
our institutions in devel()i)ing character, as illustrated in the life of .Mr. Lincoln. 
Throughout the whole of the exercises, the audience remained absorbed and 
profoundly touched by the simple solemnity and imprcssiveness of the scene, 
which will be long remembered by the people of Berlin. 

There is no abatement as yet of die intense excit.'iuent and heartfidt sympathy 
in all classes of society, here and elsewhere, in Germany, over the sad ••vnif. 
and the possible and probable conse(|Uences thereof. All are moved, and seeking 
■words and mod'es to show^ us their deej) emotion and genuine sympathy. ^ 

The first feeling of many here and elsewhere, on learning of the assassn.atioii 

32 A 



498 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

of President Lincoln, was one of alarm and apprehension lest his death might be 
followed by anarchy and confusion, and oixr government be paralyzed. The 
quiet and undisturbed assumption of office by President Johnson, his speeches 
at his inauguration and on other occasions, have iioav removed all fear, and 
convinced all persons that the people and not dynasties rule in the United 
States ; that our government and our institutions do not depend upon any man's 
life, however great and good that man ma}' be. The American people stand 
forth greater than ever in the eyes of Germany and Eui'ope. 

Whatever may have been done in the United States, Mr. Lincoln is being 
canonized in Europe. A like unanimity of eulogy by sovereigns, parliaments, 
corporate bodies, by the people, aud by all public journals, was never before 
witnessed on this continent. The most truthful and eloquent testimonials are 
now given by some of those that belied him most while living. 
I am, sir, your obedient servant, 

N. B. JUDD 

Hon. WiiJ.iAM Hunter, 

Acting Sccrctai-y of Siafe, WasJiington. 



[Trautilation. ] 
Address to tJie Aincrican j^cojih h}/ the Berlin World ng-7n en's Cluh. 

Berlin, May 4, 1865. 

]\Ir. ^Iinister : "With liveliest interest we have watched the giant struggle 
for the rights of free labor which the United States of America have entered 
upon, and have so nobly maintained during four years. With great joy we 
beheld the star-spangled banner issuing triumphantly from this battle for free- 
dom and civilization, for we fully understood the vast import and bearing of the 
results thereby achieved. 

In the midst of the rejoicings over these victories, we are filled Avith horror 
at the tidings of the cowardly assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. 

Struck down by a murderous hand in the very fulfilment of his historical 
mission, and when jubilant voices announced the triumph of freedom, it was 
not vouchsafed him to enjoy the fruits of the victories which his kind and noble 
heart prompted him, in the most conciliatory spirit, to employ only for the final 
■ending of the long war, and the restoration of a speedy peace. 

Abraham Lincoln has finished his course and accomplished his work. He 
has reached the highest step of the virtue of a citizen. The son of a laboring 
man, and himself a laborer, he took up the fight for the rights of free labor 
and carried it to a triumphant termination. 

As a wise legislator, an energetic statesman, a loyal citizen, and a good man, 
being a shining example for present generations and posterity, his memory will 
be held sacred, not only by his fellow-citizens, but by all mankind, and the 
greater the horror with which the intelligence of his murder is received, the 
more brilliantly in immortal splendor will it cause the name and memory of 
Abraham Lincoln to shine. 

We fully share the sincere grief and deep abhorrence which this odious crime 
against the President of the Uisited States of America has inspired in the 
minds of all right-thinking men. But in giving expression of our deep sym- 
pathy in the death of Abraham Lincoln, we feel compelled at the same time to 
give utterance of our hopes and wishes to the effect that the freedom which has 
thus been sealed with the blood of one of the noblest men will only the more 
fully prevail, and that the star-spangled banner may wave in triumph wherever 
i: is unfurled, in battling for the cause of freedom and civilization. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 499 

We ask you, sir to be pleased to brin- this expressiou of our sympalbies to 
the kuowleclge of the government of the United States. 
'• The Berlin Working-men's Club," 

A. IIORTG, 
L. IIOFF, 
II. KllEBS, 
liOBT. XOUVEL. 
E. LKIIMANX, 
J. MLLLKK, 

And ten others. 



[Tr;uisl;vtiou. ] 

Address of the Berlin Artisans' and MccJtcmic Union,. 

r.L.;uLiN, May2\, 1S65. 
Mr. Prf,side\t : The undersia-ned, a committee chosen in the meeting of the 
Berlin Altgesellen-Yerein, held on the 9th instant, are charged to express to 
you. the represent ative of the great American republic, our ])rofound horror and 
indignation at the assassination of the noble and faithful citizen, President 
Abraham Lincoln. Not merely the societies in Berlin, but the working-men in 
all Europe — we affirm it with pride — have ever frankly stood on the side of the 
Union in that giant struggle which the people of the United States — it is true, 
not without great sacrilices — have carried to a triumphant end ; a struggle of 
labor truly free against slavery — of free labor such as we here, too, are striving 
for, and which in your country, in full possession of political rights, enjoys that 
respect which is due to it, as the source of all national M'ealth. 

In rencAving, therefore, the expressions of our sym])athy for the cause of the 
Union, and our admiration for the noble and faithful citizen. President Lincoln, 
permit us, Mr. President, to utter our conviction that you, a true son of the 
people, v/ill be able to achieve the fullest recognition of the principles of human 
rights, so that your enemies, who are ours likewise, will hereafter be deprived of 
all their noxious influence and power. 
By direction of the Altgesellen-Verein : 

SCHLEY. 

STEXTY. 

WE LEY. 

P. RANTY. 

KIK.MANN. 

Mr. Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States. 



[Translation.] 

To the President of the United States, Mr. Andrew Johnson. 

Berlin, il/«^ 11, 1SG5. 
Mr PRE^ruENT • Li accordance with the resolution unanimously ))assed 
May 1 instant, in the Berlin section of the Allgem.siner DeTitsche Arl.eitcr- 
Veiein,we herewith express to you, as the representative of the great Amer- 
ican commonwealth, our deep horror at the monstrous deed which robbed yonr 
country and the world of the good citizen and man, Abraham Line... ;u.. 
assure you of our warmest sympathy with the cause whose martyr he has 
become. 



500 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEEESPONDENCE. 

Members of the working class, we^need not affirm to you tlie sincerity of these 
onr sympathies ; for with pride we can point to the fact, that, while the aris- 
tocracy of the Old World took openly the part of the southern slaveholder, and 
while the middle class was divided iu its opinions, the working-men in all 
countries of Eui-ope have unanimously and firmly stood on the side of the 
Union. And how could it have been otherwise ? as the gigantic battle which 
the people of the United States have fought so valiantly and gained so glo- 
riously was the battle oi free labor against slavery, oi truly free labor — that is, 
iu the full possession of its political rights, and therefore enjoys that respect 
which is due to the mother of all social wealth, and all political liberty, but 
which in Europe is unfortunately yet denied to labor, because here it has not 
yet conquered its political rights. The state of Franklin and Lincoln, the state 
whose first citizen is now again a son of toil, has indeed vindicated the rights 
of labor ; and the example it gives shall not be lost upon us. 

Before concluding, we express once more our admiration for Abraham Lin- 
coln, one of the purest and noblest among the pure and noble martyrs of liberty. 
He. has done his duty. And happy the laud which, after such a terrible war, 
after such an enormous ci'ime, could, without the slightest disturbance of the 
state, make an Andrew Johnson the successor of an Abraham Lincoln. 

In the name of the Berlin section of the Allgemeiner Deutsche Aibeiter- 
Verein : 

W. LIEBKNECHT. 

A. VOGT. 

C. SCHILLING. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 501 



PORTUGAL. 



Air. de Figaniare to Blr. Hunter. 
[Trauslatiou. ] 

This Most Faithful Majesty's Legatiox in the Umtkd States, 

Charh'stou-n, Maryland, ApiU 17, 1865. 

Sir: Your note of the lotli instaut, with the sad information of the awful 
events of the previous night, resulting in the unexpected death of President Lin- 
coln, wag received by me this day with great regret. 

Sincerely sympathising with the g ivernraent and people of the United States 
for the loss they have sustained, T trust that the honorable Secretary of State 
and his sou, Mr. Frederick Seward, may recover from the injuries iullictcd u'pou 
them. 

1 am also advised by your said note that, pursuant to the provision of the 
Constitution of the United States, Andrew Johnson, the Vice-President, has 
formally assumed the functions of President, and that you have by him been 
authorized to perform the duties of Secretary of State until otherwise ordered. 

I take this occasion to offer to you, sir, the assurance of my <rreat consi'lcration. 

DE FIGAXIERE E MOKAU. 

Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State of the United States, Washington. 



[Translatiou.] 
HOUSE OF PEERS. — SESSION OF MAV 5, 18G5. 

Mr. Rebello da Silva. Mr. Speaker: I desire to bring forward some con- 
siderations on an affair which I deem of importance. My object is to present 
my reasons for the motion which I shall presently introduce. 

The House is aware, by official documents published in the foreign papers, 
that a criminal event has plunged in grief and mourning a great nation on the 
other side of the Atlantic, the powerful republic of the United States. 

The Count d'Avila. I desire to speak on this incident on the part ot tlie 

government. , , . i • .i 

Mr. R. DA Silva. President Abraham Lincoln has been assassinated in the 

theatre, almpst in the very arms of his wife ! .■,••* • i 

The pei-petration of this cruel act has caused profound pain in Ain.-r.ca and 
in every court of Europe. Every cabinet and every parliament have given vent 
to thei/ deep feelings on such a painful event. It behooves all civilized socie- 
ties, it becomes alniost the duty of all constituted political bodies, to cause then: 
manifestations to be accompanied by the sincere expression of horror and p o- 
found pain with which they deplore acts so grave and enmn.al. [;•'"•■• 
It very often happens, .apparently through fatality or ll''^^^'^^/^ ^. "'^^^^^^^ 
disposition or unfathomable mysteries of Providence, which is the mo C It n 
historic law, that in the life of nations, as in that of ""^-''^^I'f ^/^^ '^' " ;^ 
the highest position, after consummating the most ^'V'^^"' '^^'^^ 1^' "^ ^. , . 
having" reached the very highest steps in the scale of human P « - ;. ^ ^^^ 
the road appears suddenly easy and smooth, when a 1 ^1- '^ '^^ '^j^ ' ^ 
the horizon, and the briglitest light enlivens every object aiound-it is tlu n 



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that an iuvisible hand raises itself up from darkness; that an occult and inexor- 
able force arms itself in silence; and, brandishing the poniard of a Brutus, 
pointing the cannon of a Wellington, or presenting flie poisoned cup of the 
Asiatic kings, dashes down from the heights the triumphant and laureled victor, 
and castshim at the foot of Pompey's statue like Ca?sar, at the feet of exhausted 
Fortune like Napoleon, at the feet of the Roman Colossus like Hannibal. 

'^I'he mission of all great men, of all heroes, who are looked upon almost as 
demi-gods, while receiving as they do, from above, that short-lived omnipotence 
which revolutionizes society and transforms nations, passes away like the tem- 
pest's blast in its fiery car, and moments afterwards dashes itself against the 
eternal barriers of impossibility — those barriers which none can go beyond, and 
where all the pride of their ephemeral power is humbled and reduced to dust 
God alone is immutable and great! 

Death strikes the blow, or ruin attains them in the height of their power, as 
an evidence to all princes, conquerors, and n.itions, that their hour is but one 
and short, that their work becomes weak, as all human work, from the moment 
that the luminous column which guided them is extinguished, and darkness 
overtakes them on their way. The new roads which they have carved out, and 
whereby they expect to proceed undaunted and secure, have turned into abysses 
where they have fallen and perished, from the moment that the IMost High 
numbered the days of their empire and their ambition. [Hear, hear.] 

This has been witnessed as a terrible example, as an admirable lesson, in the 
catastrophes which have overtaken the most conspicuous men in history. And 
thus do we see this day the recent pages of the annals of the pow,erful republic of 
the United States spotted with the illustrious blood of one of its most remark- 
able citizens. 

At the close of the first four years of a government, during which war became 
his motto, the President of the republic is suddenly struck down at the moment 
of his triumph, and his now inanimate and paralyzed hands let fall those reins 
of administration which the force and energy of his will, the co-operation of his 
countrymen, the prestige and sublimity of the grand idea which he personified 
and defended, have immortalized, with the accumulations of millions of aims on 
the battle-fields, and of voices in the popular elections, lie-elected, carried a 
second time on the popular bucklers to the supreme administration of affairs, at 
the moment when the ardor of a civil contest was subsiding, when the union of 
that immense dilacerated body seemed to foreshadow the healing up of the 
wounds whence had gushed firth for so many months, and in such torrents, the 
generous blood of the free, almost in the arms of victory, in the midst of that 
populace who loved him most, in the centre of his popular court, he suddenly 
meets with death, and the bullet of an obscure fanatic closes and seals up the 
golden volume of his destiny at the very hour when success promised a new 
life and was welcoming peace with joyful acclamations. 

This is no king who disappears in the darkness of the tomb, l^rying with 
himself, like unto Henry IV, the realization of great hopes. He is the chief of 
a glorious people, leaving a successor in every citizen who shared his ideas, and 
who sympathized with his noble and well founded aspirations. It is not a pur- 
ple covered throne which has been covered with crape — it is the heart of a great 
empire which has been cast into mourning. That cause of which he was the 
strenuous champion has not ceased to exist, but all weep at his loss in horror at 
the crime and the occasion, and for the expectations which his pure and gener- 
ous intentions had inspired. 

Lincoln, a martyr to the prolific principle which he represented in power and 
in strife, now belongs to history and to posterity. Like unto the name of Wash 
ington, whose example and principles he followed, his own name shall be allied 
with the memorable era to which he belonged and which he appreciated. 

As the champion of freedom in America, Lincoln drew, without hesitatioiv 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 503 

the sword of the republic, and M'ith the j)oint thereof erased from ll,e code of a 
free people that anti-social .tis'.na, tl.at blasphemy against lu a at e the 
sad, shameful, infamous codicil of anti^iuated societLs.^he dark a /d '•,.;„ u 
abuse of slavery, w nch Jesus Christ M-as the first to condemn from h 1? i 
of the cross when he proclaimed the equality of men before God, and -I i 
nmeteen centuries of civilization, enlightened by the gospel has prober be , 
condemned as the opprobrium of these our present tiim-s. fllear^ heu 1 

At the moment that he cast away the chains of an unfortunate race of i.en, and 
when he contemplated millions of future citizens in the millions of emancipate, 
men-at the very moment that the echo of Grant's victorious cannon proclaimed 
the emancipation of the soul, of conscience, and of labor, when the la^h wis 
about to drop from the hand of the task-master, when the former hut .,f the .lave 
was about to be converted into a home, at the moment that the stars of the Union 
bright and resplen.ient wilh the gladdening light of liberty, waved triumphan; 
over the fallen ramparts of Petersburg and Richmond— it was th.-n that the 
grave opened its jaws, and tlie strong and the powerful falls to rise no more 
111 the midst of triumphs and acclamations, a spectre appeared unto him and, 
like^that ot Otesar, m the ides of March, saiil : Thou hast lived! 

Far be it from me to enter into the appreciation of tlie civil questions which 
have disturbed the brotherhood of the same family in America. I am r.either 
their ju<!ge nor their censor. I bow down to a principle, that of liberty, 
wherever I see it respected and upheld; but at the same time I have learned to 
love and cherish another, not less sacred and glorious— the princijjle of inde- 
pendence. May the force of progress in our days bind again tlmse who iiave 
been separated by differences of opinion, and may it reconcile tjie idcjas which 
exist in. the heart, the aspiratiims, and in the desire of all generous minded men. 

In this warfare, the proportions of which have exceeded everything that has 
ever been seen or heard of in Europe, the vanquished of to-day are worthy of 
the great race from which they descend. Grant and Lee are two giants whom 
history will in future respect in an inseparable manner. But the hour of jjcace 
was, perhaps, about to strike, and Lincoln desired it as the reward of his pains, 
as the great result of so many sacrifices. After the exhit)ition of strength comes 
toleration. After the bloody fury of battles comes the fraternal embrace of 
citizens ! 

Such were his manifested intentions — these were the last and iiulile wishes 
M'hich he had formed. And at this very instant, perhaps the only one in which 
a noble man is so powerful in doing good, and when the soul rises above whole 
legions as a jjaci.lcator, that the hand of the assassin rises up in treachery and 
cuts off such mjg'hty and noble purposes. [Hear, hear.] 

Were not the American nation a people grown old in the painful strifes and 
experiences of government, who is there that could foresee the fatal consequr-ncea 
of this sudden blow ? Who knows but that, in such a case, the fiery torch of 
civil war, in all its horrible pomp and terror, would spread itself to the further- 
most State? of the fedc^-ation ? But, happily, no such calamity is to be apju-e- 
hended. At the time that the press and public opinion have, with justice and 
sevei-ity, condemned this event, and given expression to their horror at fho 
fatal crime — sentiments and feelings which are common to the whole of Eu- 
rope — they pay homage to the ideas of peace and conciliation just as if the 
great man who first invoked them had not disappeared from the great scene of 
the world. And I purposely repeat the expression, great man, because, in truth, 
great is that man who, confiding alone in his own mt-rits, rises fmui pr.)f..nnd 
obscurity to the greatest heights, like Napoleon, like Washington, like Lineuln ; 
Avho elevate themselves to the heights of power and of greatness, not in virtue of 
the chances of birth or of a noble descent, but by the prestige of his own actions, 
by that nobility which begins and ends in themselves, aiul wiiicli is solely the 
work of their own hands. [Cheers. Ilear ! hear!] 



504 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

The mail wlio makes himself great and famous by his own acts and by his 
own genius is more to be envied than h.o who was born among inherited es- 
cutcheons of nobility. Lincoln belongs to that privileged race — to that aristoc- 
racy. In infancy his energetic soul was tempered in poverty. In youth labor 
inspired him v/ith the love of liberty and respect for the rights of men. Up to 
the age of twenty-two educated in adversity, with his hands hardened by hon- 
orable labor ; while resting from the fatigues of dail}^ toil, drinking in from the 
inspired pages of the Bible the lessons of the gospel ; and in the ephemeral 
leaves of the public journals, which the morning brings forth and the evening 
disperses, the first rudiments of that instruction which is subsequently ripened 
by solitary meditation. Light gradually and gently illuminated that soul. 
The wings with which it took its flight then expanded and strengthened ; the 
chrysalis felt one bright day the rays of the sun which called it into life ; it 
broke through its bonds, and rose up from its humble condition to those lumin- 
ous spheres where a higher destiny was awaiting its approach. The farmer, 
,the laborer, the shejdierd, like Cincinnatus, abandoned his plow, half buried in 
the earth, and, as a legit^lator in his native State, and subsequently in the na- 
tional Congress, he prepared in the public tribunal to become one day the popu- 
lar chief of many millions of people — the defender of the holy piinciple which 
AVilberforce inaugurated. \Vhat strifes, Avhat agitated scenes, what a series of 
herculean works and incalculable sacriiices are involved and represented by 
their glorious results in these four years of warfare and government. 

Armies in the field, such as ancient history speaks not of! Immense battles, 
during Avhich the sun rises and sets two and three times before victory declares 
itself on either side! Heavy marches, where thousands of victims, whole legions 
covered with their dead every foot of conquered ground! Invasions, the daring 
and dangers whereof far surpass the records of Attila and the Huns ! What 
awful obsef[uies for the scourge of slavery! What a terrible and salutary les- 
son has this people, still rich and vigorous in youth, given to the timid scruples 
of ancient Europe, now the battle-field of principles likewise sacred! These 
were the beacons, the landmarks which guided bis grand career. If the sword 
w^as the instrument in his hands, yet liberty, inspiration, and the courage which 
were the outgroM'th of his principles were equally effective. Tram]>liiig down 
the thorns on his path, guitiing his steps amidst the tears and the blood of so 
many holocausts, he still lived to see the promised land ! He was not permitted 
to plant on that soil the auspicious olive-branch of peace and concord. Vv hen 
he was about to reunite the loosened bond of the Union; when he was about to 
infuse into the body of his country the vivifying spirit of free institutions, after 
collecting and reimiting its dispersed and bloody members; whin the standard 
of the republic, its funeral diiges ended, its agonies of pride and defeat silenced 
and subsided, was about to rise again and to spr€;ad its glorious folds over a 
reconciled people, purified and cleansed from the slain of slavery — the great 
athlete stepped in the ring and fell, thus proving that, after all, he was but mor- 
tal ! [Hear, hear, hear. Applauses.] 

I think this brief and hurried sketch is quite sufficient for the occasion. The 
Chamber being by its nature, by duty and by organization, not only the conser- 
vator but the faithful warden of traditions and principle, will not hesitate to take 
part in the demonstration which the elective Chamber has already adopted, thus 
following the example of all the enlightened parliaments of Europe. Silence in 
the presence of such criminal attempts can only be maintained by such senates 
as are dumb and void of elevated sentiments and aspirations. [Hear, hear.] 

By voting the present motion the Chamber of Peers takes a part in the feelings 
of pain now experienced by all civilized nations. The crime which has closed 
the career of Lincoln — a martyr to the noble principles of which this epoch has 
reason to be proud — is almost, is essentially a regicide, and a monarchical country 
cannot but abhor and condemn it. The descendants of those men who were the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 505 

first in tlie sixtcentli century to reveal to Europe the new road wliicli, across 
stormy and unknown seas, opened the gates of the eastern world, must not be 
the last to bow down before the grave of a great citizen and a great magistrate, 
who himself piloted his people through terrible tempests and succeeded in lead- 
ing them in triumph over the fallen ramparts of slavery's stronghold. Let each 
people and each era have its task and its share of glory. Let each ilhistrious 
citizen have his crown of laurel or his civic crown. [Hear, hear. Applauses.] 

The Minister of Foreign Aftairs, Count d'Avila. As a peer of the realm 
be takes part in this noble manifestation ; as minister of the Crown he had 
already done as much in his own name at first, wlien mere rumors were circu- 
lated that the crime had been committed, and agiin after having received 
the order of his Mnjesty, as soon as no doubt unfortunately existed on the 
subject, in order to show what were the sentiments of the i'ortugnese govern- 
ment. 

Mr. FiFBELLO l>A SiLVA. Mr. Speaker: I am rejoiced to hear the words of 
the minister of finance and of foreign afi'airs. They give evidence that the gov 
ernment has acted in this affair with that propriety and promptitude which its 
duty indicated, and which are inspired by noble feelings. 1 shall now lay on 
the table my motion of order, as follows : 

" The Chamber of Peers deplores, Avith the most sincere feelings of pain, the 
criminal act which has just thrown into mourning the sons of a gre:it nation, by 
the death of the President of the United States of America, Mr. Lincoln, Avho 
died a martyr to his duty. 

L. A. EEBELLO DA SILVA." 

The Speaker. The Chamber has h; ard the reading of this motion ; I do uo* 
consider it necessary to have it again read from the table, as it would not have 
a better effect than when read by its author. [Hear, hear.] 

Mr. PtBBELLO DA SrLVA.. The Couut d'Avila has likewise signed the motion. 

The Speaker. All the worthy peers who approve of the motion will be 
pleased to indicate as much. 

It was unanimously approved. 

The Count u'Avila. I request that it be recorded in the minutes that the 
voting was unanimous. [Hear, hear.] 



[Translation.] 

House of Deputies, 

Session of May o, 18G5. 

The President. The proposal just placed on the table by the deputy, :\rr. 
Medeiros, will now be read. It is as follows : 

Proposal— i move that the House do insert in its minutes a significant ex- 
pression of the profound emotion with which it received the news of the bar-_ 
barous assassination committed on the person of Mr. Ln.coln, the 1 resulent of 
the United States of America, and that the worthy representative of that r<.pnb- 
lic at this court be respectfully informed of the deliberation of the House on this 

"''' The Deputy HENRIQUE MEDEIROS DE PAULA MEDEIROS 

House of Sessions, May 3, 1865. 

Mr. Carlos Bento. I do not know whether the "'"^ion is admith.1 but it 
appears tome that, from its very nature, it is of '^^^^^ /^'"i" " ' ' '' 'u 
chiracter. On my part I do not hesitate, m the name of the goveimnuil, m 



506 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

sharing such a noble and feeling manifestation as the one contained in the pro- 
posal. 

We are all unanimous in common with the civilized nations of Eui-ope in con 
demning an act which has excited the indignation of the whole people without 
respect to party distinctions. All and every individual reprobates the fattd deed 
which has taken place in the United States. 

I willingly take part in the expression of the vote contained in the proposal. 
I feel convinced that the Portuguese Parliament will not hesitate one moment 
in adopting the manifestation of s^uch becoming sentiments. [Hear, hear.J 

Mr. Saxt'Anna e Vasconcellos. I thank the illustrious deputy, tlie au- 
thor of the motion, for having brought it forward, and I do so from my whole 
heart. 

Mr. Paula Medeiros. I thank the noble deputy for his expressions. 

Mr. Sant'Anna e Vasconcellos. If the disastrous war which has existed 
in America during the last three or four years has a justification, it is to be 
found in the one grand and noble motive which has dominated throughout the 
abolition of slavery. The man who has just fallen a victim to the assassination 
AA'hich we all deplore maintained that noble and sublime idea. In view of the 
fact which is in itself so much to be deplored, and in presence of the great and 
persistent idea of that great citizen, we cannot refrain from being unanimous in 
voting the motion. 

The Minister op Public Works. I spoke in the name of the government, 
and I can assure the House that the government has already tendered those 
manifestations which its duty and its feelings clearly indicated. I congratulate 
myself on the fact that the Parliament was allowed the opportunity by a spon- 
taneous initiative of manifesting its sentiments. 

On putting the motion to the vote, it was carried unanimously. 



Cou7it d'Arila to 3Ir. Ilarvci/. 

[Translation.] 

Department of State for Foreign Affairs, 

31(11/ 6, 1865. 

I have the honor of handing you copies enclosed of a communication ad- 
dressed to me by the secretary of the Chamber of Deputies, under yesterday's 
date, and of the motion referred to in said communication, which was presented 
in the session of the 3d instant, and voted unanimously, manifesting the senti- 
ments of said Chamber in regard to the horrible deed committed on the person 
of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States of America. 

Whilst requesting you to bring these documents before your government, it 
is my duty to inform you that his Majesty's government, immediately that it 
was informed of an event which has §addened a nation whose destinies had 
been confided to so illustrious a magistrate, issued the needful instructions to 
his Majesty's minister, at the United States, with a view to express to the 
American government the profound regret with which his Majesty the King 
and his government received the news of that event. 

I avail of this opportunity to reiterate the assurances of my most distin- 
guished consideration. 

CONDE D'AVILA. 



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CoUTtt d'AiUa to Mr. Harvey. 

[Translation.] 
Dei'artmk.\t of Statk von Furkk;.\ Affairs. 

Mai/ \2, 1S65. 

In addition to my noto, dated Gtl. iu.taut, I hav." tl... lionor to jiand you eu- 
closed a copy ot the communication wliieli, under date of 9th instant, wa/^.-nt to 
me bv tlie vice-preBideut of tlie Chamber of the IVers of the reahn, as welf a. of 
the document, a copy of which accompanied it, containing the moli(,n made ia 
the session of the 5th instant, by tlie worthy l^-er Luis Au-usto Jlcbello da 
Silva— amotion in which I took part as a peer of the realm, and which was car- 
ried nnaniraously to the effect of havino- it recorded in the minutes— how deep 
was the pam experienced at the news of tlie horrible crime perpetrafd on the 
person of Mr. Lincoln, President of the United States. 

In the aforesaid document you will find that part of the minutes which refers 
to the subject ; and I have to request that you will be pleased to make known 
to your government the manifestations of said Chamber ou au event which all 
so deej^ly deplore. 

I avail of this opportunity to renew the assurances of my most distinguished 
consideration. 

COUNT D' A VI LA. 
James E. Harvev, Esq., <^., S^-c, ^r. 



[Translation.] 
CHAMBER OF WORTHY PEERS OF THE REAL-At. 

Most Excellent Sir : The Chamber of Peers of the realm, having unani- 
mously resolved, in its session of the 5th instant, and ou motion of the worthy 
Peer Luis Augusto Rebelio da Silva, in which the worthy Peer Count d'Avila 
took part, to record in its minutes the expression of great pain which the Cliam- 
ber felt at the news of the horrible crime committed in the United States of 
America ou the person of Mr. Lincoln, their illustrious President, I have now 
the honor of handing yourjexcellency the enclosed copy, containing the afore- 
said motion, and that part of the minutes which relates to the subject, in order 
that your excellency may, through such channel as may be deemed most ap- 
propriate, cause the same to be made known to the gf)vernment of the United 
States. 

Mav C4od preserve your excellency! Palace of the Cortes, !\Iay 9, 1S65. 

COUNT DE CASTllO, Vice-President. 

His Excellency the CoiNT D'Avila, 

Mml^ter and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 

True copy: EMILIO ACHILLES MONTEVERDE. 

Depart.meat OF State for Foreig.v Affairs, May 12, 1S65. 



Cu7int d'Avila to Mr. Harvey. 

[Translation.] 

Department of State for EoREi<i\ Affairs. 

May 1(3, 1SG5. 

I have the honor of handing vou, for your information, the .-ncIo.cMl copy ..f 
a despatch wdiich the secretary of the Chamber of Deputies, now dissolved ad- 
dressed to me under date of the 13th instant, and likewise ot the motioa which 



508 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

accompanied the same, made bj one of its members, and unanimously voted, on 
the occasion of communicating to the said Chamber the note which you ad- 
dressed to the house on the 10th instant. 

I avail of this opportunity to renew the assurances of my most distinguished 
consideration, 

COUNT D'AVILA. 

James E. Harvey, Esq., &fc., S^-c, d^c. 



[Translation.] 

Bureau of the Secretary op the Chamber of Deputies, 

Palace of the Cortes, May 13, 1865. 
Most Excellent Sir: I have the honor of transmitting to your excel- 
lency, for your iuformitiou, the enclosed copy of the motion presented in this 
Chamber by one of its members, and voted unanimously, on the occasion of 
communicating to the house the note from the legation of the United States of 
America at this court, in reply to the manifestation of feeling and regret ad- 
dressed to said leg-atiou on the atrocious assassination of the President of that ' 
republic. 

May God preserve your excellency ! 

JOAQUIM XAVIER PINTO DA SILVA, 

Deputy and Secretary. 
His Excellency the Minister and Secretary 

of State for Eorbign Affairs. 

True copy : 

EillLIO ACHILLES MONTEVEHDE. 
Department of State for Foreign Affairs, May 16, 1865. 

1 move that it be recorded in the minutes that the Chamber has heard, with 
every demonstration of true respect and profound sympathy, the note which 
has just been read at the table, and addressed' to the house by the minister 
resident of the United States of America at this court. 

I further move that the government be informed of this deliberation, in order 
to communicate the sam.e to the distinguished minister. 

JACINTHO AUGUSTO DE SANT'ANNA E VASCONCELLOS. 

Correct copy : 

POSSIDONIO A. P. PICALUGA. 

Bureau of the Secretary of the Chamber of Deputies, 

May 13, 1865. 
True copy : 

E.MILIO ACHILLES MONTEVERDE. 

Department of State for Foreign Affairs, May 16, 1865. 



[Translation.] 

Department of State for Foreign Affairs, 

May 1, 1865. 

The government of his Majesty has been informed of the horrible crime of 
which, unhappily, President Lincoln and his Secretary of State, Mr. Seward, 
have been victims. 

So sad an event, clothing in mourning a nation over whose destinies that dis- 
tinguished magistrate presided, could not but be profoundly felt by the Portu- 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 509 

giiese nation conn,.cted as it ever has been in the closest ties of fnendship and 
good understanding with the United States. <=uu>-'np ana 

The part which his Majesty's government takes in the grief which with 
reason, oppresses the American nation, and the indignation which that crime 
has given canse for, have led me to direct you, by order of his Majesty the 
Iviug, to make known, without loss of time and in the most express tenn. to 
the government of the United States the feelings of true sorr.!w with wi.'ich 
our sovereign lord and his government are penetrated by so fatal an occurrence 

Crod save your excellency ! 

teeuor Joaquin Cesar de Figaniere e Mokao. 



[Translation.] 

Department op State for Foreign Ai'eaihs, 

Mui/ 8, 1865. 

In addition to my despatch of the 1st instant. I send you the enclosed copies, 
as well of the despatch which the secretary of the Chamber of Deputies sent to 
me, under date of the 5th, as of the resolution to Avliich said despatch refers, 
presented at the sittings on the 3d, unanimously ado])ted, tending to manifest 
the regret of said Chamber at the horrible crime committed on the person of the 
President of the United States, Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Of these documents 
you will please to give knowledge to that government, stating that they were 
communicated to Mr. Harvey on the 6th of this month. 

Their Majesties and highnesses are going on happily without change in their 
important health. 

God, &c. ! 

CONDE D'AVILA. 

Senor Joaqitin Cesar de Figaniere e Morao. 



[Translation.] 

Secretariat of the Chamber of DEPrTiR.s, 

Palace of the Cortes, May 5, 1865. 
Most Excellent Sir : There having been represented by the Sefior Dep- 
uty Henrique Fen eiro de Paula 31edeiios, at the session of this Chamber, on 
the 3d instant, a resolution tending to give a manifestation of feeling in regard 
to the wicked assassination of the worthy President of the United States of 
America, 1 have the honor to send you a copy of the said resolution, to the end 
that you may cause it to reach the knowledge of the representative of that gov- 
ernment at this court, with the declaration, tiiat it may have its full ctiect, that 
it was unanimously api)roved by the Chamber. 
God save yoiu" excellency ! 

JOAQUIN XAVIER PINTO DA SILVA, 

Dvjmtij ^ccn(ary. 

His Excellency the Minister and Secretary 

of State for Foreign Affairs. 



Mr: Harvey to Mr. Scivard. 

No 33G1 Legation of the United Stati-j:. 

^' Lishon, April •^>^, 1865. 

Sir • Mr \dams telegra])hed me last night from London the terrible nevira 
of the assassination of President Lincoln, and ..fan atrocious attempt upon the 



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life of Mr. Sfward on the same evening, the result of which is not yet known 
here, by the hand of another assassin. These events have excited the pro- 
foundest emotion in all the circles of Lisbon, and have called out general and 
particular expressions of sympathy and respect from the government, the diplo- 
matic body, and the community. 

I do not trust myself to speak of this great crime at a moment of mingled 
sorrow and prostration ; but I may be allowed to say, that after the grief nat- 
ural to such an occasion, the sense of humiliation at the thouglit that an 
atrocity so awful could by possibility be perpetrated in a country like ours is 
that which most masters and overwhelms me. 

Christian charity may, with the blessing of God, teach us to bow down be- 
fore this stern trial, but the stain which it inflicts cannot soon be wiped out from 
a name heretofore untarnished by any such act of infamy. 

If there was anything wanting to complete the fame of Mr. Lincoln, it may 
be found in the crown of martyrdom with which an eventful career, in a most 
eventful epoch, has been closed, to the regret of a whole people, who shared 
his convictions, honored his virtues, and lament his "taking oft"." 
1 have the honor to be, sh-, your obedient servant, 

JAMES E. HARVEY. 

Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



JMr. Harvey to Mr. Scivard. 

No. 338] LegatioxN of the United States, 

Lisbon, May 11, 1865. 

Sir : The papers will bring to your view the proceedings of the Cortes in 
regard to the recent melancholy event which has so much shocked the civilized 
world. 

The note of the minister of foreign affairs only communicates tlie action of 
the Chamber of Deputies, because the motion in that body specially required it 
to be done, while that in the Peers did not do so. I have thought it best, how- 
ever, to send a translated copy of the full proceedings in both branches of the 
Cortes, in order that their spirit may be the better appreciated. The tardy pub- 
lication of the official journal does not permit at this time (on the eve of the 
departure of the mails) such a translation as I desired to furni.-h, but the gen- 
eral tone of the speeches is fliirly reported. That of Mr. llebello da Silva, in 
the Peers, was remarkably eloquent and touching, and has received very imper- 
fect justice at the hands of the translator. In the pressure of the moment it 
has been found impracticable to translate one of the addresses, Avhich is com- 
municated in the original. 

It seemed to me only becoming to make an acknowledgment of the note of 
the Chamber of Deputies. 

Every manilestation of respect to the memory of the late President Lincoln 
which could be expected or desired has been made by this government and 
people, both in an offlcial and in a private manner. His i\[ajesty the King, 
immediately upon being informed of the sad event, sent me the kindest words 
of sympathy and regret. Every member of the government called iti person 
to express similar sentiments, and when our ships-of-war, tlie Niagara and 
Kearsarge, exhibited the customary signs of mourning, on Sunday, Monday, 
and Tuesda}^ last, the Portuguese national ships not only united in a similar 
observance, but Castle Belem also responded to all the salutes, by order of the 
authorities, and without any xrotice or request on our part. 

While u^jon this subject I may be permitted to remark, as quite worthy of 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 511 



notice, that the popular leoji,lative bodies of the different states of Europo ],ave 
taken the initiative in nearly all the expressions of public sympathy. Such a 
tribute was not only fitting in itself towards our lamented President, but the 
fact IS signihcant of a mighty change and progress in ideas and usages, as it ia 
of a coming time, in the near future, when the peoples of Eiirope'^will claim 
the right to assert those great principles of political and personal liberty which 
Abraham Lincoln illustrated so well, and for which he may be said ^to liave 
even made a sacrifice of his life. 

1 haA-e the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, 

JAMES E. HAKVEY. 
Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



[Translation from tlie Coninicrcio da Lisboa. ] 

An address was delivered to-day to the minister of the United States at this 
court, expressing the di'cp feelings of pain and regret with which the news of 
the death of citizen Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States, was 
received at Lisbon. 

This address, which received its inspiration from Mr. Jose de Seabra Pessoa, 
was proposed at the association (centro) by the member Costa Pereira, and 
signed by the members J. Pessoa, Costa Pereira, E. Coetho, Brito Arauha, 
Vieira da Silva, and Gouveia. 

At 1L30 the minister received the deputation, composed of Messieurs Vieira 
da Silva, Gonzalves, Costa Pereira, and Jose Seabra Pessoa. His excellency, 
in retnrning thanks for this spontaneous manifestation, addressed the committee 
in most agreeable and very flatteiing terms. 



[Translation from tlie Joriial da Lisboa ] 

A depntation from the " Association for Promoting the Improvement of the 
Laboring Classes," delivered to-day, about 11 o'clock, hito the hands of the 
minister of the United States an address of condolence voted at a meeting of 
the members, on the death of ]Mr. Abraham Lincoln, late President of that re- 
public. 

The minister received the deputation with every mark of consideration, de- 
claring that he would immediately transmit the autograph message to his gov- 
ernment, and he thanked the association for this proof of good feeling and fra- 
ternity between the people of the two nations. 



Sir- All the civilized countries, all the liberal men, are at present under tlie 
most afiecting impression. The crime that struck with horror an illustrious 
people, worthy of universal consideration, was condemned by all those for whom 
the word liberty is the strongest chain that can unite them. 1' roin a 1 .,uart.'rs 
eloquent words were heard condemning the monstrous attempt b.y wl.icli the 
United States of America were deprived of the most useful citizen that lu 
modern times has been elevated by that country to the high dignity of 1 resi- 
dent of the United States. To these eloquent words o empires and nations, 
• of people and states, are joined the humble homage of the Cc«/.« iro,notor dos 
Methoramentos da. Classes Lahoriosas de Ushoa xh^t under the deepest grief 
shows his feelings when acquahited that Lincohi, the emancipator ul the slaves, 
fell a victim to the stroke of a cowardly assassin. , , ., , ,.,.^.,1 

The Centro Promotor could not do otherwise than to Pf f %''"' .f; '" "^ 
feelings, ior his ideas were ofi'ended with the crime by which A.nenci was 



512 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

deprived of such an illustrious man, mankind of a devotional friend, and the 
noble and magnanimous enterprise of the emancipation of the slaves of a strong 
and generous arm. The endeavor in which Lincoln was engaged as a repre- 
sentative of his people's ideas, which he sustained for so long a time with the 
most heroic deeds, meant the extinction of the most reluctant stain with which 
the banners of some states are yet overshadowed ; it means the abolishment of 
slavery, the emancipation of the black race, the ti-ansformation of the slave 
labor into free labor. To this sacred idea the Ccnfro should render his most 
respectful homage, because in peaceful struggles he incessantly works to destroy 
the few vestiges of slavery that may yet press upon the laborious classes. The 
Ccntro, resolute defender of those who labor, does not see in the black race but 
men who ought to be protected by free labor, and elevated to that rank which 
cannot be contested before God by any race. Abraham Lincoln was the repre- 
sentative of these ideas. Providence designed him as a brilliant light for guiding 
the noble American people to the conquest of this victory of civilization. It was 
he that as an instrument of divine justice made the utmsst efforts to extinguish 
upon earth the last traces which divide men from men, and which do not permit 
that its fruits may be only the share of work, and not of a privileged race. How 
could the Centra forget this unlucky event that covered with mourning a whole 
people, with whom the world coudole in such painful suffering? The conquest 
was made. The slave was free. It was not without blood that this holocaust 
was consummated. But never liberty nor social rigiits were acquired without 
a great and immense martyrdom. The Roman slave deserved the most precious 
blood that has been spi-ead upon earth. This is the history of all the conquests 
of liberty. It approached the time when, under the protection of peace, should 
be proved the value that has for the propriety and advancement of nations the 
liberty of labor upon the work of the slave. Lincoln could not enjoy the result 
of his eflorts, and show to his country where his enterprising character could 
arrive. Those who suffered with America this irreparable loss must have resig- 
nation, and let it be a lenitive to our giief ; the well-founded hope that Lincoln's 
work does not stop, and that among that free people shall appear as many 
statesmen as are required for this noble cause to complete its triumph. 

These are, sir, the vows of the Ctntro ; this is the manifestation of his feelings, 
by the fatal death of Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States, the 
devoted friend to his people, the faithful follower of the honorable and liberal 
traditions of the country wiiere Washington and Franklin lived. 

Centro Promoter dos Methoramentos das Glasses Laboriosas Office, June 
11, LS65. 

The Preaident, 

FRANCISCO VIERRA DA SILVA. 

The. Secretaries, 

MIGUEL JUSTINIAXO CORREA E SILVA. 
ALFREDO AUGUSTO CORREA. 



Governor Amarol to Mr. Jones. 
r Translation.] 

No. 72.J Expedient of Foreign Affairs, 

Macao, June 23, 1865. 
Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your official letters, with 
date of yesterday, communicating to me, in one, your receipt of official confirma- 
tion from your government of the death of his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, 
President of the United States, and, in the other, notifying me that the sloop- 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 513 

of-war of your nation anchored in this port tlcsiros to make the usual funereal 
demonstrations for such a sad event to-morrow, 2-lth, current. 

At the first intelligence of this disgraceiiil event I expressed imuifdiately to 
you the i)rof'ound grief of which I was possessed. Kepeatiiig now this niani- 
festation, I am sure that you will receive the same as a sincere expression of 
the good and cordial friendship existing between the peoples of the United States 
and Portugal, and no less as witness of my personal and lively sympathy 
toward your noble nation. 

That was a doubly deplorahlf attempt which deprived a great country of its 
worthy chief just at the time when he had achieved the end of a civil war 
which had for so long a period ravaged it. 

This fatal occurrence will serve, however, to render still more grateful and 
cherished the memory of his Excellency Abraham Lincoln to his countrymen 
for the eminent services which he bestowed, even to the sacrifice of his own 
life. 

Furthermore, expressing my sorrow that his excellency the Secretary of 
State, Mr. Seward, and his son, Frederick Seward, should have been made 
victims of this attempt, I congratulate with you over the comforting intelligence 
that they are thought to he beyond peril of life. 

It remains for me to say to you that to-morrow the forts of the city and the 
lorcha-of-war Amazona will have their ensigns at half-mast, and the Guia fort 
will accompany this demonstration of grief with discharges of cannon, a gun 
every half hour. 

God preserve you. 

J. M. COELHO DO AMAROL, 

Governor of Macao. 
W. E. Jones, Esq., Consul dos Estados JJnidos em Macao. 

33 A 



514 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



PERU. 



[Trauslation.] 

Ministry of Foreign Relations, 

lAma, May 19, 1865. 

The undei signed, minister of fort ign relations of Peru, has been impressed 
with the most profound grief by the note of his excellency the envoy extra- 
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of North America, 
concerning the painful death of the President of that republic, caused by a 
pistol shot discharged upon him by an assassin. 

The deed in itself and by the circumstances which surrounded it will be 
branded in the history of these times with the anathema of a universal repro- 
bation. 

Assuring his excellency, Wx. Robinson, that the government of Peru fully 
sympathizes with the afflicting sorrow which his excellency expresses for so 
unha])py an event, I have the honor to reiterate to him the professions of his 
very high consideration. 

PEDRO JOSE CALDERON. 

His Excellency the Envoy Extraprdinary and Minister 

'Plenipotentiary of the United States of North A?ncrica. 



[Translation.] 

Department of Foreign Relations in Peru. 
Jz(an Antonio Pczet, constitutional President of the rcjmblic of Peru, to his 
Excellency the President of the United States of North America. 

Sir : I comply M'ith a necessity of my heart and with the most sacred duty 
in testifying to your excellency the lively and intense grief Avhich I experienced 
through the unhappy event which, on the 14th day of April last, put an end to 
the existence of his excellency the President of your republic, Abraham Lin- 
coln. 

The very high qualities which adorned the illustrious dead, and among those 
which were surpassing, his judgment as a mandatory, his valor displayed during 
the heroic strife sustained in your country for the space of four years, and his 
magnanimity towards the offspring of that great people, had won for him through- 
out the world, and particularly in this republic, the purest sympathy and admi- 
ration ; and the deplorable circumstances ©f his death have produced in a pal- 
pable manner among all my fellow-citizens a sentiment of profound grief, which 
will with difficiilty be obliterated. In the midst of my sorrow I am consoled 
by the well-grounded hope which I cherish that you, inspired by the most 
ardent zeal and most intense love of your country, will reorganize very shortly, 
for whose preservation, progress, and prosperity I form the most cordial and 
sincere wishes. 

Given at government house, Lima, on the 28th day of the month of May, in 
the year of our Lord 1865, 

JUAN ANTONIO PEZET. 
PEDRO JOSE CALDERON. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 515 

[Tiauslatiou.] 

cj . , , ^i'^^' York, September 23, 1SG5 

feiR: A deay as noticeaLIo as inoxplicaLle, wliicli ],as liapncued to oncof iho 

nails c.. spa ched from Peru for tins republic, has been thi can e that only on 

the 23d of tins month a despatch has reached me from my governme h^ vhich 

I orders me to transmit to his Excellency the Presiden of the Un ted S a^s 

hrongh yom- excellency as the respected organ, the cabinet lette whic he 

1 resident of Peru addresses to him, expressing the .entimenta which ins id 

dtlze^rXlfrntncdm ^^^^^"'""'^'"^ "^^ ^'^ ""^''^^^'^ ^^^^^ '' ''^ --"^ 
_I have the honor to send with this note, in original, an authentic copy of the 
said cabinet letter and to ask your excellency to cause it to reach its hiH, des- 
tination. I comply with an ardent wish of my heart in expressing to yo^u once 
!?''''?., !^."^'. '''"'^ *^^'^P ^o^"'"^^ ^^'^^1' ^^'^''^-'^ I '''-^ve deplored the crime of which 
the Ohiet Magistrate of this republic was the victim, and the veneration in which 
he will live m my memory, as well as in that of almost all my countrymen, the 
memory of the illustrious martyr to freedom, civilization, and humanity. 
1 have the satisfaction to present myself to you with all respect. 

.,., ^ J06E ANTONIO G. GARCIA. 

Ihe feECRETARY OF State, Wa.sIiif!^fon. 



Ma7iifcstatwn of the citizens of the United States of North America in Are- 

(juipa, Peru. 

Arequipa, June 3, 1865. 

We, in accordance with the sincere and profound sympathy which actuates 
our patriotic hearts, have met together on this occasion to express condolence 
for the sad calamity which has befallen our country in the death of the much 
honored and beloved late President, Abraham Lincoln. 

Therefore we, with great sorrow for the irreparable loss with which the United 
States have so recently been afflicted, by the fiendish and horrible assassination 
of the late President, Abraham Lincoln — 

Resolve, That in this awful calamity our country not only feels the vacanc}' 
of her first magistrate, but the loss of the most illustrious and distinguished of 
men in the cause of the Union and that of humanity. 

Resolved, That w^e deeply sympathize Avith the family of the lamented late 
President in their afHiction and bereavement. 

Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with the siifFerings of our eminent 
Secretary of State, the Hon. William II. Seward, and of his sons, caused by 
the hand of a desperate and inhuman assassin; and may divine IVovidence 
preserve their lives to their families and their country. 

Resolved, That copies of this expression of our heartfelt sympathies be for- 
warded to the families of the late President and the honorable Secretary of 
State; and that the same be published in the papers of Panama, New York, and 

^^"•^^'^"S^"'- EDMUND MOLLEK. 

GEORGE CA1{EV. 
S. K. G. NELLIS. 
S. P. ALZAMORA. 



516 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

3Ir. Rohinso7i to Mr. Seward. 

No. 305.] Legation of the United States, 

Livia, May 25, 1865. 

Sir : Tlie stcauier of the IStli instant brought to us the astounding intelligence 
of the assassination of President Lincoln, so much honored and beloved by all 
the American people, and respected and esteemed wherever justice, humanity, 
and civilization have their advocates and defendei's. 

The amionncemeut of this horrid tmgedy was made by the telegraph from 
Oallao immediately upon the arrival of the steamer of the English mail line, 
"which entered the port with the American flag at the main at half-mast. The 
intelligence spread with electric rapidity, but its savage cruelty and horrid bar- 
barism staggered belief, until the arrival of passengers in Lima with copies of 
the United States newspapers containing the particulars of the awful tragedy 
convinced us of its truth. 

The feeling of indignation which the bloody and cowardly act excited was 
iinanimous, pervading all classes, as was also the regret, that in this, the hour of 
their triumph over the wicked and atrocious rebellion, the people of the United 
States should lose their honored and revered chief, and civilization, justice, and 
religion a true, sincere, and devoted friend. 

Thus has passed away, by the sullen and vindictive shot of the assassin, a 
statesman whose honest purposes and sincere devotion to his constitutional duties 
had triumphed over the dark and bloody conspiracies of treason, and had secured 
the re-establishment of law, order, and security. A martyr to the cause of hu- 
manity, he still, though dead, speaks to the hearts and affections of the American 
people in language more eloquent than words. 

I received no official information of this deplorable event, but on the 19th 
instant I communicated to the minister of foreign relations the melancholy in- 
telligence in an official note. On the same day I received a response from his 
excellency, expressing detestation of the crime, and the warmest sympathies of 
the Peruvian government with the American people for the loss they have sus- 
tained by this afflictive event. 

On Saturday, the 20th, a committee of the Chilian citizens resident in this 
city waited upon me with a letter of condolence at this mournful occurrence and 
sympathy for the loss which the government of the United States and the cause 
of freedom had sustained. The letter was numerously signed, and contained 
earnest and honest expressions of grief. 

I expressed to the committee my gratitude for the noble and genei'ous senti- 
ments of fraternal feeling contained in their note. 

On the 23d I received from the president of the municipality of this city. 
General Antonio G. de la Fuente, a letter expressing the utter detestation of the 
members of that honorable corporation at the crime, and their profound grief 
for the loss sustained by the United States and the cause of freedom throughout 
the world. 

In fact, all classes of individuals hastened to express to me their sympathies 
for our loss, and their utter abhorrence of the crime and the assassin. In Lima 
all the flags on the government houses, foreign legations, and consulates were 
displayed at half-mast for three days following the arrival of the news, and no 
token or manifestation of mourning was lacking to show that these expressions of 
grief were sincere, not only for us as a people, but for the cause, the most de- 
cided champion of which had become a martyr to his devotion to duty. 

At Callao were the same manifestations of grief and sympathy. Immedi- 
ately that the news became known in that city, although the steamer arrived 
late in the afternoon, the flags upon the government houses, the Peruvian and 
foreign ships-of-war, English and Spanish, were dropped at half-mast, and on 
the next day at noon the usual funeral salutes were fired from the United States 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 517 

Pteamcr St. "SJarfs accompanied by the sad rospouses from the Peruvian, En-- 
lisli, and bpainsh ships-of-war then in port, and from the fort of tlie cattle o^ii 
shore. 

I cannot conclude this despatcli without tendering my own .^^ympathv and that 
of the citizens ot" tlie United States resident here and "in Calhio, to tlie lionor- 
able Secretary of State, and expressing their horror at the crime attempted uimii 
him and his son, and the earnest hope for a speedy recovery from iheir wounds 

ihc assassination of the President, and the attempted one of ih6head of tlie 
Department of State, exhibit a conspiracy at which civilization stands a->-hast, 
and which for the results it intended, as well as for its atrocity, cruelty, bar- 
barism, and infamy, stands unapproached and unapproachable in the annals "of 
history. 

I am, sir, your obedient servant, 

CnRISTOPHER PvOBINSON. 
Hon. WiLLi.AM H. Seward, ^r., S^v , S,r. 



Mr. RoVuison to Mr. Scu-ard. 

No. 306 ] Lkoatioiv of tiik Umtkd Statk.<5, 

Lima, May 26, 1S65. 
Slii : Believing that the American citizens resident in this capital and vicinity 
wished to have an opportunity to testify their sorrow for the great calamity that 
has fallen upon our nation, in the lamentable death of President Lincoln, and 
their hororr and detestation of the crime of which he was the victim, I invited 
them to assemble at this legation on the 22A instant for that purpose. 

On the day designated a large number of them assembled and jiassed the resolu- 
tions. A profound sadness audgriefprcvadedallpresent. This solemnity of feeling 
made itmanifest that the nation had sufferedaterriblemisfortuuein hisdeath, while 
the mode in which it was perpetrated produced sad sus})icions and gloomy fore- 
bodings that others might become victims to this expiring efibrt of treason ; but 
none expressed a doubt in the ultimate triumph of our cause. 
I am, sir, your obedient servant, 

CHRISTOPUEPt ROBINSON; 
Hon. "William II. Seward, 

Secrctanj cif State, Hsv., ^v., S^c. 



Mr. Robinson to Mr. Hunter. 

No. 311.1 Leuatio.v of the Umtkd Statf.s, 

Lima, June 11, 1S65. 

Sir : Your despatch Xo. 159, communicating the sad intelligence of the assas- 
sination of President Lincoln, at Ford's theatre, on the evening of the 14th of 
April last, and of the horrible attem])t that was made about tlie same time to 
assassinate the Secretary of State in his own house, when an invalid in bed. 
suffering from injuries he had previou.sly received from the dangerous accident 
which lately happened to him. and of the assault on ..Ir. 1. W. Seward, was 
received by tlie steamer of the 2d instant. c ^ -n •, ^ 

The same intelligence was received, communicated in the columns of the United 
States i)apers and private letters by the mail of the ISth ot Jlay. 1 hongli 1 
received no official intelligence by that mail, I communicated the notice oi the 
President's death to the minister of foreign relations, as related m my despatch 



518 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

No. 305, of the date of the 28tli of May. The same despatch gives also a nar- 
rative of the proceedings at Lima upon this melancholy event. 

I can only add that language has no words sufficiently significant to express 
the abhorrence and detestation entertained by American citizens here, and all 
other persons, of the crime and its perpetrator ; and their regret that he whose 
policy, integrity of purpose, and unwearied devotion to duty had been so suc- 
cessful in suppressing this gigantic rebellion should not have lived to witness 
the final and conclusive triumph. We feel that we have lost a friend as well 
as a statesman, who in the darkest hour of our bloody struggle never deviated 
from the glorious purpose of sustaining the Constitution and the government 
against the designs of heartless traitors who attempted their destruction. 

The legation is draped in mourning for tliirtj'' days, and all our citizens will 
wear crape upon the left arm for the same space of time. 

Your order to all officers and others subject to the orders of the Secretary of 
State, that the same should be. worn by them for six months, has been received, 
and will be complied with by the members of this legation, 
I have the honor to be, sir, your <)bedicnt servant, 

CHIlISTOPilER IIOBINSOK 

Hon. W. Hu\TER, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



[Translation.] 



Alcaldia Municipal of Lima, 

Lima, May 22, 1865. 

A[osT Excellent Sir : The honorable municipality over which I have the 
honor to preside has been profoundly affected at the painful catastrophe which, 
in the person of his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, has deprived the world of an 
honest man, the United States of an imblemished i;uler, and liberty of its most 
decided champion. 

There is not a single heart that has remained indifferent in presence of so 
heinous a crime, and the municipality of Lima would think itself wanting in 
one of its most precious duties — gratitude to the great men who recognize and 
sustain the true rights of humanity — if it did not hasten to manifest to your ex- 
cellency the indignation which the crime has caused to it, and the profound 
grief which its consummation has deserved from it. Lincoln is dead, sir, but 
he will eternally live in the heart of the good patriots and of the honest men of 
the earth. His name will be written in letters of gold, in order to record the 
value of virtue in rulers, while that of his assassin will be pronounced with 
horror so long as morality exists in the world. 

Will your excellency deign to accept this sincere manifestation of the senti- 
ments which animate the municipality, and my own private ones, although it is 
very painful to improve so sad an opportunity to subscribe myself your atten- 
tive servant, 

ANTO. G. DE LA FUENTE. 

tL\& Excellency the SIixister Plenipotentiary 
of the United States of North America. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMrATIFY. 519 

[Translation.] 

Society of the Founders of tlie Independence of Peru. 

LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY. 

Lima, BLu/ 23, 18G5, 
and the Uth year of (he independence and the Ust of the repuhlic. 

Sir : The deplorable event wliich has moved the entire continent, drawin" 
from it a cry of sincere griet", could not fiil to be felt also by the " Society ol" 
the Founders of the Independence of I'eru," over which I have the honor to pre- 
side, coverhig ^yith monrning the heart of each one of its menii)ers. In the midst 
of the terrible illusions which have passed over our age-whitened heads it was 
a pleasing consolation that in the front of the American Union there existed so 
indefatigable a champion of liberty, Abraham Lincoln, whom entire humanity 
has seen during four years sustaining the most noble and sacred of causes. So 
energetic a chief would have been already sufiiciently great by the excellent 
endowments of his heart, by the magnanimity and firmness of his republican 
principles, and by the elevation of the sacred cause of liberty which Providence 
confided to his inspirations, but it was necessary that so elevated a figure should 
shine through ages with the lustre of martyrdom, and destiny has been em- 
ployed in realizing this mysterious work, snatching him suddenly from the arms 
of his fiimily and his people. 

Death has been able to carry off an apostle and a genius, but his teaching 
will survive, because it is the law of good causes to triumph and exist with an 
immortal life. Unfortunate he who so obtuse as not to see that the cause of 
liberty is made now more firm than ever since the illustrious blood of the most 
generous of martyrs has made it fertile. 

We hope, then, full of faith, that for the good of these people and of entire 
humanity, there will be fulfilled the immortal destinies of that great and opulent 
nation on which the world looks with astonishment; meanwhile, sharing in the 
grief which oppresses all Americans, with the sincerity with which apostles^ of / 
the same doctrine and relatives of the same family ought to do, we pray to Clod 
not to extinguish that faith, and that by it He will give to the illustrious victim 
the reward of his virtues on the majestic throne of his glory. Tiie cause of 
liberty will have in heaven one who jjleads for it, after having valorousiy sus- 
tained it before an astonished world. 

The society charges me with transmitting to your excellency the expression 
of these sentiments ; and in doing it, adding the proposition presented by one 
of its worthy members and unanimously ai)proved, and as a fraternal resolution, 
it is pleasing to me to offer to your excelh-ncy the personal assurances ..t my 
greatest respect and consideration, as your obedient, attentive, and true s'-rvant. 
"" ^ ESTANISLAO COllREA Y GAUA\. 

His Excellency Senor Christophkr Robinson, 

Eyicoy Extraordinary and Minister Flenipotentiury 

of the United States of North Ameriea, ^v'., ifc, ^x. 



[Tran.shUion.] 
Society of the Founders f the Independence of Peru. 
At the session which the permanent junta held on ^I;'-^'*^' ^^'-^^Sd b.s.an^ 
the worthy vocal of the said junta, C. D. Jose Antonio Alvarado. p.e.entul the 
following proposition, which was unanimous y apj.roved o . 

P.o/>".vL.;.-The unhappy intelligence havn.g arrived ^7, J'^^;,;. j™^/^ 
from Panama of the tragic death of the illustrious and vntuuus lu^uUni 



520 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

of the great Novtli American republic, Abraliam Lincoln, wliicli took place 
on Saturday, the 15th of April last, and which has struck with horror the entire 
continent, on account of the irreparable loss of the eminent patriot, of the idol 
of republicanism, of the worthy successor of the immortal Washington, of the 
missionary of liberty, the friend of humanity, and the unwearied defender of 
the emancipation of the slave, the Society of the Founders of the Independence 
of Peru, composed of the last remains of the great liberating army which, with 
its blood and sacrifices, had the high glory of founding this nation, free and in- 
dependent of all foreign power, sustaining with valor and constancy that heroic 
struggle, imitating the example of that colossal repiiblic, perform the sacred 
duty of manifesting, in a solemn manner, the bitter grief Avhich animates them 
on account of the misfortune of that prominent citizen, the idol of the great 
American family, and upon whom the greatest encomium would be too short to 
exalt his merit and virtues. And if a parricidal ball, fired by an American 
monster, cut the thread of his precious and interesting existence, that same ball 
has transpierced the hearts of the founders of the independence of Peru, leaving 
ihem overwhelmed in bitter weeping ; and to manifest their profound grief have 

Resolved, 1st. That the membiirs of the society wear mourning for eight con- 
secutive days. 

2d. That a committee wait upon his excellency the minister of the United 
States resident in this capital, placing in his hands a respectful note, express- 
ing the sentiments of the society, requesting him to transmit it to his excellency 
the minister of foreign relations of that great republic, for the knowledge of his 
government and of all the sons of that afflicted nation, who are our brothers, and 
whom we accompany in the grief and affliction which they suifer at the death 
of their affectionate father. 

3d. That the society invite the celebration of a funeral service to the memory 
of the illustrious martyr of liberty. 

4th. That the act which the session of the permanent junta of the society has 
had with so laudable an end, be published in the journals of the capital, as also 
the note directed to the minister of foreign relations, and which documents shall 
be published, as. well translated, into the North American idiom, in order that 
all may be acquainted with the pure, just, and patriotic manifestation which the 
few founders of the independence who still remain make out of respect to the 
noble victim immolated in defence of liberty. 

Let note be given and exemption from the usual proceedings of rule. 

Lima. May 22, 1865. 

JOSE ANTONIO ALVARADO. 

Approved of unanimously : 

CORREA, 

J. JULIAN UGARTE, 

Secretario Cesantc. 



Lima, Ma?/ 22, 1S65. 

In pursuance of the call made by the minister of the United States, a large 
and highly respectable meeting of the citizens of that country, resident in Lima 
and vicinity, assembled at the legation of the United States at 12 o'clock to-day, 
the 22d instant, for the purpose of expressing their sorrow at the untimely and 
lamented death of the late President, Abraham Lincoln. 

The meeting was called to order by the honorable Christopher Robinson, 
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Peru, 
who, in eloquent and afiecting language, spoke of the cause which had convened 
them, the virtues of the late President, the barbarity of his assassination, and his 
confidence in the future, under the administration of President Johnson. During 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 521 

the speech of the minister, In. audience save tokens of their symnatl>y and 
sorrow by their most hxed attention and emotion ^ "^ 

At the conchision of his remark., the meeting was organized bv the election 
of the minister as chan-man ; and Thomas J. Vo^e, secretary of the United State 
egatioi., was appomted secretary. On motion! a comn^itt'ee was appo Id y 
the chairman to report a series of resohitions expressive of the Snse of tl^ 
meeting. Messrs. Thos. R. Ekh-edge, flobson. Church, Moore, Davis, and S-r! 
ton were the committee, who in a short time returned and reported the folio wii-^ 
preamble and resolutions : " 

Whereas the honored, respected, and magnanimous Chief Magistrate of oiir 
nation, Abraham Linc<dn, has been cruelly .lain by the hand of a foul assassin- 
cut off ill the fulness of his years, the maturity of his intellect, and the zenith of 
his use ulness and fame ; slain in the presence of his family aud friends, at a 
time when the nation, of which he was the constitutional head, was abo'ut to 
emerge from the horrors of a protracted and ruthless civil war, through a bap- 
tism of blood, to tlie glorious consummation of permanent reum'on, and a new 
existence of universal liberty and justice ; and whereas, under this last terrible 
stroke, this appalling tragedy and wicked deed of a hydra-headed treason, un- 
parallelled either in the base ingratitude of the act, committed so close upon tlic 
generous policy announced by the noble-hearted President to the people of the 
south, or^ in the ominous consequences, fraught, as they may be, Aviih the wel- 
fare of millions of our fellow-countrymen, it becomes the duty of every citizen 
of our republic abroad, as well as at home, to express their heartfelt sorrow for 
the untimely loss of our great and good President, Abraham Lincoln ; their cor- 
dial sympathy with his afflicted family ; their li(UTor at the deed, and most pro- 
found detestation of the means by which it has been consummated: we, the 
citizens of the United States of America resident in Lima and vicinity, recog- 
nizing our loyalty to our beloved country, and, although at a distance from it, 
actuated by the same spirit of patriotism as our brethren at home, would place 
on record our firm and unshaken faith in its glorious destiny. Be it, therefore, 
Resolced, That we have heard with the deepest sorrow and indignation of the 
death of President Lincoln by the assassin's hand ; that at this time, when the 
eyes of the nation were turned to him for the display of gn-at practical wisdom 
and executive ability, for magnanimity and forbearance, blended with a firm and 
unalterable adherence to the principles of free government and liberty, his death 
is a most grievous national calamity. 

Resolved, That wliih; we recognize and deeply lament the terrible nature of 
the calamity which has befallen our nation, still. })lacing our trust in that Supreme 
Being who has so signally blessed our people hitherto, we do not despair of the 
ultimate success of our cause, to the sustaining of which, under the p(jliey yf the 
late President, we give our earnest support and countenance. 

Rcsoh-eJ, That we will ever cherish the melnory of Abraham Lin^'oln as the 
honest, fearless, patriotic, and noble defender of that Constkufiuii which was 
originally cemented under the auspices of the immortal Washingtdii, as the 
bulwark of universal freedom and civil liberty. 

Resolved, That we tender the expression of our most prof.uind sympathies to 
the consort and family of our late revered President, with our condolence f<n- 
their irreparable bereavement, trusting that strength may be given to them to 
bear up under their great alHiction. 

Resolved, That, as citizens of the United States, we are profoundly grat.'lul 
for the general, cordial, and generous sympathy manifested towards our nation 
by the government and people of I'eru, as well as by the representatives and 
residents of other nations in our great misfortune; that we extend to them all. 
individually and collectively, the assurance of our warmest acknowledgments 
for the honors paid aiul the respect shown to the memory of our late Pre.-ident. 
Pcesolved, That to the press of Lima and Callao we oiler our especial rccog- 



522 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

nition of tlie able, eloquent, and cordial tributes of eulogy and sjmpatb j on tbis 
event. 

Resolved, Tbat we offer to tlie boqorable William H. Seward, Secretary of 
State of tbe United^ States, and to F. W. Seward, esq., Assistant Secretary of 
State, our u.nfeigned' and profound sympatby in tbe bour of tbeir affliction, 
caused by tbe bands of an infomous assassin ; tbat we rejoice at tbeir providen- 
tial escape from deatb, and bopes of recovery, and trust tbat tbey may long be 
spared to do eminent service in tbe cause of our country. 

Resolved, Tbat copies of tbese resolutions be forwarded to tbe President of 
tbe United States, to tbe family of our late President, and to tbe bonorable 
Secretary of State, and tbat tbey be publisbed in tbe Comercio of tbis city, and 
tbe Wasbingtou Cbronicle. 

Resolved, Tbat tbe legation of tbe United States in tbis city be draped in 
mourning for tbe space of tbirty days, and tbat a committee be appointed to 
carry tbe same into effect. 

Messrs. Barnes, Pope, and Ells were appointed on tbis committee. 

Mr. Robinson baving addi-essed a few appropriate remarks to tbe meeting in 
reply to a vote of tbanks wbicb was given to bim for bis able conduct in tbe 
cbair, tbe meeting was, on motion, adjourned. 

CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON, 

Chairinan. 
THOMAS J. POPE, Secretary. 



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RUSSIA. 



Prince Gortcliacow to Mr. de StoecM. 

[Trauslatiou.] 

St. Petersburg, April 16-28, ISGo. 

Sir : The telegraph has brought us the news of the double crime of which 
the President of the United States has fallen a victim and Mr. Seward barely 
escaped. 

The blow which has struck Mr. Lincoln, at the very moment when he seemed 
about to harvest the fruits of his energy and perseverance, has bcen'deeply felt 
in Russia. 

Because of the absence of the Emperor I am not in a position to receive and 
transmit to you the expression of tlie sentiments of his Imperial ^fajesty. licing 
acquainted, nevertheless, with those which our august master entertains toward 
the United States of America, it is easy for me to realize in advance the impres- 
sion which the news of this odious crime will cause his Imperial Majesty to 
experience. 

I have hastened to testify to Greneral Clay the earnest and cordial sympathy 
of the imperial cabinet with the federal government. * 

Please to express this in the warmest terms to President Johnson, adding 
thereto our most sincere wishes that this new and grievous trial may not impede 
the onward march of the American people toward the re-establishment of the 
Union, and of that concord which is the source of its power and of its prosperity. 

Receive, sir, the assurance of my very distinguished consideration. 

GORTCHACOW. 

His Excellency Mr. Stoeckl, ^-c, $,v., ^r. 



' Prince Gortchacoiv to Mr. Clay. 
[Translation.] 

St. Petersburg, Aj)ril 16-2S, 1S65. 
Sir : Although the absence of his :\rajesty tin; Emperor makes it impossible for 
me to obtain and communicate to you the expreesion of the sentnuents which 
my august master would have felt at the news of the foul crime to winch tiie 
President of the United States has just fallen a victim, and which Mr. bewan 
has barely escaped, I did not wish to delay in testifynig to you the lively and 
profound sympathy of the imperial cabinet for the federal government in this 
new trial which Providence had reserved for it. I have asked our nunister at 
Washington to communicate it to the Vice-President, Mr. Johnson. A\ ill your 
excellency transmit it to him, together with our sincere wishes that this abomi- 
nable crime will not hinder the progress of the American nation toward ti.r es- 
tablishment of the Union and of peace, which are the pledges of its power and 

its prosperity? , c ^, ..♦ ,i;' 

Will you/ excellency be pleased to accept the assurance of my mo.-t .h,- 

tiuguished consideration ? rORTni VCOW. 

C. M. Clay, Esq., h^c, ^-c, ^r. 



524 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Prince Gortcltacow to Mr. Clay. 
[Translation.] 

St. Petersburg, Maij IC, 1S65. 

Mr. Minister : In infoiming: you, in the name of the imperial cabinet, of 
the profound indignation excited by the apsassinatioii of the President of the 
United States, and the heartfelt sympathy which the American government and 
people have met vi'ith among us in this their national grief, I was certain of 
having expressed the sentiments of his Majesty the Emperor. 

Scarcely has my august master returned to his dominions when he orders me 
to testify to you his grief at this painful event. Tried himself b}' a woful loss, 
which is also a cause of national mourning for Russia, the Emperor joins iu 
the unanimous regrets Avhich encircle the memory of the eminent statesman 
snatched away so suddenly, and in so terrible manner, from his noble career. 

His imperial majesty requests us, your excellenc}'', to transmit to you, in his 
name, the assurance of his living and deep sympathy with the family of the 
late Mr. Lincoln, and with his Excellency President Johnson. 

I also fulfilled the orders of my august master by informing you how much 
his Imperial Majesty has been touched by the spontaneous testimonials of 
respect which the federal officers have shown to the memory of his dearly 
beloved son during the passage of the squadron bearing to Russia his mortal 
remains. 

I have already communicated to the federal government the thanks of his 
Imperial Majesty through his representative at Washington. He asks of you 
the favor to reiterate them. 

Be assured, your excellency, of my very distinguished consideration. 

GORTCHACOW. 

General Clay, h^c, ^v. 



Mr. Clay to Mr. Seward. 

No. 79.] Legation of the United States, 

St. Petersburg, Russia, May 4, 1865. 

Sir : I know not how to express my grief for the loss of our great and good 
President Lincoln, and my indignation at the crime of which he is a victim. 

I thank God that you are spared to us, and I trust that our country and tlie nations 
will still continue to reap the fruit of your patriotic labors and pacific sentiments. 
The ambassadors of France and England called in person, and those who did 
not do so wrote letters full of admiration for the virtues of the late President, 
and horror at the crime of his assassination. His Imperial Highness the Grand 
Duke Oonstantine sent his aid-de-camp, General Greigg; her Imperial High- 
ness the Grand Duchess Helen sent Baron Rosen, and his Imperial Highness 
the Prince d'Oldenbuig called iu person, all to utter sentiments of sorrow and 
sympathy with the American government and people. A great many distin- 
guished Russians also expressed their grief at our loss in words and through 
the press. Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Helen, who is well 
versed in the politics and history of our country, has invited rne to call upon 
her, informally, on Saturday, w^th a view of giving us further evidence of her 
kind feelings for our nation and its progressive cause, of which she is an admirer. 

These sentiments of esteem and sadness are gratifying to me, and such as 
lead me to the hope that the martyrdom of our noble friend will, at home and 
abroad, consecrate in the hearts of all men the principles of liberty and self- 
government for which Lincoln lived and died. 

President Johnson enters upon the duties of his office under great difficulties 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 525 

I like tl.e words of humility and calm devotion which characterize the partial 
revelation of his views at his accession to oflioe. 

That which won for Mr. Lincoln most admiration in Eiir.M)e was his mode- 
ration in exyiressiou and firmness in action. 

The new Tresident, we are told, proposes to retain tlie old cabinet, and we 
trust the old policy of peace with foreign nations, and magnanimity in all tilings 
at home consistent with the desfrfrcfwn of sku-eru and the rcstora/ion >>/ tie 
Union. 

The prayers of the good of all the world follow him in his responsible task. 

I beg you will lay this paper before tin; President. 

Hoping to hear of you and your son Frederick Seward's speedy recovery, I 
remain your most obedient servant. 



Hon. William II-SRWARn, 

Score fart/ of State, WasJtington, D. C. 



C. M. CLAY. 



Sir Andretv BiicJianan to Mr. Chvj. 

Her Lkitawu: Majesty's Emba.>5SV, 

St. Peter shurg, Ajml 28, ISGo. 

Sir Andrew Buchanan, her Britannic ^[iijesty's ambassador, has had the honor 
to receive the note by which his Excellency General C. M. Clay, the minister 
of the United States, has acquainted him with the assassination of Mr. Liiicohi, 
the President of the United States, and with the attempt which was made at 
the same time to murder Mr. William H. Seward, the Secretary of State; and 
further informing him that, in consequence of the former of these distressing 
events, JMr. Andrew Johnson lias succeeded to the presidency of the Uni ^n. 

In thanking General Clay for this communication, Sir Andrew Buchanan 
begs leave to express his sympathy with his excellency, and the people of the 
United States, on the great national calamity which they liave sustained, while 
he participates in the abhorrence of its authors, which their atrocious crime must 
excite throughout America and the civilized woild. 

Sir Andrew Buchanan avails himself of this opportunity to offer to General 
Clay the assurance of his high consideration. 



The Minister of Italij to Mr. Clay. 

[Translation.] 

St. Petersimrc, April 29, lS(3o. 
My Dear Colleague: I had desired to offer you in person my heartfelt 
sympathy, but on account of indisposition I am obliged to defer my vi.-it. 

Ill the meanwhile, I know not how I can better interpret the sentiments of 
my government than in joining in the sorrow with which your country ha. been 
BO ciuelly stricken, by the loss of her greatest citizen and most eminent states- 

"^The blood of a martyr in so noble a cause will strengtl.en the Am-rican 
■Union, whose power and prosperity have cAjry good w.sh ot aly. I'' ';," ^^- 
ing to yon, my colleague, my expressions of .sorr.wiul sympathy, and n k- 
ing you foi- your communication, I have the honor to tender you the a.-Muance 
jf my high consideration. j ^^ X VV. 



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The Minister of 'Belgium to Mr. Clay. 
[Translation. ] 

St. Petersburg, April 2S, 1865. 

Tlie minister of Belgium lias liad tlie honor of receiving the note which his 
excellency the minister of the United States, has had the kindness to address 
to him, in order to inform him of the death of the President of the United States, 
Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated in his box at the theatre in Washing- 
ton, on the 14th instant, as well as of the dangerous wound which menaces the 
life of the Secretary of State, Mr. William H. Seward. 

It is with an unmingled feeling of horror that the undersigned has heard of 
these cowardly and foul attacks, Avhich will cause an outburst of sorrow not only 
in America, but in Europe, and the Avhole world ; and he joins in the grief 
which cannot fail to be caused by the loss of an eminent statesman, called by 
his fellow-citizens to direct the destinies of his country. 

LORYHE D'ARDOYE. 



The Minister of SiveJen and XonraT/ to Mr. Clay. 
[Translation.] 

St. Petersburg, April 2S, 1865. 

Your Excellency : In hastening to acknowledge the sad communication, by 
which your excellency has just informed me of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, 
President of the United States of America, I beg you to accept my most pro- 
found expressions of sympathy, and also of horror for the foul deed which has 
deprived your coimtry and your government of their worthy and illustrious 
chief. 

I seize the present occasion to offer to your excellency repeated assurances of 
my high consideration. 

WEDEL yarlsberg. 

Minister of Sweden and Noricay. 
Mr. C. M. Clay, 

Minister of tlie Cnited States of America. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 527 



ROME. 



Sr?: King to Mr. Hunter. 

K'o- 37.] Legation' of thr Unitkd States at Rome, 

Airril 29, 1865, 

Sir : The appalling: intelligence of the assassination of President Lincoln, 
and the attempt upon the lives of tht3 Secretary and the Assistant Secretary of 
State, which reached Rome on the morning of the 27th instant, excited the 
most profound and universal sentiment of horror and indignation among men of 
every class, condition, and nation. The first account represented that the 
Assistant Secretary of State had also fallen a victim to the assassin's knife, and 
that the life of the Secretary was despaired of; but we are at least spared this 
aggravation of horrors, the latest despatch reporting that "Secretary Seward 
is out of danger," and that his son, though in imminent peril, is still alive. As 
the tidings spread the Americans in Rome gathered together at the rooms of 
the United States legation and held a meeting to give utterance to the feelings 
which the news had excited in every loyal breast. The resolutions adopted 
but feebly express the intense emotions which the dastardly crime of the 
southern conspirators has everywhere aroused. Xor is this confined only to 
our own countrymen. From the cardinal secretary of state, the ambassadors 
of France, Spain, and Austria, the representatives of Russia and Brazil, and 
other members of the diplomatic corps, and from some of the principal Roman 
nobility and citizens, \ have received assurances of the utter detestation with 
which they regard tlie crime, and of their profound sympathy with the govern- 
ment and people of the United States in the hour of terrible trial and aflliction. 
May Almighty God safely guard and guide our country through the surging 
Avaves of trouble into the calm sunshine of peace and public order. 

In token of respect for the memory of the great and good man who died as he 
had lived, faithful to his trust and at the post of duty, I have caused the rooms 
of the United States legation to be draped in mourning. The loyal Americana 
in Rome have all assumed the usual badges of mourning, as a slight manifesta- 
tion of their sorrow for the lamented death of our President and of regard tor 
his memoiy. .pi r 

I need scarcely add that we await with trembling anxiety further news from 
America, and that it is the devout prayer of all true-hearted Americans m Rome 
that the lives of the Secretary and Assistant Secretary may be spared to their 
: country. 

I am, sir, with great respect, yoar obeaient servant, ^^^^^^ \s\-^Q,. 

Hon. \y. Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State, S^-c, ^r. 



Mr. King to Mr. Hunter. 
[Extracts.] 
No. 38.] L.„.T,ON OK „,B UN,TB» SXATnS ^T^E-.^. ^^^ 

Sm : The terrible caUslropLe of the 14.1, of ^F" -^t J^'!^!;";?^"';;,',;',',;/;::;;; 
pies all thongMs and tongues on tli.s sule of the "'f ;,""''':'",. 'J^j 
from the eoiuts aud people of Europe an expression of heartfell .-jmpathj 



528 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

sincere sorrow unparalleled in history. Appropriate religious services were 
lield in the United States legation rooms here, which were largely attended by 
Americans and others. * * * * Our latest advices from home, to the 
22d of April, encourage the belief that both the Secretary and Assistant Secre- 
tary of State have escaped the fate designed for them by their brutal and 
cowardly assailant, and still live to serve their country. I need not say with 
what unfeigned gratitude and joy this news has been received, not only by the 
Americans, but by men of all nations in Rome. 

I had an official interview with Cardinal Antonelli a day or two since. His 
Eminence embraced the opportunity to express to me, for himself and for the 
Holy Father, the horror with which they regarded the bloody act which had 
struck down the head of the American republic, and aimed a like blow at the 
life of his chief counsellor, and of their earnest sympathy for the American gov- 
ernment and people in this hour of trial aud affliction. His Eminence further 
begged that 1 would make known these sentiments to the authorities at Wash- 
111*^' ton ^ *** 

I hffve the honor to be, with great respect, vour obedient servant, 

EUFUS KING. 
Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secrcta)-y of State, Sfc, ^-c. 



Mr. King to Mr. Hunter. 

[Extract.] 

Ko. 39.] Legation of the United States at Rome, 

May 13, 1S65. 

Sir : I duly received a copy of the circular from the State Department, under 
date of April 17, directing all officers aud others subject to its orders to wear 
crape upon the left arm for the period of six months, in honor to the memory 
of our late illustrious Chief ]\[agistrate. Anticipating in this respect the wishes 
of the department, I had already caused the United States legation rooms 
here to be suitably draped, and, in common with all loyal Americans now in 
Rome, had assumed the customary badge of mourning, which will be worn 
during the time prescribed. It is a melancholy satisfaction to know that the 
grief we feel at the bereavement the republic has sustained meets with general 
and earnest sympathy in all parts of the Old World ; and that in Europe, as in 
America, enlighteued public opinion has already inscribed among the most illus- 
trious uames on the roll of fame that of our martyred President. 

I have the honor to be, with great respect, your obedient servant, 

RUE US KING. 
Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



Mr. Parish to the American citizens in Roinc, read at the American chapel. 

Rome, Afril 29, 1865. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, Brethren and Sisters in Christ : With the 
kind permission of your excellent representatives, and as having enjoyed as a 
diplomatic guest the hospitality of the United States during four years, more 
than forty years ago, I hope I may not be thought presumptuous in mingling 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 529 

with your sacred grief an expressiou from tlie old coiuitry, the laud of our 
grand.sirci?, being myself wholly unconnected with politics. 

If my fellow-couutryraeu at Home are not present with you this day to 
manifest their horror at the event which has deprived you of the Chief Magistrate 
of yonr choice, of that conscientious spirit who lived and toiled and died that all 
his fellow-citizens might be united in peace, be assured that the motives of their 
absence must be reluctance to intrude, uninvited, into the grave of your domes- 
tic affections. The profound sympathy of our own sovereign and of her royal 
family, so often bursting forth in the days of your heavy trials, must guarantee 
to you the love at such a moment of the many millions who, within so many 
horizons, own her sway. But while we are all here in spirit to denounce the 
most odioiis of crimes, let us acknowledge how hopeful is the dawn of your 
future life, when he who now rules in the shrine of the pious Washington has 
given the impress of his power and of the happiness of every transatlantic 
soul in his first inaugural words, " I am in the hands of God." Thus may we 
be all " of one accord " in every place, united in Christ, one in God, and God 
in us. 

HENRY HEADLEY PAIUSII. 

34 A 



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SPAIN. 



[Translation.] 

Department of State, Palace, 

April 27, 1865. 

Sir : I have the honor to inform you that I have received your note of this 
date, in which, unhappily, I find confirmed the sad news of the horrible crimes 
committed on the persons of his Excellency the President of the United States, 
Abraham Lincoln, and of the distinguished Secretary of State, Mr. SeM^ard. 

Knowing as you do the sentiments of sincere friendship and good intelligence 
which animated the government of the Queen, my lady, with respect to the 
United States, you will easily comprehend the horror with which we have 
learned the treacherous murder of the Chief Magistrate of that great nation 
which you so worthily represent, and how much we deplore also the villanous 
attack upon Mr. Seward, for whose recovery we make the most fervent vows. 

I beg you to be pleased to make known to his Excellency the President of 
the republic the sentiments of profound indignation which the sad events you 
announce have produced in the mind of her Majesty the Queen, and in that of 
her government ; and I thus renew to you the assurance of my distinguished 
consideration. 



The Charge d'affaires of the United States. 



L. ARRAZOI.A. 



[Translation.] 

Department of State, Bureau of Political Affairs, 

Madrid, May 9, 1865. 

Most Excellent Sir: The president of the council of ministers, on the 5th 
instant, directed this department as follows : 

By her Majesty's orders, and for the instruction of the department under your 
charge, I ti'ansmit to your excellency copies of the resolutions passed by the 
Senate and House of Representatives, sympathizing with the United States, 
and deploring the abominable crime committed upon the person of your worthy 
President, Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Communicated by royal order, through the 
minister of state, I transmit them to you, with the said copies, that you may send 
them to your government. 



God grant you many years. 



Under Secretary MIGUEL BANUELOS. 



[Translation.] 
President of the Council of Ministers, Senate Chamher : 

The Senate in session this day has unanimously resolved that it sympathizes 
y/ith the United States in the profound grief caused by the death of its worthy 
President, Abraham Lincoln. 

God grant you many years. Palace of the Senate, May 3, 1865. 

JUAN DE SEVILLA, 
Secretary of the Senate. 

HlLARION DEL ReV, 

Secretary of the Senate, President of the Council of Ministers. 

A signed copv : 

M. BANUELOS. 



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[Trauslation.] 
Presidcyit of the Council of Ministers, Chamher of Deputies : 

The House of Deputies in session yesterday unanimouslv resolved, tfiat it sy m- 
patlnzes widi the United States in the profound grief caused by tbe death of 
Its worthy President, Abraham Lincohi. J ^ 

This we communicate to you for the information of her Majesty's govern- 
ment and subsequent action. -' j b 

God grant you many years. Palace of Congress, May 2, 1S6.5 

RAFAEL CHACON, D. S. 
Cou.-VT OF Campomanes, D. S., 

President of the Coxincil of Ministers. 
This copy has a rubric. 

M. BANUELOS. 



The Duke of Valentia to Mr. Perry. 

[Translation.] 

Presidency of the Cabinet of Ministers, 

Madrid, May 5, 1S65. 

Sir : The horrible crimes committed on the persons of the President and Sec- 
retary of State of the United States have caused a painful and profound sen- 
sation in the Spanish nation, which is united to tbat great republic by the ties of 
a true friendship and a cordial sympathy. 

Although at the first moment this sad news reached us 1 hastened to make 
known to you, personally, the profound grief of her Majesty the Queen, my 
august sovereign, and of her government, at that immense misfortune, I have the 
honor to-day to transmit to you the annexed copies of the declarations made by the 
Senate and the Congress of Deputies, associating themselves to the great sorrow 
of that generous nation for the abominable crime perpetrated upon the person of 
its illustrious and respected President. 

The affliction which the death of that eminent statesman h:is produced to the 
government of her Majesty is in part relieved by the welcome news that the life 
of the Secretary of State for foreign affairs is happily not in great danger, but, 
on the contrary, that there arc well-founded hopes he may obtain a prompt and 
complete recovery. Please God it may be so, for the go^d and prosperity of 
that noble country of which you are the most worthy representative ! 

I avail myself of this occasion to renew to you the assurance of my most 
distinguished consideration. 

"The DUKE OF VALENCIA. 

The Charge d'affaires of the United States of America. 



[Translation.] 
PRESIDENCY OF THE CABINET OF .MINISTER.*— SENATE. 

To the President of the Cabinet of Ministers: 

Excellency: The Senate in session of to-day has unanimously declared 
that it associates itself to the profound grief produced m the United States by 



532 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COKKESPONDKNCE. 

\ 
the horrible crime committed ou the iDersoii of their worthy Tresident, Abraliam 
Lincohi. 

God guard your excelleucv many years. Palace of the Senate, May 3, 18G5. 

JUAN DE SEVILLE, 

Senator Sccrcian/. 
HILAIUON DEL KEY, 

Senator Secretary. 
It is a tiue copy : 

VALENCIA. 



[Traj^slation.] 
PRESIDENCY OF THE CABINET OF MINISTERS — CONGRESS OF DEPUTIES. 

To the President of tlie Cah'met of Ministers : , 

Excellency : The Congress of Deputies in the session of yesterday has de- 
clared unanimously that it associates itself to the profound sorrow of the United 
States for the abominable murder of their worthy President, Abraham Lincoln. 
The which we communicate to your excellency for the information of her 
Majesty's government and the consequent effects. 

God guard your excellency many years. Palace of the Deputies, May 2, 
1865. 

THE COUNT OF CAMPOMANES, 

Deputy Secretary. 
RAFAEL CHARON, 

Deputy Secretary. 
It is a true copy : 

VALENCIA. 



[Translated from the origiual as it stands on the official journal of the Senate.] 
DEB.\TE in the SPANISH SENATE, MAY 3, ISGo. 

The Count of Vistahermosa said : 

Senators: The circumstance that this body has not been in session till to- 
day since the unwelcome ucavs reached Madrid of the infamous assasshiatiou 
committed on the person of the worthy President of the United States, Mr. 
Lincoln, has prevented me from addressing the Senate as I do at this moment, in 
the persuasion that it will know how to associate its sentiments of grief and 
indignation to those produced in the whole civilized world by the crime 
which has snatched from life a person so illustrious and so distinguished for his 
eminent services. 

When all peoples in both hepiispheres rise with one voice to condemn the 
cowardly assassins who have blackened the brilliant pages of that wonderful 
war just when the country already saw peace on the horizon, and when, 
undoubtedly, that peace is owing to the efforts, the constancy, and the skill 
with which the lamented Mr. Lincoln has directed those events, it seems just 
that the Senate should manifest expressly and spontaneously its profound 
sorroAv and regret at an event so terrible as it has been unexpected ; an event 
which has left on the minds of senators, as upon those of all the civilized world, 
a deep furrow of execration. 

If I shall not have interpreted the sentiments of the Senate in a manner 
worthy of its elevated character, let it supply my shortcomings, and address to 
the government of that republic a manifestation such as our president considers 
fit, informing the Queen's government of this manifestation, and making it 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 533 

extensive to the illustrious widow who has seen snatched away so prematurely 
the companion of her life, so that the world may know that if the Spanish 
Senate cares for the rights and immunities of people, it watches no less carefully 
over the rights of the kings and heads of government who rule the destinies of 
other nations. 

I therefore call upon the government of her Majesty to give the proper 
explanation of what has been done in this important question. 

The president of the cabinet of ministers (the Duke of Valencia) said: 
The government of her Majesty records with much pleasure the motion made 
by the senator, Count of Vistahermosa. As soon as the government learned 
officially the horrible crime committed in the United States, we went to her 
Majesty's presence to inform her of it, so that she might give me such orders as 
she thought fit. Her Majesty ordered me to go and visit the representative of 
the United States at Madrid, and to express to him the grief and the indignation 
which her Majesty had felt at a crime so horrible, as well as all the interest 
which her Majesty felt for the leaders of the republic and for the peo])le of the 
United States. 

In fulfilment of tlie royal precept, I went to the house of the representative 
of the United States, and made to him, in the name of her Majesty and of the 
government, that manifestation, which he gratefully acknowledged ; and I 
requested him to transmit the same to his government, so that the latter — Avith 
which Spain maintains and seeks to maintain such good relations, and he also 
labors to' maintain them for the good of both nations — should be made aware of 
the sentiments which animate the Queen and her government. 

At the same time, an official communication, signed by the minister of state, 
was sent to Senor Tassara, her Majesty's minister plenipotentiary at Washing- 
ton, making knov/n to him the same manifestation. This is what her Majesty's 
government can .say in reply to the senator. 

The Count of Vistahermosa said : I thought I was already aware, from what 
had been said in the Congress of Deputies,"that this had been the course of her 
Majesty's ministers. I thouj^dit it right to make this motion, so that the whole 
Senate, in whose sentiments 1 trust I am not mistaken, might have an oppor- 
tunity to join in this profound sorrow for the unmerited misfortune which has 
fallen upon the people of the United States, and I request the Chan-, for this 
purpose, to consult the opinion of this House. 

The president of the Senate (the Marquis of Duero) then said from ihe cliair : 
I am certain that the Senate authorizes meat this moment, and with the benate 
all Spaniards of the provinces beyond seas and of the peninsula, to declare hat 
the impression produced by the horrible crime committed against the Jresident 
of the republic of the United States has been unanimous, and that we JO'" o" " 
selves to the manifestations which the civilized world is no^v making on accou 
of this sad event, desiring solemnly to make known the sincere wishes of Spain 
for the prosperity and peace of the American republic. 

The question will now be put whether the Senate approves t^^'^ ^^^^»^;; ^^^^^ 

The Secretary of the Senate, Sevilla, having put the question, it was resolved 
affirmatively by a unanimous vote. 



[Translatiou. J 
[Fro.n tbe oripual as it stands on the official journal of. bo congress.] 
Debate in the Spanish Congress of Deputies, May 1, 1865. 
Theaeputy,SenorL.s...(oppos.ion).id:^U.a^^^^^^^ 

pied in these «^^y^'^y/ ^^'^^^"^^^^^ ^'l^ . ,' ,^^^^^^^^^ a bloody event, occurring 

in :f^SrL:^f^::;;^hnegil":^U^^e attention of L congress. 



534 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

When other goveruments and parliaments are making manifestations on 
account of this horrible event, it seems natural that in the Spanish Parliament, 
in the Parliament of the nation which, by Cuba and Porto Rico, is neighbor to 
the United States, something should be said, and that the initiative should be 
taken by the liberal opposition of the government of her Majesty. That country 
which had been great in peace, has not been less great in Avar. In that war, 
perhaps the most gigantic which history records, it seems indeed that, in order 
so immense a pyramid of corpses should be grandly crowned, it was necessary 
that the body of the President of the United States should fall by the ball of an 
assassin. 

The government of her Majesty — I wish to do it justice — I suppose, will have 
manifested its sentiments, but I desire to know in what form; because, if it 
should not have been in some solemn form expressing adequately these senti- 
ments of the whole country, I shall feel obliged to make use of my right as a 
deputy, and put this manifestation into some other form. 

The president of the cabinet of ministers (Duke of Valencia) said: Her 
Majesty's government, some days since by extraordinary and unofficial chan- 
nels, learned the crime which had been committed in the United States, but did 
not wish to take any official steps while the information it had received should 
not be confirmed ; but as soon as it was known officially, the government made 
haste to lay this intelligence before her Majesty. 

On taking the orders of the Queen, I received the charge from her Majesty 
to go and visit the charge d'affixires of the United States in Madrid, and to ex- 
press to him the profound sorrow, the immense affliction, which the Queen and 
the government had experienced by the horrible crimes committed on the per- 
son of the President of that republic, on that of the minister for foreign afFaiis, 
and on that of the son of the latter. 

At the same time an official communication was sent to him by the depart- 
ment of state in similar term.'^, and a copy of the same was also sent to her Ma- 
jesty's minister in Washington, so that he should communicate the same senti- 
ments to the new President of the republic. 

We have not laid these papers before the House, because it was not customary 
to do so. We wished that the initiative should be taken by the deputies them- 
selves, and it is immaterial whether this comes from the benches of the opposition 
or from this side, because in this case there can be but one general and unanimous 
sentiment in the whole House, as there is in the whole nation ; for the whole 
nation cannot do otherwise than lament a horrible crime — an assassination per- 
petrated in this way on the person of the chief of a friendly nation united to 
Spain in the best relations, and which, throughout the whole time of the war, 
has been giving and is now giving us the most positive proofs of the good senti- 
ments which animate it in respect to all questions and all the interests of Spain. 

The government, therefore, associates itself to the motion made by the deputy, 
and would wish that the whole House and all Spain should manifest these same 
sentiments, not only because this is Just, but also on account of the reciprocity 
of sentiments which ought to exist between that nation and Spain. 

The deputy Seiior Claro.s (ministerial) said: The president of the cabinet of 
of ministers has very properly undertaken to express, net only in the name of 
the government of the Queen, but in that of the majority of this house, the per- 
fect identity of sentiment which animates all of us with respect to the proposi- 
tion made b}^ the honorable deputy who has just spoken. In this point, as the 
president of the cabinet has well said, there can be no diversity of opinion 
whatsoever among any of the deputies who sit in this Chamber. The abominable 
crime of which the illustrious personage who presided over the American Union 
has been the victim, is a thing which must wound painfully the fibres of all 
who have any sentiments of morality, and profoundly all those who have any 
political instinct. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 535 

It is evident that this poison which corrodes the entrails of European societies 
has mfiltered i self beyond the Atlantic, and that it reaches all peopTi Co e 
quently if in the past we are afflicted by the crimes committed in Europe a^^n t 
crowned heads, on tins occasion the future ought to afflict us still mor ,^ein. 
that we discover the disease to have extended to all humanity. We who ' or? 
m being partisans of the principle of authority, we ought to feel this more thin 
any. In f^ict, we believe that the principle of^uithority is a spec e oSex o 
the Divine power-understanding this phrase in its ri/ht sense-in the sense h 
which It seems to me it cannot^ be denied by anybody, considering the public 
power in its august social manifestation, not precisely in kings, as is vul-irly 
believed, but m whomsoever represents it socially and legitimately, is saa-ed 
1 his principle, then, is for us incarnate in the person of the President of a 
republic, as it is in that of our own august sovereign, or in that of any crowned 
head of Europe. We, therefore, join ourselves to this worthy, opportune and 
most fitting manifestation, and I think in so saying I interpret faithfully the 
sentiments of the majority— (by many deputies: Yes, vcs,)— and I may say we' 
are perfectly agreed to what has been said by the Deputy Lasala, and Ijy the 
president of the cabinet. To us it is most gi-ateful, seeing that we are divided 
on other quesdons in which our opinions differ, to be perfectly united on this 
point, which is of great interest, for the question is the condemnation, present 
and future, of those sacriligeous attacks against a principle alike sacred to every 
member of this House. 

The president of the cabinet of ministers said: I omitted to state to the 
Congress that the latest information of the government is that the Secretary of 
State for Foreign Affairs, who has been wounded most seriously, as well as his 
son, it is hoped may both recover from the sad condition to which they were 
reduced, and that the assassin is arrested. 

The deputy Senor Lasala : Both times the president of the cabinet has 
risen he has satisfied me completely. This is what I hoped for from the gov- 
ernment of her Majesty on this occasion, and without entering now into any 
considerations upon the origin of power, it seems to me that in point of fact the 
House is now ready to make the manifestation which the president of the cabinet 
has indicated. I, personally, ought not to propose it. And, although there are ' 
here many persons more competent, better authorized and more conspicuous 
than I am on these benches and on the other side of the house, they would not 
have authority sufficient to make this manifestation. But there is in this cham- 
ber one person who can make it, (the orator is interrupted by the president 
of the Congress,) and at this moment he is interrupting me to say that he will 
make it. 

The president of the Congress of Deputies, from his chair, said: (ienth-men 
Deputies — I consider it my privilege as well as duty to interpret on this occa- 
sion the sentiments of you all, of the whole Congress and of the nation, declaring 
that this House associates itself to the profound affliction which has fallen upon 
the United States in the horrible crime committed upon the per.?on of the Presi- 
dent of that republic, and which has just occupied the attention of this hou.se. 
The question being then put whether the house adheres to the declaration 
made bv its president, it was agreed to without a dissenting voice; and, on 
motion of Deputies Jove and Hevia, it was ordered to be entered on the records, 
with the adhesion of the house by an unanimous vote. 

[Translation.] 

Spanish LH(iATi().\ in Washington. 

New Yorh, June 9 1S65. 

The undersigned, minister plenipotentiary of her Catholic Majesty, has the 
honor to address the honorable Acting Secretary of State, informing him. in the 



536 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

name of his government, of the profound horror and indignation felt by the crown, 
the representatives, and the Spanish people, at the news of the assassination of 
the late President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and the attack upon 
the person of the honorable Secretary of State, Mr. William H. Seward. 

The following accompanying documents are evidence of this sentiment : No. 1 
is a copy of a communication, dated May 1, from her Majesty's first secretary of 
state, transmitting to the undersigned a note of the 2 1st of April, in reply to one 
from the United States charge d'affaires of the same date announcing that sad 
event ; No. 2 is a copy of another communication of the 9th of May, containing 
two resolutions on the same sad subject, adopted unanimously by the Cortes. 

As the honorable Acting Secretary will see, the undersigned presents himseH 
personally to the Chief Magistrate of the republic to express these sentiments- 

The undersigned regrets that indisposition has retained him in New York, and 
thus prevented him from presenting these documents sooner, though they might 
have been delivered to the Department of State in another way. 

It is scarcely neccessary to add that the undersigned sympathizes deeply with 
the government and people of the United States under these distressing circum- 
stances, and hopes the honorable Acting Secretary of State will give him an 
opportunity to fulfil the charge of his government towards the President of this 
republic. 

The undersigned embraces this occasion of renewing to the honorable Acting, 
Secretary of State the assurances of his most distinguished consideration. 

GABPtlEL A. TASSARA. 

Hon. Acting Secretary of State 

of the United States. 



Mr. Arrazola to Mr. Tassara. 

[Translation.] 

Madrid, May 1, 1S65. 

Most Excellent Sir : I transmit, by royal order, to your excellency a copy 
of the note I sent to the United States charge d'afiixires in reply to one from him, 
informing me of Mr. Lincoln's assassination, who was President of the republic, 
and of the attempt on the life of Mr. Seward, Secretary of State. Struck with 
the greatest indignation at such atrocious and horrid crimes, her Majesty's gov- 
ernment hastens to express to the representative of the United States at this court 
the profound sorrow produced upon the mind of the Queen and her ministers by 
the death of the distinguished statesman that has filled the whole country with 
mourning. 

I hope Mr. Perry Avill not delay to communicate the mentioned note to his gov- 
ernment, and, besides this, her Majesty desires you to approach Mr. Lincoln's suc- 
cessor in person, and confirm the sentiments expressed in the note, assuring him 
that the Spanish government cherishes the hope that the sad event, the subject 
of this despatch, may not jn'oduce a change of the friendly relations now existing 
between Spain and your republic. 

May God grant you many years. 

LORENZO ARRAZOLA. 



I Translation. ] 

Legation of Spain, at Washington, 

Washington, May 10, 1865. 

The undersigned, minister plenipotentiary of her Catholic Majesty, has received 
from the captain general of Cuba a communication, in which, referring to the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATUY. 537 

horrible a.sassiuatiou of President Lincoln, and to the attempt commiitcd on 
the pei.on. of the honorable Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State, Mr 
Wilham H. Seward and Mr. Frederick W. Seward, he says to me what follows :" 
_ I ask you to please to express to Mr. Seward my sorrow, as -overnor of this 
islana and as an individual, for these calamities, and the vows 1 address to the 
Almighty for the prompt recovery of himself and son, informin- him at the 
same time of the general indignation which has been caused by the outra-e on 
the President of the republic and himself, and that I await with anxiety ""news 
of his recovery." "^ 

The undersigned has the honor to bring this to the knowledge of the honor- 
able Secretary of State ad interim, asking that on his part he will please 
inform Mr. Seward of it, with similar expressions on the part of the under- 
signed. 

^ The undersigned avails of the occasion to reiterate to the honorable Actiu"- 
Secretary of State the assurances of his highest consideration. " 

GABRIEL A. TASSAEA. 
Hon. \\ . Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of Slate. 



Manuel Mayol to Mr. Giro. 

[Trauslation.] 

Jerez, May 9, 1SG5. 

Citizen CoxsiL : Idcutiiied with the cause of your country, which is the 
cause of liberty throughout the world, and at the same time impressed with 
sadness on account of the horrid assassination just committed upon the person 
of the illustrious republican Lincoln, various friends and political co-religionists 
of this city have decided to send a congratulation for the happy tennination of 
your Avar, in whicli we at the same time express our sorrow for the crime that 
has just taken place. Wishing it may quickly arrive at its address, we have 
concluded to ask you, (provided there is no objection,) if we may send it imme- 
diately to your consulate, so that you can forward it directly and thus give us 
the assurance that it will not be lost. 

Send your answer, if you please, to Armas street, Xo. 2, infants' public school 
Avhere it will be anxiously expected by your verv humble servant. 

" .MANUEL MAYOL. 



Manuel Mayol to Mr. Giro. 
[Translation.] 

Jerez, May 12, 1S65. 
Citizen Coxsll : Availing ourselves of the generous ofier you made to us in 
your letter of the 10th instant, 1 take the liberty to trouble you with the 
annexed manifesto, that you may send it, as you politely offered to do, to the 
minister of your nation in Madrid, who will send it with safety and despatch to 
its place of destination. • • i -n 

Although it has but six signatures, it is none the less certain that it is the will 
of the democracy of this town, whose signatures we have not taken thf trouble 
to collect because it Avould make the document too large. 

With that intent, I have the honor to be, &c., cVc, ^,,,^,^ ,, . ,-, ,r 

■\iAXLLL .AIAinjj. 



538 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation. ] 

Spain, Andalusia, 
Jerez 3e la Frontera, May 2, 1865. 
Citizen Vick-Presidext : As soon as the insidious and treacherous hand 
of the southern planters put an end to the existence of the iUustrious repub 
lican, Lincoln, a sentiment of horror and indignation seized our minds, a senti- 
ment that springs from the bottom of the heart of the freemen of Old Europe, 
and, mingling with that of our brothers of Young America, fills all tyrants with 
fear and dread. 

The happy termination of your war, the first in the world from the greatness 
of the cause you were defending, was not enough to extinguish with the ma- 
levolent and cruel instincts of the unworthy merchants of human flesh, in pres- 
ence of the sacred fire of the idea you were sustaining, an idea that fills the 
minds of modern generations, and is the banner that will lead us on to victory, 
amid the shouts of justice and liberty. 

Remember, Mr. Vice-President, that Providence has placed the cause of hu- 
manity in your hands ; that the fulfilment of sacred duties weighs upon your 
conscience ; and do not forget either that, as the emancipation of the slave is a 
glorious page to be recorded in the history of free nations, and is now welcomed 
by the world with admiration and enthusiasm, Europe and the world expect 
that the consequences of the great social revolution, of which you are the' rep- 
resentative, will soon be felt. 

Courage, Mr. Vice-President, and I'emember that if the great nation in whose 
font still burns the sacred flame of the revolution has comprehended the great- 
ness of its mission in choosing you to direct its destiny, you have upon your 
conscience the future of the people that have been intrusted to your care, and 
not only them, but the oppressed of the whole world. One more step in the 
way that your great nation has opened, and the cause of humanity and liberty 
is safe. 

Permit us, however, citizen Vice-President, Avith the frankness and loyalty of 
good liberals, to reveal a symptom of pain on remembering the hesitation of the 
great republic at the beginning of the war, and the excuses after victory was 
gained. Justice is tarnished by shadows, though they be cast by convenience ; 
slavery is the negative of manhood ; and if at first there was a moment of hesi- 
tation, be resolute, quick, and firm at last. Human rights are worth more than 
riches ; let there be no more slaves for a single day, although great but passing 
calamities might be the result. 

Receive our most loyal congratulations upon the triumph you have gained, 
and in it you will find a tear of each one of the W(jrkers who wish you well ; 
deposit it in the tomb that covers the remains of the immortal Lincoln. 

MANUEL MAYOL. 

MIGUEL PARADOS. 

CARLOS REISLE. 

RAMON DE GALA. 

JOSE HUERTAS. 

PEDRO SCHMIDT. 

SIMOX CARO. 



Mr. Perry (o Mr. Setvard. 

No. 193.] LegatioiN of the Umted States, 

- Madrid, Aj^ril 29, 1865. 

Sir : Thank God, we are permitted still to address you. A telegram from 
Queenstown informs me at this moment " that Mr. Seward and his son are 
likely to recover." 



•SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 539 

Itis a relief from the suspense which has kept my hand bound since the 
evening of the 26th, when Mr. Adams's telegram informed me of the tra-edv in 
Washington. '^ -^ 

Pray accept f .r yourself, dear sir, the expres.sion of my horror and my o-nef 
at the foul cruiie of which you have been the victim ; and say also to tlie^As- 
sistant Secretary of State that I associate myself with him in sympathv for all 
his sufferings. ' "' 

The death of President Lincoln by the hand of an assassin at the moment 
when the great ^vork with which his name is iudissolubly connected for all 
time touclied the term of success when the greatest insurrection known in 
history, striking for human slavery and at the life of the republic, succumbs 
at last to the valor of our democratic armies, and the persistent virtue of our 
people, led by the President of their own choice twice elected, and set up before 
friends and foes as their executive. The death of this Chief Magistrate, elevated 
by force of great events to a place in history not less than that of every other 
human name which the annals of the race record, and filling that broad place 
w^ortliily, occurring at such a moment and in such a way, has sent a shock of 
horror through Europe. 

The Spanish people have been thunderstruck. I have heard ordinary men. 
ignorant that an American was listening, ofl'er to lose a right hand if only this 
news might not be true. Men were rushing into this office until one o'clock at 
night, unwilling to believe, unable to control the emotion this news had stirred, 
and an unfeigned grief got the better of all form and etiquette in the manifesta- 
tion of the sympathy of this generous-hearted ])eople for the loss of President 
Lincoln. 

Your name, sir, was also on every lip ; but men ho])ed against hope, and God 
has permitted this yearning of the universal heart of men to plead for you. 

I felt it would be so ; I cannot tell you how or why, but in spite of the 
desolating sweep of the first telegrams, something stirred within me with the 
consciousness that Mr. Seward still lived and would live. Heavy as the pall 
of grief closed over the loss of Lincoln, we have refused to mourn for y.u, and 
now we know that your Avork was not yet finished. 

How should it be, if it is now, precisely when the military triumph is gained, 
and the political and diplomatic questions geiicratecFby the war are up for set- 
tlement, that the sage counsel, the long-experienced and the steady hand of 
AVilliam H. Seward is needed in America and relied upon in Europe I _ 

^ye mourn for our President. But after all let an American speak, lor whom 
the 3,000 miles of distance which separate him from the turmoil and distracti.m 
of that scene serve, perhaps something as the lapse of time wi 1 serve to Ins 
countrymen at home, to enable him to see events in their general form and pur- 
port as they will stand in history. 

The triumph of the" American democracy in saving the second great reimbUc 
attacked by a slaveholding oligarchy, stands parallel in the world s record with 
the triumph of the Pvoman democracy when they destroyed the first great re- 
public, attacking that slaveholding oligarchy. 

Abraham Lincoln and Julius CU^sar are names which henceforth pei.o n ) 
the throes of men for liberty in two supreme epochs of V'^'^'^^^r ^^ .?ff, . , 
compared only the one with the other. An emperor was the result of the eff-nts 
of the Roman democracy, as it has since been of other pcop e. 

A citizen President, equally triumphant over the ^«l«^''-'l'«';^rS ' ! ' i , : 
ment, but himself obedient to law, is the result of our P'-l'^'^; J "^j-^^''^/; f 
own The sin-ular parity of incident which closed the career of these to mt n, 
own. J.ne sm^m.u p.iiu;. otcrnallv on the memory of the p'li- 

when the triumph was assured, aviII gia\c etcin.iiiv i,.^„J,^f i„mriiiitv 

erations the contrast of the result established, the unmenseadAanc." of hum.unt) 

since Caesar fell. _ immortal, Lincoh. died 

Gods instrument in a work ^viiitn nidh-Ls 



540 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. ' 

at a glorious moment; success was assured, and if he bad been ambitious be 
could not have chosen another death. His work was done ! We call out for 
his tenacity in doing right, his steady honesty in executing justice tempered 
with mercy ; but these are qualities of our nortbei'n people, and he was great 
only as he typified these. The people remain, and I doubt not will find their 
representative. 

Meantime, what do we know of the divine purposes to be served by this crown- 
ing crime which sets the everlasting seal on the forehead of this rebellion ? 

What is the position to-day of those men who rose against the republic for 
the perpetuation of human slavery ? 

Speaking from Europe, I may sa}', already that assassin blow has done more 
to finish up the sympathies of men for the defenders of slavery and oligarchy 
than all that has happened before or since the war began. Though the military 
power of the rebels is broken, men still paid their tribute of respect to the valor 
of their soldiery, the skill of their generals, and the political decision of their 
leaders ; and these sentiments have great sway over the minds of men, and im- 
pede them from discerning the deformity of the principles for which those 
armies and those leaders fought. 

But the night of April 14, 1SG5, has dispelled forever the mistaken sympa- 
thies Avhicli the audacity of April 13, 1861, generated, and has left the enemies 
of human progress naked before the Avorld, with only such moral support hence- 
forth as those decidedly of their own kind can give them. 

This in Europe. 1 ought to forbear from speculating upon its effects in 
America, but I will say that I do not suppose the men who have made their 
names illustrious in a bad cause had any personal connection with a deed so 
foul ; their errors have not clouded the moral faculties of the leaders of the rebel- 
lion to such an extent as this, nor are the southern people generally to be charged 
with immediate complicity in this infamy. 

It is precisely because I do not believe this that I wait to see a reaction in 
the south itself against the cause which can prepare such instruments, and give 
rise, even incidentally, to such a deed. God's hand shall work in the hearts of 
the South itself through the martyrdom of Lincoln and the steadfast magna- 
nimity of that great people whose principles he represented, and which I do 
not look to see belied even binder this last provocation. Thus I do not doubt 
the moral death of the rebellion in the Soutli itself will date from the day Lin- 
coln was murdered. And I shall be greatly mistaken if the political work of 
pacification and reconstruction of the great democratic republic, homogeneous 
and united as never before, shall not be found to be notably facilitated by the 
very events which might seem at first to disturb its course. Such is my faith ; 
pardon its expression. 

I have not waited instructions to order iTiourning in this legation, and recom- 
mend the same in all our consulates in this jurisdiction for thirty days. 

The popular newspapers aj)peared in mourning yesterday. The members of 
the foreign diplomatic corps and many eminent men have called to express their 
sympathy._ ^ 

No manifestation has yet been received from the Queen's government, nor the 
Chambers now in session. 

The interior condition of affairs in Spain is at a point so critical that hardly 
anything else can be expected to be thought of by this government. 

The minister of state is ill, and retires from Madrid. His substitute ad in- 
terim, the minister of grace and justice, is also ill and confined to his chamber. 

Once more, sir, I grasp your hand in respectful sympathy. 
Your obedient servant, 

HORATIO J. PERRY. 

Hon. William II. Seward, 

Secretary of State, Washington. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 541 



Mr. Perry to Mr. Scicard. 

.No. 194.] Legation of the Umtkd States, 

Madrid, May 1, 1865. 
Sir : After my despatch Xo. 190 was M-ritton, on the 29th ultimo, I received 
an official visit from the Duke of Valencia, president of the cabinet of ministers, 
attended by his aids, vv'ho came to say ti; me, in the name, and by special order 
of the Queen, how great was the horror and the grief with which her Majesty 
had learned the news of the assassination of President Lincoln, and her Majesty 
begged me to be pleased to make knoAvn to President Johnson her profound and 
sincere sympathy with him and with the American nation for the loss we had 
sustained in the person of our late most worthy and illustrious President. 

I thanked the duke, and begged him to convey provisionally to her Majesty 
the expression of my own gratitude for lier Majesty's warm manifestation of 
sympathy in the grief of my government and nation, which I -would not fail to 
transmit immediately to Washington. 

yesterday I received the official note from the minister of state ad interim, 
Sr. Arrazola, dated on the 27th instant, and which the Duke of Valencia had 
also announced, in his visit on the 29th instant, was being prepared to be sent to 
me. Sr. Arrazola is ill and confined to his chamber, and Sr. Banuelos, assistant 
secretary of state, informed me this was the only paper he had signed for a 
number of days past. 

The duke also informed me that 'Mv. Tassara, Spanish minister at Washing- 
ton, would be instructed to make a similar manifestation to you personally in 
Washington. 

To-day the Congress of Deputies, now in session, has also taken action upon 
the same subject. The Deputy Lasala, of the opposition, inquired of the gov- 
ernment if anything had beon clone to manifest the sentiment of this nation at 
the horrible events in Washington. 

The duke of Valencia, in the name of the government, recited to the chamber 
the steps taken by the Queen and by the ministers. 

The Deputy Clavos, ministerial, also made a remarkable speech, which was 
saluted by the whole house with marks of api)lause. 

Then the president of the congress, from his chair, said : 

" Senore-s Deputies : I consider it my privilege as well as duty to interpret 
on this occasion the sentiments of you all, of the whole Congress and of the 
nation, declaring that this house associates itself to the profound afiliction winch 
has fallen upon the United States, in the horrible crime commuted upon the 
person of the President of that republic, and which has occupied the attention 
of the House at this moment." 

The question being then put, whether the House adheres to th(. declaration 
just made by the president, it was voted without a dissenting voice, and, on 
motion of Deputies Jove and Hevia, it was ordered to be entered on the record, 
with the adhesion of the House by an unanimous vote. , , , ,, , .. 

This debate is worthy to bo transmitt<>d to you entire, and I shall s.m . , 
translated from the official journal of the Chamber, as soon as ,t can be pu'pau-d. 

With sentiments of the highest respect, sir, Pu.^bedic.it^erva.,^^^^^^^^^^ 

Hon. WiLLiA.M H. Sewakd, 

Secretary of State, Washington. 



542 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

Madrid, May 31, 1865. 
Honored Sir : Our personal experience has taught us that true grief is a 
friend of silence, and we feel that which overwhelms you and us to be more 
poignant because we have been silent. 

For that reason we have restrained the impulses of our soul till now, and have 
suppressed the expression of the strong emotions that have agitated our lives. 
But now that our sincere sorrow has become calm, and reason has resumed her 
sway, we are going to fulfil a sacred duty — sacred to every generous mind, and 
most sacred to us because we are young men and Americans. 

Sous of the two islands, only separated from you by a narrow sea, strictly 
connected with the great republic by the interchange of produce and of ideas, 
whatever relates to her is of interest to us, inasmuch as we have silently sympa- 
thized with her in her recent days of glory, and now condole with her in her 
hour of mDurning. 

As men we weep for Lincoln ; the perfidy that deprived him of his earthly 
existence is repugnant to the heart of every man ; enemies to that social infamy 
which, under the name of slavery, is a disgrace to the land of liberty, as it is a 
reproach to the beloved couutr^of our birth, we felt, with Lincoln, the holy 
emotions that he felt when he saw his great task done; we Cubans and Porto- 
ricans, borne by providential destiny towards the future of America, shuddered 
with the last conviilsiou of the great man; we spirits, lovers of goodness and of 
liberty, which is its political expression, would have lamented the eternal absence 
of that strong mind that gave us the consolation of seeing liberty guaranteed, at 
least in the land he made gx^eater by his greatness, if we did not know that death 
kills the body and not the soul; that Lincoln's body was killed, but his spirit 
was the soul of the giant nation that he knew how to govern. 

After Washington there came other Washingtons ; after Lincoln there will 
come, there has already come, another Lincoln. This hope, this assurance calms 
our grief, and it is scarcely a condolence that we send you, but a prayer that 
you mav be worthy of America. 

NARCISO URDANEBIO, 

•JOSE FERNANDEZ, 

TRISTAN MEDINA, 

CALISTO R. LOIRA, 

FEDERICO FERNANDEZ DE LA REGUERA, 

ANTONIO GONZALES Y HERRERA, 

RAMON P. TRUJILLO, 

ALBERTO ABRISQUETA Y EBRENTZ, 

FRANCISCO JAVIER CASERO, 

FRANCO. PUENTO, 

and twenty-three other names. 
His Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States of America. 



[Translation.] 

SiNEU, Mail 14, 1865. 

To tlic President of the United States : 

The Committee of Progress of the town of Siueu, in Majorca, regarding with 
the deepest feeling of indignation the horrible crime of which the liberator from 
slavery — the man of high principle, ihe great patriot, Lincoln, has been the 
victim — Lincoln, the man whose vigorous soul never wavered in view of the 
terrible trials reserved for his government, and for whom history, gathering the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 543 

last testimonial of liis lofty wisdom, valor, and patriotism, will reserve the highest 
place among the most illustrious citizens of the earth — sympathizes heartily 
with you in the deep regret which pervades the great repuhlic of which you are 
the worthy President ; congratulating you at the same time that, if Providence, 
in its inscrutable designs, has permitted that he should be stricken doAvn in order 
to finish the immense work of the reorganization of the Union, peace has 
crowned his colossal efforts, and that from this moment the fratricidal war 
which, for a time, desolated a countiy so beautiful and prosperous, may be con- 
sidered as at an end. 

God preserve your valuable life. 

DOMINGO PUNTORT, President. 
* ANTO. BAVEOLO. 

SEBASTIAN FERPvA. 

MIGUEL OLIVEZ. 

PEDRO RAY'DA REAL. 

FRANCISCO GUECAS, Secretanj. 



544 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPOXDENCE. 



SWEDEN AND NORWAY. 



Cozmt Manderstrojn to Mr. CampheU . 
[Translation.] 

Mv Dear Sir: It is with the utmost dismay 1 fiud in the evening papers a 
telegram from New York of the 15th instant, to the following purport : 

"President Lincoln has been shot by an assassin. He died to-day. A mur- 
derous attempt has been directed against Mr. Seward. His recovery is doubtful." 

This news is from Hamburg. I have received nothing to confirm it up to 
this hour. I hope it is an untrue, or at least exaggerated report ; of course I 
v/ill communicate to you what I receive. 

You cannot doubt, my dear sir, the general sentiments of horror and indigna- 
tion by which this awful news will be received in my country, and I beg to ex- 
press to you the feelings of my most cordial sympathy. 

I remain, my dear sir, with gi-eat truth and regard, yours, very truly, ^ 

MANDERSTROM. 

^Vedxesday evening. . * 



Couyit Manderstrijvi to Mr. Ca7n];)hcll. 
[Translation. ] 

; ArRiL 27, 1S65. 

My Dear Sir : I hasten to communicate to you the following details, trans- 
mitted from Loudon yesterday evening, but which reached me only this morning: 

It appears that President Lincoln was murdered in his box at the theatre ; 
the assassin, whose name is Booth, jumped down from the box on the scene and 
effectually escaped. He went directly to Baltimore, and was apprehended there. 
It was an accomplice of Booth who made the attack upon Mr. Seward, in his sick- 
room, and wounded him dangerously. His son, Mr. Frederick Seward, hasten- 
ing to help his father, was murdered on the spot. 

General Grant was to have been present at the play, but was prevented by 
official business ; this being mentioned, I suppose there was some plan laid 
against him. 

Such a shocking series of atrocious crimes, up to this date never witnessed in 
your country, caunot fail to impress the minds of all good citizens and make 
them rally round the banner of order. 

I reserve myself to answer officially to your note, but thought it my duty not 
to lose time in giving you all the details I have received. 
I am, my dear sir, your very obedient servant, 

manderstrOm. 



SENTEVIENTS OP CONDOLEXCE AND SYMPATHY. 545 

Count Mandcrstrom to Mr. CanqihelL 

[Translatiou.] 

Stockholm, April 21, 1SG5. 
^ Sir : I have received the oflu-ial conimiuiication by wliich you have confirmed 
tuis morning the mehmcholy iuti^lli-cnce, ahvadv ni circulation yesterday even- 
ing, ot the odious outrage to which the President of the United States fell a 
victim on the evening of the 14th of this moiitli. 

I have thought it my duty to bring this overwhelming news immediately to 
the knowledge of my august sovereign, and it is by his express order that I 
hasten to convey to you, sir, all the horror and profound regret with which it has 
inspired him. Not only the old and excellent relations which existed between 
the two governments, but the high esteem and the sincere consideration pro- 
fessed by the King for the noble character and eminent qualities of the illustrious 
President, who has been torn from a country to the welfare of which Ik; was 
devoted, by the most atrocious crime, may easily explain the sentiments i.f just 
grief and sad sympathy with v/hich the King is j)enetrated, and the reprobation 
-with which his Majesty stamps a shameful assassination, directed by a parricidal 
hand against that good man. 

This crime is aggravated by the infamous attack made upon the distinguished 
statesman, confined to his bed of sufteriiig, and who, wounded also in his most 
cherished affections, seems to leave us little hope of seeing him recover from his 
physical and mental anguish. 

The King has charged me to beg you, sir, to testify to your government the 
sentiments entertained by him, and which, he assured, are shared by the two 
peoples united under his sceptre. 

In giving utterance to the most sincere wishes that this frightful misfortune 
does not injure the United States of Amt-rica, the government of the King ex- 
presses the hope of continuing with President Johnson the same relations of 
confidence and amity which have been maintained under the government of the 
illustrious President whose loss we so bitterly deplore. 

iu begging you, sir, to accept the expression of my most profound personal 
regret, I permit myself to add the assurances of my most distinguished con- 
sideration. 

MANDERSTROM. 

Mr, Caimpbell, 

Ml/uster Ik'sidcnt of the United States cf America. 



Baron de Wctterstedt to Mr. Hunter. 

[Tniuslation.J 

Legation of Sweden and Xorwav, 

Washiyigton, Aj>ril 16, 1SG5. 

Sir: The lamentable events of which you did me the honor to infnrm me by 
your note of yesterday had already come to my knowledge through tl..- public 
reports, and filled my heart with feelings of gloom and indignation. II is Majesty s 
government takes too sincere an interest in the w. tare ot this commonwealth 
not to learn with profound regret the sudden and violent death of the 1 resident 
of the United .-tates, in a moment when his wisdom and experu-nce were ho 
well needed, and when the turn of events seemed to promise to him.Mlt s.,me r^ 
ward for the trials of the past. , , i ^ ,!„. 

May the lives of those noble victims who have not yet succumb.-d . .d.r tl e 
blows of the assassin be spared, by God's mercy, to tbc.r country and th. ir soi- 
row-stricken families. 
35 A 



546 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

I thank you for bringing to ray notice that the Vice-President of the United 
States has assumed the functions of President, and that you have been authorized, 
sir, to perform the duties of Secretary of State until otherwise ordered. 

I avail myself of this opportunity to ofier to you the assurance of my high 
consideration. 

N. W. DE WETTERSTEDT. 
Hon. W. Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State, Washington. 



[Extract.] 
[Translation.] 

New York, May 17, 1S65. 

Dear Sir: Allow me to transmit to you, unofBcially, a copy of a despatch 
which I have just received from Count ManderstriJm, his Majesty's minister for 
foreign affairs, giving account of tlie deep impression produced on the Swedish 
government by the news of the horrible murder of the late President, of which 
despatch I would have taken the liberty to make lecture to you had I been 
present in Washington. I enclose likewise a copy of the accompanying note 
from Count Manderstrom to your minister at Stockholm, for the possible event 
tfhat you should not yet have received the same from Mr. Campbell. You will 
easily perceive that these letters were written down on the first incorrect in- 
formation of the deed transmitted by the telegraj)h. 

The Swedish newspapers that have reached me give ample evidence of the 
horror and indignation provoked in the whole country by the news of the murder. 
They are filled with articles speaking in the warmest terms of the event. In no 
country in Europe, I venture to say — and it, has certainly not escaped your 
attention — has the sympathy for the cause of the Union been more deep and 
unanimous, and the eminent qualities of the late President been better appre- 
ciated than in my native land. Immediately on the receipt of the painful 
tidings, the flags on the public buildings in Stockholm and Gothemburg and on 
the vessels in the harbors of these cities were hoisted on half-mast; a public 
feast which was to take place at Gothemburg in honor of the fall of Richmond 

was inhibited, as a token of respect for the memory of the lamented victim. 
^ ***** * 

I am, sir, with high consideration, your obedient servant, 

N. W. DE WETTERSTEDT. 
Hon. W. Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State, Washington. 



[Translation. J 

Stockholm, April 27, 1865. 
Monsieur le Baron : We are astounded by the horrible news thnt has just 
reached us from Washington. A telegram from Hamburg yesterd.-ty gave us 
the intelligence of the attacks on the President and Mr. Seward. I wrote im- 
mediately to Mr. Campbell, asking him if the report was confirmed, ho])ii)g it 
might be untrue or exaggerated. A telegram from London that night gave the 
particulars, with the names of the assassins, and reported the death of Mr. Sew- 
ard, junior. Early this morning Mr. Campbell shoAved me a dispatch from Mr. 
Adams, in London, in which the report is officially confirmed. Thereupon I 
sent the enclosed note to Mr. Campbell, expressing the sentiments of the King 
and his subjects in regard to the affair. 



SENTLUENTS OF CONDOLEXCE AXD SYMPATnV. 547 

_ The oaicus crime, unlioard of till now in the annals of the Uniter] States 
inspires general horror and evokes universal condemnation, but it is the S 
and ineparable loss to the country that causes the greatest regret ^ 

Mr. Lmcoln s firm and resolute character, his good comnio,. sense, and his 
associations acquired general esteem for him in Europe, and I fear it will be 
hard to find his equal at the time of a crisis like that which prevaih-d at the 
momen of his death. And it is still more distressing to the United States to 
lose at the Siirae time the eminent statesman at the head of its forei-n affair- 
and whose demise I am sure will be most earnestly felt. We wait i.npatientl'y 
to hear from you, though we cannot hope for an authentic report under a we.-k 

VVe hear that ilie murderer Booth has been arrested, but the report is hardlv 
correct as it comes on the same day with the other rumors 

No words can express the horror felt here at the announcement of the execra- 
ble crime. 

Accept my regards, &c., «&c., &c., 

maxderstrOm. 



Mr. Camjflcl/ to Mr. Seward. 
[E.Ktract.] 

No. 17. J Legation of the U.mted States, 

Stockholm, April 30, 1865. 

Sir : On the evening of the 26th of April a telegram from the embassy of 
the United States in London was received at this legation, announcing the death, 
by assassination, of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States ; also an 
attack upon the life of the Secretary of State, resulting in injuries so severe as 
to render his recovery doubtful. 

Overwhelmed with horror by these woeful news, which were already ia 
circulation in Stockholm, inspiring grave misgivings and vague fears in the 
minds of many friends of the republic who but imperfectly understood In-r or- 
ganization, I deemed proper on the following morning to announce to tbe depart- 
ment of state and of foreign affiairs of Sweden and Norway the facts of the death 
of the President of the United States of America, and the installation of his 
constitutional successor in executive office. At the same time I communicated 
to Count Manderstrom, the afflicting intelligence of the condition to wbitdi you, 
sir, had been reduced by a murderous attack. 

The prompt and sympathetic response of his excellency displays a warmth 
of emotion unusual in official papers, and is in harmony with the reprobation 
and horror felt by all classes of Swedish people. 

These sentiments have sought expression at this legation in such varied forms 
as have deeply touched my heart, and caused me to feel that the blow dealt my 
beloved country by an assassin's hand, is resented by all Cliristeiidom. 

I have tbe honin- to report the direct and marked action of the King, who 
commissioned the Count Axel Cronheihn, an officer of the royal staff, to visit 
the legation of the United States with messages of coiuhdence. coupled with tie 
strongest possible terms of detestation for the parricide, and assurances of the 
admiration entertained by him for the personal character and attributes of our 
lamented Chief Magistrate. These sentiments of sympathy for a mourning 
people, and reprobation for the crime by which they have been bereaved, were 
expressed in such feeling and earnest words, as were worthy o the noble heart 
of his Majesty, and must prove acceptable to th<' mit.on ni whose b.-half th.-y 
were uttered. It was also the desire of the King that I would convey to 1 m 
the earliest intelligence of your health, sir, as his Maj.sty f.It th(= deepest mtei- 
est in the preservation of a life so eminent and valuiible. 

In addition to the official communication from the department of Btato ot 



548 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Sweden and Norway, that most excellent gentleman, Count Mander^trom, in a 
personal visit and private notes, evinced such feelings as commands my grati- 
tude. 

In some of the ports the flags were at half-mast for the death of the Presi- 
dent ; the public journals spoke with appreciation of his life and death. * * 
The Swedish court has worn mourning for several members of royal houses in 
Europe during the past winter, but in no instance have I observed a popular 
tribute comparable with this. The members of the d plomatic corps in Stock- 
holm have been instant in their tokens of sympathy, and the American residents 
here have sought at the legation such comfort and information, as might soothe 
their grief aud allay their fears. 'J'he Baron Feysack and Lieutenant Ander- 
son, gallant officers of Sweden, whose swords have been drawn in the service of 
the United States, came to oft'er their condolences to the country they had de- 
fended, as did also the Count Piper, formerly minister resident at Washington, 
and other distinguished Swedes. If the transmission of these details appear un- 
necessary, I fiixd my excuse in the conviction that such tokens of sympathy in 
a remote land for their national grief, must be as acceptable to the American 
people as they have been to their representatives. 

I may be suffered here to give utterance to my own emotions upon the dire 
calamity which has visited my country. The hand raised against the life of the 
President has inflicted a grievous wound upon every American heart ; and in 
common with millions bereaved of their chief, 1 deeply feel the outrage perpetrated 
upon sacred national rights. With regard to Abraham Lincoln, whom 1 knew, 
and loved as a personal friend, I recognize with awe, that God's instrument has 
heen laid away in heaven's armory. Kemembeiing how, in the raging of po- 
litical tornadoes he bore himself with the passionless calm of some grand ab- 
straction, and, divested of prejudice or favor, devoted himself to the large ends 
of human freedom and national life, I feel that his death was the seal to the 
deeds of his life, and he closed his eyes on great purposes achieved to open 
them upon the immortal crown. To his country he leaves the rich legacy of 
a beneticent government preserved; the American ideal of liberty attained; 
and the noble record of the Christian life he lived, the patriot's end he wrought, 
and the martyr's death he died, to embellish her story. 

Allow me to tender you, sir, my respectful sympathy for the mental and 
phys^ical sixfferiug you have sustained, and express most fervid thanksgiving to 
God, who in his mercy has spared a life so valuable to our country. 

Praying lor your speedy restoration to health, and usefulness, 
I have the honor to be, your obedient servant, 

JAMES H. CAMPBELL. 

Hon. William H. Sewakd, 

Secretary of State, Sfc, S^r:., ^-c. 



Letter of Fredriha Bremer. 

LTranslatiou ] j 

Thursday, April 27, 186.5. 
Deak * * * : Can it be true, what a telegram from New York reported last 
night ? Mr. Lincoln murdered ! dead ! I hope it is not true; I cannot, will not 
believe it. Can you tell me how it is ? If it should be so it is not for him or the 
cause 1 grieve. His work is done, the cause is gained, the war at an end, but 
woe to the South ! It has killed its best protector during this awful moment. 
Oh, if Mr. Campbell and you could tell me that it is not true. 
Yours, faithfully, 

FR. BREMER. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 549 

[Translation from a Stockholm paper of April 27, 1805.] 
ABRAHAM Ll.\(OL.\. 

During the whole time civil war was raging in the United States, wc had been 
accustomed to receive information of the most varied and cliangeable description 
It was seldom the friends of liberty here received any good tidin-s witlun.t hav- 
ing them followed by others most painful in their character ; but suridv, after the 
last week's glorious bulletins, bringing news of victory upon victory, nobody 
expected to receive a message so painful and fullof grief as the telegram brouo-lit 
us last evening. In the moment of his triumijh, when the rebellion .was nearly 
crushed and everybody again was thinking sincerely of the regeneration of the 
Union, Abraham Lincoln was struck by the assassin's bullet— lie who, during 
the war, the whole world was looking up to as the true symbol of that grea*! 
idea, the abolition of slavery, the established fact of universal freedom, and^hat 
free labor is honorable: he should be sacrificed when these sublime tlioughts 
were almost realized. It is a beautiful death ; the martyr's wreath of freedom 
has to engrave on its leaves the name of a new victim for its holy cause, and 
Lincoln will be forever, surrounded by an imperishable glory of honor. But the 
victim has in this instance, as has happened many times before, when the blood 
of heroes for liberty was spilt, fallen by the assassin's hand, which will brand 
with eternal infamy all those protectors of slavery who, rising under the plea of 
defending the rights of the single state, properly only fought for the preserva- 
tion of tlu'ir feodal institutions, theieby being able to live by the sweat of the 
brow of slavery. It may seem hard and strange to throw the blame on those 
persons before knowing something more particular about this most painful event; 
but it has too nuich of probability in itself not to suppose at once that the whole 
plan had its nrigin from that very source. 

We remember still quite distinctly how Lincoln, on his way to Washington 
to be inaugurated as President of the United States on the 4th of March, Iblil, 
was compelled against his own will, but by the pressing entreaties of all his 
friends, to make his journey through Maryland on by-roads and during the dark- 
ness of night to avoid these protectors of slavery who there laid in ambuscade 
for him. Already then did those wretches aspire after his life, believing in their 
shortsightedness that their cause could be saved by the death of one of their 
fellow-beings. Rumors have afterwards been busy about conspiracy against his 
life No one would believe it at the time ; but now, when we have seen that 
the parties never tired before thev gained the end they sougijt for, it looks very 
probable. Yes ; they have gained it, but their cause shall not gain anything by 
it. A party which uses such miserable means has pronounced its own sentence, 
and even their friends in Europe must surely take part in the general outcry of 
indignation which now sounds through the whole civilized world, and perhaps be 
compelled to turn their backs on their cause, if they do not desn-e to be counted 
as accomplices in the deed. In the North this outcry will have serious conse- 
quences for those who have been the cause of it. Immediately a ter the last 
great victory of Grant, several of the most prominent men, and almost all the 
principal papers in the United States, advised Lincoln and his cabinet to issue a 
general amnesty for the rebels, only on the condition that the seceded S ates 
should submit and again join the Union. Slavery was already considered 
abolished. Does any one now believe that the same spirit o reconchat.on will 
exist ? Does any one doubt that this crime will not cry out or vengeance ? It 
so, we must acknowledge we have been entirely mistaken in tl>e Yankees he 
original good-natured humor in these men maUes it very easy for the to dR 
the'hand of reconciliation, knowing themselves to be the victors. ^ ; '•' ;^ 
their passions be roused once more before they hard y '^V^.^';" , ™^,,.;^ j '^ 
calmed, they will, of course, be furious against all who f "'i^,^-^""^.^^"^^^^^^^^^ 
deed and are its nearest accomplices. We observed already, a few daj 8 ago. 



550 APPENDIX TO DJPLOMATIO CORRESPONDENCE. 

tbat tliis Avar, as far a? tlie North i.-* coiicernecl, does not show a single death- 
sentence fir political oflfcnces, -vvliich, at least, if we make any comparison with 
what we have been used to see under similar circumstances in our old Europe, 
•will grant them an everlasting honor. The war has been one of the most 
spirited and hottest fought party wars, and in the North treachery has often 
raised its head so high that the most severe punishment could with justice have 
been applied. Shall we still be so fortunate as to see that same moderation con- 
tinued t We do wisli it for the sake of liberty ; but who would dare to reproacli 
those republicans now, if at the height of this excitement they should exercise 
retaliation 1 What we at least now are sure in saying is, that peace now will 
cost the southern States a great deal more than otherwise would have been the 
case. (Here follows a sketch of Mr. Lincoln's lile. ) 

To write the history of Abrahain Lincoln during the time he was President, 
even as brief as possible, would be the same as to write; the history of the Union 
during the whole important period from 1860 to 1S65, when tlie future of the 
republic was in the balance. Koom lor that is not in a sli.)rt sketch like this, 
and the time to do it in with impartiality will not be reached for many years. 
Many hakve reproached Lincoln for irresolution as a statesman, and accused him 
of being without determination to meet the issue of the day. 'J'his is said more 
specially with regard to his position on the slavery question when the rebellion 
first commi need. Nothing was mon; natural than an accusation of this kind 
upon a time when the different ])olitical parties were arraigm^d against each 
other in fierce combat ; but the future will give him credit for his strength and 
determination — that, surrounded as he was by that turmoil of wild passions, he 
was yet able to control himself and preserve that firmness of purpose Avhich the 
leader of the destines of a great people so much needs, but which we do not always 
find in them. 

He often resisted the impetuous ])atience of his own party, Avhich, without 
consideration or forethought, declared slavery abolished without paying the 
slightest attention to the words of the Constitution. Being cognizant of that 
fact, he tried in the beginning a conciliatory mode, and would accede to the re- 
belf ous States the right to govern themselves, lie appointed afterwards a 
certain time, at the expiration of which they had to submit or to lose tiieir privi- 
leges. He also procuied a consent of Congress to recompense those States 
who by their own consent abolished slavery, and to give them a limited com- 
pensation for their "living" property. First, when every effort failed, and not 
only a party, but the whole people of the North — of course we do not include 
that party called " Peace democrats " — had arrived at the conclusion that 
nothing could be done in that way; first then took Abraham Lincoln the reins 
in his own hands and procured the consent of Congress to abolish slavery un- 
conditionally. It' we can judge from liis actions and by their efi'ects, does it not 
seem as if it had been his plan from the beginning to make that the opinion of 
the whole people which had hitherto only been the opinion of a few, and under 
these circumstances can he not M'ith justice be called a far-seeing statesman? 
He was, besides all this, the type of the so-calhd Yankee people, of that pure 
northern Anglo-Saxon race, persevering and determined to obtain the object he 
had in view. In this way he had gradually become a man of the people, who 
knew how to select the very moment when to speak, and also to choose the 
best practical way fit for the occasion. He was a good citizen, and to every 
American and to every friend of the progress of liberty his name will through 
centuries shine beside that of Washington. Peace to his ashes, and may they 
bring forth blessed fruit to the cause of everything that is good. The telegram 
informs us that the assassins have not been contented with one victim. Grant 
seems only to have an accident to thank for the preservation of his life, and the 
Secretary of State, Mr. Seward — the right hand of the President — though on his 
sick-bed at the time, was not spared by the hands of the murderer. His fate is 
not decided, but his brave sou has fallen, trying to defend the life of a father. 



SENTIMENTS OP CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATUY. 551 



SAXE-MEININGEJf. 



[Translation.] 

Most Honorable Mr. Consul : His Highness the Duke, my most o-racious 
liege, has received with pain the news of the great loss whicli the United States 
of North America have suffered by the death of President Abraham Lincohi. 

Sincerely admiring the noble qualities of his heart and intellect, and the 
greatness of mind with which he achieved the grand object of restoring the 
Union, his Highness has been most deeply moved by the atrocious crime to 
which the illustrious representative of the United States has been sacrificed, and 
the Duke cannot omit to express his most mournful sympathy, and through me 
to request your honor to convey to the government of the United Stntes these 
expressions of his sentiments ; expressing at the same time the wish of the 
Duke, that the peril in which the life of Mr. Secretary Seward has been pend- 
ing may. by the favorable impi'ovemeut of his condition, be considered as passed, 
and that he may very soon be restored to health. 

I embrace the occasion to express, &c., &c. 

VON UTTENHOVEN, 
Provisional President of the Ducal Council of State. 

S. HiRSHBACH, 

United States Consul, Sonneherg. 



552 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE, 



S W n Z Kll L A N D . 



[Tcanslation.] 

Berne, April 28, 1865. 
The Federal Council have been apprised by tlie public papers of the horrible 
crime, the victims of which are two of the most worthy and most noble citizens 
and statesmen of tbe United States. 

One cry of hoiTor and indignation at this act, inspired by the most brutal 
passion and the most heinous fanaticism, has resounded through the whole civil- 
ized Avorld, and particularly thiough Switzerland, a country whose analogous 
institutions unite it so closely with its great sister republic. 

The Federal Council hasten to address their most sincere condolence to the 
honorable minister resident of the United Stales in Switzerland, by expressing 
to him their profound grief over this shocking event and the strong sympathy 
which they feel at this great calamity. 

Free Switzerland, with similar institutions, M'ill not cease to devote all her sym- 
pathies to free America and to her tendencies inspired by truth and humanity — 
sympathies deriving new strength from this catastrophe. 

The Federal Council cannot conclude without expressing the consoling hope 
that the new Union, reconstituted under the auspices of fraternity and recon- 
ciliation, will follow with increased energy the path which Providence has 
traced out for her, and erect before the eyes of the world the most sublime mon- 
ument to the glory of the illustrious victim. 

AVith these sentiments the Federal Council have the honor to renew to Mr. 
Fogg the assurances of their high consideration. 
In the name of tbe Federal Council. 

SCHENK, 
President of the Confederation. 

SCHIESS, 
Chancellor of the Corfederation. 



[Translation.] 
[No. 57.] 

The Swiss Federal Council to the Swiss consulate general in Washington. 

Mr. Co.\sul General : Through the public journals the but too certain in- 
telligence reaches us of the terrible deed which deprives the Union of two of 
her noblest and purest citizens and statesmen. 

A thrill of horror and deep indignation over this consummation of infuriated 
passion and fanaticism pervades the entire civilized world, and more particularly 
Switzerland, considering herself united by the most cordial and nearest ties to 
her great sister republic. 

We invite jon, therefore, to express to the present President of the United 
States, in the name of the Swiss Fedei'al Council, our most sincere and heartfelt 
condolence. You will please assure the President of the renewed and sincere 
sympathies which free Switzerland, with kindred institiitions, entertains for the 
efforts of the American government in the cause of truth and humanity. These 
sympathies have received new impulse by the last terrible calamity which has 
befallen the people of the United States. 

You will, finally, not fail to express our sincere hope that the American Union, 



SENTIMENTS OF COxXDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 553 

reunited in love and "conciliation, now mightier than ever, will, with renewed 
energy etnve to accomplish the great destiny which Provulenc 1. a i^ d 

cir^:!;;;ion?x gr^S^c^:^ '--^^ - '- ^"-^- ->--- --^^ 

sJi::t^O:Z^' ^' ^-^ '^^^^^^^^^^^ consideration, in the nan.e of the 



^, ^^, T//C President, SCIIEXK. 

Ike Lhancellor of the Covfederation, SClllEbS. 



Mr. Hitz to Mr. Seward. 

Consulate General of Switzejiland, 

Washington, April 15, 1865. 

■ Sir : The national calamity which has just befallen the United States is, in 
all its bearings, one of such stupeiidous magnitude that Switzerland, in the per- 
son of her representative?, gtands appalled at the enormity of the deed which de- 
prived a republic of a Cliief .Aligistrate who not only Avas first in establishing 
universal freedom throughout the land, foremost in offering the hand of concilia* 
tion to a misguided enemy of traitors, devotedly beloved by his countrymen, but was 
also respected abroad, and looked up to with confidence in every clime where free- 
men draws breath. When, therefor, the representative of the time-honored re- 
public of Switzerland expresses, in her behalf, sincere sympathy for the irre])arable 
loss sustained, just in an hour of triumph, by her great sister republic the United 
States, I pray it may be accepted as the heartfelt emotion of a national heart which 
has ever beat in unison with that of the United States, and with those great prin- 
ciples of free government whereof his excellency, your late esteemed rresident, 
Abraham Lincoln, appeared to be the embodiment. 

Switzerland joins in the universal bereavement of freemen, and while tender- 
ing her humble offering of sympathy at the shrine of an afflicted nation, seeks to 
convey consolation in the assurance given, that " He whom the Lord loveth he 
chasteneth ;" wherefore these trials which Almighty God has, in the province of 
divine wisdom, seen proper to visit upon a free people are but an evidence of His 
love, and, it is prayed, harbingers of blessings evermore. 

And now, sir, with feelings of inmost sympathy for your own personal and 
family afflictions, and gratitude to the Lord for the preservation of your invalu- 
able life and services to a mighty yet sorely stricken nation in a most momen- 
tous epoch of its history, 

I remain with sentiments sincere, though unspoken, 

JOHN HITZ, 
T/ic Consul General of Switzerland. 

Hon. "William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



[Translation.] 



To the Editor of the Bund, in Berne : 

The Mutual Aid Society of the north part of the Canton of Aargau, at a meet- 
ing held on the 21st instant, (seventy-six members being jjresent.) unanimously 
resolved to approve of the address of sympathy and condolence of the Swiss con- 
federation to the North American sister republic beyond the ocean. 

While making this communication, we ask you to accept the smcere expres- 
sion of our high esteem. ^ . T^r^/-wT orriT^n D 7 / 

* FERD. AFFOLSTER, Fresulcnt. 

N. DINKELMANN, Secretanj. 



554 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 
Council of the Canton of Uri to tlie Bundcsrath, in Bcrnc. 

Altdorf, May S, 1865. 
Gentlemex : Willingly following the example of other cantons, we have 
the honor to inform you that in our session of this day we have unanimously 
resolved to assent to the general address of sympathy and condolence of the 
Swiss confederation to the North American Union, on account of the assassina- 
tion of its excellent President, Abraham Lincoln. AYe have no doubt but this 
sympathy is universal, and we sind you this declaration that you may take due 
notice of it and forward it to its place of destination. In the uk an time, we give 
our best wishes for your i)rosperity, and recommend you to the protection of 
Divine Providence. 

In the name of the council : 

K. E. MULLER, President. 
GISLER, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 

Aarau, April 28. 1865. 
Honored Sir: The government counsellor of the canton of Aargau has 
just heard of the great misfortune that has overtaken our sister republic beyond 
the ocean, on the I4th of April, by the hand of the assassin, and feels the great- 
est sympathy and indignation the event can impart. The general sorrow is the 
more intense, as it fell like a thunderbolt upon the joy and hope with which 
the civilized world was congratulating the victorious star-spangled banner upon 
the heroic days of Kichmoiid and Petersburg. We have therefore unanimously 
resolved, in our session of this day, to express our deepest sympathy for the gov- 
ernment of the United States, upon the horrid death of their great President 
Lincoln, and we request the honorable minister resident of that country to com- 
municate it to his government. 

May God preserve the United States, bestow more great and unblemished 
victories upon their flag in contests for freedom and the holy rights of man, and 
soon crown the sublime sacrifice and heroic deeds of their arms with all the 
blessings of a glorious peace. 

Accept, dear sir, with the above sympathy, the expression of our most dis- 
tinguished consideration. 

In the name of the government counsellor of the canton of Aargau : 

The landammann President, A. TELLER. 
The Secretary of State, KINGIER. 
Hon. Mr. Fogg, 

Minister resident of the United States of North America, in Berne. 



[Translation.] 

Aarau, April 28, 1865. 
Dear Sir : It is my desire to contribute to the great address of sympathy to 
the American nation, and I therefore request you to add the enclosed sheet to 
it. Be kind enough also to have a copy of it sent to the federal committee in 
Berne, and oblige your very humble servant, 

Professor Dr. TROXLER. 

The undersigned, as a free citizen of a free country, considers himself su- 
premely happy in having this opportunity to express his grateful feelings for a 



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000 



countiy aat has at last succeeded iu the emancipation of all its p.ople of every 
race and CO or. So many y^^rs have passed since we had the lirus^, for o7r 
liberties that we have almost forgotten our troubles at that time, and our reasons 
for contentment would not be appreciated now were it not for the existence of 
some oppressed and suffering people in Europe not very far from our own bor- 
ders, on either side of us. 

The people of the United States of North America cnn now cono-ratulate 
themselves that they are one, that all cause of dissension is removed, Imd that 
they have no Tuissia or Austria near them to disturb their peace Let all ani- 
mosiUes be buried ; let the people of the same flesh and blood, though dwellin"- 
in different sections of the land, forget that they were ever mortal enemies, and 
all may yet be well. They have the Bible and religion among them, and let 
them rejoice that it is so. Religion and morality are the indispensable proj)s of 
public welfare. Let them cultivate these and do unto their neiglibors as they 
would be done by, and they will never come to harm. 

TROXLER. 
Aarmadt, April 28, 1S65. 



Chief justice and council of the canton of Appcnzell, of the Inner Rhodes, to 
Dr. John Wyttenbach, of the grand council in Berne. 

[Trauslatiou.] 

Appe.\zell, May 5, 1865. 

Sir : In a letter of the 1st instant, the committee for the address of sympathy 
and condolence to the American Union invited us to participate with him iu it, 
as many of the Swiss cantons have already done. 

The sympathy of the people of the Inner Rhodes for the Americans in their 
four years of civil war for freedom and Union, and their sorrow for the sad mis- 
fortune of the death of President Lincoln, the noblest citizen of that glorious 
land, induce us, in the naone of the inhabitants of our canton, to join in the ad- 
dress to our fellow-citizens of that bereaved country. 

With great respect, iu the name of the chief justice and council, 

BROGER, Justice. 

SoXDEREGGER, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 

Arwangem, Aj'ril 30, ISGo. 

To the Editor of tlie Bund, in Berne : 

I hereby empower and request you to add my name as a signer to the gen- 
eral address of sympathv and condolence from the Swiss Gontederation to the 
government in Washington Yon will also have the kindness to communicate 
the following resolution of a public meeting held in this place yesterday on the 
same occasion. 

With much regard, ^^ FRIEDRICII CAMl'E. 

THE RESOLUTION. 

The citizens of Arwangen rejoice at the great victories of t^^J J;«^';^;- J^^j;;!'; 
they sincerely deplore the loss of the great man who perished ^Y^^^^^^ 
hand. They assembled to the number of three hundred and two. and unaui- 



556 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

mously give this expression of their feelings, hoping the document may be con- 
veyed to its proper destination. 

In the name of the meeting, the special committee, 

J. H. EGGER, President. 

J. MORGENTHALER, Secretary. 

S. L. ERNST, Treasurer. 

Hundreds of signatures might have been obtained in this neighborhood for 
the address, had our time not been so limited. 



[Translation.] 

Aarmuhle, May 27, 1865. 
Mr. President : At a public meeting of the citizens of Aarmnhle, district 
of Tnterlachen, it was unanimously resolved to ratify the Swiss address of grat- 
ulation and sympathy to the people of the North American Union. 
Respectfully, 



The Hon. BONDRSRATH 

of the Swiss Confederation in Berne. 



M. WYDER, President. 
P. VORTER, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 



Aarberg, June 2, 1865. 
To the Bund, in Berne : 

The teachers in the district of Aarberg have watched the events of the Amer- 
ican war with much interest, and were exceedingly rejoiced when the news of 
Union victories resounded in our land. As our joy was profound, so was our 
grief, when, a few days later, news saddened us Avitli the sombre fact that the 
great republican citizen, Lincoln, had fallen by the hand of an assassin. 

Thirty members of the district synod of Aarberg, in their session of the 29th 
of May, unanimously resolved to approve of the address of sympathy and con- 
dolence to the American Union. 

Requesting you to give notice of this fact, we remain, &c., 

MATTI, Secretary. 



Mr. Fogg to Mr. Hunter. 

No. 87.] United States Legation, 

Berne, May 3, 1865. 

Sir: Your despatch of April 17, apprising me of the assassination of Presi- 
dent Lincoln, is just received. The shocking intelligence had already been 
flashed by telegraph all over Europe, several days earlier, as had also the scarcely 
less astounding ne.ws of the probable fatal attempt upon the lives of Secretary 
and Assistant Secretary Seward. 

No words can convey any sort of idea of the excitement produced among all 
classes, rulers and people, pn this side of the Atlantic. At first no one was 
•willing to believe it. The news was too terrible for belief. But soon a despatch 
from Mr. Adams in London put an end to all doubts. The deed, terrible as it 
was, had been done, and the " foremost man of all the world" in the hearts of mil- 



SENTBIENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 557 

lions on both sides of the Atlantic Inj stretched in death by the dastardly hand 
of an assassin. 

The millions in America who loved Jlr. Lincoln as a father and revered liim 
as the pnrest and greatest of patriotic statesmen could scarc(dy have innmiied 
him more profoundly than d.d the masses in Europe. Especially dear was he 
to the citizens of this little republic of Switzerland, where, from'the hcgiiiniii},' 
of our irreat struggle, his firm, true hand has ever been u]duld liy the warm 
sympathies and prayers of a free and gallant people, who had thrmselves, not 
long since, been called to strangle a somewhat similar though far less iuiijuitous 
and sanguinary conspiracy against their nation's life 

You will have seen how all Europe is moved. I am able to do notln'ng but 
receive visits and letters of condolence from citizens, foreign ministers, and 
members of the government. These last — some of them at least — 1 will send 
you with my next despatch. 

Of my own personal grief over this great calamity this is, perhaps, not the 
place to speak, but I cannot foibear. Few men, out of his own family and 
neighborhood, were so circumstanced as to know Mr. Lincoln better than myself, 
up to the time of my leaving for my present ])ost. He was kind to me, and I 
loved him as a father. I mourn him now as my dearest earthly friend. 

I pray God that the blow of the assassin may not have proved fatal to ^Ir 
Seward and his son. 

Asking you to express to them, if living, my most profound and heartfidt 
sympathy in their and our countries' great sufl'ering, I have the honor to be 
your obedient servant, 
•^ GEORGE G. FOGG. 

Hon. W. HUNTEK, 

Acting Secretary of State of the United States of Ainerica. 



Mr. Fogg to Mr. Hunter. 
[Extract.] 
\T„ CO 1 U.MTED StATKS LeOATIO.V, 

^''- ^^-J Berne, May 4. 18G5. 

g,jj. * # * * Letters of condolence are being 

prepared and forwarded to me from nearly all the cantonal governments and 
L£ the citizeus of every portion of Switzerla.ul 1 he mournmg and ivg e 
for the death of our President are universal trom the old njen to the bo> n l>o 
schools. 1 am convinced that no other man in any part of the world held such 
a place in so many millions of hearts. „,.;„:, ,.,U nf thr> 

Later 1 will forward to the State Departmeut cop.es or the « f^ ' ; ^ ^^ ^ ^^^^ 
addresses now coming into the legations from the cantons, cU.es and cotnnuuu. , 

near and remote, of Switzerland. , i^ i i p ...wil ;•. m.-ImkiwI- 

I herevvith append also a copy of my note to the 1 ederal Conned m .Kkno^^ 

edgment o'f theirs. 

With the highest respect, your obedient ^^^vant, ^^_ ^^^^ ^^ ^,^^^^ 

Bon. AYiLLFAiM Hunter, ^ 4,„^,-.^ 

Acting Secretary of State of the Vmted States of Amerua. 



558 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Mr. Fogg to Mr. Hunter. 

No. 93.] U.NiTED States Lf.gatiox, 

Berne, June 20, 186-5. 

Sir : I have the honor to forward herewith to the State Departineut, by the 
hand of Henry A. Sniythe, e.*quiie, f»f New York, appointed bearer of despatches 
to Washino-ton, two bound vohimes* containing over 300 original addresses of 
congratuhation, sympathy and condolence from the various cantonal governments, 
municipalities, communes, associations, schools and leading citizens of Switzerland 
expressive of the universal joy occasioned by the triumphant suppression of 
the rebellion in the United States, the destruction of slavery, and the re-estab- 
lishment of the American Union,' and of the quite as universal sorrow over the 
assassination of the late President Lincoln, the events of v/hose life, and the 
moment and manner of whose death, will enshrine him in the pantheon of history 
as the most illustrious character of modern times. 

The volumes contain official addresses I'rom the governments of twenty-one 
cantons, (all save one, Fribourg,) something mor-? than 20,000 original auto- 
graphs, comprising all the members of the Federal Council, members of the can- 
tonal governments, magistrates, chrgymen and military officers. In truth, 
they comprise the aggregate and congregate voice of all Switzerland, whose 
heart, hopes and prayers have been with our government in all the long, bloody, 
and sometimes ajtparently doubtfil struggle throiigh which we have passe i. 

As these various addresses have been sent or brought to me by delegations 
or committee^i, I have been obliged to make many brief speeches and write 
many letters, returnmg thanks in behalf of the government and people of the 
United States, for a sympathy as sincere and deep as it was universal. 

Trusting that these addresses and memorials will be sacredly preserved in 
the archives of the State Department, as evidence of the solidarity of sentiments 
and aspirations between the people of Switzerland and those of the United 
States, 

I have the honor to be, your obedient servant, 

GEORGE G. FOGG. 

Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State of the United States of America. 



[Translation.] 



Council of the cantun of Berne to the Bundesrath. 

Berne, May 8, 1865. 

Gentlemem : We respectfully rcrquest you on our part, by diplomatic means, 
to communicate to the government of the United States of North America our 
congratulations on the recent Union victories, together with the expression of 
our sympathies for their misfortunes, and oiu- horror at the assassination of Presi- 
dent Lincoln, and the attempt on the life of Secretary Seward. 

These Union victories will serve to realize and strengthen the principles of 
the free republic, will fix its fate, and form the most remarkable epoch in the 
pages of modern history. For these principles the great citizen and renowned 
statesman oftered himself as a sacrifice, and was immolated as a martyr I 

But we are firmly persuaded that the cowardly assassination of its great leader 

* The addresses referred to in this despatch are published inan alphabetical arrangement based 
upon the names of the towns fi om which they emanated. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 559 

will not impede the progress of the republic in the way of liberty, virtue, and 
mtelhgeuce, and b.B successor may be urged on to complete the ta.k begin in 
the good caui^e by his predecetisor. '^ 

Accept the assurance of our distinguished consideration. 

F. SCllKRZ, President. 

Dr. tragus el, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 

To the honorable George G. Fogg,mmist.er resident of the United States, Berne. 

To the hands of his Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States, at Washington: 

Bkrne, Mat/ 12, 18G5. 

The undersigned has the honor herewith to transmit to you the address of 
sympathy and condolence to the American Union voted by a meeting of Swi.ss 
citizens at Bern, and accompanied.by the declarations of accession sent in from 
all parts of the whole Swiss Confederation. 

It required but the slight impulsion of this address to arouse in Switzerland 
a lively and most universal movement of sympathy for the American sister re- 
public. After the members of the high Federal Council and of the grand council 
of the canton of Berne had opened the list of signatures, the governments of 
Argovy and Soleurc gave the signal for the accession also of the cantonal gov- 
ernments, most of whom have, upon the immediate invitation of the address 
committee, not hesitated to comply either by letters to the Federal Council, or by 
direct individual signature, and in the names of their cantons. 

In Geneva a meeting of 4,000, and in Chaux-de-fonds one of 2,000 persons 
was held in order to vote a separate address. The grand c mncils of Vaud and 
Tessin also have voted separate manifestations of sympathy. Besiilesa number 
of the most prominent citizens of the country, a great muny communal authori- 
ties and private citizens, particularly from the cantons of Berne, Basle-Town, 
Neufchatel, Argovy, Zurich, (town of Winterthur,) Fribourg, (town of Min-ten,) 
Basle, Campagne, &c., have acceded to our address. The aggregate number of 
signatures, which at this moment cannot be given quite accurately, may be esti- 
mated for the accompanying address alone at about 10,000, if the innnber can 
add anything to the value of the testimonials of sympathy from all clussrs and 
professions, authorities and private individuals. 

The greatest act of sympathy, however, was the resolution of the Landsgc- 
memde of Glaris, an assembly of fiom 5,000 to 6,000 voters of a Swiss canton 
of 30.000 inhabitants, who in the open air make the laws of their country, and of 
which occasion they availed themselves, at the suggestion of their Landammann, 
unanimously to rise, and with uncovered lieads to manifest their sympathy with 
the American Union. ,. i i 

In accordance with this manifestation, the government of another democratic 
canton, namely. Orisons, has submitted the question of a deuK.nstration ..sym- 
pathy and condolence by the people of Grisous, to all the thirty nine district 
assemblies, which in that canton are equal to the Landsgememde ; and there is no 
doubt that on Sunday, the Htli May, the vofrs of a canton of OO.OiiO ...hab- 
itants will also unanimously jToclaim their sym].atliy or the l. n.trd Mates. 

In view of these tokens it may well W asse.ted that it is the whole ^wiss 
people who, in this mon.ent, ofier to the Am-ncan p-oplr thnr gre.tn.g ".t 
brotherly sentiment. Our sole wish is. that it may be receiv.d m th- same 
spirit by the citizens of the American Union. 
^Wi,,u\l,e highC considcuioo, iu .he ■--y[;-*'S:,r.7;l: *"■'. 



560 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

P. S. — It will liaiflly be necessary to explain tliat the term " dem'icracy" in 
the address is not synonymous with the party denomination in America. The 
address of condolence also is directed to Mr. Vice-President Johnson, because it 
was drawn up before his (known) inauguration as Pi'esideiit. And in regard 
finally to the external appearance (if the signatures, the apology may be given 
that though much may be left to be desired, they are not the less sincere. 

The above undersigned. 



[Translation.] 



To his Excellency Abraham Lixcoln, 

President nf the United States of America : 

Honored Sir : We, the undersigned citizens of Switzerland, avail ourselves 
of the occasion of the news of the termination of the American war to congratu- 
late you from the liottom of our hearts upon the reconstruction of the Uni.-in. 

One hundred years have not yet elapsed since the American nation, l)y her 
first war of indej)endence, laid the foundation of her democratic and republican 
liberty. The fruit of her victory was the winning of a whole continent for tin? 
republic, and the proclamation of the great sentiment of human rights which 
soon spread it.^clf over all Europe By the victorious termination of her second 
Avar the people of America have also practically restored to life the rights of 
man, and e.^tablished by their acts that man shall be neither lord nor slave, but 
that all men are born to be free. 

But not only this: while destroying slavery and restoring to the oppressed 
black race their rights, the American people have also saved the white race. 
They have destroyed the fundamental elements of a rising aristocracy which 
attempted to propagate the principle of op))ression upon both sid(-s of the ocean, 
and which would have substituted privih ge for poj)ular self-government, and 
despotism for democracy. The triumj)!) of the Union has shown that democracy 
is not a vain idea but a real truth, and that the nations also are born to be free. 

Of all the nations of the globe none is more entitled or more qualified to re- 
cognize this than the Swiss. Switzerland is the oldest existing rejjuhlic in the 
civilized world, and liberty and equality of all her citizens her vital air. Well 
might the monarchists and aristocrats of Europe, even those professing to be 
liberal, have doubted the trium})h of the North, and even secretly wisfied its 
defeat Free Switzerland was aware that the struggle there going on was for 
the cause of free labor and of the democratic republic, and that their champion, 
the North, must finally triumph. 

Of all the nations, also, none has more occasion for rejoicing at the triumph of 
the North. Surroundi d from all sides by great monarchies, where liberal ideas 
are undergoing a doubtful struggle, Switzerland is like an oasis, and without 
friendly sympathizers in Europe. She is s'rong enough, it is true, to defend 
herself, and by her example to encourage others; but she is too weak to guide 
the fortunes of Europe upon the republican track. 

Across the ocean, however, now stands, new-born, a powerful, gri'at republic, 
superior to any enemies. By their own iidierent j)Ower the American people 
have themselves overcome the evil of which all the glorious republics of old 
have perished, and which threatened her also with destruction. Ilecovered, there 
she now stamls forever an example and a rock of liberty. The republic has 
established herself forever in the history of the world. Who will now deny 
that a republic can maintain herself with great nations ? 

This triumph is a historical fact — a fact fur all mankind ; for there can be no 
doubt that this truth will not fail to send its lustre over to us. As the deliver- 
ance of the Union from a foreign yoke has driven its waves towards our conti- 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 561 

nent witli irresistible sway, so will also the surge of her regeneration reach the 
European shores. 

All those who are in favor of despotism and slavery have received the news 
of the fall of Hichniond with a secret feeling of alarm ; while all free licarts heat 
stronger in the heightened hope that the cause of liberty must triuraijh also in 
Europe. Of all, however, Switzerland rejoices the most; for to her the triumph 
of the North is a pledge that the republic will never perish, but take deeper root. 

This is the reason for our lending a most emphatic expression to the sympathy 
which we have invariably cherished for the feeling. No feeling of hatred 
towards the succumbed tarnishes our congratulation ; while we are convinced 
that the government will ftdluw up its triumph by firmness in matters of prin- 
ciple and magnanimity towards the subdued, to the complete political recon- 
struction of the Union. We declare our full, emphatic sympathy with the prin- 
ciples of democratic self-government and free labor, which have gained new 
ground in the Union ; with the men who have, in the true spirit of thr^se prin- 
ciples, led her stars ; with the genuine democratic statesman, Abraham Lincoln, so 
dear to Switzerland ; with the brave federal army and her excellent leaders ; 
and, finally, with the noble American people, who have triumphed over their 
enemies and over themselves. 

The motto between the two sister republics shall be, forever: "The cause of 
democracy and of the republic must triumph ! " 



[Translation.] 

To his Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

. Vicc-P resident of the United States, Washington : 

HoNOKED Sir : We just receive the appalling news of the assassination of 
the President of the United States, Mr. Abraliam Lincoln. We are also aware 
that our address cannot reach the excellent man who has' now fallen, as it were, 
a victor ou the field of battle, a victim of his republican honesty, uprightness, 
and conciliatory mind. 

Permit us to express our most profound sympathy and grief over tins event. 
The Swiss people abhor from the bottom of their hearts such a mode of warfare 
determined on— but, we would gladly believe, not with the consent of the people — 
bv the partisans of the South. Switzerland, however, is fully confi. cut tl.at 
even if this new viccissitude should again disturb the hopesof a speedy peace, 
the triumph of the cause of the North, and of the democratic republ.c, will be 
the more complete. 

[Trcanslation. J tit r lor-. 

BkRNR, May 0, 1S6.J. 

To the Editor of the Bund : -, , i t * 

Honored Sir: As an opponent to the old and new ^o"; J-bu-h n^^^^^^^^^ 
fully request you to add niy name to the address «/ .^>-"H; y - ^ ! ''^^^^^ 
of tL ^iss liople to the government and people of^h^o. U. Ajnn.ca.amc n. 

rTranslation.l -yr r icr:'; 

■■ Bkrne, May 5, IbOo. 

To the Editor of the Bund, in Berne: 

S,R : W. I,ave ,1« l.co. to inform you tl.at >;:-^:;;r,: ;,:'':,;,. 
ci.la,,aMaouf„ct.H,,gAssoci.io,..,,Be^ 

you in the general address ot s^mpauiy .mti v. 

36 A 



562 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

"We hereby transmit a list of the signatures of our numbers, (SS in number,) 
and remain your obedient servants. 
In the name of the cordmittee : 

C. WJLHELMUS GRAFFENRIED, President. 

ALBERT YEllSIN, Secretary. 

(Then come the SS names of the members.) 



[Translation.] 



Signatures of the members of the Helvetia Student's Union' to the address 
of sympathy for the United States of America, 

GOTTFRIED FLENTISSEN, Jr., President. 
ADOLPHE FRENE, Law Student. 
JOHANN RFISCHARD, Juris Student. 
FRIEDRICH MATHYS, Theological Student. 
ALEX. IjMMER, Theological Stt/dmt. 

And fifteen other names. 



[Translation.] 

Bernk, May 3, 1865. 
The students of the Concordia Society, 19 members, have this day resolved 
to unite in the address of sympathy and condolence to the American. Union. 
In the name of the Concordia : 

A. SCHEURER, President, Late Student. 
BERGER, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 

Berxe, May 7, 1865. 
Mr. Editor : The Berne Typographia hereby announce their assent to the 
address of sympathy and condolence to the government of the North American 
free States. 

For the society : 

KARL KONIG, President. 
S. MAYER, Secretary. 



[Translation. ] 



The undersigned society, at a full meeting this day, unanimously passed the 
following resolutions : 

1. We cordially approve of the address of sympathy and condolence to the 
American Union now circulating in this city. , 

2. We order that every member of the society sign his name to this paper, 
and that it be properly executed. Berne, May 6, 1865. In the name of the 



Frohsiuu Miinnerchor, of Berne 
(Eighty-four signatures follow.) 



J. HUBER, President. 
T. BUCHERT, Secretary. 



SENTIMEMTS OF CONDOLEx\CE AND SYMPATHY. 5G3 

[Translation.] 

The Meaner Turnverein (Men's Gymnastic Union) of the city of Berne. 

Resolved, at, a meeting on the 5tli of lUj, 1865, to approve of tlie nddiv^Ps of 
sympathy and condolence to the United States of America, on account of the 
suppression of the rebellion and assassination of President Lincoln, in the 
name of all their members, forty-four in number. 
For the Turnverein : 

GO. STRELTN, President. 
A. FEANTOOUI, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 

BuRcnoRF, May 6, ISGo. 
Dear Sir : In honor to the memory of the great man beyond the sea, wlio, 
with so much courage, strength and patience, Avisdom and moderation, directed 
the destinies of his country through a long and bloody war, and wJis at last 
struck down by the mercila«s hand of a cruel assassin, I desire that my name 
be added to the address of the Swiss Confederation to the American nation. 
I made inquiries about a meeting to be held in tliis place ; but I find there is 
no one here who takes sufficient interest in such things to get it up ; I therefore 
take this means of making my wishes known to you. 
Yours, with great esteem, 

F. WELCIILI. 

Mr. TSCHARNER, 

Editor of the Bund, in Berne. 



[Translation.] 

Bleienbach, (near Sbleure,) May 7, 1865, 
Sir : Since our government seems to have forgotten the address of sympathy 
and condolence to the government of the United States, and nobody here thinks 
any more about it since it was first presented, and as I had not tlie good for 
tune to see it, being absent at the time, I respectfully request you to add my 
name to the list of signers to the expression of joy and sorrow for our republi- 
can brethren beyond the ocean. 

With great esteem, ^^^.^ o, t t 

^ N. T. MOLLET, Supreme Judge. 



[Translation.] 

BoLLLXGEN, May 7, 1865. 



Mr. Editor: The Bollingen Reading Society, consisting of twenty mem- 
bers, at an ordinary meeting last evening, reso^^v;.d to joni in tl' •-;1^ «f 
sympathv and condolence to the United States of Isorth America o ac^crm /.t 
the issas-sination of their excellent Bresident A n-ahain L-coh. ^ d to J 'ce 
with them in their victories for the triumph of humanity by the abolition ot 
slavery. 

Respectfully, in the name of the Soeiety,^^^^^^ FLUKIGER. 



President. 

JQHN MUHLETHAJ^Klf, 

Actuary. 



564 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Trauslatiou. | 

Bremgartex, (near Berne,) June 9, 1865. 
The common council and Choral Union of Bremgarten declare that they 
cordially join in the Swiss address of sympathy to the American Union, which 
originated in Berne. 

We hereby most sincerely wash the greatest prosperity to the American Union 
in its restoration after great victories, and express onr most cordial sympathy 
for its bereavement by the death of its excellent President Lincoln. 

(Twelve members of the council, and fourteenth members of the Choral 
Union.) 

The star-spanf^led banner, 
O loDg may it wave 
O'er the land of tlie free 
And the home of the brave ! 

SCHELLENBUrvG GONDRATH, 

President oj" the Council. 
FRIEDKICH .AESCHEE, 

^Secretary. 
lu the name of the Choral Union: 

ERIEDRICH AESCHER, 

Director. 
JOHANNES WUETHRICHT, 
Secretary, 



[Translation.] 

BiEANE, Mcnj 7, 1865. 
Dear Sir : I hereby enclose you the signatures of the members of various 
societies, assembled by order of the district authorities, to express their appro- 
bation of the address of sympathy and condolence of the inhabitants of little 
Switzerland to the great sister republic of the United States. 

What man, what true Swiss, did not feel the warm blood run Swifter in his 
veins and his heart pulsate audibly at the news of the great events in America, 
the per])etual abolition of slavery ! 

I remain, with much esteem, the old interventioner, 

ALEX. SCHONL 

BlEL, (Bienne.) 
In the name of about 800 persons assembled on the 25th of April, to celebrate 
the victories and the abolition of slavery in the United States. 

ALEX. SCHUNI, 

For the Standing Committee. 
JOHN SESSLER, Secretary. 
Dr. John Wittenbach, 

of the Grand Council in Berne. 



[Translation.] 

BiENNE, May 21, 1865. 
Sir : Deign to accept the most profound condolence for the cruel death of the 
man most dear to all republican hearts, from a true Swiss republican, whose son 
fought against the southern rebels as chief of a company of light artillery, in the 
first Virginia regiment. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 565 

The delay of this expression of sympathy from me is owin- to my removal 
from Morat to this place. When I left Morat the achlress had nut been circulated 
there, and when I got here it had been sent to Berne. 

Yet I hope it is not too late to join a friend in sending congratulation'^ to our 
friends beyond the sea, with wishes for their prosperity and that of their new 
noble representative. 

Accept our sympathy and our most sincere wishes for the future prosDerity of 
the Union. ^ ^ -^ 

Respectfully, 

JEAN JEXK, Senior, 
at Bonjcan, near Bicnne, 
I take pleasure in joiaing in the above condolence and good wishes. 

R. MILLER, 
Brof/icr of a suri^con in the army of the Union. 
His Excellency the Mixistkr Resident 

of the JJnitcd States of America in Switzerland. 



[Translation.] 

Brunnen, Maij 6, 1865. 
To the Bund : 

As the pious hearts of Switzerland have always throbbed in sympathy with 
the good people of America, now grieving for their noble President Lincohi, we 
cordially join in the address of condolence prepared for them by the people of 
the Swiss Confederation. 

We hope you will convey this expression to its proper address. 

A. NIDERAST. 
P. BEXL. 



[Translation.] 
Mayor and council of the canton of Bascl-Stadt to the Bimdesrath, in Berne. 

Basel, Maij 6, 1SG.5. 

Gentlemen : We learn from the public papers that your supreme authorities 
have voted an address of sympathv and condolence to the United States, on ac- 
count of the death of their worthy "I'resident, at a time when long-desired peace 
was just taking the place of a terrible war. i i <- i 

We presume the address is in the name of all the cantons, and we are tbanklul 
for the opportunity of adding our names to it. But if we are mistake., we 
suggest that a circular be promulged for the purpose, that each canton may know 

what to do. , TIM 

. We commend you to the protection of Divine Providence, and subscribe our- 

'^^^^^^' • C. STCIILTN. Manor 

DR. BISCONOiT, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 
At a public meeting held in the Lutheran church, in Balgach at ''■•'1[-P;;;| <;" 
o'clock in the forenoon of the 7th of May, 1865, on a motion "l'^'^^ .^> .^ \^.' ; 
after the close of the polls for the district election, tlie following resolution ^^a., 
unanimously adopted : 



566 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

" The citizens of Balg-ach, at a meeting held on the 7th of May, 1865, unani- 
monsly resolved to ratify the address of sympathy and condolence from the 
Swiss Cnnfederation to the American Union, and requested the authorities of the 
canton of St. Gall to make it known to the proper persons." 
Adopted unanimously. The ahove abstract is correct. 

S. OESCH, President. 
NiJNSCH, Notary. 
T. U. SONDEREGaER, 
EDWARD WALTZ LER, Vote counters. 



[Trauslation. ] 



BuLLE, Canton of Fribourg, 

May 12, 1S65, 
To the Bund, Berne: 

As no one seems to have the courage to get up a particular demonsti'ation of 
sympathy for the cause of the northern States of America in this place, we, resi- 
dent Germans, have thought proper to call a meeting and declare our approval of 
the general Swiss address, and to express our pleasure at the northern victories, 
and our grief for the murder of President Lincoln. 

In thanking the Berue committee for having taken the initiative in this affair, 
the undei signed beg leave to express their high esteem for the promoters of the 
good cause. 

CARL BUCHNER, druggist, of Darmstadt. 
ADAM HENRICH, gardner, of Hesse-Darmstadt. 
CLEMENT NARGELE, apothecary from the grand 

duchy of Baden. 
VALENTIN ROTHGEB, knife-maker from Rhenish 

Bavaria 
JOHN MAYER, grand duchy of Baden. 
REINHARD MEYER, weaver of grand duchy of Baden. 
H. ZECH, merchant, same place. 
GUSTAV KAMMER, wood seller, Hesse-Darmstadt. 
MAURICE ANDREW, gardner. Saxony. 
JOHN HENRY GARTNER,' grand duchy of Hesse- 
Darmstadt. 
CARL MEYER, blacksmith, grand duchy of Baden. 
PETER KRANTZ, shoemaker, from Maehenheim, Hesse- 
Darmstdat. 



[Translation.] 



Meeting of tlie inhahitants of Brittnau in clmrcli, Sunday afternoon, May 14, 

1865. 

The number of qualified voters over 20 years of age, 385. 

On motion of Parson Bauman, seconded by other persons present, it was 
unanimously resolved to approve of the Swiss national address to the people of 
the United States of North America. 

1st. In view of congratulations on the happy ^conclusion of the four years' 
■yyar, which has produced the greatest of blessings to the country, namely, the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 5G7 

institution of the rights of man, the enjoyment of personal liberty and freedom' 
without regard to the accidental differences of complexion, corporeal circum- 
stances or descent, m opposition to the execrable evil of negro slavery in the 
southern States ; and "^ 

2d. In consideration of the expression of condolence for the death of that 
most excellent man, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. 
The above is a true copy of the original. 

MAT. WALCHIJ, President. 
A. WALOHLI, ClcrA: 
JACOB BllAK, 
J. ZLMMEIILIK, Vote counters. 



[Translation. ] 
The Agricultural Society of the district of Baden to President Johnson. 

Baden, lv Aargau, May 21, 1SG5. 

As members of an agricidtural society, and as citizens of a free country, we 
feel bound to join in the chorus that solemnly swells in the praise of the holy 
cause of humanity, freedom and equality to all men as brothers, and that pre- 
cious blessing of a republic, imbrokcn unity. Therefore have we followed with 
intense interest the banner of our sister republic beyond the ocean, which waved 
for the holy blessing, and watched the changes of events as closely as if they 
bad been in our own land — now with joy, and then with fear and trembling. 
Great was our exultation when the good cause triumphed ; but a terrible blow 
struck down our joy. Close upon the news of victory came the tidings of the 
death of Lincoln, the noble unmoved champion of freedom and the Union, 

Permit us, therefore, to express to you our most sincere congratulation on the 
triumph of the good cause, and to tell our deep sorrow for the death of Presi- 
dent Lincoln, the noble martyr of liberty. 

Permit us, as kindred people, to extend the friendly hand of brotherhood, and 
crown his head with laurel iu his last sleep, and plant the mourning cypress 
over his untimely grave. 

May his martyrdom produce the rich fruit that the true martyrs of humanity 
have always yielded. 

In the name of the society : 

KETTIGER, President. 
JOHN MULLER, kecrciary. 



[Translation.] 

BiRKN, June 4, 1S65. 
Sir : We learn through the central state functionary here that you are au- 
thorized to receive the addresses of sympathy which .societies and Swiss people 
desire to make to the government of the United States. We thereh.re send ynu 
the address of the teachers of Buren, that you may attend to the proper disi.o- 

salofit_ J. PFISTER. 

With esteem, ^^^.^ .^.^^^^^^ .^^.^,.;^^.^. 

The Commander of the Hunter Corps of the Canton of Berne. 



568 APPENDIX TO D.1PL0MATIC COKEESPOXDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

Expression of adlies'wn to the address oj" symj^atlnj to the Nor tli American Union 
hy the jfcople oj" Switzerland. 

BiJREN, IN THE Cantox OF Berne, June 5, 1865. 

Tlie great rejoicing on account of the recent g-reat victories of the American 
Union has found an echo in our hearts, as that country has always been friendly 
to us, and friendly to freedom throughout the world. 

" Freedom to man, though he be born in chains," says our great poet, Schil- 
ler, 'in his ideal enthusiasm for freedom and the dignity of manhood. Whoever 
considers these words, and understands them properly, caiiuot help feeling how 
superior a man who believes in and practices them is to one who is govei'ued by 
the demon of servitude and oppression. Whoever has a heart that beats warm 
for the greatest blessings of humanity, must join the general gratulation of the 
friends of freedom evci-ywhere on the triumph of the glorious cause for human 
rights on American soil. 

Abraham Lincoln, the mighty leader of these great events, the manly model 
of civic virtue, of pure and noble humanity, Avill be held holy in the memory of 
the inhabitants of his native land, and be worshipped by the world. iMay this 
idea console the. country that is destined to live on in prosperity for his cruel 
death. May this view in the history of nations, and of our country in particu- 
lar, teach us that it is the will of Providence for all religious, social, or political 
reforms to be accomplished by a baptism, of blood. 

]\lay God keep the people of the Xorth American Union ever hereafter in 
freedom, peace, and unity. 

In the name of the synod : 

JOHANN PFISTER, 

Assistant Teacher. 



f Translation.] 



Chaux de Fond, Switzerland, May 7, 1865. 

The radical electors of Chaux de Fonds, republic and canton of Neufchatel, 
in Switzerland, assembled this day, to the number of two thousand, for the pur- 
pose of exercising their civil rights, and adopted unanimously the following ad- 
dress to the government of the United States : 

The news of the triumph of the northern cause has filled the hearts of all the 
radicals of Neufchatel with joy, and has delighted their brothers of all the Swiss 
cantons. Yours is the cause of true repiiblicans in every country. Like you, 
the Swiss radicals desire the emancipation of all men ; the triumph of the cause 
of progress, with its happy consequences ; the reign of order. 

That abominable crime, the murder of President Lincoln, has received no 
greater reprobation in any part of the world than Avith us. We will ever keep 
his illustrious name in our memories ; but we comfort ourselves with the thought 
that the cause of the North did not die with one of its best citizens, but will live 
to triumph in the hands of his successor and his able generals. 

It was also voted to have this resolution sent to the United States minister at 
Berne. 

This is a certified copy : 

President of the Radical Committee. 

[seal.] a. RIBAUX, 

Justice of the Peace. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 560 

[Translation.] 

Chaux dr Fo,\d, Mat/ 4, 1865. 
The mKlor.,p^nea give tlieir met perfect adhe.ion to tlic address .«e..t by the 
fede al eounca of fewnzerland to the governn.ent of the United States of Ame ! 
JC^, both as n-S-ards the tnumpli of the northern cause and the memory of the 
emmeut and lamented Pf-esideut Liucoha. ^ 

A KIBArX. LEOX INREY. 

^ pat'ttIJ^P- JULES LAMBERCIER. 

E ROIjILEN. JULES DUBOIS. 

AJ.EXANDRE HESS. J. A. WILEIMRIER 

H. F. GERRIT. AUG. BARBEY. 

ARNOLD NICOND. L. C. DELLENBACH 

EDOUARD ROBERT. PAUL CALAME 

DUBOIS CALAME. T'S ARMAND TL'^SOT 

ALB. DUCOMMUN. LUCIEX HUMBERT. 

ED. BEGUELIX. EXG. JUXOD. 

ROBERT BORXAXD. XUMA DIOZ. 

GUSTAVE LUPOLD. H'RI GllANJEAX PERIJEXO\ 

. ULYSSE PERRETT. ZFNGO BERTOX. 

LOUIS BORNET. 
And about 2,400 names from Chaux de Fond. 



[Translation.] 

Chur, il/ffy 24, 1865. 
Themndersig-ned most cordially approves of the S^viss addrej^s of sympatliy 
to the United States, and requests to contribute his signature to its cohunns of 
subscribers in our native land. 

Dr. CARL HILTOX, 

Lawyer in Chur. 



[Translation.] 

The minor cotincil of the canton of the Grisons (Granhundcn) to Mr. Florian 
Gengee, editor of the Bund, in Berne. 

Chir, May 8, 1S65. 
Sir : Thanking you for your estimable letter of the 29th instant, we ai^sure 
you that our chief authorities as well as the people in general feel the most jn-o- 
found sympathy for the American Union ; and we are conhdent that eimilar 
sentiments prevail throughout all Switzerland, on acouimt of the cahimitous 
event that has overwhelmed that country. 

Now as to the best manner of expressing this sympathy, it seems to us that 
an official publication cf the state council, as rcin'esentatives, and in the name 
of the whole confederation, and in the proper form, siiould be addressed to the 
government of the United States. 

However, in case the address of sympathy and condolence is sent to us, we 
are ready to assent to it with our signatures. 
"With much esteem, 

n. p. BEELI, President. 

In the name of the state council, the chancery director, \y\\r 



570 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 
The minor council of the canton of Orisons to the honorable state council. 

Chur, May 10, 1865. 

Loyal Fellow-citizexs : The recent important news from America, the 
glorious- Union victories over the seceded States, the horrid murder of the well- 
deserving President Lincoln, have called up feelings of "the deepest sympathy in 
all (Switzerland. 

The minor council, convinced that the people participate in this sentiment, 
have not hesitated so to express it ; but as they intend to call a meeting for 
that purpose on the 14th instant, we will leave the more perfect expression of 
their feelings to the promised official report of the popular assembly. 

We therefore iuvite the presidents of the different circles to meet here on 
Sunday, the lith instant, to consider whether it accords with the feelings and 
wishes of the authorities of the canton of Grisous to congratulate the United 
States on their victories, and offer condolence for the death of their excellent 
President Abraham Lincoln. 

Not doubting but tlie people of Grisous will joyously accept the opportunity 
to express their republican sentiments and cordial sympathy for the American 
Union, we respectfully request th*e different presidents to answer the above 
question without delay. 

We commend you, brethren, to the protection of Divine Providence. 

H. P. BEELI, President. * 
J. B. TSCHARNEll, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 

The minor council of the canton of Orisons to the Hon. Swiss Bundesrath, in 

Berne. 

Chur, June 1, 1865. 

Gentlemen- : The latest important news from our sister republic beyond the 
ocean — the gi'eat conflict between the States of the North American Union, the 
signal victories of the loyal citizens and all their liberty-loving friends over 
those who would have severed the bonds of Union, and the death of the Union 
President Lincoln, the worthy, estimable, unmoved representative of the good 
cause, who fell a sacrifice to the desire of accomplishing his holy commission — 
all these events are felt and appreciated or deplored, not only in the valleys of 
our canton, but over all Switzerland. 

The information that reaches us through the public papers of the glorious 
victories of the nation and the tragic death of its President has awakened the 
most lively feelings of gratulation on the one part, and the deepest sentiments 
of sorrow in our bosoms on the other, towards a country that has always been 
our friend. 

The sincerity of this sympathy is the less doubtful, as many of our people's 
kindred were the warriors in that holy crusade for freedom and right, and many 
more are still living free and happy under that star-spangled banner for which 
they have victoriously fought. 

With this intention, we thought proper to make out an address and send it 
to the thirty-nine districts of this canton on the 14th ultimo, when the district 
elections were to take place, to have the vote taken upon it. On the 10th a 
special proclamation was issued, a copy of which has been sent you for your 
consideration, and circulated throughout the canton, putting this interrogatory 
to the voters : Whether it accords with the feelings and wishes of the au- 
thorities of the canton of Grisons to congratulate the United States on 
their victories, and offer condolence for the -death of their excellent Presi- 
dent Abraham Lincoln. The resitlt of the votes in the thirty-nine districts 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 571 

has reached us, after miicli delay, and Ave are happy to report it as unani- 
mous lu favor of the interrogatory, and at every precinct especial expres- 
sions of sympathy were made by many of the voters. It is now our wish 
and desire that this perfect expression of the sympathy of our people be sent 
to the government of .the United States, through the proper channel. In the 
mean time we embrace the opportunity to send' our respects and feelings of 
distinguished consideration. 

H. P. BE ELI, Prrsldcnt. 

J. B. TSCHARNEIl, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 
The Chancery of Grisons to the Bu?id. 

CiiUR, May 19, 1S65. 
Mr. Editor : As the report of the votes of this cantoa was late coining to 
hand, we have jiot been able hitherto to inform you of the result. In answer to 
yours of the loth instant, we have the honor to say that the address of sympa- 
thy and condolence from the citizens of the Swiss Confederation to the American 
Union is fully approved of, as far as we can learn. Official reports from several 
places have not yet been received, but we have no doubt they will accord with 
the sentiments expressed in the Berne address. 
Respectfully, 

G. MARCniON, Chancellor. 



[Trauslutiou. ] 



The Manncrchor and Musical Union of .Dtegfen, Canton of Baselland, xoith 
fifty four signatures and this motto: 
Es bliiikeu der Sterne so viele 

lu's dimlvel des Lebens liinein ; 
Es dring-en die Voelker ziuu Ziele, 
Bei ihreui helleucliteuden Scheiu. 

Many stars twinkle 

In life's weary way, 
Leading: us onward 

To heavenly day. 



[Translation.] 
To the President of the Central Union ofGlarus. 

EiNSiEDELN, May 10, 1SG5. 
By order of the Working Men's Union of Einsiedeln, I l!^^^^;;^;^ -^^ y^^^!^ 
list of signatures to the address of sympathy to the -^'"•.'J'^' j^^t -ll rn'o 
lists from'this canton must have been sent you droady }^:^^JT^^^^„ 
the kindne.s to comply with the request, I remam, m the name ut the ^^ uikn.. 
Men's Union of Einsiedeln, 

Your obedient servant, ^j^^rtIN FUCHS, Actuary. 



[Translation. ] 
To the government and free people of the United States oj Xorth A.rrira. 



572 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

States of North America, on account of tlieir recent great victories and advan- 
tages, both in a political and social regard, and the undersigned citizens of Ein- 
siedelu, in the canton of Schwyz, and the members of the Working Men's Union 
of the same place, send their cordial congratulations for triumphs, and their 
heartfelt sorrows for the atrocious murder of the noblest and greatest citizen of 
the Union, President Abraham Lincoln. 
God preserve the republic. 

CARL HEXSLER, 
President c^ the Wo>];iiis Mc?i's Union. 
E. SCHADER, 

Vice-President. 
And ninety-seven names. 



[Translation.] 



The Democratic Circle of Estavayer, animated by similar sentiments to those 
announced at the Fribourg poptilar meeting of the 14th of May instant, and 
anxious to show their brothers beyond the sea their sympathy for the victories 
over the South, thus restoring peace to the American Union by the triumph of 
the liberal cause, and also to express their indignation and sorrow at the ruthless 
and savage act of the monster Booth, who deprived them of the most worthy 
and ptire of republicans, their illustrious President Lincoln, declare that they 
approve of the resolution passed at the public meeting at Fribourg, and join in 
the address to the republicans of the United States. 

A. MOURET, Attorney at Law. 

JOSEPH BRUNO VOLLERY. 

A. BUCKS PROUVREUX. 

NICHOLAS SAXSONNENS. 

P. X. COLLAND. 

AXTOINE MARMY. 

JAQUES SAXSONXEXS, Teacher. 

C. A. L. DAFFLOX. 

And thirty-one other names. 



[Translation.] 

District of Fran dies Montagnes. 

Signatures to the Berne address of sympathy to the people of the American 
Union, congratulating them on the victoriptis restoration of their government, 
and condoling with them on the loss of Abraham Lincoln, their savior. 

KATI\IANX, Prefect. 
E. BROSSARI), Judge. 
General QUELAIX. 
Lieutenant HUSSBAUMER. 
-' Captain HEXXIN. 

Captain GIRARD. 

And forty-two others. 



[Translation.] 

Fribourg, May 24, 1865. 

Sir : I have the honor to transmit you the following documents : 
1. An address, voted by a popular assembly at Fribourg, on Saturday, the 
13th of May, with 411 signatures. 



573 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 

2. A supplementary addiT^s, signed by 106 citizens of Gniyere,* most of them 
Irom the industrious aud liberal little city of Bidle. 

3 A second declaration of assent to the address voted by the Democratic 
Circle ot the city of Estavayer,t with 39 signatures, .5o6 signatun-s in ail. 
which the people of Fribourg beg you to accept and transmit to your American 
countrymen, as a token of friendship, republican coufrat(;rnity and very sincere 
sympathy. 

Receive the assurance of our very distinguished consideration. 

Mr, G. G. Fogg, 

Minister Resident of the United States, at Berne. 



[Translatiou.] 

FuiBouRG, May ]3, 1SG5. 
To tlie Rcin/Uicans of the United States : 

All free nations, aud those waiting for their freedom, hail the final triumph 
of your arms with sentiments of happiness and hope, as the cause of justice, 
liberty, humanity, and civilization were sheltered by your banners. 

Without hate for your wayward brothers, the Swiss people shout with joy at 
the news of your success, for it assures the immortal principles of democracy, 
and restores peace, concord, and prosperity to your great and wonderful republic, 
which we are proud to call our" sister and to love as such. 

How great was our consternation, how sincere our lamentations, when we 
heard of the tragic death of your great citizen, Lincoln, a victim of the most 
atrocious crime known to the world, at the moment Avlien we expected to sec 
him crowned wilh the purest glory, and worshipped with veneration by all good 
people, as the fruits of four years of perseverauce and gigantic struggles. 

AVhy was not the^assassin's hand disarmed at the last moment by so much 
republican virtue, so much nobility and magnanimity? • 

Republicans of the United States, who are weejiing over the tomb of the 
most illustrious of your children, allow yom- brethren of Helvetia's hills aud 
dales to join iu your mourning, and lay npon the tomb in their turn the wreatln 
of regret and fraternal sympathy. 

Republicans of America, republicans of Switzerland and old. Europe, let us re- 
main ever united, in days of misfortune as in times of prosperity. 

May God give you consolation aud courage, and always protect your beauti- 
ful country and free institutions. 

^ AUG. ^[AJEUX. 

Editor of the Fribourg Journal. 
Z. CASTELLA. 
Dr. C. IIUYDUC, 
T. Til ACS EN, 

Dk. JOSEPH SCHXYDEU, Sr., 
CUAKLES St'inVAH. 
CHARLES FoNDLEr, 
JOSEPH GE.NDin-:. 
PHILIPPE TECUrERMANN, 
CHRISTIAN PLANC, 
PIERRE WICll r, 
AUG. MOIIR PFLUGER, 
LUCIEN 13IEL.MANN, 
And three hm.dred and nim-ty-eight other signatures. 



* For tliis eudosiire see Gniycrc. 
t For this euclosure see E.stavuycr. 



574 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation..] 
The president and council of tJiecaJiton of Thurgau to the BundesratJi, in Berne. 

Frauenfeld, Maij 3, 1S65. 

Grxtlemen : By a circular from the Berne committee for the address of syra- 
patliy and condolence to tbe American Union, we are invited to join in its ap- 
proval, together Avitli the governments of Aargau, Ticino, and Solenre. 

We have thonght it would be better for each canton to draw up an address, 
through its chief authorities, and have it presented at meetings of the inhabitants 
for their approval, and then send it to the general government to be for\varded 
through the minister to the foreign government. 

But if our views of the subject arc not correct, we willingly indorse your ad- 
dress in the name of the inhabitants of Thurgau, as our people rejoice at the 
victories for the holy riglits of man, and highly condemn the atrocious crime 
that attempted to destroy their effect, wishing the greatest prosperity and peace 
to our sister republic beyond the ocean. 

Requesting you to report this declaration to the pi'oper authorities, we remain 
your attentive and serving fellow-countrymen. 

EILOFF, President. 
RUKSTUHT, Chancellor. 



[Translation.] 



Telegram from Frauenfeld to Berne, (received May 8, 1865,^ to tlic editor of 

the Bund, in Berne. 

The Thurgau Mutual Aid Society, at a special meeting this day, has unani- 
mously declared its adhesion to the Swiss address of synjpathy and condolence 
to the people of the United States. 

MANN, Actuary. 

STRAHEN, Telegraph Agent. 



[Translation.] 



The district synod of teachers in the civil district of Frauhrunn, canton of 
Berne, to the Aiuerican legation in Berne. 

The synod of teachers in the civil district of Fraubrunn hereby unanimously 
declare its full approval of and solemn adhesion to the address of sympathy 
from the honorable union council of Switz-^rland to the government of the Amer- 
ican Union for the glorious preservation of its integrity, and offers its sincer*^ 
sympathy for the decease of President Abraham Lincoln, and horror at the misdeed 
that deprived him of existence. 

Accept this act as a sincere, though feeble, demonstration of its good wishes 
for the prosperity of our glorious sister republic of America. 
With devotion and esteem, 

K. LAUENBEEGER, 

President. 
ULRICH CHRISTENEN, 

Secretary. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 575 

. [Translation.] 

Grutli Society of Geneva, 
To the Bund, in Berne : ' ^'''''''' ^^"^ ^^' ^^^'5- 

Mr Editor : I respectfully request yon, by these few lines, to hand the en- 
closed paper to the central address committee in Berne. 

Accept my thanks for the invitation to join in the expression of sympathy 
for our sister republic beyond the ocean, and believe me your humble and obe- 
dient servant, 

C. ROTH, President. 



The Geneva Grutli Union Society to the committee on the address of sympathy 
and condolence to the American Union, in Berne. 

Geneva, May 13, 1865. 
Dear Sir : Our society in its session of to-day unanimously voted to approve 
of the address of sympathy and condolence of the Swiss Confederation to the 
government of the North American Union. The number of members votinjr is 
235. " 

Accept the assurance of our high esteem and consideration. 

C. IIOTH, President. 



[Translation.] 

The state council of the rcpxiblic and canton of Genera to the honorable minister 
resident of the United States at Berne. 

Geneva, May 5, 1S65. 

Sir : Impressed with the sentiments that animated the people of Genova on 
hearing of the crime committed upon the person of the honorable Abraham J.in- 
coln, the state council of the canton of Geneva wish to express, through your 
mediation, to the great American republic the sorrow it feels at that deplorable 
event. 

Our country participates in the mourning that is spread among your peo])le, 
and if words of sympathy can afford any consolation to them in their deep sor- 
row, we beg you to be our interpreter in presenting to the government of your 
country the expression of the profound regret of the people of Geneva, and their 
wishes for the future prosperity of the American Union. 

The state council : .. 

MOISE VAUTIER, President. 

CUAS. RICHARD, Vice-President. 

T. FLOT. 

S. VENAY. 

J. MOiSE PIQUET. 

ELIE DUCOMxMUN, State Chancellor. 

I Post tenebraslux.] 

[Translation. ] 

The state cormeil of the repuhlic and canton of Genera to the minister resident 

of the United States of Ameuca near the Swiss Conjederation ,n Berne. 

Geneva, ]\fay 1-'),1S65. 

Sir : We have the honor to enclose you herewith an ^'^tract of tj';^ .J'|''";j;'- 
tious of the grand council of our canton, which you will please Kunt to tho 



576 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COKRESPONDENCE. 

government of the United States of America, as a new evidence of the senti- 
ments tliat animate the republic of Geneva towards lier'sister of the. New World. 
Accept the assurance of our most distinguished consideration. 
In the name of the state council : 

ELIE DUCOMMUN, 

ChcmceUor. 



Extract from the records of the grand council of the rcjmhlic and, canton of 
Genera, of the loth of May, .1865. 

DECREE OF THE GRAND COUNCIL. 

The grand council, on motion of one of its members, unanimously resolved 
to join in the pledge of sympathy sent by the state council, in the name of the 
people of Geneva, to the United States minister on the occasiou of the crime 
committed upon ihe person of President Lincoln, and to thank the state council 
for offering its medium for the sentiments of sorrow the deplorable event has 
excited in the bosoms of the entire population of Geneva. 

Made and given in Geneva on the loth of May, 1SG5, under the seal of the 
republic, and with the signatures of the president and secretary of the grand 
council. 

ED. AUBEUT, 
President of ihe Council. 
HENEl SUBIT, 
' Secretary. 

Examined for authentication of the signatures of Jti*. Edward Aubert, presi- 
dent of the grand council of the canton of Geneva, and of Mr. Henri Subit, 
secretary of the same corps. 

r g , ELIE DUCOMMUN, 

^ ' ■■' State Chancellor] 

Ge.veva, May 15, 1865. 



[Translation.] 

The people of Geneva to the people of the United States of America. 

Geneva, May 3, 1865. 
Brothers on the other side rf the ocean: 

The energetic defender of the integrity of his country, the valorous champion 
of the abolition of slavery, the great citizen, Lincoln, has fallen a victim of the 
most cowardly crime. His death is a loss for humanity and for liberty in both 
hemispheres. It is not the people of the United States alone, but all free 
peoples with them who have to mourn for this upright patriot. Lincoln was the 
type of those disinterested characters, of those valiant and humble heaj-ts which 
democracies must count in great numbers to maintain their rights inviolate, and 
to assure their continual march towards progress. In the midst of the terrible 
trials which the American Union has encountered, in all the exigencies of civil 
war, this upiight patriot had but one purpose in view, to respect his oath of 
fidelity to the Constitution, to prevent the dismemberment of the great republic, 
to efface the only stain upon its flag, slavery. This is what President Lincoln 
has realized ; he has accomplished this gigantic task without harm to the liberty 
of the people, with probity and energy in the choice of means, with moderation 
and generosity towards the vanc[uished ; and for these eminent qualities, for 
this disinterestedness, he has been basely assassinated. This was more than a 



s 

m- 

e 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 577 

crime against the inviolability of human life. It was a crime of treason to re- 
pablics. In a country where the people alone is sovereign; in democracies where 
laws freely discussed and agreed to, are the basis of society, magistrates have -i 
sacred character; to strike them down is to insult the whole peoplc—ig to com'- 
niit the most abominable of high crimes. 

Geneva comes solemnly to associate her sorrow and regret with the o-rcit 
gnef which this terrible blow has caused the United States. In the darkest 
days, when the starry flag was held in chi'ck by a rebellion, whose real purpo. 
was to consolidate the institution of slavery, and to extend it to territorie 
destined to form new States, the people of Geneva met to send a testimony of sym 
pathy and words of encouragement to the American Union. Her wishes hav> 
been realized. The United States emerge from civil war free and more power- 
ful than ever. The little republic of Europe sees with profound satisfaction 
the result of the trials which the American people have undergone for four years; 
she breathes a prayer that this power may never be employed to weaken 
popular liberty and sovereignty, to violate oaths, and satisfy ambitious projects 
of conquest. 

Tlie civil war of the United States will hare the same effect for them, we 
trust, as the Sundenbund, which in 1S47 drenched Switzerland with blood. It 
is from this period the Helvetia dates the closest union between all the cantons 
without distinction of language, without consideration of local interests. Let the 
conduct of Presideut Lincoln serve as an example, and fhe same homogeneity 
will be realized in the United States. The only cause of division is slavery; may 
tliis be scattered forever, even to its smallests roots, and the great republic will 
have no more internal dangers. The maintenance of its integrity is of the last 
importance for the future of the republics of the New World. Events have shown 
this; like a train of powder, no sooner did civil war break out in the Union, 
than American democracies were in danger. St. Domingo, Paragua, Mexico, 
are the plain proofs of this. These facts speak — they speak loudly, and need 
no commentary. If any one could still doubt the necessity of maintaining the 
great republic in its integrity, such facts should dispel all uncertainty. 

Liberty and power compel, says liberal Europe, while fixing her eyes upon 
the American Union. It is for you, strong and free people, to give an exaia|de 
for other people ; you have done it nobly up to this time ; you will do it still — 
Aou will do it even to the end; you will utterly abolish slavery, and you avIII 
stretch a tutelar hand to the liberties of all peoples. We earnestly desire this, 
and have confidence that it will be, for you have numerous citizens, whose only 
ambition is to follow in the footsteps of the Washingtons, Franklins, aud Lin- 
colns. It is with this conviction that the people of Geneva, assembled m meet- 
ing, say to you, brothers on the other side of the ocean : Long live the republic 
of the United States of America ! Long live liberty ! 

Done in meeting, the 3d day of May, at the Electoral buildnig. aud uuaui- 
mously adopted by the four thousand pen-sons present. 

•^ ^ ^ MOISE N.VNTIER, 

Proiidml du Consul d' Etal. 

AD. CATALAN, 

LOMBARD, il/.. 

CHS. PFEFFEll. 

A. CArt'I^EUET, Dcputic, 

AMBFKY, Ararat, 

H. FAZY, 

G. KLAPIIA, General, 

FEUK. OTH, 

ClI. V<KxT, 

J. DIDAY, 

G. ZAIILINDFN, 

27ie Commit (ce. 
37 A 



578 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

The Polish refugees in Switzerland, to Ihe great nation the republic of the 

United States. 

Fraternal greeting and profound sympathy! 

Repvhlican Citizens : 

After a fatal struggle of twenty months for the independence and liberty of 
our country, after countless losses, we, exiles from our homes, under the {3egis of 
the free Swiss nation, the only oasis of liberty in Europe, contemplate with 
hearts palpitating with emotion your gigantic struggle, supported by rights the 
most sacred to humanity. The news of your heroic and glorious exploits filled 
us with admiration, and your triumphs made us poor Poles forget our own 
misfortunes on beholding the great champions of liberty. 

Kepublican citizens : Now, when the most despotic governments of old Europe 
are hastening to send you expressions of their sympathy, on the occasion of 
the horrible crime that has deprived you and all friends of liberty of its greatest 
defender, your President elect, Abraham Lincoln, we beg you to accept the 
feeble vote of sincere sympathy and profound sorrow from a few people — a 
handful of exiles. 

Our whole nation cannot express its sentiments for you, because its people 
are scattered over the face of the earth ; but you can accept our good wishes as 
the feeble echo of a friendly people. 
Fraternal greeting and sympathy ! 

In the name of the Polish Mutual Aid Society of Geneva : 

STRYIENSKI. 
J. STELLA. 

ANTOINE SZCZESNOWICZ. 
JOSEPH GWIERORALUKVVICZ. 
FllANZ KASl'EliO. 

In the name of the Polish Mutual Aid Sncietv of St. (xallen : 

The Polish abbot, E SZCZENIOWSKL 

JOSAPHAT OKNIOSKL 
TOMAS KUSZLEJKO. 
JAN BORACZYN^KI. 
LUDWIH FllJUICH. 



[Translation.] 



The undersigned, citizens of Gruyere, join their fellow-countrymen of Fri- 
bourg in the address to the republicans of the United States. 

J. GIENOZ, 
JULES GLASSON, 
GHAS. BUASCHAUD, 
F. DEI RONE, 
TH. BAYS, 
F. DEEROUX, 
F. DALER, 

GIETENHOFF TOBIE, 
JOSEPH DUBOIS, 
FREDERIG LAMDHY, 

And 96 other names. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 579 

[Trauslation, ] 

The state coynmittee of tie canton of Glarus to the honorable union eounril in 

Berne. 

lu- T> \j . 7^7 .. , Glakus, May 7, 1SG5. 

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Council : 

In its meeting of this day the common council, through its presidin- officer 
proposed an expression of its sentiments on account of recent events in Auu-rica' 

ihe oldest and smallest republic in Europe will not let this favored oppor- 
tunity pass to call a meeting of its citizens under the free azure of G-.d's 
heaven, and express to the youngest and largest republic in the world its 
warmest sympathy for its sufterings, its sorrow for the assassination of the good 
citizen Abraham Lincoln, and its best wishes for the restoration of the American 
Union and its continued prosperity. 

We beg you to make this known to the American legation, and receive our 
commendations of you to Providence for our mutual welfare. 

In the name of the laud committee : 

, Dr. T. HEER, Chi f Justice. 
T. CHAM, Council Clerk. 



[Translation.] 

Glari's, June 4, lS6o. 
To the Editor of the Bund, i?i. Berne : 

The undersigned has the honor to enclose you herewith lists of the auto- 
graph signatures of the Swiss work-unions, in the different sections of this 
canton, to be appended to the address of sym])athy and condolence to be sent 
to the people of North America, with the iXMjuest that you deliver it to the 
proper authorities for that purpose. If I am not mistaken, there are 515 signa- 
tures in all. I am very sorry I could not send it sooner; but it is not my fault. 
I also have to regret that the lists are in no better order. 

In the name of the Swiss Central Union : 

L. GRIST Brexidcnt. 

(Here follow 515 names.) 



[Translation.] 

Herzogrxhuschsee, May 20, 1865. 
To the Bund, Berne: 

Sir : I herewith enclose you the address of the ^ranncrcbor of this ])laco, to- 
gether with the declaration of assent of the Waugen Trade Unmn, witJi many 
signatures. 

Circumstances prevented me from sending it sooner, but 1 hope it is not too 
late to reach its destination through your kindness. 

Accept the assurauce of my perfect esteem and devotion. 

^y^'^^'- JOHNSPAHR. 



[Translation.] 
Assenting declaration of the Ihrzogenhusrhsre Mnnurrrhnr to the Smss address 
of symjmthtj to the American Lnion. 
The men,bers of the H^rzogenbuschs^. Manneirhor '1-^'-- 'I''-;'- •Vj^';;!!;.;; ;! 
address ot sympathy to the Am..rican Union as follows, inyiting all nu.bbor 
ing Unions and citizeiiS partial to the cause to join then, m it. 



580 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

The feeling nf cordial friendship and warm sympathy which the Swiss ex- 
press, in every rank, fur the American people, in their varied fortnnes, has also 
penetrated onr circle and awakened the deepest sentiments among us. 

We join in the general jubilee of all persons who are friendly to freedom at 
the great victory of the North American Union over Richmond. We hail with 
joy the end of the four years' civil war, the end of frightful sacrifices and tin- 
tdld suflFr rings ; and we rejoice at the triumph of freedom and humanity over the 
infamous system of oppression that ruled the nation so long. 

We join our American brethren in their jubilation that the great and holy 
principles of our constitutions show that the democratic republic depends upon 
the sovereignty of the people, and the future is in'their hands. 

We feel that, by this victory, not only Americans, but all who have been 
aroused to consciousness must see the great advances made towards the time 
when the rights of man must prevail, when no other crown than that of merit 
can be worn, and no title of nobility but that of virtue and fitness. 

We turn again with wonder and affection to the starry banner of our sister 
republic, that has blotted out its only stain in this baptism of blood, and around 
which so many heroes have assembled, to show the world how powerful is Di- 
vine Providence in the choice of its instruments to prove the simple majesty of 
manhood. 

The beautiful personification of all these virtues, in our opinion, was Abra- 
ham Lincoln, " the man with the brow of iron and the heart of gold." 

As we joined in the song of victoiy, the reward of the great citizen's labor, so 
did the news of his assassination strike our hearts with terror. 

As we shudder at such events of history, we must remember, " that it is man's 
destiny to make the greatest sacrifices for the greatest good, buy the best bles- 
sings with the dearest gifts, and remember that he must labor not only for the 
passing comforts of to-day, but for the lasting blessings of hereafter." 

In this belief, we can understand why Providence often uses means, incom- 
prehensible to us, to heal the wounds of humanity, by oifering its champions as 
victims to martyrdom. 

The angel of peace and freedom will now come from the vault of Springfield 
to breathe the breath of resurrection and regeneration over the land ; and when 
men in after years shall commemorate Good Friday as the death-day (jf their 
holy Redeemer, they will remember it as the day of martyrdom for his truest 
disciple, the liberator of millions of slaves, the noble paragon of virtue and hu- 
manity, Abraham Lincoln. 

In conclusion, we express our steadfast hope in the future fate of our great sister 
republic, and our confidence in its manly rulers ; and cordially join in the ad- 
dress of sympathy of oiu' countrymen, wishing the welfare of the Union in the 
wtirds of the gieat Franklin, " -May it live for ever." 

Members of the il aunerchor : 

A. FRlEDPvICH BORN, President. 
J. G. WEGST, Director. 
G. F. EBERBACH, Sccrctarij. 
And one hundred and forty names. 



[Translation.] 

T7te state council of the canton of Lucerne to the honorable Swiss Union 

council in Berne. 

% 

Lucerne, May 4, 1865. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Council : 

You have resolved to send the expression of your sympathies for the loss of 
the President of the United States of North America, by assassination, to the 
legation of that country near the Swiss Confederation. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 581 

We participate in your feelings of detestation and l.orror at that awf„l deed 
but as your officers are the constitutional organs of communicating with foreign.' 
powers, we have reframed from sending our letter of condolence to°that le^^ation 
and we now thank you for proposing the signing of the circular sent to us in 
the name of the Confederation, to which we most cordially assent 

At the same time we embrace the occasion to express our distinguished con- 
sideration. ° 

In the name of the government council : 

T. WEISS, Chief Justice. 
DR. WILLI, State Secretary. 



[Translation.] 

Lucerne, May 6, 1865. 

Dear Sir : The sad news lately come across the ocean that Abraham Lin- 
coln, President of the North American Union, ai)d now regardi'd as one of the 
greatest men who ever lived upon this earth, was ruthlessly struck d.iwn by the 
bloody hand of an assassin, has filled the whole world witli indignation and 
grief. 

England's proud Queen condescended to give her cordial sympathy in a writ- 
ing of her own hand, to the afflicted widow of the worthy republican ; and the 
governments of the highest raonarchs of the world sent their sympathies and 
solemn well-wishes to the democratic land. It is very natural, then, that the mes- 
sage of sad news from America should have been felt in free Switzerland, and 
caused our patriotic hearts to beat in sympathy with those of a sister republic, 
bound to us by the closest ties of warmest friendship and similarity of institu- 
tions. America and Helvetia, may they ever bear the same relations to eacli 
other as now. We have seen the glorious American colors floating at a gloriais 
festival in our land, (the feast of Freeshooters at Lucerne, the 7th day of July, 
1853 ;) we know the beauty of the stars and stripes, and let us wish them suc- 
cess wherever they may wave, in whatevcu- battle they may be tried. 

When the first news of the horrible assassination of the greatest man in 
America reached us, we were overwhelmed, and felt as if the country was mined, 
but when we reflected it might be the inscrut<ible orders of Divine Providence 
to give us a lasting monument of a free country we felt resigned to fate. 

I have not thought proper to wait till a public meeting should be called iu 
Lucerne, but I have given expression to my feelings now, and send you tlie 
sheet *that you may insert it in the Bund, and ad(hey name to the address when 
it is brought up. 

Accept the assurances of my distinguished consideration. ^ - „,. . ,, 

^ ^ JOHN KILCHMAN. 

ToMr. F. Genu EL, 

Editor of the Bund, in Berne. 



[Translation.] 

To the Editor of the Bund, in Berne : 

Honored S.r : As the undersigned had not the good fortune to see the ad- 
dress of sympathy and condolence to the American Lnmn. ^<^^">f«) ;;'/'" 
bis place of residence while it was circulating, x;espectfully requests you to add 
Lis name to the list of feigners to that patriotic document. 

I remain yours, with much esteem, kVSIMIR PFVFFiai. 



582 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

Council of the canton of Bascl-LandschaJ't to the Swiss BundesratJi, in Berne. 

LiESTHAL, June 5, 1865. 

"We hereby communicate to you, for the information of the autliorities of the 
American Union, that a vote was taken in this canton, on the 2Sth of May last, 
when 6,040 legal voters approved of the address of sympathy and condolence, 
which was drawn up at the Cassino, in Bern, the 25th of April, congratulating 
the people of the north on the happy delivery of the country from rebel rule, 
and condoling with them on the loss of their excellent and worthy President by 
a murderer's hand. 

Some few precincts of our canton remain to be heard from, and we thought it 
well to wait for the entire vote ; but as we are confident that ours are the senti- 
ments of all the Swiss people, we conclude to send this as it is. 

Commending you to the protection of Divine Providence, we accept the oc- 
casion to express the assurance of our distinguished consideration. 

F. BrvODBP:ETZ, President. 
B. BANG A, Secretary. 



[Translation. ] 
SWISS CONFEDERATION. 

State council of the canton of Ticino to Dr. John Wyttenhach, meviber of the 

grand council in Berne. 

Lugano, May 4, lS6o. 

Sir: We have received Mr. F. Gengel's letter of the 1st, inviting us to join 
in the address of sympathy and condolence of the central committee of the cap- 
ital to the American Union, on account of the assassination of President Lincoln. 

This is the text of the resolutions passed by our state government : The 
grand council of the republic and canton of Ticino — 

1. In the name of the people, expresses its profound sorrow for the horrid 
assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the illustrious President of the United States. 

2. The flag of the Ticino jiarliament shall be draped in mourning for three 
days. 

The council of this state fully accedes to the above resolution of the grand 
council of state and the republic. » 

We hereby communicate it to the federal council, and also to you, according 
to Mr. Gengel's directions, and avail ourselves of the occasion to express our 
greatest esteem and consideration. 
By the state council : 

C. MOROFINI, President. 

L. PRIODA, Secretary of State. 



[Translation.] 

Lausanne, May 6, 1865. 
Sir : In reply to your circular of the 1st instant, Ave are instructed to inform 
you that the grand council of this canton, on the proposal of the state council, 
had voted an address to the Congress of the United States of North America, 
to express the sentiments of profound regret it feels at the news of the assassi- 
nation of the President of the United States, and at the same time to give to 
the Congress and people of the United States a public pledge of sympathy for 



S1.NTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMrATIIY. 583 

Accept the assumnce of our di.stinj^nished consideration.^ 
In the name of the chancery of the state and canton of Vand : 
Mr. F. Gengel, ^^' Chancellor, CAREY. 

President of tlie Committee for the address 

to the government of the United btates, at Berne. 



[Translation.] 
State council of the canton of Vand to the Swiss federal council in Berne. 

Lausanne, Mai/ 8, 18G5. 

Mr. President AND Colleagues: We have the honor to transmit you a 
resolution passed by the grand council of the canton of Vand, at its session of 
the 3d instant, enclosing an address to the Congress of the United States, on 
the occasion of the assassination of President Lincoln. 

The resolution is accompanied by a letter addressed to the President of the 
United States. 

We respectfully request you, Mr. President and gentlemen of the council, to 
have these documents sent to their place of destination through the United 
States minister resident in Berne. 

We accept this opportunity to repeat the assurance of our high consideratioD, 
and to recommend you to Divine protection. 

In the name of the state council : 

JOLY, President. 
CAREY, Chancellor. 



[Translation.] 

The state council of the canton of Vuud to the President of the United Sfatet 

of North America. 

Lausanne, May 8, 1SG5. 

Mr. President: On liearing of tlie atrocious crime under which President 
Lincoln fell, the grand council of the canton of Vaud voted an address to the 
Congress of the United States and to the citizens of the republic, in expression 
of its grief at the sad event, and its sentiments of sympathy for the noble cause 
upheld by the illustrious victim. 

In performing the duty of transmitting the resolution of the grand couiu'il of 
this canton, and the address it includes, we fnlly agree with the sentiments 
therein expressed. 

Accept, Mr. President, the assurance of our high consideration. 

In the name of the state council : 

JOLY. President. 
CAREY, Chancellor. 



[Translation.] 
THE RESOLUTION. 

The grand council of the canton of Vaud adopts the following resolution : 
Artule 1. The following address shall be sent to the President of Cuugrces 
of the United States of North America : 



584 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

The grand council of the canton of Vaud to the President of the Congress of 
Representatives of the United States of North America, in Washington : 

Mr. President : The doiible crime that took the life of the ilhistrious Pres- 
ident of the United States, Mr. Abraham Lincohi, and threatened the days of 
Secretary Seward, caused an instantaneous movement of horror and indignation 
among our people and in the midst of our assembly. 

We hasten to expi-ess to you our sentiments of profound sorrow on account 
of the event, and to give the Congress and people of the United States a public 
token of our sympathy for the cause of liberty, defended with so much patriot- 
ism, courage, perseverance, and moderation by the noble victim whose loss we 
deploi'e with you. 

In addressing our republican greetings to you, Mr. President, we avail our- 
selves of the opportunity to recommend you to the protection of Divine Provi- 
dence. 

Article 2. The state council is charged to transmit this address to its des- 
tination. 
r 1 Given under the grand seal of state, at Lausanne, the 3d of May, 

[SEAL.J ^ggg^ 

CHS. VAUD, 

President of the Grand Council. 

LS. lACCAllD, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 

The Mdnnerchor of Langnau to the editor of the Bund. 

Langnau, May 7, 18G5. 
Sir : The above named society, composed of five-and-twenty members, have 
this day resolved to unite in the address of sympathy and condolence to the 
North American Union. 

In the name of the society: 

FRITZ. HOFER, President. 
SCHAFFER, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 
Expression of appiroval. 

The undersigned, citizens of the Swiss Confederation, unite in the Berne ad- 
dress to the President of the North American Union with all their hearts, and 
approve of it in every particular. 

GEISEN STAP, 

of Langenthal. 
F. H. HtJDI. 
JOHANNES PFISTER. 
J. GUT. 

THEOD GEISER. 
Lieutenant A. MARTI. 
FRIED WITSGH. 
F. KRONAUER. 

And several others. 



SENTIMENTS OP CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 585 

[Translation.] 
Declaration nf adhesion of the l^mpl^tn ^V/.v r t 

that at first we could ha.diy credit tKx'^^ldn'ws 'b Ts the f^Jf '"""^ 
soon confirmed the h.-rid Report and ca.t a ^oZ or^l:^:^:^:;!-^' 

ot b>mpatiij ot the Swiss confederation to the President of tl,,. United Sfites 

JACOB BRAUNSCHWEIG, Xotarj/:" 
MORIZ MAIER, Clerk. 
(Thirty-nine other signatures.) 

[Translation.] 
MANIFESTO. 

LocLE, May 3, ISGr,. 
At a public meeting of S.-^O Swiss citizens, held in Locle on the 3d of Mnv 
for the purpose of elections, the following resolution was spontaneously adopted :' 
In presence of the universal mourning that now covers the American people, 
the citizens present at this meeting declare their profound sorrow and d.cj. in- 
dignation at the monstrous act of assassination committed upon Abraham Lin- 
coln, President of the United States. 

This njanifest shall be transmitted to the Federal Council for communication 
to its proper address. 

lu the name of the public meeting ; 

ALFRED DUBOIS, 

Justice of the Peace, Presidmt. 
J. GAVERELIIUGUEXIN, Secretary 



[Translation.] 

To his Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

Vice-President of the United States in Washington : 

LocLK, May 2, ISGo. 

On hearing of the conclusion of the American war, the undersigned, inhabi- 
tants of Locle, a mountain village of Neufchatel, in Switzerland, were prejiaring 
to express their joy for the signal triumpli of the cause of liberty, in an addn-ss 
to their brothers of America, and es})ecially to President Lincoln, the true dem- 
ocratic statesman, and to manifest their full and perfect synipatliy for the prin- 
ciples of republican rule and free labor that now prevail tlironghout the entire 
Union; but at that moment the terrible nijws of the a.^sassination of Abraliani 
Lincoln, the President of the United States, reached them. P.-rniit tlicm now 
to express their saddest regrets and most profound sorrow for tiiat In.rrid crime, 
and be assured they detest from the bottom of their hearts tliat kind of combat 
uow used by southern partizans. 

Although the new accident may tend to disturb the hope of a speedy jjacifi- 
cation.the undersigned have a perfect conviction tliat the cause of the Nortii and 
the democratic republic will triumi)h more completely and gloriously. 

In the name of the Swiss society of Locle, composed of one iiundred and live 
members, assembled this second day of M;iy,_ 1S6.5 : 

VAN K I'N EL, Prrsidevt. 

J. GAVEREL-HUGUEKIN, Secretary. 



586 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation. ] 

LocLE, May 19, 1865. 
To tlie Bund : 

Dear Sir : Excuse the liberty I take of requesting you to have the kindness 
to hand the enclosed a'ldress to the American people to the United States mia- 
ister resident in Berne, and oblige your obedient servant, 

SEBASTIAN GYGER, Secretary. 



LocLE, Ca\to\ of Xeufchatei,, Svvitzrri.and, 

May 19, 1865. 
IToxoRARLR Sir: Through the kind mediation of the editors of the Bund, 
we have the honor to inform you that the German society entitled Harmony, 
c )nsisting of ninety members, unanimously resolved at its last meeting to ap- 
prove of the general address of sympathy and condolence of the Swiss Confed- 
eration to the American people. Be pleased, Mr. Minister, to forward this ad- 
dress, with the many others, to your government, and accept the assurance of 
our perfect consideration. 

In the name of the Harraonie : 

JEAN DTETRTOH, President. 
SEBASTIAN GYGER, Secretary. 
His Excellency Mr. George G. Fogg, 

United States Minister Resident in Ber7ie. 



[Translation.] 

Locle, May 18, 18G5. 
Sir: I take the liberty of sending you an address in the name of the Swiss 
gymnasts. 

Have the kindness to be the interpreter to the American government of our 
sincere regrets for the loss of the great citizen, Lincoln, and of our Avishes for 
the happy accomplishment of his work. 

Rec(ive the assurance of our best wishes for the success of the cause of the 
great nation you represent. 

lu the name of the Swiss gymnasts : 

HENRY GRAND JEAN, 
President of the Central Committee. 
His Excellency Mr. George Fogg, 

Minister Resident in Berne. 



[Translation. J 
THE FEDERAL GYMNASTIC SOCIETY', CENTRAL COMMITTEE. 

To his Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States : 

Locle, May 5, 1865. 

The central committee of the Federal Gymnastic Society, in the name of 
the young m^n of Switzerland, join in the many testimonies of sympathy which 
have been sent to you from Switzerland, for the noble cause you are defending. 

The news of the horrid crime committed upon the person of your worthy 
President Abraham Lincoln, the great citizen who did so much for liberty in his 
country, was painfully received by the sons of free Helvetia; but his task will 
not remain unfinished, it will be coutjuued by his worthy successor. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 587 

A pat cry of condemnation arose in Europe, and A^-e join it with all our 

«f ^'. ll^'nir'''^"^'' '" T"' ^^''•. ^'■'■^'■^^'"^' '" ^'^^ "''^'^^ «f '-^ll the sections 
of the Fedeial Gymnastic Society, in expression of the confidence we have in 
the successor of the noble and virtuous Lincoln. 

HENRY GRAND JEAN, President. 
ALFRED DUBOLS, 
GUSTAVE VUILLEME. 

Vice-PresfrJcnfs. 
ALEXANDRE COURVOISIER, 
JULES GUINAND, 

Secretaries. 
FERDINAND RICHARD, 

Treasurer. 



[Trauslatiou.] 

MuNSiNGEN, May 6, 1865. 
The members of the Official Song Union, amounting to one hundred and fifty 
in number, met in Konalfingcn on the 30th of Aj)ril, 1S65, and resolved as follows : 
The undersigned declare their deep sympathy in the general sorrow, oa 
account of the atrocious assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and 
cordialy rejoice at the happy conscr[ueuces of northern victories in the North 
American Union. 

They also request the proper execution of this resolution by the superior 
authorities. 

In the name of the Union : 

Z P. STUNG, 

Notary, President. 
JACOB FISCHER, 

Secretary. 



[Trauslatiou.] 

MrvXZixcjEN, May 7, 1865. 

To the Editor of the Bund, in Berne : 

Sir : I have the honor to enclose you fifty-seven signatures of the members 

of the Sternenlcistes to the address of sympathy and condolence to our sister 

republic of America. You will please forward the document to the legation of 

the United States. ^ ,,,. . -r. t 

T. KONRAD, Jr.. 

Cloth Painter and Actuary of the Slemndeistes. 

G. WEI'.KR V()(;KL. 

ED. AM SUE U, Druggist. 

I. IRMIGER. 

M SO(rT. 

W. BURfiES. 

J( )Si:i'lI M Eb'Z, Canernaher. 

A. IKMKJUK. 

GABIMKL \VIK/ Mirhiiiist. 

GO'I'TLIKB AVKHKR. 

F.IIUNZECKKK. 

RUDOLF WEHUU. 

Aud forty-six other names. 



588 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

fTiauslation.] 

Meiringen, May 20, 1S65. 

The district synod of Oberhasli lias tliis day unanimously resolved to approve 
of the Swiss address of congratulation and syinpathy to the North American 
Union. 

In making this communication, it takes the occasion to express its perfect 
esteem. 

A. ABZLANALZ, 

President. 
I certify the exactness of the above copy : 

F. GENGEL, 

Editor Bund. 



[Translation. ] 

The inliahitanis of Murten to the American Union. 

Whenever the cause of freedom rejoices in a new triumph the hearts of our 
people beat warmer and higher in sympathetic union with the victors. So, at 
the news of the o;lorious successes of the North our bosoms beat with a roarinoj 
storm of joy and jubihition; but, as with lightning from a clear sky, we were 
struck down with this overwhelming news — Abraham Lincoln, the distinguished 
President of the United States of America, the indefatigable champion and 
standard-bearer of popular personal liberty, has fallen by the mortal bullet from 
the assassin's pistol. 

The ocean which divides your republic from the free child of the Alpine 
heights is grand and decj) ; but greater is our horror and detestation of the 
abominable crime committed against you, and deeper our sorrow for the loss of 
the great republican, Lincoln. We weep with the people of the North Ameri- 
can Union at the grave of their immortal citizen ; we press their hands with 
deep-moved hearts to show them that their grief is oui-s, their sorrow ours, too. 
May the bleeding wounds, the consequence of crime, be cicatrized by time, 
and the star-spangled banner ever wave high and victorious in the cause of 
freedom and the defence of the sacred rights of man. Soon may the trees of 
peace and plenty grow again and flourish upon the blood-drenched plains of 
your once unhappy land, and spread their blessed branches of conciliation over 
all your once-more-united States. 
With republican greeting: 

For the Mannerchor, (three members) — 

J. J. GERBER, Leader. 
For Friends' Aid Society, (fourteen members) — 

AB. BRELO. 
For the city schools — 

JOHN HAAS, Director. 
For Under-officers' Union, (forty-five members) — 

F. CHATONEY. 
For Grutli LTnion, (twentv members) — 

J. RUBLL 
For Mutual Aid Society, (one hundred and seventy members) — 

ABR. FASSNACHT, President. 



SEXTDIEXTS OF CONDOLEXCE AND SYMPATHY. 589 

[Translation.] 
Concurrence of the Mutual Air) Snr-;^/,. r.f \r n 

c rr., ^r , . , ' ^'eiveville, May 6, 1865. 

feiR : The Mutual Aid Society met to-day and decided to join in the «Dont. 
neous n.an,fe.stat.on of the Swi.s people, aud thank the citizens wl o p cp;!.'d ft" 

I also requested Us oftcers to sign the present resolution of concunen ; ad 
send It to Its address, in the name of the society. tuiunte and 

H. TSCHIFFE, FrcsUhnt. 
FKKD IMKR, Yue-Pre.hhnt. 
SCIIEM KAKLKX, Cashur. 
E. C1130LLET, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 

rr .7 T-T ^ , T, . . NiuAr, J/g^ 6, 1805. 

10 the hditor of the Bund, in Berne: 

The teachers in the district of Xidau, in the canton of Berne, hereby declare 
their cordial approval of the vote of sympathy and condolence to the United 
States of North America, aud beg that their lijimes be added to the address of 
the Swiss Confederation. 

lu the name of the synod of Xidau : 

D. SCn:\rLTTZ, President. 

J. A. KAUEJilAXN, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 



We, the president and committee of the Workingmen's Union of NiederinKii, 

in the canton of Glarus, to the supreme government and free peoph- nf the 

United States of xSorth America, greeting : 

We, in consonance with a great internal desire to express our hparifelt joy 
for the late victories of the free people of the United State.'; of North America, 
unanimously approve of the address of sympathy and grafulafion to he .'^fut to 
them. We rejoice with them in their victories, in the triumph of the great cause 
for the benefits of humanity, and we lament with them the atmcious murder of 
their great and good citizen, Abi-aham Lincoln, at a time when peace wa^ about 
to smile upon the great reput)lic. 

God grant that the free people of America may long enjoy the ble.'^sings of 
their victories and advantages of their frium[)hs; may He console the citizens 
of a free country for the loss of their noble cluimpion oi" freedom ami martyr of 
patriotism ; and may His Almighty Hand direct the great nation in the ways of 
peace, prosperity, and happiness. 

God preserve your country and ours. 

Adopted at the general meeting on the 14th of 3Iay, ISGo. 

In the name of the Union: ^^ „ ^ 

HEIXRK'II BKITEMIOUZ. P,es,dent. 
JOIIAXNKS BOIIKV, Actuary. 
Followed by signatures of eighty members. 



590 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

The state council of the rrpuhllc and canton of Ne>fchatel to tlie President 
and members of the federal council, Berne. 

Gentlemen and Colleagues : We are informed that an address of sym- 
pathy for the American Union, on acqonnt of the loss to the nation of its first 
citizen by the hand of an assassin, is now being signed. 

Wishing to participate in the demonstration, we take the liberty of request- 
ing you, gentlemen, to sign the address in the name of the government of Neuf- 
chatel. 

Thanking you in advance, we embrace the occasion to assure you of our high 
considt-ration and federal devotion. 



In the name of the state council 



U. FRANRENAU, President. 
GEORGE GUILLAUME, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 



State council of the rejmNic and canton of Nevfhatel, to the president and mem- 
hers of the Federal Comicil in Berne. 

Neufchatel, June 2, 1865. 
Gentlemen and Colleagues : Our newly elected grand council, in its 
first session now held, wishes to begin with a testimony of sympathy for the 
people and government of the United States, as well as for the family of Presi- 
dent Line In, on account of the lamentable death of that illustrious citizen. 

We send you the decree voted unanimously by the grand council of Neuf- 
chatel, and request you to transmit it to the minister resident of the United 
States. 

We accept the opportunity to express our great consideration and devotion. 
In the name of the state cuuucil : 

HENRI TOUCHON, President. 
GEORGE GUILLAUME, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 

DECREE. 
> 

The grand council of the republic and canton of Neufchatel, in Switzerland, 
Unanimously decree to express their profound sympathies to the government of 
the United States and to its people, on account of the death of their illustrious 
President, Abraham Lincoln, the emancipator of the slaves ; and also to express 
their profound sympathy for the fiimily of President Lincoln. 

Given under the seal of the grand council at Neufchatel, the 1st of June, 
18G5. 

In the name of the grand council : 

[seal ] ALF'D DUBOIS, President. 

A. GUY AT EUPOLO, 
S. D. BONJOUR, 

Secretai-ies. 



SENTIMExXTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 501 



[Translsitiou.] 
IVIAiMFESTO, 

rp, p n . , . Xkukchatel, Maij 6, 1S65. 

The following resolution was spontaueously passed at a public meeting of 
600 bwiSB citizens, held in the Vuille brewery, Neufchatel, on the G,h of \l;,y 

"In view of the great sorrow now oppressing the American ,)eople, the citi- 
zens present at this meeting declare that they fed profound ind'o-nation and 
exceeding grief at the news of the atrocious act that brought death to Abraham 
Lincoln, the excellent President of the United States. 

" This manifestation shall be communicated to the Federal Council for trans- 
mission to the proper authorities abroad." 
lu the name of the meeting : 

EUGENE BOREL, Preskhnt. 
HENRI FOUCHOX, Vice President. 
ALFRED PERROSET, 
EUGENE PJAGET, 
r. BADER, 

Secretaries. 



[Translatiou.] 

Neufchatkl, May 8, 1S6.5. 

Mr. Editor : As we learn through your estimable paper that not onlv soci- 
eties, but every lover of freedom, can have an (ipportuuity of expressing their 
sympathy for the American Union, we take the liberty, with this view, of ad- 
dressing ourselves to you. 

The great triumph of the American Union over the South, in a four years' 
war, has caused a jubilee in our society, for we look upon it as a triumph of the 
jjeople over despotism, another step in advance for people's rigiits, and as an 
invitation to us not to despair. The death of Mr. Lincoln, Picsident of the 
United States, who fell by the assassin's hand on the 14tli of April, a sacrifice 
to humanity, infuses hope into our hearts, and bids us weather out the storm. 

May many such men still exist to bless the Union and other nations with 
their happy presence ! Long live the American republic as a model tor our- 
selves ! 

Our society, composed of 70 members, has this day voted its unanimous as- 
sent to the address of sympathy to the American people. 

In the name of the German Industrial Union of NeufVliatel : 

P. FAN(4EL, President. 
A. KXAPP, Artuanj. 



[Traiislatiidi. ] 

OFTRi.\tiK.\, May 14, l>il>5. 

The council of Oftrivgen to the Bvndesrath, Berne : 

Gentlemen : The citizens of Oftringen, at a public meeting this day, unan- 
imously adopted the following resohition : , xr , . • 

" Resohed, That we accord our most sincere sympathy to the North American 
republic in its great victories, and give our most cadial condolence tor the murder 
of its great President Lincoln." 

Will you have the kindness to communicate this resolution tn the government 

of the United States in Washington. 

Be pleased to accept the assurances of -^"J"/ 'f ''S''';^'';-'! I':;',';"/''';;"'": , ^ 
^ ^ BERNARD ZLMMERLl, President. 

G. ZIMMERLI, Secretary. 



592 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

.'[Translation.] 

Oftringbn, May 30, 18G5. 
To the Editor of the Bund, in Berne : 

We hereby respectfully request you to insert the enclosed communication in 
your estimable paper. Hoping you Avill oblige us with such a slight fiivor, we 
remain, yours, &c., 

LAN'G HUSSY, Councellor. 



EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY FOR THE AMERICAN UNION. 

" On motion of Mr. Lang Hussy, at a meeting of mmy citizens of Oftringen, 
just after the state elections, it was unanimously resolved to approve of the 
Swiss address of sympathy and condolence to the American Union." 



[Translation.] 

RoGGWElL. 

j\fY Dear Friend : At a meeting held this day the fire corps, of 40 men, 
passed the following resolutions : 

1. We hail with joy the triumph of freedom over slavery in America. 

2. We grieve with the patriots of that country over the death of their beloved 
President. 

You will please see that this communication is transmitted to the proper au- 
thority, and oblige, 

RUDOLF HEGI, Captain. 



[Translation.] 



Signatures of the mcvihers of the Grutle Union, Rnmont section, to the address 
of sympathy and condolence to the American Union. 

To president Andrew Johnson : 

The members of the Romont section of the Grutle Union offer their sincere 
sympathy and deepest sentiments of regret and indignation on account of the 
great misfortune recently occurred to our sister republic beyond the ocean, by 
the hand of a ruthless assassin. 

Our grief and paiu is the greater, as the joy with which we were about to 
celebrate the victories of northern arms over Petersburg and Richmond, Avas 
interrupted by the sad news of the death of President Lincoln. 

All e^'os were turned to that great man as his iron hand was stretched to 
emancipate the blacks from the white tyranny that was scourging them unmer- 
cifully. Kingly powers trembled at his strength and could offer no intervention. 

May his great unfinished task which has fallen into your hands be properly 
accomplished, for the happiness and prosperity of our sister republic, so that its 
happy inhabitants may bless you for a lasting peace. May a providential star 
of light guide you in the direction of the destinies of a great nation. Finally, 
our countrymen offer their aid and well wishes to your wisely directed government. 

In the name of the union, consisting of twenty members, 

GOTTLIEB SCHEIDEGGER, President. 
JACOB KURTH, Actuary. 
J. EGGERSTEIN, Secretary. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 593 

[Translation.] 

States of North AmericrirthJ; 1 Tlf"''*"''^"/^^^^ ^''it-^d 

For the Swiss uXa Chanmy : ^ "^ '^" ""'^"^ '^ ^"'^^'•-•"- («"!--•) 

SCITIESS, 
f Bundes-kaTizki ) Chancellor of the Confederation. 

< Schweizeirsclif V 
( Eidgenossenschai't. ) 

[Translation. 

St. Gall, Maij 3, 18G5. 
r/^e chief justice and government council of the canton of St. Gall to the Swiss 

Union council in Bern. 

Mr. President and Gentlemen o^^the Council: As we cannot refuse 
our aPFoval of the Berne address of sympathy and condolence to the jrovern- 
meut ot the North American Union, we give it most cordially ; and, moreover 
we are pleased to send au address to the government of the Americau Union 
n-om our own government. 

In sending the original of it to you, we respectfully request you to have it 
delivered into the hands of President Johnson. 

In the mean time we take the occasion to commend you as well as ourselves 
to the protection of Divine Providence. 

In the name of the government council : 

PAILER, Chief Justice. 
ZINGG, State Secretary. 



[Translation.] 



St. Gall, Mnyi, 1865. 
To his Excellency Andrew Johnson, 

President of the United States of America : 

The people of the Swi.-^s Confederation in general, and of our canton in particu- 
lar, from the commencement of the sanguinary civil M'ar which at one time 
threatened to destroy the integrity of tlie great free nation of the Unilcd States 
of North America, up to the present time, when the bitter contest of the South 
against the highest interests of the country is coming to a close, have always 
felt the warmest sympathy and expressed the best wishes for the uuwavering 
maintenance of the un;ty of the great transatlantic sister republic, when remem- 
bering the perfect friendship and uninterrnpted commercial intercourse that has 
long existed between the^Swiss Confederation and the United States of America. 

Thanks to the guidanc'e of the Almighty, and to the delermii.ation and energy 
of the supreme government of the Union and its hi ave people, the bloody civil 
war is now at an end ; and its result is the triumidi of fiecdom and the rights of 
man and the strengthening of the unity of the great North American .States. 

And now, in sending our sympathy for your many victories and our best wi.«hc8 
for the continued prosperity of your country, we only perform a pleasant duty, 
incumbent upon us at the conclusion of your sanguinary contest for existence. 
But as our joy for the victories of your valliant hosts is sincere, so is the condo- 
lence we offer at the death of your President, Abraham Lincoln, whose life wa.s 
devoted to the welfare and liberty of his people. 

While we abhor the cruel deed that sacrificed the man most respected of the 
38 A 



594 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

nation, we entertain the assured hope and firm conviction that the destinies of 
the people of the North American Union will he fi;uided with the same spirit of 
strength, wisdom and conciliation possessed by the illustrious deceased. We 
ask your excellency to i-eceive the humble expression of our high esteem and 
personal consideration. 

In the name of the confederate canton of St. Gall : 

SAILER, Chief Justice. 

ZINGG, Slate Secretary. 



[Trauslation.] 

St. Gallen, May 3, 1866. 

The cJiancery of the canton of St. Gallcn to Mr. F. Gcngcl, in Berne. 

Sir ; By order of the government of the canton, in acknowledging the recep- 
tion of your estimable conimunicatii n of the Ist instant, we have to say, in 
answer to the committee charged witl^ the address of sympathy and condolence 
to the American Union, that we heartily accord in its approval, and desire to 
have this expression conveyed to the proper destination through the medium of 
the union council of the coufederatioii. 

The Secretary of State, 

ZINGG. 



[Translation.] 

St. Gall, May 17, 1865. 

Council of the canton of St. Gall to the honorable Swiss Bundcsrath in Berne. 

Gfc".NTLEi\iEi\ : In accordance with the wish cf the council of this district, wo 
send you an abstract* of the minutes of the popular meeting held on the 7th of 
this montli to ratify the address of sympathy and condolence to the American 
Union. 

Accept the assurance of our distinguished consideration. 

SAILER, President. 
ZINGG, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 



St. Gall, May 12, 1865. 



To the Bund: 

The Company of Free Hunters of the city of Pt. Gall, numbering one hundred 
and fifty members, at its last meeting, resolved to approve of the address of sym- 
pathy to the American Union. We beg you to note this, and subscribe our- 



selves your obedient servants, 



[Translation] 



BURGE, Captain. 

J. HAEBERLIN, Secretary. 



ScHoFTLAND, May 5, 1865. 



The Editor of the Bund, in Berne: 

Sir: I have the honor to transmit to you the lists of the signatures of the 
Feldschiitzen and Leist-Gesellschaft of this place to the general address of sym- 

*For abstract referred to, see Ba'gach. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 595 

T. GLOOR, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 
SCHOFTLAND, Oanto\ ofAargau, April Tt , 1S65 
The subscribers heartily join i„ the address of sympathy to. ho President and 

over t^eri'lil!'" ''""^' ''^^^^ "^ ""^"""^ ''' "^'^^ -'"l^^^^^ ^'^ 
The FeldircLiitzen-gesellschaft of Schofthuid : 

ADOLPir lli'TIIY, President, 
T. GLOOR, Srrrrfary. 
A. WIPtTZ, Cashier. 
A DIENER, 
SAMUEL HAURI, 

Directors J rum Hirschthal. 



Members of the Association. 



R. MULLER. 
T. HUMM. 

F. LUTNY. 
FRIEURICH GLOOR. 
Z. FEHLMANN. 

T. STTER. 
J. SiJTHL 

G. LANZ. 
G. WIRZ. 
HEINRICH FREY. 



S. HAURT. 

CHRLSTLANSOnELL. 
JACOB MULLER. 
S. MULLER. 

RUDOLPH irUNZrCKER. 
RUDOLF WIKZ. 
HUTHY ILVSLER. 
RUDOLF ZLNNllARD. 
R. MAT11Y8. 
RUDOLF BOLLIGER. 



Members of the Leist-GeselJschoft of Scholtland' 



F. R. WIRZ, President. 
FRIEDRICH MULLER, Scc'ij. 
Rev.F ZLMMERLLY 
R. WIELAND. 
DAVID SrUHSL 

Teacher in the District School. 



CASPAR DIENER. 
S. GLOOR. 
LU'niI FUSTER. 
SAMUEL SCUILLIXGJ 
S. ,^IULLER. 
II. LEIST. 



[Translation.] 

Sir: All the members of the Grntli-Union, of Schonenbor?^, twenty-six in 
number, congratulate the brave North in their recent victories for freedom and 
humanity in the United States. They also deeply deplore tin; death ot Presi- 
dent Lincoln, and hope that God will now give the conntry a permanent peace. 
^ JOHN GURTLER, iVmJcn^ 

ED. ULRiClI, :<ecrctary. 



596 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

ScHWANDEN, May 6, 18G5, 
The Btind : 

Sir : We are not men of many words, but our feelings are not the less deep, 
and we now wish to express them, through you, to the American people, as a 
free people and our fellow-laborers in freedom. 

In the name of the Factorymen of the Schwanden Verein : 

C. ZEHN, Cliairman. 



[Translation.] 

Steffisbtjrg, May 6, 1865. 

The crnel assassination of President Lincoln, the pious ruler of our sister 
republic beyond the ocean, has aM^akened feelings of sympathy and the deepest 
indignation in our patriotic hearts. We have therefore unanimously resolved 
to express our approbation of the general address of sympathy and condolence 
to the people of the American Union, Enclosed is a list of the signers. 
In the name of the Men's Choral Union : 

J. R. SCHUPBACH, President. ' 
W. F. WINTERFELD, Actuary, 
(List of twenty-six members follows.) 



[Translation.] 
Committee of the Industrial Society of Sion to the Editor of the Btind, in Berne. 

SiON, May 7, 1865. 

The Industrial Society of Sion, by order of the committee, at a regular meet- 
ing this day, unanimously resolved to adhere to the address of sympathy and 
condolence to the sister republic of the United States. Onr society, numbering 
ninety-four members, makes it a pleasant duty to congratulate the people, as well 
as the supreme government of the United States, on their glorious victories over 
the South, which put an end to the abominable curse of slavery j and at the 
same time we express our deepest condolence for the murder of the noble citizen. 
President Lincoln, so ruthlessly and unexpectedly struck down by the mouster 
Booth at a time when the nation was ou the point of great rejoicing. 

N. B. — The editor of the Bund will have the kindness to have this conveyed 
to its proper address. 

In the name of the society: 

JOSHUA ALBREOHT, President. 



[Translation.] 

State council of the canton of the Yalais to Dr. John Wittenhach, member of 
the grand council of Berne. 

Sion, Mai' 8, 1865 
Sir : In reply to the letter addressed to us the 1st of May by the committee 
charged with the address of sympathy and condolence to the legation of the 
United States of America, we have the honor to say that the proceedings meet 
with the full approval of the government of this canton, and we therefore re- 
quest the committee to include us among the signers to the address, as the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. ^97 

council is convinced that we represent the sentiments of the entire population of 

We thank the committee fur proposing the subject, and seize the occasion to 
express the assurances of our distinguished consideration. 

Cir. LE DUROX, 
President of the Sfafe Council. 
E. BARBARIN, 
Secret art/ of Slate. 

[Trauslation. ] 

The state council of the canton of Valais to the legation of the United States 

of America in Berne. 

?io.\, May 19, 1865. 

Sir: The grand council of Valais that met on the 15th of this month, gave 
its entire approval to the addresses of sympathy and condolence on account of 
the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, President of the United States of America, by a 
vote in full session on the 17th instant, which were sent to your legation by the 
state council of this canton and the governments of the other states of the 
Swiss Confederation. 

We have the lionor to transmit to you, herewith, the act of adhesion signed 
by the officers of the grand council, and present to you the assurance of our 
high consideration. 

CH. LE DUROX, President. 

E. Barberin, Secretary. 



[Tiiiuslatiou.] 

The grand council of the canton of Valais to the legation of the United 
States of America in Berne. 

Sir : The grand council joins in tlie addresses of sympathy and condolence 
sent to the legation by the government of Valais, and other states of the Swiss 
Confederation, on the subject of the assassination of President Lincoln. The 
grand council is convinced that this is the expression of the sentiments of the 
inhabitants of the canton. 

Given at Sion, May 17, 1S65, in the name of the grand council. 

ZERMATTEN, President. 
Z. DURIER, 
L. E. RULRY, 

Secretaries. 



[Translation.] 



SisSACH, May 8, 1865. 



To the Editor of the Bund, in Berne: 

In consideration of the news of late events in North America, and particu- 
larly of the deep sympathy we feel for its patriotic citi/.ens, on account of the 
murder of their good President Lincoln, allow us to embrace a lis of about 170 
names, collected in this place and neighborhood, in approval of the general ad- 
dress of sympathy to the United States. ^^^^^^ ^ SDTTERLTX. 

General Agents. 



598 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COSRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

ScHWVZ, May 10, 1865. 
Covncil of tike Canton of Schivyz to the Jionorahle Bundesrath, in Berne : 

Gentlemen : The news of the heinous crime of the murder of Abraham 
Lincoln, the worthy President of the great republic of the United States of 
North America, who had won the esteem not only of his own country, but of 
the whole world, has filled the hearts of the people of this canton with the 
deepest grief. We feel ourselves compelled to join in the general laroentation 
now expressed everywhere, and therefore request you to convey these our true 
sentiments to our brethren of the United States of North America. 
With highest respect, &c., 

J. A. STETNEGGER, TresidenU 
A. EBERLE, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 

St. Maurice, May 12, 1S65. 
Mr. President : The eminent man who fell by the murderous hand of the 
infamous villain Booth, at the moment his soul winged its flight to the celest.al 
regions, left regrets and profound grief in our hearts. The atrocious crime of 
which Mr. Abraham Lincoln was the victim has filled us with indignation and 
horror. 

We regret the great loss to the North — the loss of a great, generous, and noble 
heart, who did so much for the abolition of slavery, for all his aims were to do 
good to his fellow-man. Yet we hope that the Americans of the North will 
finish the great work of the noble martyr, whose motto was, " Liberty, cqualiti^, 
and f rater 7iity. 

Such is the sincere wish of the undersigned citizens of St Maurice. 

HENRY GARNY, 
THOS. PRUDE, 
ALBERT UEBONNAIRE, 
ANTOINE DUTART, 
FRANCOIS GEX, 
PHILIBERT CHEVALLIER, 
LOUIS SEYDOUX, 
FRANCOIS BURNIER, 
LOUIS SARRASIN, 
F. GAY, 

CHAK'LES VOEFFRAY, 
JOSEPH DUBOULE, 
JOS. xMEIZOZ, 
PIERRE DUFOUR. 

And several others. 



[Translation.] 

Sarnen, May 4, 1865. 
Council of TJnterrcahJen to tlie Bundesrath, in Berne: 

Gentlemen: Following in the worthy footsteps of many of our cantons, we 
feel ourselves obliged to express our deepest sympathy for the American Union 
on account of the recent horrid murder of its excellent President, Sir Abraham 
Lincoln. Though the conseq[uences of this atrocious deed cannot be foreseen, 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 599 

we sincerely hope it may liave no sinister effect either on the prof>perity and 
peace of that country or of tlie foreign world. 

You will please communicate this to the United States legation in Berne, and 
accept the assurance of our distinguished consideration. 

Ah. JIICIIEL, President. 
W. S. GASSER, Secretary. 



[Trauslation.] 



The state chancery of the canton of Unterwahlqn to the cnmmittce fur the ad- 
dress of sym2)athy and condolence to the American Union. 

Sar\en, May 7, 1S65. 
In answer to your note of the 1st instant to our g ivernment, we respectfully 
eay that our council most cordially joins the federal Union in the address of 
sympathy and condolence to the American Union. 
Accept the assurance of our high esteem, 

W. L. HASSER, 
Chiff Justice fur the State Chancery. 



[Translation.] 



Council of Untcricaldcn to his Exrcllvncy Andrew Johnson, Vice-President of the 

United States. 

Stanz, May 4, 1865. 

The terrible news of the sudden death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the 
North American Union, who was the noble champion of human rights to all 
with loyalty to the Union, has caused a feeling of the greatest indignation iu 
the bosoms of the people of Nidvvald, denizens of the mountains of old Switzer- 
land, and hate for the perpetrators of the horrid deed. 

And we, the authorities, in the name of our people, congratulate you, Mr. 
Vice-President, on the glorious victories of the holy cause, and pray the Al- 
mighty to have you in His holy keeping. 

L^YYRSOH, President. 

A. AVAGNER, Secretary. 



[Translation. ] 



Sta\z, May 4, 1S65. 
Council of Lower Unterwalden to the honorahle Bundesrath, in Berne. 

Gentlemen : Following the example of the Union Council and the govern- 
ments of several cantons, allow us to express our deepest sympathy for the 
American Union. It is a great honor for tlie Swiss people, at a tune when 
great grief has overwhelmed the sister republic of America, not to remaui dumb, 
but to speak out their sympathy for the cause of .social freedom. 

We therefore enclose our address of sympathy, aud beg you will send it, with 
the others, to its pioper destination. 

We recommend you to protectiug Providence. ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^.^^^^^ 

A. WAGNER, Secretary. 



600 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

The president and council of tJie canton of ScJiaffJiamcn to Mr. G. G. Fogg-f 
United States ?ninister reside?it in Berne. 

SCHAFFHAUSEN, 3fai/ 3, 1865, 

Honored Sni : The shocking news of the miirder of Abraham Lincohi, Pres- 
ident of the United States, makes it our duty to send you the expression of our 
sincere grief and profound sympathy for the loss of that great man. We turn 
with horror from this deed of bh>od, perpetrated upon the person of a man who 
fought indefatigably, with wonderful wisdom, moderation and patience, to restore 
unity and peace to our great sister republic beyond the ocean. 
Accept the assurance of our esteem. 

ZACH GIESEL TILLE, President. 

H. AMMAN, Vice-President. 

JOHN HALLANER, Secretary. 

STOKAR, Second Secretary. 

¥. G GASSER, Counsellor. 

Dr. WANNER, Clerk. 

N. ORINGOLE. 



[Translation.] 

President and Council of Sclwffliausen to the BundesratJi, in Be?ne. 

ScHAFFHAUSEN, May 3, 1865. 
We have the honor to enclose you a letter of condolence, which we respect- 
fully request you to forward to Mr. G. Fogg, minister resident of the United 
States of North America, as an expression of our sorrow for the terrible and 
sanguinary deed perpetrated upon Air. Lincoln, President of the United States. 
We accept the occasion to commend you to the protection of the Almighty. 

ZACH. GIESEL TILLE, President. 
Dr. wanner, Clerk. 



[Translation.] 



The magistrate a?id si ate committee of the canton of Appenzell, outer Rhodes, 
to Dr. John Wittenbach, Grand Counsellor, in Berne. 

Teuffen, May 5, 1865. 
Sir : In answer to the circular enclosed to us by the central committee on the 
address of sympathy and condolence to the American Union, on account of the 
dreadful catastrophe that has just overtaken that once happy republic, by the 
loss of its worthy President, we say we are ready to approve it most heartily, 
with the rest of the cantons of this confederation. As the manifest contains the 
most sincere expression of our real sentiments, we cannot refrain from giving it 
our most cordial approval. 

Be pleased to accept, honored sir, the expressions of our most distinguished 
coneiderations. 

In the name of the Union committee, 

The C?i.i(f Magistrate, 
ROTH. 
Secretary of the Council, 
KOHL. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 001 

[Translation.] 

Declaration of adhesion to the addresses of sympathy and condolence to the 

United States. 

Representatives and delegates from all the districts of the Bernese Jura, 
namely : 1 orrentrni, Bienne, Courtelari, Delemont, Franches-:^^ontagnes, Lauf- 
fen, Moutier and Neuveville, to the number of two hundred and fifty, (250,) held 
a public meeting at Tavannes, on the 11th of May, 1SG5, and adopted the fol- 
lowing resolutions unanimously and by acclamation : 

1st. We cordially join in the addresses of congratulation to the United States, 
on account of their recent victories over secession. 

2d. We sincerely sympathize with them in their sorrows for the loss of their 
worthy President, Abraham Lincoln, the victim of a most atrocious crime. 

We cherish the ardent hope that the universal tokens of sympathy now shown 
in both hemispheres for the great republic of the United States may tend to 
assange the profound grief for the tragic and lamentable death of their most 
illustrious citizen. 

In the name of the representatives of the districts of the Bernese Jura, assem- 
bled at Tavannes, May 14, 18G5: 

S. JOLISSATNT, Lamjer, President. 
S. VOISIN, Mayor, ^Secretary. 



[Translation.] 

Thun, May, 1S65. 

The undersigned authorities, societies and private individuals in the district 
of Thun, rejoicing over the final victory of human rights and the end of the 
civil war in the American Union, on the one part, and lamenting the murder of 
the greatest man in the nation, on the other hand, feel it their duty to join cor- 
dially in the address to the American people and their leader in the cause of 
freedom and humanity in our sister republic beyond the ocean. 

HEIXRICTI HOFER, President. 
A. KliEBSEll, Notary. 
(280 other signatures.) 



[Translation.] 

Travkrs, May 15, 1865. 
Gentlemen : The Neuenburg, Boudry, Travers, Couvet, Fleurier, and Chaux- 
de-Fond sections of the Swiss Grutli Union, in their meetings of yesterday, 
unanimously resolved to approve of the address of sympathy and condolence to 
the American Union. 

The undersio-ned, as secretary, has the honor to enclose you the resolution, 
and subscribe himself your obedient servant, 

J. STEFFEN, Secretary. 

The BuNDESRATH, in Berne. 



[Translation.] 

Thiekaciiern, near Tiiun, May 30, 1SG5. 
Being prevented by absence from attending the meeting for the ad()i)tion of 
the add'^-ess of sympathy to your suprAie government, I now have the honor 
to ask you to ad^d my name and the fallowing words : 



602 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

I hail the Union victories with joy, and deplore the loss of its President, 
Lincoln. May God protect it from similar disasters in future, and preserve the 
government of North America forever. 
With great respect, 



FAHRNI DUBOIS. 



The Umted States Mlmster EesidExXT, Berne. 



[Translation.] 

Zurich, Mmj 4, 1865. 

From tlie state chancery of the federal state of Zurich to the committee for the 
address of symj^alhy and condolence to the American Union in Berne. 

Honored Sir: We have the honor, by order of our state council, in answer 
to your esteemed letter of the 1st instant, to communicate to the authorities 
inviting onr participation in the address of sympathy and condolence to the 
American Union, that our state council expresses the friendly feeling it has for 
the late successes of the Union in its war for freedom, and the deep sorrow for 
the atrocious assassination of its excellent President, Mr. Abraham Lincoln, and 
makes this known to the federal council for its proper communication to the 
authorities in the United States of America. 

Accept, sir, the assurance of our distinguished consideration. 

The slate chancery of the canton of Zurich, by the second secretary of state, 

T, BOKHAED. 



[Translation.] 

Zurich, May 4, 1865. 

The 2>residcnt and council of the canton of Zurich to the honorable Swiss 

Bundesrath. 

CtEMTLEMEN: The news of recent events in the North American Union has 
aroused our sympathy, as is the case everywhere else. Just as peace appeared 
to rejoice desponding hearts, and all were giving themselves up to anticipations 
of returning prosperity, the terrible murder of President Lincoln, the Chief 
Magistrate of the American Union, struck all mute with wonder, and filled all 
hearts with grief and indignation. 

As you are preparing expressions of joy and sorrow to be communicated to 
the government of the United States, in the name of the Swiss Confederation, 
we respcctiully request you to add this expression of our feelings for the people 
of the sister republic, and beg you to accept the expression of our esteem and 
consideration. 

ED. ZIEGLER, President. 
J. BOKHARD, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 
To the loyal people of the United Slates of America: 

At a mass meeting in the city of Zurich, on the 2d of May, 1865, the German 
residents, Swiss citizens, and others present, resolved unanimously to express 
to you, the loyal people of the United States, their heartfelt sympathies. 

We are, above all, animated by the most profound sorrow that your simple- 
minded yet great, wise, and noble President, just realizing the joyful conviction 
of the overthrow of the rebellion, has been taken from you by the hand of a 
fiend in human shape. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. G03 

To liim, tlie reconstructor of tlie Union, next to Goorge Washington, its 
founder, immortality is secured. The name of Abrahnm Lincoln will, in history, 
be identiiied with the gigantic four years' contest which has been fought, not 
for America alone, but also for Europe and all mankind. 

With most renowned valor, energy, and sacrifices cheerfully made, have you, 
soldiers and leaders, people from the humblest to the highest positions of life, 
triumphantly upheld your rights and laws, the supremacy of the glorious Con- 
stitution of the greatest republic on the glube. May all "chivalry" rebellions 
everywhere thus be trodden into the dust ! 

But you have done more; you have gloriously vindicated the divine rights 
of man Avithout distinction (»f race; you have opened an honorable field to free 
labor, and given the death-blow to slavery wherever it exists. AVith enthusi- 
asm we welcome this eventful deed, one of the greatest in the history of the 
world. 

The foundation of yoiir republic hastened the outbreak of the French revolu- 
tion. The rejuvenation of the Union will give strength and speed to the great 
principle of self-government in its march through the world. 

We, therefore, offer to you, the loyal citizens of the United States, our warmest 
expressions of joy, admiration, and gratitude. 

In conclusion, to you, our beloved countrymen on the other side of the ocean, 
we express our pride at your vigorous and maidy participation in the battles 
and victories of the Union, and with overllowing hearts we press your brave 
hands. 

Loyal citizens of the United States, remain true and steadfast to the cause of 
liberty and humanity. 



The star-spangled 'banner forever 
The committee: 



0. BULLE, President. 

C. GOEDKL. Srrretart/. 

H. BEHX ESCTIENliURG. 

K. NAUWEKCK. 

G. A. WISLICENUS. 

N. E. MARX. 

TIIO. MAR(H)NALL. 

WM. HOFFMAN. 



[Tvanslation.] 

Zurich, Mai/ 5, 1865. 
Signatures of the polytechnic scholars from the canton of Ticino, to the address 
of sympathy and condolence to the American Union : 

LEONARDO ROSSI, of Castehotto. 
CARLO FONTANA, of Ttsscrete. 
OLINDO BOLETTI, of Lommo. 
KJNAZK^ ZANATTA, of Lugano. 
GlOACIiniO TIODA, ff Loranio. 
CAETANO FONTANA, ff Tesscrctc. 
ACIIILLE RUSCA, of Lnrarno. 
1 U LI () G I A N I X I , of Subrio. 
FE DERI CO ISEZZOLO, (f Corvologno. 
FLIXIO DELLP.ARI'HI. of Astano. 
GIACOMO LKPORI, (f Daw. 
TEODORO ANASTASIA, of Brcno. 
YESPASSIORNO TALEARl, of Mezcatu. 



604 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

j^Office of thf. "Weissk Adler, 

Zurich, May 10, 1865. 
Editor of the Btmd, Bern: 

Dear Sir : Your invitatiou to join in the address to the American people has 

been received. I willingly accede to it; but as several private addresses have 

already been circulated here, it will be impossible to obtain many more names, 

I enclose several subscription lists of the Polish emigrants in this part of the 

country. 

Yours, respectfully, 

WILHELM HABICHT. 



[Translation.] 

Bendlikon, near Zurich, 

May 2, 1865. 

We, the emigrants from Poland, participate in the feeling of horror experienced 
by all nations at the death of Mr. Lincoln, President of the United States, who 
deserved well of humanity. Received with hospitality upon the soil of Switzer- 
land, we join our voices with the Helvetians in expressions of condolence with 
the American people, and with their wishes that the country where Pulaski and 
Kosciusko fought with Washington may be strengthened in its independence 
and integrity by tl>e absolute abolition of slavery, clemency towards the con- 
quered, equality of all its inhabitants, and respect for the liberty of other nations. 

Manage? s ajid j)rinters of the Polish paper called the Ojczyzna: 

AGATOX GILLER, Responsible Editor. 

EADOMIRISK. 

ANTOINE SWIEREZEWSKI. 

JOSEPH K06S0BRUZKI. 

THEODORE DZWIGATSKI. 

JOSEPH HARASIMOWICZ. 

LEOPOLD BUCZON. 

JULIUSZ MILEWSKL 

BOLESLAS KOWALEWSKL 

HEIXRICH KAPPE. 

HIPOLIT OBRYSKL 



[Translation.] 

Zurich, May 3, 1865. 
Address of Polish emigrants. 

To his excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United States : 

The Polish emigrants participate in the recent joy and sorrow of the Ameri- 
can people ; they hail the triumph of the principles of equality and liberty in 
America, and the expected triumph of those principles in Europe, assuring the 
regeneration of Poland by putting an end to the rule of brute force and to white 
slavery, as they have done to black slavery in the New "World. 

The Polish emigrants cordially mourn with the people of the great republic, 
suddenly deprived of its chief by a guilty hand. 

Happily for humanity, the liberal institutions of America are imperishable, 
and the blood of the great citizen will only tend to cement the bonds of union. 

Citizen President ! The soldiers of liberty, the countrymen of Kosciusko and 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 605 

Pulaski, who fought for the independence of America, take this solemn occasion 
to express through you to tlie American people tlicir horror at the great crime 
that put an earthly end to Mr. Abraham Lincoln, the illustrious representative 
of patriotism and of civic virtues, who, with the intelligence of a statesman, 
knew how to reconcile energy with moderation, and severity with magnanimity. 

The sons of Poland who are fighting from generation to generation in a holy 
cause, and who suffer martyrdom for it, are firmly convinced that the power of 
the United States, once clear of domestic broils, will have its influence upon 
other nations, and that facts will soon appear to prove this faith. 

In this conviction, the Polish emigrants join in the joy and sorrow of the 
American people, and express the most sin'cere wishes "for their greatness and 
future prosperity, so intimately connected with the future liberty of the world. 

Signatures i?i MujiicJi. 

Alexander Zarduki, Bromislaw AbramoAvicz, 

Albert Wikowski, Mikstaj Martynow, 

"VVladazslaw Preshowicz, Stanislaw Bnjanouski, 

Wactaw Budjiszewski, G. Kamisiski, 

Piotrowski Pawet, Romauld Ziomezynski, 

Aleksander Mierzwiuski, Putknownik Rucky. 
Marulli Wajae, 

Signafvres of Polish emigrants in Munich. 

Antoni Sadowzkj, Michael Kosseck, 

Franuszeck Bitteck, Roman Pysahawski, 

Marcin Bixkowski, Longin Zadarnoski, 

"VVeinenty Gernke, Antoni I'iasezki, 

Jan Pui?krowski, Karil Goetz, 

Michal Saganowski, Josef Strazinski, 

Arnold Z;uidi, Antoni Lipinski, 

Stanislaw Brodewikz, Kostaty Zi-brosky, 

Antoni Lubkowski, Adam Zielinski, 

Teotil Gnutkiewicz, Theodur Steingreber. 

Polish signatures in Solcure. 

Major Bieiiienic, A. Gralowski, 

Tadewsk JCuchowski, Jakob Taworowskki, 

Captain Brochoki, C. Ladislas Plater, 

W. Koniarski, M. Langewicz, 

Lt. Szydvowoki, Wilhcbn llabicht, 

F. Nettyn, Wm. Kamieniki, 

B. Hempei, J- Kelbiki, 

0. Zbrowick, Filip K. Skorakzewski, 

K Reycli, Leopold Budnowski, 

Ignacy St'ccki, Leon Strumild, 

Jan Giemiski, H. Filokowski, 

W. Witowski, J- Jaruzelski, 

K. Poniatowski, T. B. (looski, 

Tursky, ^^'- ^'^^il'io^'ski. 

Signatures in Kussnacht, near Zurich. 

Gr Wasilawski, Wladislaw Zaremba, 

J. Knasneki, Szymon Anton.ac, 

A.Goroski, Fdmud V,var_.ki, 

J. Savicki, J'"i Polakoski, 

Jan Skabicki, J- Auton.ac, 

Protazi Ueverniki, J- Pitcnski. 



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Signatures in Lucerne, May 3, IS65. 

Ladislas Kulwicz Kukawka, Opalski Pioth, 

Teotil Stezpowlicz, A. Kutyuski, 

Stanislaus Majewski, A. Lizenski, 

L. Zawiczucha Szacinski, Jan Novaki, 

Szreter, J. Kamrivski, 

W. Skizypick, X. Barras, 

Antoni Kortowski, Z. Buczatowski. 



Sisrnatures in ZuricJi, Stcitzerland. 



Jan Stronski, 
Antoni Grabowski, 
Jakul) Wyewski, 
Leon Kazenewski, 
And 123 names from Zurich and adjoining to^vns 



Malcun Koriki, 
Andrzej Zarkowski, 
Franiczel Dobrowolski. 



[Translation. ] 



Mr. Editor: We have the honor to inform you by these presents that the 
Song-Union of Zweisimmen, nineteen members, has this day resolved to join in 
the address of sympathy and condolence to the free State of North America. 

In the mean time the members take the occasion to express their distinguished 
consideration. 

In the name of the society and for the president : 

D. GEMPELER, 

Acling Secretanj. 
F. VERRENl, 
. Actuary. 



[Translation.] 

ZuG, May 9, 1865' 
Covncil of Zug to the Bundesratli, Berne : 

Gentlemen : The Berlin committee has given us the latest news from the 
United States, (the glorious victories of the northern States and the atrocious 
assassination of the President,) and invites us to join in an address of sympathy 
and condolence to the government and people of the sister republic beyond the 
ocean. 

We do not hesitate to give our fulle?t consent and approbation to the address, 
and hope it will be welcomed by all of our fellow-citizens. 

We are glad that the propos.il of sympathy originated at the capital of our 
confederation, and we have no doubt but the good example will be followed by 
all the other cantons, and we know it will be approved by the Swiss people ia 
general. 

We think it would be well for this canton to have a special address, as many 
others have ; but as this is not yet determined on, we beg you to accept this 
expression of assent to the general address, and ask you to accept the protests 
of our distinguished consideration. 

M. LITTA, President. ' 

A. SCHWERZMANN, Secretary. 



SENTIMEJ^TS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. G07 

[Transliition.] 

ZoFiNGE.v, Maij IS, 1S65. 
TJie council of Znfingcn to Mr. G. G Fogg, United States minister resident 

in Berne. 
HONOUED Sir : We are pleased to enclose herewith a list of two hundrf fl uml 
twenty-five si<,niatures of our inhabitants, intended to be annexed to the Berne 
address of sympathy and condolence to onr brothers beyond the ocean, in com- 
memoration of their victories and in lamentiition of their sorDws at the drath of 
their excellent President, who was murdered with the de.>ign to destroy the 
efiect of his good«deeds. 

We accept the occasion to assure you of our distinguished consideration. 

S. K. l{IX(;li:i{. Prrsidcnt. 
R. F. ZlMMEULl, Notary. 



[Translation.] 

Community of Zofingen. 

The undersigned citizens of the canton of Aargau, with all our heart, approve 
of the Berne address of sympathy and condoh nee to the President of the United 
States, in every part and particular. 

S. R. RINGTER, 
And 224 other names mentioned. 



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SALYADOR. 



[Translation.] 



Legation ok Guatemala a.vd Salvador, 

Brooklyn, April 17, 1865. 

SiK : I was grieved to hear of the death of the excellent* President of the 
United States of America. The news reached me hefore your despatch of the 
15th instant, informing me of the sad event, and of the manner of its perpetra- 
tion. I am the more grieved at the deplorable circumstance, as Mr. Lincoln 
was one of the best friends to the governments I have the honor to represent, 
and his death will be the more regretted by the republics of Guatemala and 
Salvador. 

I hope the Hon. Mr. Seward and his son, Frederick William Seward, will 
goon be restored to health, as the papers announce, for the interest of the United 
States. 

I am informed that the Vice-President of the United States has assumed the 
functions of President, and that you are authorized by him to take charge of the 
Department of State till further orders. 

1 embrace the occasion to offer you the assurances of my distinguished con- 
sideration. 



A. J. DE IRISARRL 



Hon. William Huxtkr, 

Acting ^ecretaty oj" State. 



[Translation.] 



Legation of Salvador, 

Brooklyn, June 9, 1S65. 

Mr. Secretarv: I have the honor to inform you that I have received a 
despatch from the minister of fore gn relations of Salvador, dated the 19th of 
last month, in answer to my letter to that department, communicating the news 
of the assassination of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, the illustrious President of your 
republic, in Avhich I am instructed to express to your excellency the profound 
grief of the President of Salvador for the sad event, as well as for the attempt 
upon your life. 

That government has ordered the civil and military employes of the republic 
to put on mourning as a token of sympathy for the government of the United 
States. I expect a similar commuuicaiiou fiom the government of Guatemala 
by the next steamer. I learn by the last mail that my despatch, communicating 
the lamentable event of the 14th of April, had not reached there when the last 
steamer started. 

I remain, wilh feelings of the highest consideration, your very obedient ser- 
vant, 

A. J. DE IRISAEPtL 

Eon. William H. Seward, 

Se.cretary of State. , 



SEXTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 609 

[Translation.] 

Legation of Guate.mala to the Uxited States, 

Brooklyn, June 20, 1S65. 

Mr. Secretauv: When the Acting Secretary of State informed me of the 
sad death of 3Ir. Lincoln, President of the United States, I answered immedi- 
ately, expressing the sorrow I felt at the unfortunate event, and the assurance 
of a similar sentiment on the part of the governments of Guatemala and Salva- 
dor that I have the honor to represent. 

On the 9th of June I communicated to you the reply of the minister of for- 
eign aiFairs of Salvador to my note hearing the sad intelligence, and I now have 
the honor to communicate what the under secretary of the government, charged 
with the department of foreign relations, has written on the suhject. 

It is as follows : 

" Sfr : The news of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the 
United States, has caused the deepest sensation in the minds of those now com- 
posing the government of the republic of Guatemala. The noble character of 
the Chief Magistrate of the United States has everywhere inspired the most 
respectful sympathy ; and the manner in which his life was taken — a life dear 
to all his fellow-countrymen — has caused the deepest affliction to the personages 
of this government, and all our people were mute with horror at the announce- 
ment of the terrible catastrophe of the 14th of April. 

" The minister of foreign relations, now in charge of the government, desires 
you to be the interpreter of this sentiment to the Secretary of State of the 
United States, and to express to him the profound grief of the government of 
Guatemala at the horrid death of the excellent citizen who directed the desti- 
nies of the great nation. 

" Be so good as to manifest to the Secretary of State the sympathy of the 
government and people of Guatemala, and their wishes for the prosperity of the 
United States." 

You may be assured of the sincerity of the sorrow of the government and 
people of Guatemala for the lamentable death of Mr. Lincoln, the well-deserving 
President of the United States. 

"With the greatest consideration, I have the honor to be, your most obedient 

servant, 

A. J. DE IPvISARRA. 

Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



\ 



39 A 



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TUKKEY 



His Higlincss Aali Pacha to Mr. Morris. 
Translation."! 

Sublime Porte, Departmext of Foreign Affairs, 

May 1, 1865. 
Sir : The Sultan, my august sovereign, has learned -with profound affliction 
the mournful news of the cruel death of President Lincoln, and of the wounding 
of the Secretary of State, and I have been commanded to convey to you an ex- 
pression of the regrets of his Imperial Majesty. 

I need not state to you, sir, how much the imperial government, in its charac- 
ter of sincere friend of the United States, is interested in their prosperity, and 
how great has been the sorrow which this event has occasioned. 
Be pleased, sir, to accept assurances of my high consideration. 

AALI. 
Mr. Morris, 

Alinistcr Resident oj" the U?iited States of America. 



Beirout, Syria, May 13, 1865. 

At the call of J. Aug. Johnson, esq., American consul at Beirout, a meeting 
of the American citizens resident in Syria was held at the consulate this after- 
noon, at 5 o'clock, to give expression to the sentiments of the local American 
community with reference to the assassination of President Lincoln. 

The consul was called to the chair, and the Rev. Philip Berry appointed 
secretary. The meeting was opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Van Dyck. 

After a statement of facts by the Chair, a committee was appointed, consist- 
ing of the Rev. Messrs. Van Dyck, H. Jessup, and Post, to draw up suitable 
resolutions embodying the sense of this meeting, and which are as follows: 

Whereas in the inscrutable dispensation of Divine Providence our country, 
in the midst of its rejoicings for victory, has been overtaken by a great national 
calamity in the assassination of President Lincoln and severe wounding of the 
Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, in the attempt to assassinate 
him : therefore. 

Resolved, That we do hereby express our detestation of the dastardly and 
horrible crime which has deprived our nation of its Chief Magistrate, at such a 
crisis in its history as the present, and our unfeigned grief and humiliation un- 
der this sorrowful dispensation. 

Resolved, That we do hereby unite with our fellow-citizens and countrymen, 
at home and abroad, in expressing our high appreciation* of the character of 
President Lincoln as a patriot, as a citizen, and as Chief Magistrate of the 
United States, and that, as a mark of respect for his memory, we wear the 
usual badge of mourning for forty days. 

Resolved, That we earnestly pray for the speedy restoration of Mr. Seward 
to health and strength. 

Resolved; That .J. Aug. Johnson, esq.. United States consul for Syria and 
Palestine, be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions, signed by the 



SENTIMENTS OF COXDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 



Gil 



chairman and secretary, to the Department of State at Washington, and anotluT 
to the femily of the deceased President, with whose grief we deeply sympa- 
thize. 

J. AUGUSTIN JOIIXSON, 

U. S. Consul, Chairman. 
Philip Be UK V, Secretary. 



[Trauslatiou. ] 
To tlie Editors of the " Bund,'' in Berne : 

Your appeal to the Swiss people to perform an act of patriotism in presence 
of the great events that liave just occurred in the United States has fnind a 
powerful echo among us. 

We consider it our duty to add our signatures, with those of our fellow-citi- 
zens, to the two proposed addresses — one of congratulation for the victorious 
cause of the republic, the otl#r of condolence on the occasion of the death of 
its worthy President Lincoln. 

As the news reacluid us late, on account of our great distance, we sent a teli^ 
gi'am ordering our signatures to be alHxed in time. 

I enclose the original of the despatch and signatures, which you will pleaso 
annex to the national address. 

Accept the expression of our perfect consideration. 

UANS nEPvZAL. 

Bucharest, Mai/ 11, 1865. 



[Cojiy of tlic oi'if^iiial.] 

We Swiss, residing in Bucharest, cordially approve of the two addresses 
contained in Nos. 115 and 116 of the Bund, and request the editors to annex 
our signatures to them. 

N. ZWIEFEL, 

I. H. I8EL1N, 
F. F. SCHWEIZER, 
F. lArATTilEY, 
F. BKATSCHr, 
AUG. KOLLA, 
M. SUllBEU, 
M. IS E LIN, 
L. S, KELLER, 
IL RUEGG, 

II. HINNEN, 
Bucharest, il/«.?/ 10, 1865. 



F. WIELAND, 
A. DUPERRKSE, 
R. DEVEXOGE, 
LS. ClIARDON, 
C. GUBLER, 
H. AESCILMANN, 
LS. LEVVllAZ, 
A. VL'Li.IET, 
(1. BAITER. 
IL IIERZOG. 



Mr. Morris to Mr. Seivard. 

[Extract.] 

Leoatio.\ ok the Umtfi) Sr.\TK.^ of A.MEIMCA, 

Constantinople, Mai/ I, 1SG5. 

Sir • The receipt of a telegram from London, on Friday last announcing 
the assassination of President Lincoln, and an attack on your own life, produced 



No. 111.] 



612 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

a "-reat excitement in this country. A universal sentiment of indignation and 
of horror for such a crime against such a man as our late President, at the mo- 
ment Avhen the shouts of our victorious armies proclaimed that he had saved 
the country, and had won the respect and admiration of the world by the suc- 
cessful issiie of the struggle he had directed against that foe alike of humanity 
and American liberty and union — southern slavery — was expressed by all the 
various nationalities of this capital. 

The half-masted flag on tbe legation had liardly been raised before my col- 
leagues of the diplomatic corps called to express their sympathies for our na- 
tional loss. The Society of Italian Workingmen delivered me an address 
of condolence, and the subjects of the Hellenic government, in large num- 
bers, yesterday repaired to my residence to express their grief for such a ca- 
lamity. Several of their number addressed the crowd in their native Greek, 
and in reply to a formal discourse from the chairman of the committee, I de- 
livered to the assembled people an address. In recognition of such a friendly 
act, I caused the Greek flag to be raised above the half-masted American flag. 
The spectacle of these two flags, of the two most intensely liberty-loving peo- 
ple in the world, floating together in kindred sympathy on the same staff, cre- 
ated a deep sensation among the passing crowds. 

It gives me a melancholy pleasure to refer to these incidents as showing how 
wide-spread was the fame achieved by President Lincoln, and how earnest was 
the admiration felt for the services he had rendered to his race and to his coun- 
try even in this remote corner of Europe. 

I cannot be mistaken, for I see and feel it all around me, in predicting that 
this assassination, be the motive what it may, will produce important political 
consequences throughout Europe, and will arouse and stimulate the friends of 
liberty to new efforts against despotism and arbitrary power. 

The assassin's hand has consecrated the life and death of President Lincoln. 
He fell a victim to his devotion to the cause of liberty and human rights, and 
he will take his place in history among the martyrs whom universal humanity 
honors as its benefactor. ****** 

I cannot conclude this despatch without expressing my fervent prayer that 
the life of Secretary Seward may be spared, and that, by the favor of Almighty 
God, he may recover from the wounds under which he is suffering. Never were 
his services to his country more evident than now, and never was there such a 
general concurrence in the opinion, both among strangers and Americans, of the 
immense importance of your excellency's life to the dearest interests of the 
American people. 

I have' the honor to be, with great respect, your obedient servant, 

E. JOY MORRIS. 

Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



Mr. Morris to Mr. Hunter. 

No. 112.] Legaton of the United States of America, 

Constantinople, May 3, 1865. 

Sir : I have the honor to transmit enclosed copies of a correspondence be- 
tween his highness Aali Pacha and myself, relative to the late melancholy events 
at Washington. 

Since the answer was written to the letter from the Porte, we have received 
the sad news of the death of Mr. Seward. This intelligence has caused a most 



SEXTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 613 

painful impression tbrougli all circlos. and i)articularlv those of the governracut 
and the diplomatic corps. He liad won tlie admiration and cstci-m of all who 
are^c^onversant with our politics by his eminent abUity as a diplomatic writer, 
and by the rare skill and judgment with whicli lie directed our foreign policy 
in the most critical periods of American history. His name and fame will be 
inseparably associated with the great events in which he was so considcuous an 
actor. 

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant. 
^ „^ E. JOY MORRIS. 

Hon. \\ ILLIA.AI HUNTEU, 

Acting Secretary of State, Washingto7i, D. C. 



Mr. Morris to Mr. Seward. 

[Extract.] 

Legation" of the United States of America, 

Constantinople, Mai/ 4, ISGiJ. 
Sir : * * * * * Since the writing of my 

despatch of yesterday's date, we have been overjoyed to learn that the rumor 
of 3'oiir death is not true, and that you arc recovering from the dreadful wounds 
inflicted on you by the assassin. We humbly invoke an all-raerciful God to 
restore you to health for the sake of the best interests of our beloved country. 
However variant may be the opinions of people in Europe as to the American 
war, they are accordant in the recognition of the consummate ability and sagacity 
with which you have directed our foreign policy. The preservation of your 
life is regarded as an event in which the world at large has a common interest 
with your fellow-countrymen. May Heaven prolong your nseiul life for new 
services to the American people ! 

I have the honor to be, with great respect, your obedient servant, 

E. JOY MORRIS. 
Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



Mr. Morris to Mr. Hunter. 
[Extract.] 

Xo. 114.1 Legation of tub United States of America, 

Constantinople, May 11, 1SG5. 

Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of despatch No. 87^ and 
the circular containing the official announcement of the assassination of Presi- 
dent Lincoln. In a previous despatch I referred at large to the universal 
feelin"- of hon-or and indignation which such a monstrous crime had i)roduced 
amoni all classes of the population of this capital ; no human event, it seems 
to me, could inspire a deeper and more widespread sense of sorrow and abhor- 
rence than such a crime against such a man. President Lincoln s course ot 
action, during his four years' term of office, bad been so honorable to LuuscU 



614 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

and so useful to Lis country, that he Lad won even tLe respect of the enemies 
of tLe noble cause Le cLampioned. He lived long enougL to refute tLe calumnies 
of Lis foreign assailants, and to confound tLe wicked scLemes of domestic traitors. 
His steady perseverence in tLe course of rigLt, Lis unshaken faitL in ultimate 
success, and tLe stern loyalty Le exLibited to tLe Constitution astonisLed tLe 
European world and enforced its admiration of one of tLe grandest exLibitions 
of mora] courage, and of tLe conscientious discLarge of duty to be found in ancient 
or modern Listory. He Las descended to tLe tomb witL an untarnisLed fame, 
and Lonored alike by tlie kings and peqple of Europe, and tLe citizens of re- 
publican America. 

Since my last despatcL a deputation Las called on me, on tLe part of the 
American cLurcL and nationality, to express tlieir condolence, and tLeir Lopes 
tLat slavery, tLe cause of all our woes, will be forever eradicated in tbe United 
States. TLis delegation consisted of tLree of tLe LigLest ecclesiastical dignitaries 
of tLe American cLurcL. * * * * 

I Lave tLe Lonor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

E. J. MORRIS. 

Hon, William Huxter, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



[Translation.] 



Letter to the United States minister at Const antinojyle Jrom memhers of a Ger- 
man masonic lodge in that city. 

Constantinople, June 7, 1865, 

TLe undersigned, members of tLe German masonic lodge entitled tLe Ger- 
mania of tLe Golden Horn in tliis city. Lave tLe Lonor to express tLeir sincere 
condolence witL tLe people of tLe United States of America for tLe death of 
tLeir President, AbraLam Lincoln. 

Your compatriots are not alone in deploring tbat great misfortime ; tLeir grief 
is felt and sLared by tLe entire universe, by all true friends of Lumanity, and 
especially by members of tLe masonic order, as tLey Lave lost a brotlier in tLe 
person of tLe illustrious deceased, and tLey Lave seen but few like Lim since 
tLe foundation of tLeir order. 

But we are comforted witL tlie friends of tLe republic witL tLe conviction tLat 
tLe crime committed by a villain at tLe instigation of a baud of fanatics. Las not 
interrupted tLe even marcL of events. 

TLe enemies of tLe republic have given it a terrible blow, but its children 
have defended it bravely, and have shown that the free man never loses courage 
in the most serious events of life, and that liberty and order in a republic do not 
depend on the existence of a single man. 

The immense sacrifices and enormous losses suffered by the people of the 
United States have produced a good result ; the republic has come out of the 
five years struggle greater and more powerful than ever ; its enemies tremble, 
and in their fright forget their former feelings. 

And events have produced a still more glorious sequel : slavery, that crime 
against the dignity of human nature, is no more ; its stain no longer dims the 
brilliancy of the star-spangled banner of tLe American Union, tLat will now wave 
more grand and glorious. 

AbraLam Lincoln lived long enougL to witness tlie success of Lis cause. TLe 
last moments of Lim wliom Ave deplore were solaced by tLe triumpL of liberty 
and Lumanity, of wLicL Le was a martyr. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 615 

In asking you to accept tins sincere expression of our sentiments, we .end 
our best wishes for the prosperity of your o-.eat and beautiful countr-Xpi ^ 
It may continue to be the asylum of liberty and the defence of the on uj ^d ' 

Eeceive the assurances of our distinguished consideration. 

Signatures to the original. 

G. TREU, 

for the Venerable, now ahuent. 
SIEGFRIED KURLAENDER, 

T nicrahle. 
Dr. E. M. WEINBERG 
T. SAXL. 
31. STOEXESEN. 
BREDE. 
F. G. HELM. 

c. :^[AUBACI^. 

PETE R LEH REXBEC HER. 
MARTI X i^IASCHEK. 
T. M()SXER. 
CARL LAMPERT. 
GEORGES DEMPWOLFF. 
• JOHAXX FILZ. 
CARL HLIMAXX. 
H. STEFFEXS. 
A. SEMADEXI 



[Translation.] 

Italian Lxdustiual Sociktv of Constantixople, 

Ajtril 29, 1865. 
Sir : The tragical death of President Lincoln, lately snatched from the presi- 
peucy of the great American republic, is a loss to l)c deplored by universal hu- 
manity. 

Under this impression the Italian Industrial Society of Constantinople, of both 
the male and female sections, hasten to bear their tribute of grief for this deplor- 
able event to your excellency. 

We beg your excellency to accept this tribute of sorrow as a proof of that 
fraternity which at no distant day will unite in sympathy the peojiie of bolh 
hemispheres, and we humbly request that you will do us the honor to transmit 
this letter to the government at Washington. 
Accept, excellency, our most coi'dial salutations. 
For the society : 

GUISEPPE DE AXDREA, 

T "^ice-Presiilent. 
PIETRO TABBUCA, Secretari/. 
Hon. E, Jov Morris, 

United States Minister at Constantinople. 



[Translation.] 

Legation of I'krsia, 

Constantinople, May J 7, 1SG.3. 

Monsieur le Ministrr and Drar Coli.eaol'r : Telegrapliic inform-ition 
havino- been received at Teheran of the assassination of the illustrious I'resident 



616 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

of tlie United States, Abraham Lincoln, I have received instructions by tele- 
graph to convey to your excellency the expression of the regret and sorrow en- 
tertained by my august sovereign his Majesty the Shahinshah and his imperial 
government for this sad event. 

I have also been directed by my government to solicit your excellency to com- 
municate to the President of the United States its sentiments of condolence, and 
its wishes for the prosperity of the United States of America, and fur perpetual 
amiry between the two countries. 

In executing these orders of my government, I beg you. Monsieur leministre 
and dear colleague, to accept the expression of my own profound sympathy for 
the cruel death of your illustrious President, and my sincere condolence for the 
same. 

I avail myself of this occasion to renew to you the assurance of my high con- 
sideration. 

HOUSSEIN. 



[Translation from the Greek.] 

An adchess of symfatliy of the Hellenic Greeks of Const antinojde to Hon. E. 
Joy Morris, United States minister, April 30, 1865. 

Honored Minister of the American Peopfe: 

Amidst our rejoicing for the triumph of the sacred cause of human rights in 
the United States, our hearts have been afflicted by the sad news of the assassi- 
nation of President Lincoln, and of the attempt on the life of the Secretary of 
State, William H. Seward. 

Overcast with clouds of war are the faces of sorrowing millions ! Universal 
humanity weeps in sympathizing sorrow with bereaved America ! The cham- 
pion of the people, the friend of man, the savior of his country, the illustrious 
President Lincoln has fallen a victim to the malignity of a hireling assassin ! 
The demoniac passions of slavery, which in vain vented their fury against the 
solid structure of the American Union, have exhausted their revengeful malevo- 
lence in themurderof the best of men and the wisest of rulers ! Accursed be the arm 
that struck the fatal bloAV ! Enemies of God and man must be they who planned and 
they who executed such a terrible deed ! In immortal infamy will their names 
live, side by side with the imperishable glory of him they slew! Posterity will 
never forget the hideousness of the barbarous cause of which they were the 
mercenary instruments, nor the world-wide services of their noble-hearted victim ! 
Another martyr to liberty and right has been sacrificed to the hatred of the 
enemies of the people, but the great republic, of which he was the head, and which 
they sought to kill also, lives in spite of their malicions rage — it yet lives, thanks to 
God, a terror to despots and a pillar of hope to oppressed millions ! 

The race of great men is not yet exhausted in your country, respected sir ; 
liberty is prolific in statesman genius, but despotism casts a withering blight on 
society, and dries up the springs of national greatness. In this hour of need the 
intellectual might of the republic will exhibit itself in all its strength. The hour 
of peril for a free country is the hour of glorious achievements. Despond not, 
America. Mighty and inexhaustible are your resources in men, such men as free- 
dom alone can create. Honored sir, convey this Grecian wail of sorrow to your 
fellow-countrymen, and tell them the name of Lincoln is endeared to the heart 
of every Greek, that we regard him as our friend and benefactor as well as theirs, 
and that his name and actions will never be effiiced from our grateful memory. 
Deign to accept, sir, this laurel-crowned portrait of the illustrious man, whose 
cruel death we mourn in common with you. The laurel is interwoven with the 
sable emblem of mortal woe. It is typical of the blended feelings with which 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. CI 7 

we have this day approached you— joy for deeds of unfadinp; renown, and sorrow 
that so glorious a career has heen so suddenly arrested. Clu-risli, sir, this Inunble 
gift of the Greeks of Constantino])le as a testimony of the good will we hear to 
the nation you represent, and of our appreciation of the eliaracter and services of 
its great citizen, whom the genius of history will crown with a wreath of unfading 
glory as the mighty liberator who broke the shacklesof four millions of slaves.and 
forever effiiced from the national escutcheon the reproachful stain of human 
thraldom. 



THEJASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 

Address from the British communitij of Constantinople to the lion. E. Joy Mor- 
ris, American minister to the Porte. 

On Thursday, ^fay 11, a meeting of British residents was held at Misserie'g 
Hotel, Mr. Consul General Logie in the chair. The attendance was numerous 
and influential. 

In stating the object for which the meeting had been convened, ]\Ir. Logi(; 
said it was not necessary to make any detailed allusion to the crimes which had 
pained and shocked Englishmen everywhere, little, if at all, less than Americans 
themselves. He felt confident that everymember of our local community would 
share the sorrow and indignation excited throughout Europe by the cowardly 
murder of Mr. Lincoln and the attack upon Mr Seward, and would condole 
heartily with the American people under the great national disaster wliich had 
befallen them. He would, therefore, at once, call on his res})ected friend, 
Mr. Hanson, to move a resolution expressive of this unanimous sentiment of our 
colony. 

Mr. Hanson briefly expressed his concurrence in the sympathy so well ex- 
pressed by the consul-general, and moved : 

" That this meeting has heard with sorrow and indignation of the murder of 
the late President of the United States, and of the murderous attack on :Mr. 
Secretary Seward. 

"That an address, expressive of the feelings of the British community at 
Constantinople on this subject, be signed and presented to his excellency the 
American minister." 

Mr. McCoan having seconded the resolution, it was carried unanimously. 

The Rev. H. J. Knapp then read a draught of the address— which had been 
]n-epared by the consul-general— and moved the second resolution, which was 
seconded by Mr. E. Lafontaine : i , • i 

" That the address now read to the meeting be ado])ted, and that it be pre- 
sented, when signed, by a committee of British residents, composed of the fol- 
lowing gentlemen : Mr. Consul-General T.ogie, Messrs. Hanson, McCoan, Kcv. 
H. J. Knapp, E. Lafontaine, and Lamb." 

Carried unanimously. i ^ i« • 

m. Logie then intimated that the address would lie at the consulate for sig- 
nature by all British residents from Friday morning till Monday afternuon. 
when, or on Tuesday, as might be most convenient to Mr. Morris, it would be 
presented. After a cordial vote of tluinks to the consul-general, the meeting 

^"^Mif Morris having appointed yesterday forenoon for receiving the deputafion 
at 11 a. m. the latter proceeded to the American legation, where, after a short 
introductory conversation, the address, which was in the following terms, was 
presented and read by Mr. Logie : 



618 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

To his Excellency the Hon. E. Joy Morris, Sfc, Sfc. : 

Sir : TVe, the xinclersigned, British residents at Constantinople, have heard 
with horror and indignation of the recent crimes at Washington, which have 
deprived the people of the United States of America of their respected Presi- 
dent, and put in jeopardy the life of Mr. Secretary Seward. 

We speak, sir, to the representative in this capital of a people of our own 
blood, with whom we share in so many kindred feelings and so many great 
memories, and we feel that it would be alike unnecessary and unbecoming 
to seek for phrases to express that we deeply abhor a cowardly and cold-blooded 
murder. 

We feel that this crime is even made more hateful by the attempt of the as- 
sassin to clothe it in the garb of an act of political revenge. To us, sir, it ap- 
pears that the facility with which the act was perpetrated and the murderer 
escaped for the moment from the retribution due to his crimes, is in itself a 
touching proof of the single-minded simplicity with which the late President 
conformed to the spirit of the institutions of his country, and which ought to 
have made his person sacred, even to the most bitter and despei-ate partisan. 

Although it would be highly unbecoming in us to say a word to your excel- 
lency respecting the domestic politics of the States, we feel that, in joining in a 
personal tribute to the memory of the late Mr. Lincoln, we do not pass 
beyond our province. 

We are sure that history will bear testimony to the unshaken fortitude which 
he displayed in difficulty, to the spirit of moderation with which he met success, 
and to that simple, unselfish, single-minded devotion to his country which he 
brought to the performance of the duties of his high office. 

We desire, sir, to express briefly to yovir excellency, as the representative of 
tbe United States, our hearty sympathy with the great misfortune which they 
have sustained, our earnest hope for the future welfare and prosperity of the 
republic, and the unfeigned desire we feel, in common with our fellow-country- 
men at home, for the perpetual maintenance of kindly feeling and peaceful 
intercourse between our nations. 

CHAS. V. HANSON, E. LAFONTAINE, 
Rev. H. J. KNAPP, CHAS. W. HOGLAND, 

WM. WOOD, GEORGE BAKER, 

HENRY SWAN, THOMAS TODD, 

S. A. BROWN, THEO. W. DIMON. 

Constantinople, May 11, 1865. 

Here follow the signatures of nearly every British adult male resident in 
Constantinople.] 



Honored Minister oj" the United States of America : 

The Armenian Protestant community of Constantinople has the honor to wait 
upon you, on the occasion of the deplorable occuri*ence which has plunged the 
government and people of the United States of America in mourning, for the 
purpose of offering a respectful expression of our horror of tlie detestable crime, 
and of our profound sympathy in the grief of a people which has always taken 
so active an interest in our welfare. 

We have learned with the deepest pain and regret that the execrable act of a 
vile assassin has deprived the great republic of the New World of its beloved 
and talented President, the lamented Abraham Lincoln, and greatly endangered 
the life of William H. Seward, Secretary of State. The Almighty, in his in- 
scrutable providence, has visited a great nation with the most poignant of afflic- 
tions in the midst of its joy for the prospect of an early restoration of the blessings 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. GIO 

of peace, without permittiug its illustrious Cliicf .Magistrate to enjoy the fruits 
of bis patriotic labors, as interesting to the nation ovt-r which lu; "presided as to 
the universal cause of humanity. In the death of Abraham Lincoln the wurhl 
has lost a briglit Christian example and a man of irreproachable purity and 
honesty of character. As a statesman and a patriot he was among the most 
eminent of his age, and will, therefore, in all time to come occupy a most promi- 
nent place in the history, not only of his own country, but in that of the liumau 
race, of which he was so great a benefactor. Although so far separated from 
the scene of his labors, we have been deeply interested spectators of his career, 
and rejoiced in the prospect of the termination of a struggle which had for its 
object the preservation of so good a government and the freedom of millions of 
human beings held in degraded bondage. Honor to the memory of so noble 
hearted a philanthropist, to a government which has shown itself so fully able 
to preserve itself against an unhallowed attack upon its existence. 

We are fully aware, sir, that the great loss which your country has sustained 
cannot afi'ect in the smallest degree its vigor or its vitality, or arrest it in its 
destined career. Its wise Constitution provides for the continuance of its prin- 
ciples under every possible contingency, and we have full confidence in the 
perfection of the humane policy of the deceased President under the eminent 
person who succeeds to his office. 

May the Most High guide all the councils of the great American nation of the 
United States so that it may continue to be, as it has always heretofore been, a 
bright beacon to enlighten the path of man in his loftiest aspirations, and the 
preservation of those divine principles of benevolence and peace proclaimed by 
our beloved Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 

We offer to yourself, honored sir, and to the government and people of the 
United States of America this very inadequate expression of our sympathies on 
this mournful occasion, and beg you will do us the honor to convey them to the 
American government. 

STEFAN SEROPYAX, 
Deputy of the Aiiierican Protestant Covwuiniti/. 

Constantinople, May 10, 1865. 



At a meeting of the citizens of the United States of America at Constantinople, 
convened iu the American legation, Saturday, the 29th day of April, 1SG5, at- 
tended bv the members of the legation and consulate general, and all ot the com- 
munity of that city, the honorable E. Joy ^.lurris was called to the chair, and 
Mr. John P. Brown nominated secretary. 

The meeting was opened with a prayer by the Eeverend Dr. ^\ dliam Goodell ; 
after which the chairman addressed it on the subject of the deplorable occur- 
rences which had called it together. . , , . .i 

A committee was then nominated to frame resolutions suitable to the occasion, 
composed of the following persons : 

The Reverend Dr. AViUiam Goodell, chairman ; Reverend Dr. Lhas Iv.ggs, 
member; Dr. D. Stamatiades, member; Reverend George A\ashl.urn, member; 
Mr. John P. Brown, secretary ; who adopted the following : 

Whereas, when about to assemble together with grateful hearts m ti.anks to 
Almi-^hty God for having blessed our beloved country with the prosp.-ct of a 
peed^y .^storation of pe^ace and the preservation of the U";or.,we have hwned 
with the deepest grief d.at it has a so pleased the ^^f^'y '^^]^':''':^;^^ 
providence, to chasten our hearts with the death of f »^-l'="" . ;^7 .''\V /j. ,7 
of the United States of America, and the f-^^y :'''':])^'1^2^ZJm 
Seward, Secretary of State, by the hands of assassins. AN e, theieloic, humble 



620 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

ourselves before liira in our deep affliction, and unite with our fellow-citizens in 
the United States, as well as in all parts of the world, in an expression of our 
abhorrence of so execrable a crime, and of our sorrow of this dispensation of 
Providence, as also of the high estimation in which we hold the eminent char- 
acter and services of the illustrious deceased, and of the great patriots who Lave 
been victims to the cause of our country and of that of humanity : 

Resolved, That, as a mark of the deep respect which we all entertain for the 
memoi-y of the lamented President, we wear the usual badge of mourning for 
forty days, and that we respectfully request the honorable E. Joy Morris, 
minister resident at this capital, to transmit a copy of these resolutions, signed 
by the chairman and secretary, to the Department of State, at Washington, and 
another to the afflicted family of the deceased President, in whose grief we pro- 
foundly participate. 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be published in the public papers 
in this city. 

WILLIAM GOODELL, Chairman. 

JOHN P. BROWN, Secretary. 



Address of BritisJi residents in Smyrna. 

Smyrna, May 24, 1865. 

Sir : The crimes that have been committed upon the persons of the late 
lamented President of the United States, and of the Secretary of State, the 
honorable William H. Seward, have excited in us the strongest abhorrence. We 
would fiiin add our voice to that of our countrymen in England in giving ex- 
pression to the feelings to which those deplorable events have given rise. 

The great principles of morality, which are above all social or political con- 
tingencies, have been outrag-ed in the crimes above alluded to, in a manner that 
makes it incumbent upon every community, hoAvever small, to brand with exe- 
cration the perpetrators of them, and to reject with indignation whatever plen 
may be put forward in extenuation of them. 

The many and rare virtues that were combined in the person of President 
Lincoln, make his loss a great misfortune to the American nation, and demand 
that we should offer to it, as we do, our utmost sympathy and condolence. 

We beg, sir, that you will be so good to transmit to your government this 
expression of our sentiments, and to add our respectful request that Mrs. Lin- 
coln may be informed how deeply we grieve at the calamity that has befallen her, 
We have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient humble servants, 

ROBERT WM. CUMBERBATCH, 

Her Britannic Majesty's Consul. 
C. WHITTALL. 
A. EDWARDS. 
FRED. LA FONTAINE. 
J. T. WOOD. 
WILLIAM B. LEWIG, M. A., 

British Chajylaiti. 
R. J. LAW^SON. 
HENRY E. ROSE. 
W. GILBERTSON. 
RICHARD BARKER. 

And fifty other names. 
John Griffitt, Esq., 

Acting United States Consul, Smyrna. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. G21 

Meeting of American citizens in Smyrna. 

Smyrna, Asia Minor, May 19, 18G5. 

Yesterday a meeting of tlie resident citizens of the United States in reference 
to the late dephirable events at Washington was convened. 

Rev. Daniel Ladd opened the meeting with a few remarks, stating its object: 
whereupon Mr. Joseph Langdon was chosen chairman, and Mr. F. C. Blackler 
secretary. 

Rev. Mr. Ladd then addressed the meeting, (which was numerously attended 
by ladies and gentlemen,) in a feeling and appropriate manner, after wliicli the 
national hymn "America" was played and sung, followed by a fervent and im- 
pressive prayer by Mr. Ladd. 

Mr. Langdon made some remarks on the life and character of the late Rrcsi- 
deut Lincoln, and offered the following resolution: 

Ptesulved, That we have heard with indignation and profound grief the assassi- 
nation of the beloved President of our republic, Abraham Lincoln, and of a 
further horrible attempt to destroy the lives of our Secretary and Assistant 
Secretary of State. That as regards the taking of the life of our Chief Magis- 
trate at ihis critical moment, when all true Americans were trusting that great 
and good man to bring us out of the troubles which this terrible rebellion has 
caused, we all execrate the monster who has perpetrated the horrid deed, and 
thus deprived our country of one we all loved and trusted in. 

Mr. Blackler proposed the following resolution : 

Resolved, That the American citizens of our republic resident in Smyrna 
tender our heartfelt sympathies to Mrs. Lincoln and family in the irreparable 
loss they have sustained, as well as our country, by the death of our beloved 
Chief j\Iagistrate. 

Mr. John Griffitt, United States vice-consul, proposed the folloAving resolution : 

Resoh-ed, That in this our deep distress we feel consoled in having such a suc- 
cessor to our late lamented chief as Andrew Johnson, one in whom we repose 
every confidence, and wliose long and honorable career in various departments 
of public life have qualified him in the highest degree to occupy the distin- 
guished position of President of the United States. 

Rev. Mr. LAdd proposed the following resolution : 

Resolved, That the secretary of this meeting be appointed to take charge of 
the foregoing resolutions, and to transmit a copy of them to Mrs. Lincoln, and 
a copy to the Department of State, at Washington. 

The above resolutions were severally seconded and unanimously adopted. 

After other remarks from other members of the meeting, expressive of the 
great loss sustained by our country, the meeting was closed with religious exer- 
cises. 

F. C. BLACKLER, Secretary. 



622 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



TUXIS 



[Literal translation! from the AraLic] 

Praise to tlie only God ! 

To the excellence of liim wlio has given distinction to the ministry — wht 
has at the same time ordered and directed its affairs — to the excellence of hirr 
who is the gloiy of eminent ministers, whose renown is universal, and whos( 
character and services are above all praise, Monsieur William II. Seward, min 
ister of state and of foreign afflxirs of the United States of America : may h( 
always be the head of the ministry and the director of eminent men. 

Rendering due honor to the distinguished office and to the high character oj 
vour excellency, we make known to you that his Highness our august sever 
eio-n ceases not to entertain for your government an abiding and ever increasing 
friendship and regard, the cause of which is your admirable conduct and youi 
noble policy. His Highness has received the news of the re-establishment o. 
peace and tranquillity in your great country This news has afforded him \\n 
measured satisfaction; and sincere friendship makes him share with you th< 
pleasure consequent upon this happy result and great event. 

To this end, then, his Highness sends to your government the honorable, th( 
beloved, the elect, General Otman Hashem, to express to the President hi; 
sincere felicitations, and also to express to the President the heartfelt grie: 
which his Highness experienced at the death of the lamented President, Abra 
ham Lincoln, which sad event wounded all our hearts. We pray God that this 
may be the end of trials and misfortunes to your beloved country. His High- 
ness also sends with his ambassador his portrait, to serve as a souvenir of his 
friendship, as stated in his letter. 

Plis Highness looks with confidence to your excellency to arrange for ar 
agreeable reception of his envoy. General Hashem, by his Excellency the Pres- 
ident. 

We take this occasion also to inform your excellency that we have found ir 
the conduct of him who is distinguished among his colleagues, Mr. Amos Perry 
consul of your government at this court, the best disposition to maintain and 
strengthen the bonds of fiieudship which unite our two governments. His (Mr 
Perry's) courteous and honorable bearing merits and receives the approbatioB 
and the best compliments of his Highness our august sovereign. 

We make this statement to bear our testimony to a worthy representative: 
and to show that your choice falls only on meritorious men. 

Written by the pour before his God, 

MUSTAPHA, 
Major General, Priine Minister, and Minister of 

Foreign Affairs of his Highness the Bey of Tunis. 

Tunis, the 1th Rahi el tami, 1282. A. C, August 29, 1865. 



[lateral translation from the Arabic. J 

Praises to the only God ! 

To the excellence of the eminent personage whose merits are celebrated, and 
whose renown is universal, like the light of the sun, which cainiot be hidden 
from the day ; to the excellence of him who is the glory of great men, the cream 
of men of distinction, and whose virtues are above all praise ; to our friend; 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. (123 

Andrew Joliuson. Prosidont of tlio United States of America: may lie ahviys 
be exalted, and may his days be ever prospered. 

Having rendered due honor to the elevated rank and to tlie eminent character 
of your excellency, we inform you that we have heard the agreeable news of the 
fruitful victory gained by your government, and ol" the conseciuent re-establi.<h- 
ment of peace and tranriuillity in your great country. Thi.s news lias rejoiced us 
beyond measure, and has awakened our warmest sentiments of gratitude by 
reason of the great and sincere friendship which unites our two governments; 
which friendship has been bequeathed to us as a heritage by our ancestors, to 
become stronger and stronger forever. 

We were the more cheered by this news from having shared in the grief of 
the American people in the loss which they experienced in the death of their 
late President, Mr. Abraham Lincoln, a loss which we keenly felt. This grief 
would have remained unalterably fixed in our hearts but for tlie news of the re- 
establishment of tranquillity in your country ; which news came to moderate and 
assuage our affliction. 

We desire to present to your excellency and to your people our best com- 
pliments, with expressions of condolence in your affliction and sorrow, and with 
expressions of felicitations in your prosperity and joy. We despatch our envoy, 
the honorable, the beloved, the elect, our son, Ueneral Otman Hashcm. to be the 
interpreter of our sentiments in the prescnci; of your excellency and in your 
country. We send at the same time with him our portrait, to be a souvenir uf 
our friendship. 

May God preserve your excellency, and perpetuate tlu; hapjiiness and pros- 
perity of yourself and of your illustiious nation. 

AVritten by him who has for your excellency the highest consideration, the 
slave of his God, the Mooshcr Mohammed Essadek, Bashaw Bey, possessor of 
the Kingdom of Tunis. 

TuiMS, i/ie 1th Rahi el tami, 1282. A. C, August 29, 1SG5. 

[locus syiaLLi.j 



[Literal translatiou from the Arabic.] 

Praises to the only God ! 

To the lady for whom we pray God that he would save her from trial and 
affliction and proiect her from dangers and sorrows, both by day and by night — 
to her who is distinguished among ladies of distinction, the cream of elevated 
personages, and whose virtues are above all praise, to ^ladame Abraham Lin- 
coln : may God shield her from every ill.' 

Acknowledging the honor due to your elevated character and position, we 
desire to express" to you the ])ain inflicted on our heart l)y tiie sad deatli of your 
beloved husband. How cruel this fate, and how deep the wound inflict-d by 
this terrible event. All hearts are put in mourning. The news of this catas- 
trophe both plunged us into affliction and overwhelmed us with consternation. 
It turned our eyes upon the distressed of this earth, and ourspii-its were troubled. 

Against death all effort is vain, and one's sole remedy is to resign himselt to 
the decrees of the Great God, and with him to seek consolation. .May tlie Great 
God, then, grant you patience and resignation, increasing your worthiness in 
proportion to the keenness and depth of your affliction and pain. .May lie 
order that this be the last of your trials, and that your days become long years 

Written by him who has for you the highest consideration, the slave oM.i.s 
God, the Moosher Mohammed Essadek, Bashaw Bey, possessor ot the kingdom 

of Tunis. 

TuMS, 7 RaM el tami, 12S2. A. C, Avgnst 29, 1SC5. 

[locus SIOIl.LI J 



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Mr. Perry to Mr. Seward. 
[Extract.] 

Xo. G3.] United States Consulate, 

Tunis, Ajyril 29, 1865. 

The prevalence of a strange and cruel rumor, of whose truth or falsity I have 
no knowledge, may illustrate the excitability of the Tunisian populace in regard 
to American affairs. " Peace proclaimed in America, and President Lincoln 
assassinated at Richmond." These have been the Avords bandied through the 
city from noon to night. Great numbers have flocked to the door of this con- 
sulate to ascertain the truth or falsity of this report, and the dragomans were 
instructed to say that the consul has received no reliable information relative to 
the matter in question. The names of President Lincoln and j^Iinister Seward 
have by recent events become almost as well known to the populace of Tunis 
as those of the Bey Mohammed and his minister Sidi Mustapha. 
Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

AMOS PERRY. 
Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. .. 



Mr. Perry to Mr. Hunter. 

Xo. 70. j Ux\iTEU States Consulate, 

Timis, May 13, 1S65. 

Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, on the 11th instant, of 
the two circulars of the 17th of April, 1865, one circular giving a»statement 
relative to the assassination of our lamented President and the attempted assas- 
sination of our honorable Secretary of State ; and the other circular naming the 
ins'guia of mourning to be adopted by those subject to the orders of the depart- 
ment. 

All the national vessels in this harbor had their flags at half-mast three days, 
commencing on the 8th instant, in honor of our lamented President, and within 
an hour after receiving your circular. On the 11th instant circulars to the same 
effect as yours were in the hands of nil my colleagues, and the flags of all the 
nations here represented were hung in mourning. Last week each of my col- 
leagues did himself and our nation the honor to call upon me with expressions 
of sorrow for our deceased President and wounded statesman, of indignation 
against the perpetrators of these crimes, and of congratulation upon our glorious 
victories and our prospects of peace. 

I deem it inadvisable to trouble you with detailed accounts of the interetstand 
sympathy awakened in this place by the recent events in our country. The 
Bey's minister has replied to my circular with touching expressions of horror 
and sympathy. My colleagues have most of them written me long and inter- 
esting letters. A delegation from the Italian Masonic Lodge of this city waited 
upon me yesterday with au address of condolence. 

I have the honor to be; sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

AxMOS PERRY. 

Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. G25 

Address of the IfaJia?t Lodge. 

Tunis, ]\[ay 12, 1865. 
Sir: We come as the delegates of the Italian Lodge (Carthage and Utica) of 
Free and Accepted Masons in this city, to express to you, who so fully partake 
of the elevated sentiments of your countrymen, onr profound sorrow I'orthe dcatli 
of your illustrious Chief Magistrate, Abraham Lincoln. The name of Abraliam 
Lincoln will henceforth be honored in our annals. Though he Avas an Ameri- 
can, we in Africa are benefitted by his life, and the world is his debtor. He 
was Avise, honest, and persevering; and while putting down the greatest and 
most infamous rebellion that ever disgraced tht; annals of history, he struck a 
death-blow to the institution of slavery, thus giving vigor and strength to tlie 
cause of liberty throughout the world. While we honor Washington as the 
father of his country, we shall still ever venerate Jjincolu as the Hlierator of 
slaves and as one of the greatest benefactors of humanity. V/liile admiring 
the character of Abraham Lincoln, we are instructed by our fraternity to ex- 
press the hope that the work of emancipation so well commenced by him may 
be fully consummat^ed by his surviving countrymen. 

And now, honored sir, praying that the republican institutions of your country 
may ever be maintained in their purity and powers, diffiisinp; blessings far and 
near, Vv'e beg you to accept the sincere expression of our jirofound respect. 

Uii. G. 1\[UGXANI, 
T. SANTL 
Dr. G. ZERAFA, 
L. FALCA, 
G. B. GIOJA, 
Delegates of the Italian Lodge; Carthage and Utica 
Hon. Amos Prrry, 

Consul General of the United States of America at Tunis. 



40 A 



626 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEEESPONDENCE. 



u:n^ited states of Colombia, 



President MuriJlo to Mr. Burton. 
[Translation. ] 

Bogota, Jime 21, 1865. 

Mr. Minister : I am advised tliat, by the death of your great fellow-citizen, 
Abraham Ijneoln, Andrew Johnson lias entered npon the discharge of the 
presidency of the United States of America for a constitutional term. 

From the time the mournful echo of the night of the 14th of April in Wash- 
ington reached our community you have been able to note how deep and painful 
has been the sensation produced in it. My fellow-citizens have sadly lamented 
the loss of that high magistrate who has associated his name with emancipation 
of four millions of men, and erasing the stigma of an odious institution, a true 
misfortune in itself; and I, who had the favorable opportunity, almost of inti- 
mate association, to appreciate the gifts and to receive proofs of his benevolent 
character, have united with lively emotion in the just grief of the American 
people. 



[Translation.] 



United States of Colombia, Department 
OF THE Interior and Foreign Relations, 

Bogota, Octoher 11, 1S65. 

The undersigned, secretary of the interior and foreign relations of the 
United States of Colombia, had the honor to receive the note in which the honor- 
able minister of the United States of America makes known his having received 
instructions from his government directing him to communicate to the citizer 
President the liv^ely sentiments of friendship and gratitude produced in the mindc 
of the American people and government by the unmistakable demonstrations 
of grief caused in the Colombian Union by the death of Abraham Lincoln, and 
soliciting at the same time a special audience of the first magistrate for the pur- 
pose of making to him said communication by order of his government. 

The citizen President has designated Thursday next for such reception, anc 
being profoundly grateful for this mark of consideration on the part of thi 
American government and people, he will have the pleasure to manifest agair 
and officially the profound feeling which has been caused throughout this 
Union by the unfortunate death of that honest and virtuous citizen who s( 
honorably for the republican world sustained the just Union and true liberty o 
the great republic. 

The undersigned renews to the honorable Mr. Biirton the assurances of hii 
very high consideration. 

SANTIAGO PEREZ. 



[Translation.] 

Speech, of President Murillo to Mr. Burton. 

Mr. Minister : It is very flattering and pleasing to the people and govern 
ment of Colombia to know that the American people and government shouh 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATnY. G27 

have been gratified at the expression of sorrow and kindlv sympathy omitted 
by us when we heard that a crime had deprived your countVy of one of its most 
enlightened citizens, as a victim offered upon the altar of duty, and these fre- 
quent manifestations of sympathy between the two countries are very grateful 
to me, because they tend to strenghten the mutual esteem which ought to exist 
between republican |jeoples living on the same continent. 



[Translation.] 
Legation of Colombia to the United States. 

New York, Aj>ril 17, 1SG5. 

Sir : The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister i)lcnipoti'ntiary of 
Colombia, has received your note of the ir)th instant, informing him of the 
violent death of the President of the United States, and of the criminal attempt 
upon the life of Mr. Seward and his son, in consequence of which events Mr. 
Andrew Johnson, the Vice-President, has assumed the functions of President, 
and has authorized you to act as Secretary of State. 

The undersigned, in expressing his sincere regret for the unfortunate events 
that have taken place, and which he has hastened to communicate to his gov- 
fcrument, makes himself the interpreter of his countrymen, and assures you that 
the sad event will be deplored in the United States of Colombia, as well on 
account of the fraternal interest they feel for this nation, as their sympathy in 
the humane policy of the lamented President, which is cherished iu our country, 
and inspires our institutions, based on justice and liberty. 

The undersigned is pleased to learn from the daily papers that the honorable 
Mr. Seward and his son are recovering from the atrocious attempt to take their 
lives, and that their wounds will have no serious consequences. 

The antecedents of the eminent citizen who is called to preside as Chief Magis- 
trate of this country is the best guarantee the undersigned can offer his gov- 
ernment that the new administration will continue its frank, cordial, and friendly 
policy towards the United States of Colombia. 

The undersigned congratulates you on your appointment as Acting Secretary 
of State, and embraces the occasion to repeat the assurances of his most dis- 
tinsuished consideration. 



E. SALGAR. 



Hon. William Hunter, 

Secretary of State, Sfc., Sfc , S^c. 



Mr. Burton to Mr. Seivard. 

No 181 1 Legation of the United States, 

Bogota, July 31, 1S65. 

Sir : Intelligence of the assassination of President Lincoln, and the attempt 
to murder the Secretary of State, reached this city on the 23d of May last. 
The news created a general and profound sensation of horror and indignation. 
His Excellency President Muriilo sent immediately fo his secretary of foreign 
relations to express the deep grief experienced by the Colombian gov(;rnment 
and people at this frightful and melancholy event, requesting me to convey the 
same to the President of t!ie United States, with his sincere sympatliy and 
condolence. The spontaneous manifestations of sympathy offered by the dip- 
lomatic and consular bodies iu this capital, and by the citizens, were ot the 
most touching nature. 



628 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE^ 

I set apart the 21st of June as a day of mourning for our great misfortmief 
which was responded to in an impressive manner, as will be learned from the 
accompanying papers. On consulting the foreign secretary as to the most 
appropriate day for this purpose, wishing to avoid any conflict with the numerous 
days dedicated to religious ceremonies, his Excellency the President tendered 
me a public audience to announce the death of our lamented President, which 
I accepted oi^t of respect to his earnest desire to pay the most expressive honors 
to our late Chief Magistrate. After making the announcement I repaired to 
the office for foreign affairs, and announced to the secretary the attempt on Mr. 
Secretary Seward and his son. He expressed his deep sympathy for them in 
their misfortune and sufferings, and the consequent misfortune to my country, 
and requested me to make the same known to them, with liis sincere hope that 
they would be restored to health, and to the great cause of which he regarded 
Secretary Seward as the worthy representative. 

In consequence of our affliction I did not intend to open the legation to the 
usual ceremonial rejoicings on our national anniversary. I learned, hov/ever, 
on the evening of the 3d of July, that the Colombian government, foreign 
representatives and citizens, had arranged to pay their respects in a solemn 
manner, and I received them accordingly. The occasion was one of melancholy 
satisfaction. At six o'clock p. m. the whole military of the city passed in 
mourning in front of the legation, and through the evening the presidential 
bands, numbering sixty musicians, saluted it with solemn dirges. 

In common with our afflicted people I mourn our sad bereavement. In 
common with them I render devout thanks to God for the delivery of the 
Secretary of State, his sons, and faithful attendants. 

1 have the honor to be, sir, your cbedient servant, 

ALLAN A. BURTON. 

Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State, Washingt07i. 



Mr. Burton to Mr. Seward. 

No. 194.J Legation of the United States, 

Bogota, October 13, 18G5. 
Sir: As directed by your No. 126, I, on yesterday, in public audience, de- 
livered to his Excellency the Citizen President of Colombia the message of 
gratitude for the condolence and sympathy tendewd by the Colombian govern- 
ment and people on the bereavement sustained by the death of the lamented 
Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States, with which I had been 
intrusted. As other bodies in the republic had followed the example of the 
constituent convention of Bolivar, I ventured to extend the message to the 
whole country. His excellency the secretary of foreign relations communicated 
it in a note to each body. The annexed papers will explain how I have 
attempted to fulfil your instructions. 

I was received on the occasion by the military in full dress, and by bands 
of music. The attendance at the audience, as well as the whole proceedings, 
was highly flattering. 

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, 

ALLAN A. BURTON, 
Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State, Wasliington. 

Nov. 1, 1865. — P. S. Having previously announced the attempt on the lives of 
the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State, I had the pleasure, by a note 
to the foreign office, to announce their recovery. My correspondence being 



SENTIMENTS OP CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. G29 

suspended with that department a day or so after, on account of my hcaltli, 
as ex^Jauied in my No. 195, I have, consequently, not received the secretary's 
ackuowledgmeut. These papers will be sent to the department hereafter. 

ALLAN A. li LUTON. 



[Tnui.sliition.] 

UNITED STATES OP COLOMBIA SOVKREKJN STATE OF CU.VDINAMARCA EXEC- 
UTIVE POWER. 

The President of tlie state to the Hon. Allan A. Burton, minister resident of 
the United States of America. 

Bogota, June 20, 1SG.5. 

The undersigned hastens to answer the note which the honorable Mr. ]\Iinistcr 
of the United States of America has done him the honor to address him, under 
date of yesterday, announcing officially the death of the ncver-to-be-enough- 
lamented Mr. Lincoln, late President of that republic. 

The honorable jMr. ]\Iinister knows the high considerations which the under- 
signed entertains lor the United States of America and its government, and the 
veneration he ha;^ always attached to the name and merits of the deceased, 
Mr. Lincoln, and it is, therefore, useless to express to the minister the sincere 
grief and deep pain with which he has received this unhappy intelligence; and 
it is certain that the state of Cundinamarca will be sadly impressed by this! 
melancholy event, and in evidence of which the state flag will be displayed in 
mourning from the government house on to-morrow. 

The undersigned gives to the honorable Mr. Burton, individually, the mo.-t feel- 
ing and cordial c judolence, and has the honor to improve this opportunity to 
reiterate to him the expression of his high esteem and distinguished considera- 
tion, 

RAFAEL MEN-DOZA. 



Her Britannic Majesty's Legation, 

Bogota, June 20, 1S65, 

Sir : I have this moment had the honor to receive your excellency's note of 
this day's date, by which y»u announce to me the melancholy intelligence of 
the death of the President of the United States of America, in the city of Waslv- 
ington, on the morning of the 15th of April last. 

In stating your belief that this sad announcement would awaken within mo 
feelings of sincet-e f^ympathy, your excellency has truly interpreted my senti- 
ments. No one, indeed, could have heard with more profound grief, with greater 
horror and indignation than I, the intelligence of the fearful calamity by which 
the United States has been deprived of its illustrious Chief JLagistrate. It is, 
therefore, with a mournful satisfaction that I avail myself of the opportunity 
thus afforded me to give utterance to these feelings, and at the same time to 
convey to your excellency the expression of my heartfelt condolenee. 

I need not add that, in compliance with your request, and as :i tnbute ot re- 
spect to the memory of the illustrious dead, I shall cause the British llag to be 
displayed to-morrow from this legation. _ ,, , 

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your excellency s 
most obedient hnmble servant, CHARLES O'LEARY. 

His Excellency Mr. Allan A. Burton, 

Minister Resident of the United States of America, Sfc, '^^•> ¥■ 



630 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Minister of France to Mr. Burton. 

[Translation.] 

Bogota, June 20, 1865, 

The undersignecl, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of his 
Majesty the Emperor, has received the note of to-day by which his excellency 
Mr. Allan A. Burton, minister of the United States of America, has made known 
to him the death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the Union. 

The undersigned has learned with feelings of the most profound regret of this 
sorrowful event, which happened under circumstances rendering it, if possible, 
still more afflicting. The minister of the Emperor loses no time in praying his 
excellency Mr. Allan A. Burton, minister of the United States of America, to 
freely accept the sincere expression of the pain the legation of his Majesty the 
Emperor has experienced, and to assure him that he will perform the duty of 
uniting with the representatives of the United States of America in hoisting the 
flag of the empire at half-mast through to-morrow. 

The undersigned takes this sad occasion to renew to his excellency the assur- 
ances of his high consideration and esteeem, 

BAKON GOURY DU ROSLAN. 

His Excellency Mr. Allan A. Burton, 

Minister of the United States of America, ^x., S^-c., Sfc. 



[Translation.] 
COi\SULATE OF HIS MAJESTY THE KiNG OF THE !N'eTHERLANDS 

FOR THE United States of Colombia, 

Bogota, June 21, 1865. 
Sir : I have had the honor to receive your excellency's note under date of yes- 
terday, informing me of the death'of his Excellency President Abraham Lincoln, 
and desiring me to display on this day the flag of my country as a mark of 
honor to the illustrious dead. 

•Your excellency well knows how strong the mutual and friendly feeling is 
which exists between our native conntries, and I believe I can assure your 
excellency that the death of his Excellency President Abraham Lincoln has 
awakened the deepest sympathy in the hearts of all Netherlanders. 

Accordmg to your excellency's request the flag of my country is displayed. 

Hoping that the never-to-be-sufiiciently-lamentjed death of the chief of your 

excellency's government may be no obstacle to the speedy restoration of the 

United States to their former prosperity, I desire your excellency to accept 

the sentiments of my perfect esteem and consideration. 

VAN ARCKEN. 
His Excellency Mr. Allan A. Burton, 

Minister Resident of the United States of North America. 



[Translation.] 

Bogota, June 20, 1865. 
It has been with the deepest pain that the undersigned has received the 
official note addressed him to-day by the honorable Allan A. Burton, minister 
resident of the United States of America, announcing the death of the en- 
lightened citizen Abraham Lincoln, late President of the Union, and signifying 
the hope that the flag of Venezuela may be raised at half-mast on to-morrow 
on this consulate, as a sign of grief for that calamity, and in honor to the mem- 
ory of the deceased. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY.. 631 

For day s_ past the undersigned lias lamented, as a great misfortune to repub- 
lican America, the tragic and unexpected deatli of President Lincohi ; and 
taithtuUy mterpretmg the sentiments of his nation and government, lie will on 
us part, contribute to the demonstration of grief and horror indicated by the 
honorable .Air. Burton, by hoisting at half-mast on the consulate general of the 
United btates of Venezuela the flag of said republic. 

The undersigned improves the occasion to reiterate to the honorable Mv 
Burton the assurances of personal esteem with which he is his very obedient 
servant, 

LEON ECHEVERRIA, 

_ . . Consul Gmcrul of Venezuela. 

Hon. Allan A. Burton, 

Mhiister Resident of tit e United States of America, S^x , S^-c, ^r. 



LTmuslation.] 

Bogota, June 20, 1SG5. 

The undersigned, consul general of Chili, has had the honor to receive to- 
day the attentive note of the honorable Allan A. Burton, minister resident of 
the United States of America, by which he is pleased to announce the deplorable 
and unhappy nev/s of the decease of the illustrious Abraham Lincoln, President of 
the United States of North America, on the morning of the 15th of April last. 

The consul general of Chili partakes cordially and profoundly of the feelings 
that must have saddened the heart of tlie honorable ^Iv. Burton, by reason of 
the unfortunate event which has deprived his country of the important services 
which that enlightened man was lending to it, and by which he had wou the 
sympathy and admiration of the civilized world. All humanity prostrates itself 
before the»tomb of that martyr to duty, and the rights of man, to oHer to him 
the just apd merited homage of their admiration, respect and gratitude. 

The undersigned believes himself the faithful interpreter of the feelings of 
the Chilian government and people in alnrniing to the honorable Jlr. Burton, 
that, bound by ties of close friendship with the great republic, they will look 
upon that never-to-be-sufficiently-deplored event as a great misfortune to a 
brother people, and that the loved and venerated memory of ^Ir. Lincoln will 
ever be associated with the most grateful and, at the same time, the mo<t horrify- 
ing recollections. 

For its parr, this consulate general will perform the sad duty of raising the 
flag of Chili in the manner desired by his excellency, in commemoration of 
the mournful event v/hich we all lament, and the undersigned also has the honor 
to offer personally to the honorable Ih: Burton the most sincere expression of 
his feelings. 

The undersigned improves this occasion to renew to tin; honorable, Allan A. 
Burton the assurances of the high esteem and respect with which he has the 
honor to subscribe himself his very obedient servant, 

MANUEL ANTONIO CORDOVEZ. 

Hon. Allan A. Burton, 

Minister Resident of the United States rf America, ^r., .\r., J^r. 



[Translated from La Opiuion, (Bogota,) June 7, 1805.] 
ABRAHAM LL\COLN.— BV HON. SALVADOR CA.MACHO ROLUAN. 

The name with which we head these lines will be one of the most fnnous 
which this century, fruitful in g^at men and great events, wdl tni..s,mt to 
the admiration and love of posterity. Of the many great men whom war, d.plo- 



632 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

macj, and politics have raised upon the wings of Lnman passions, none will, per- 
haps, enjoy a history, a fame, so pure and imperishable as he who, controlling 
the turbulent waves of the most colossal civil war of modern times, pre- 
served order with liberty, and maintained the integrity of a great republic, while 
the bonds of its society were being broken into atoms by the advent of a new 
civilization. 

This will not be because history will present him brandishing a flaming sword 
over heaps of slain enemies, disposing in despotic councils of the fate of peoples, 
or erasing and changing the lines of territories ; neither boldly putting his foot 
on the unchained liberal spirit of his age ; but because, as in all great revelations 
of truth to man, the divine spirit of a great idea incarnated itself in an humble 
being, and inspired him with the faith, the courage, and the perseverance to draw it 
safely fom the agitated ocean through breakers, and in spite of hostile winds, to 
the port of safety and of triumph. 

The greatness of Mr. Lincoln consisted not so much in his talents, which were 
more solid than brilliant; nor in his education, which was neglected, as that of 
every man who, like him, is born and grows up in the bosom of poverty; neither 
in the sagacity of the politician nor the audacity of the tribune, or of the reformer; 
but in his manly good common sense, in the firmness of his character, in the in- 
stinctive sagacity with which he anticipated the genius and tendencies of his 
people, in his devoted patriotism, in his genial honesty, his guileless frankness, 
the serenity of his spirit, in his unequalled capacity to follow without ever losing 
sight of the thread of events, and to adapt his efforts to the magnitude and actual 
stage of the crisis, and to give to tlie cause of an abstract idea all the interest of 
enthusiasm and of passion; but above all, in raising himself from the narrow 
field of a local advocate to the immense field of passions, conflicting interests 
and opinions, vrhich was suddenly lighted up before him by the devouring con- 
flagration of civil war. 

What strife so gigantic as that in the United States? What men and what 
interests? What passions and what resources? The high, proud magnates of 
slavery with their two thousand millions' worth of human flesh, the pride of com- 
mand from the cradle, with all the wealth that tobacco, sugar, and cotton could 
bring at their orders; a vast territory traversed by momitains and furroAved by 
great rivers, slavery and liberty, panting avarice and disinterested self-abnegation 
contending hand to hand ; all the extraordinary discoveries of the second quarter 
of this century face to face with the barbarism of the past ages ; the last legacy 
of the Old World disputing the way to the march of ideas of the New World ; 
the soul of old Europe and the heart of virgin America, the past and the future, 
contending in a duel to the death on the grandest field on the fiice of the earth. 

To raise within a few months, in a nation that had lost all their military habits 
from long uninterrupted peace, an army of seven hundred thousand men; to in- 
crease a navy from forty to nearly a thousand vessels within three years ; to obtain 
from a people accustomed to economy and yearly expenses of forty millions of 
dollars, resources to meet an expenditure of two millions and a half daily; to 
feel the before hidden hate of despots now violently hissing in its face; to see 
ambition and treason spring up in its bosom, where before had been only submissive 
adoration of the people; to listen, amidst the general tumult, to the most discord- 
ant counsels; to face all these necessities, all these troubles, annoyances and 
dangers, and to march on, like Atlas, with the world on his shoulders, firm and 
full of faith to the last, was the task intrusted to and heroically performed by 
Abraham Lincoln and his ministers, those Titans, Seward, Chase, Stanton and 
Welles. 

From the beginning France and England wished to recognize the independ- 
ence of the confederates, but they had to shrink "before the boldness of Mr. 
Lincoln, who, through Mr. Seward, announced that that recognition would be 
considered a declaration of war. The confederate privateers were armed and 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY, G33 

ready to sail from French and English ports, but at the potent voice of the 
American gmernment they were seized and detained. It was necessary to 
effectively blockade a coast of 3,000 miles in extent; and the voice of Mr. 
Welles created and cast upon the waters 960 vessels, and covered the whole of 
l^^irM '^ 7f ' necessary to spend $750,000,000 p.'r year, and the wand 
of Mr. Chase found those millions, and the resources to pay their interest and to 
extinguish tue pnnci[)al within a few years. 

There were not r)0,000 muskets when the war began, nor 4.000 men in the 
ranks. Ihe voice of Mr. Cameron first, and of Mr. Stanton afterward.^ called 
together and organized more than 700,000 bravo men, and made, in American 
shops, more than 2,000,000 of fire-arms, thousands of cannon, mountains of 
ammunition, and other elements of war hardly to be calculated. 

TheieAvere no generals. . The penetrating sagacity of ]\Ir. Lincoln drew from 
obscurity McClellan, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, and many others. 

General Fremont, the idol of tlie northern masses, attempted to press the 
President foiR-ard on the road to emancipation ; putting on the airs of a dictator, 
driving out in his magnificent carriage, drawn by four Avhite horses, displaying 
the train of a prince in the heart of the republic, Mr. Lincoln plucked ofi" hi.s 
plumes and stars, and removed him from the command of the West. 

General Hunter, with extemporaneous zeal, declared the liberty of the slave 
early in 1862. Mr. Lincoln revoked his proclamation and took away his com- 
mand. 

On the victorious field of Antietam General McClellan undertook to impose 
on the President a policy favorable to slavery. Mr. Lincoln broke the sword 
of the presumptuous chieftain, and launched forth the proclamation of emanci- 
pation. 

In addition to these we might refer to innumerable other examples of elevation 
and firmness of character indispensable to guide a country in the midst of civil 
war. To his firmness is due the absence of chiefs dangerous to order and lib- 
CTty; that freedom to the slave should not have produced a servile war; that 
hatred and vengeance did not engender bloody retaliations, dangers so common, 
unfortunately, in the civil wars of Spanish America. No forced loans, l)rutal 
recruiting, or disorderly seizure of property, so demoralizing to the soldiery; 
none of those savage demonstrations of energy so common here. Notliiug of 
this has been seen in the United States ; neither have the federal authorities 
fomented political or moral ideas, or attempted to manufacture public opinion to 
its own ends — evils which, among us, follow in the track of revolutions as the 
foetid and unhealthy sediment follows the freshets in our rivers. With all this, 
the virtues of the people have, of course, had much to do ; but not a little has 
depended on the high character of the leaders who have marked out the way 
and given the example to popular impulse. 

It has been thought, mistakenly to our view, that Tdr. Lincoln was gifted 
with an invincible stubbornness in his purposes, and a blind fanaticism in his 
ideas. We have noticed, on the contrary, in studying the acts of this public 
man, much moderation and a great inclination "to conciliation. Although an 
abolitionist for many years before, his inaugural programmt.' of 1861 ofierfd all the 
guarantees to be desired by slavery, asking only that it should not be extended 
into the newly settled territories. 

The emancipation of the slaves was not decreed until the measure became 
not only a wise means of securing their powerful assistance in the war, but also 
an irresistible exigence of popular opinion. When, in 1863, propositions of ]ieacc 
were talked of by the ."^outh, Mr. Lincoln did not hesitate to declare his willing- 
ness to submit the validity of the emancipation proclamation tof the decision of 
the Supreme Court, and the approval or disapproval of Congress. It was only 
after so much blood had been shed that it cried to heaven for recompense, 
that he judged the only price of this blood was the irrevocable, complete, and 



634 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

absolute extermination of slavery, and that ground alone be manifested a dis- 
position not to yield. 

The last phase of his public character, and which appeals most lively to our 
sympathy, was his magnanimity, The formidable and groundless insurrection, 
which had threatened to destroy the unity and force of the country, subdued, his 
first and only purpose was to reorganize the conquered ter)itories, returning 
thetn their existence and their own governments, without retaining for a moment 
longer than necessary and just the discretionary power with which the rebellion 
had armed him. He never thought from the first of humbling and punishing, 
or of showing that healthy energy which is always the inevitable source of 
armed reaction. The stupid assassin, more stupid than his murderous bullet, 
without doubt did not think that, amidst the dangerous fermentation of passiona 
which follows a day of victory over brethren, the surest guaranty of restoration 
and liberty to the South was the noble life of Mi*. Lincoln. 

In the vulgar sense of human language, Abraham Lincoln was certainly not 
a great man. He had not the dazzling prestige of victorious achievements in 
war ; he was not a conqueror of peoples and countries ; he never enveloped his 
plans in the gloomy obscurity of mystery, dissimulation ; he never took to 
himself the credit of results which followed from the inscrutable decrees of Provi- 
dence ; his voice had not the enchanting harmony of Demosthenes or ]\Iirabeau, 
or of Clay ; he was free from that satauic pride, which, in others, supplies the 
want of true greatness. But he possessed something greater than all these, 
which all the splendors of earthly glory cannot equal. He was the instrument 
of God. The Divine Spirit, which in another day of regeneration took the form 
of an humble artisan of Galilee, had again clothed itself in the flesh and bones 
of a man of lowly birth and degree. That man was Abraham Lincoln, the 
liberator and savior of the great republic of modern times. That irresistible 
force, called an idea, seized upon an obscure and almost common man, burnt 
him v/itli its hol3' fire, purified him in its crucible, and raised him to the apex 
of human greatness — even to being redeemer of a whole race of men. He 
vrhose boyhood was passed at the plough-handle in the then solitary prairies 
of Illinois ; whose early manhood was dragged out in fatigue at the oar of a 
Mississippi flat-boat, and the only I'epose of whose maturer years was the noisy 
labors of the forum; that man was called to be the arbiter of the fate of his 
country — the great man of state, whose destiny it was to manage the rudder 
during the most frightful storm of this age. In the critical hour of trial and 
danger, all rested on him. Even the lines of his physiognomy, half grave, half 
comic, had been transformed by the agitations of his life. In the language of 
a distinguished journalist of his country, "his kind and powerful face was 
slightly marked by the circular track of his jocose thoughts, and deeply 
ploughed and cross-furrowed, the visible signs of his profound anxieties." 
There is in his last words something of the fire of the old prophets. " Fondly 
do we hope," (he said in his inaugural address of the 4th of March last,) 
" Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war 
may pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by 
the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, 
and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash be paid by another drawn with 
the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, ' the 
judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.' " And that nothing 
should be wanting to complete the true grandeur of his life, the hand of crime 
snatched it from him in the midst of the triumph of his cause, and bound his 
temples, already pale from the vigils and anguish of four years, with the resplen 
dent crown of the martyr. 

The tragic death of Mr. Lincoln has its only semblance of comparison in his- 
tory in that of Henry IV, cut off" in the plentitude of his genius and of his 
vast enterprises by the dagger of a fanatic. The wretch's pretext of tyranni- 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 635 

cide is absurd and ridiculous applied to a man M-bo bad frood four millions of 
slaves and prepared tbe way to freedom Un tbe tbree million, more in tbe 
Spamsb colonies and Brazil, and inaujjurated tbe era of universal emancipation 
of tbe races wlncb like tbe fellabs of Egypt and parias of India, are yl-t tbe 
object of spoliation by more i,owerful races. Tbe regeneration even of Africa 
Itself, of tbat great continent M-bicb is tbe aflPront of tbe century, will be. per- 
haps, one ot tbe consequences of tbe abolition of slavery in Xortb America 
_ If the ejmaucipation of tbe negroes could give the right, not to a fanatic or 
mebnate but to a slaveholder, to avenge himself by murdering tbe liberator, 
what right would not the being enslaved give the slave against tbe master? 

It the assassination of Mr. Lincoln could find an excuse with tbe slavery party 
with what show of justice could any vengeance be lamented which, in the name of 
a whole race invoking tbe recollections of two centuries of oppression, the negroes 
should now take on their ancient spoilers ? What good was to result to a cause 
already fallen in tbe opinions and consciences of men, by the assassination of a 
single man, who was not tbe creator but simply tbe instrument of an idea before 
fixed m tbe brain of all, and master of their wills 1 Abraham Lincoln is dead, 
but his work is finished and sealed forever with the veneration which God has 
given to tbe blood of martyrs. He who was yesterday a man, is to-day an ajiostle ; 
he who was tbe centre at which the shots of malice and hatred were aimed, is 
now consecrated by tbe sacrament of death ; he who was yesterday a power, is 
to-day a prestige, sacred, irresistible. His voice is louder and more potent from 
the mansion of martyrs than from tbe capitol, and the cry Avhich was boldly 
raised among the living is mute before the majesty of the tomb. 

Abraham Lincoln passes to the side of Washington — tbe one tlie father, and 
the other the savior of a great nation. Tbe traditions, pure and stainless, of 
tbe early times of tbe republic, broken at tbe close of tbe admiiii>!tration of the 
second Adams, were restored in the martyr of Ford's theatre; and the predom- 
inance of material interests which has heretofore obscured tbe country of Frank- 
lin, will abdicate the field to the prelacy of moral ideas, of justice, of equality, 
and of reparation.' 

The whip has dropped from the band of tbe overseer; the blood-bound will 
hunt no more the fugitive slave in tbe mangrove swamps of the Mississippi; the 
hammer of the auctioneer of negroes has struck for tbe last time on his platfoi-m, 
and its hateful sound has died into eternal silence, Tbe sacred ties of love 
which unite the hearts of slaves will not again be broken by the forced separa- 
tion of husbands and wives, parents and children. The unnatural and infamous 
consort between tbe words liberty and slavery is dissolved forever; and liberty! 
liberty! will be tbe cry which shall run from tbe Atlantic to tbe Pacific, and 
from tbe northern lakes to tbe Gulf of Mexico. 

This great work has cost a great price. Humanity will have to mourn yet 
for many years to come tbe horrors of that civil war; but above the bli)od of its 
victims, above tbe bones of its dead, above tbe ashes of desolate hearths, will 
arise tbe great figure of Abraham Lincoln, as tbe most acceptable sacrifice offered 
by tbe nineteenth century in expiation of tbe great crime of the sixteenth. Above 
all tbe anguish and tears of tbat immense hecatomb will appear the shade of Lin- 
coln as the symbol of hope and of pardon 



6'36 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEEESPONDENCE. 

[From El Tiempo de Bogota of May 24, 1865. 1 

[Translation.] 

AN AMERICAN CALAMITY! ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLPJ ! 

The most horrible and frightful crime, without example in republican America, 
has just been perpetrated in "Washington; a crime without defence, excuse, or 
extenuation ; a crime coldly premeditated and coldly executed, as a consequence 
of the dark political plottings of the leaders of a ferocious party ; of that party 
which opposes throughout the world every principle of liberty, every aspiration 
of independence, all progress in the life of humanity. The crime committed in 
Washington is not an isolated crime engendered by spirit of the slavery fanatic to 
the point of putting the pistol and dagger in the hands of New Eavaillacs. No; 
the crime committed in Washington, being futile for the return of things to the 
state in v.'hich they were before the proclamation of emancipation, the law abol- 
ishing slavery and the surrender of Richmond, could have- had no other than 
vengeance for its object. But in republics, where the killing of men does not 
kill ideas, the death of Mr. Lincoln could have had no ulterior object connected 
with the war or the re-establishment of slavery in the southern States. These 
were and are still dead questions. The object of removing Mr. Lincoln and Mr. 
Seward from the political scenes of the world was more distant, of greater 
dimensions, and of more transcendent consequences to republican America. We 
may be mistaken in our fears, but we catch a glimmering from the dark councils 
of the despots of every lineage on the other side of the Atlantic, of the extermi- 
nating t'uought which armed the assassins of the night of the 14th of April. 

Lincoln was a man of iron, of firm will, irresistible ; he was the personifi- 
cation of the liberal idea in its genuine acceptation; he was beloved by his 
fellow-citizens, and sustained by the statesmen and generals of the greatest and 
most merited renown in his country ; he was terrible, in fine, but not a terror to 
the conquered coufederi^tes, to whom, in his magnanimity, he had opened his 
arms for reconciliation; but he was a terror to others — to the unwelco'me invaders 
of Mexico, to the enemies of republics, of the world of Columbus. 

There may be temerity in our conjectures, but the idea, the fear, the suspicion, 
are not exclusively ours. Not a single friend who has casually fallen in our 
way that does not harbor them. There is a secret instinct in men which tells 
them from whence come the dangers that threaten them, and rarely are they 
mistaken in listening to it. 

Mr. Seward was, and may continue to be, as he still lives, the second person, 
the second thought of Lincoln — the incarnation with him of the liberal opinion 
and progress of his country ; of that country the most enlightened, the richest, 
the most indomitable, the most powerful of the earth now and henceforward. 
Seward has been able to do much for the republican liberty of the continent, 
and he was a terror also. 

But they are sadly mistaken who think of checking in the United States of 
the north the inevitable course of events long since marked out by opinion, for 
opinion is the true despotic queen of the American Union. It wills and does 
everything in spite of those who govern. There the people command, the peo- 
ple give impulse and make themselves obeyed by their chiefs and leaders. 
****** 

We cannot but feel deeply pained and an indefinable indignation at the sor- 
rowful event. Sympathizing for four years past with Mr. Lincoln and his Sec- 
retary, admiring their ability and patriotism, we are overwhelmed with grief at 
the immense loss, which is a loss so great to the cause of America. Our brothers 
of the north receive our deepest and most sincere condolence. 

If Lincoln and Seward have died, their glory, their splendid glory, survives 
them ; and that glory is and will be the glory of a gigantic people. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. G37 

[From El Ticmpo do Bogota, June 21, LSG5.] 

[Trausliition.] 

OFFICIAL MOURNING. 

To-day has been set apart for the purpose of honoring officially in this city 
the memory of the deceased President of the United States of Amel-iea. Incited 
by the honomble Allan A. Burton, the government of Colombia, that of 
the btate ot Ouudinamarca, the diplomatic ministers, and the members of the 
consular body residmg in the capital of the republic, have raised iheir fla..-s at 
half-mast, as a manifestation of their respect and admiration for the illustrious 
dead, and the sincere affliction caused by his premature death. 

It appears that some other spontaneous manifestations of sympathy in honor 
of the great deceased statesman have been prepared ; but be these what they may, 
the honorable Mr. Allan A. Burton must be convinced already that tlie di'i.lorable 
loss of Mr. Lincoln has profoundly wounded the Colombia people, who have 
long looked to him as the bulwark of the world of Columbus and of the glories 
of democratic America. 

(The two foregoing articles from "El Tiem])o" are written by the honorable 
Mr. Lleras, ex-secretary of foreign relations and late chief justice of the republic.) 



[Translation.] 

UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA — SOVEREIGN STATE OF HOMVAR — PRESIDEXCVOF 
THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT. 

Bananuuilla, June 26, 18G5. 
Sir: The municipal council, at its session of the 17th instant, adopted the 
printed resolution duly authenticated by its secretary, which I have the honor to 
send you upon that unhappy event, the death of the citizen Abraham Lincoln, 
President of the United States of America. 

In fulfilling this most honorable duty my heart is overwhelmed by the greatest 
and most glowing pain, which can only be felt by true republicans at the sad end 
of that great man. 

I am, your most obsequient servant, 

MANUEL MOLTNARES. 
The ViCE-CoNSUL of the United States oj America. 



RESOLUTION. 



The municipal council of B.uriinquilla, fiithful interpreter of the people it 
represents, declares that Abraham Lincoln has merited the sympathies of society 
for his eminent services lent to humanity, by returning to the condition of free- 
men four millions of beings held by shamcfid avarice in the catalogue of beast^ 
condemned to labor night and day to uphold in idleness and luxury their 
oppressors. . , 

That it disapproves and condemns the horrifying crnnc comnutted, on the 
14th of Ai)ril of this year, on the person of the enlightened citiz-n Abraham 
Lincoln, by the treacherous hand of the partisans of the traffic m human licsh. 



638 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

That tlie deatli of Mr. Liucoln* is touching and painful to the people of 
Bananquilla, and the council performs a duty in inscribing this resolution on its 
records as a testimonial to his memory. 

Let this be communicated to whom it may concern. 

MANUEL MOLINARES, Presideni. 

RAFAEL P. FONUEYRA, Vice-President. 

D. MALABET. 

JUAN DE D. ROCHA. 

JUAN SANTRICH, 

JOSE G. NUBIO. 

MANUEL PREN\ 

J. M. DE LA PENA, Secretary. 



[Translation.] 



Resolution of the r/iimicipal council of the district of Corozal to the memory 
of the ilJustrions citizen Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of 
America. 

Corozal, June 6, 1865. 
The liberty of the world Jias lost its most fervent defender, civilization its 
most gallant representative, humanity its most generous protector, the American 
nation a type of civil valor and heroic self-denial which ought to characterize 
the first magistrate of a republic, the principle of constitutionality its most enthu- 
siastic sustainer, and the sympathetic and progressive republic of the United 
States of America its enlightened son, twice called to guide it — the citizen 
Abraham Liucoln, who died on the 14th of April last, at the hands of m.cn who 
prefer vileness and degradation to human liberty and independence. 

A crime of such magnitude is to be justly execrated by this generation and 
consigned to posterity as an act without parallel, and the most atrocious in the 
annals of nations. 

The municipal council of the district of Corozal participates iu the grief 
which has befallen the North American nation in the solemn moments when 
that extraordinary man was waving the flag of his country in triumph ; and 
tender the expression of their grief at so unhappy an event to the consul of the 
United States of America in the capital of the state of Bolivar, through the 
deputy to the state convention for this province, citizen Juan Manuel Grau. 

Let a copy of this resolution be sent to the secretary general of state, for the 
information of the executive power, and two copies to citizen Grau, that one 
may be presented to the American consul. 

PEDRO J. DE VIVERO DE LA TORRE, 

Ptcs X dc'Ti t 
AUGUSTIN MOGOLLON, 

Vice-President. 
JOSE ANDRES SIENA, 
J. DE LA N. TORRES, 

Councilmen. 



*My hand refuses to translate the word '"lenador," as it was intended. It is here used 
with perfect respect, as it is in the resolution of the constituent assembly of Bolivar, where 
I translate it "woodsman," at the expense of fidelity. What a change in its signification 
from 1800 to 1805! 

ALLAN A. BURTON. 



SENTBIENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. G39 

[Translation.] 

UMTBU STATES OF COLO.MBIA-SOVEREIGN STATE OF BOLIVAR-Thk PRESI- 

DENTE OF THE STATE. 

^'^'^ Cartiiagema, Mai/ 12, 1865. 

rl.^/ nf J^'t?"-!'^TV?^^ ''^"i""^ '^'""^^ «f the Citizen Abraham Lincoln. Presi- 
dent of the United States of America, wa.s an event so nnhappy that it coukl 
not otherwise than have produced a deep sensation in the minds of the ,,oople 
of this capital justly and truly expressed in the resolution of the constituent 
assembly, which the undersigned has the honor to send to your excellency, duly 
authenticated by the secretary general of the state. J J 

In performing the very honorable duty of serving aa the organ for communi- 
cating this resolution to your excellency, the undersigned obeys one of ihe sin- 
cere inspirations of his heart by expressing his particular grief at that sad event 
whose immense magnitude, arising from the very high importance of the magis- 
trate and citizen, he prays heaven may in no wise affect the llattcriu"- future of 
the great republic. " 

With sentiments of the most distinguished consideration the undersigned has 
the honor to subscribe himself his excellency's attentive and obedient servant 

,,. ^ „ A. GONZALEZ CAKAZO, President. 

ills Lscellency Allan A. Burtox, ^r., t^r., cVc. 



Resolution of the convention of the .sovereign state of Bolivar to the memory 
of the excellent and illustrious citizen Abraham Lincoln, twice President of 
the United States of America. 

The convention of the sovereign state of Bolivar recalls with profound feel- 
ings of gratitude and respect the great and eminent services renderod to the 
cause' of liberty and independence to the human race, and particularly to the 
descendants of Ham, the populator and civilizer of Africa, by the enlightened 
and illustrious citizen Abraham Lincoln, who was twice elected President of the 
United States of America. 

The convention laments, with tokens of public mourning, the sad event of the 
14th of April last, when the honest and upright \voodsman was assassinated — a 
man who by industry and the study of law reached the high position of Presi- 
dent and savior of the American Union, by the votes of his fellow-citizens — 
and requests the towns, as well as the inhabitants of the state, to organize 
funeral ceremonies in commemoration of the unfortunate event. 

Let this be communicated to the executive power that he may make it known 
to the town authorities of the state, to the consul of the United States of Amer- 
ica in this city, and to the minister of that nation in Bogota. 

Garth agena, May 10, 1865. 

Moved in the convention by the following members, from the provinces of 
Magangue, Mompos, Lorica, Garmen, Sincelejo, Sabanalarga,BaranquiIla, Ghinu, 
Cartajena, and Gorozal : 

C. Benedeti, R. Santodomingo Vila, J. D. Carmen Bula, Francisco de P. 
Ribon, Juan X. Ballesteros, Fernando Sanches, Ramon Torres Anjtl, Manuel 
C. Bello, Manuel Espinosa, Facnndo Madrid, Pablo Hernandez, Mamul X. 
Nunez, jr., Pedro A. Polo, Avelino ]\Ianotas, Jose ]\Iartin Blanco, .1. Anjel 
Benavides Z., A. Samper Llanos, ^L Antonio Pineda, Ignacio Navas, M. M. de 
Bustos; Celso dc la Pucnte, F. G. Carazo, Juan Manuel Grau. 



640 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

The above resolution was unanimously approved by the members present at 
tlie session of to day. 

MANUEL URUETA, 
Secretary of the Convention. 
A true copy : 

M. AMADOR FIERRO, 
Secretary General of State. 



[Translation.] 



UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA — PRESIDENCY OF THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF 

PANAMA, NO. 4. 

Sir : Your note of yesterday, imparting to me the official information of the 
death of his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of 
America, Avould have produced the most heartfelt and painful feelings of sur- 
prise, if I had not already became aware through the press, by private letters, 
and by the loud and public expressions of sympathy in this city, of this most 
lamentable occurrence. 

I was sir, one of the first to receive the sad nev,'S, and without loss of time, 
1 directed the flag of Colombia to be unfurled at half-mast for the period of one 
week, to demonstrate the lively sympathy with which will be received the news 
of this event throughout the territory under my jurisdiction, as well as the rest 
of this republic. 

The untimely and cruel death of Abraham Lincoln by the assassin's hand is 
a great calamity, fallen not alone on the eminent nation of whom he was the 
chief, but also upon humanity at large, who must and will yield their tribute of 
admiration to the eminent virtue which adorned the illustrious man. I consider 
myself greatly honored in uniting my voice with those of his compatriots, wlxo 
so sincerely deplore their great and irreparable loss. 

To-morrow at noon I shall, in union with the principal officers of the State, 
comply with the sad duty of paying you a visit of condoleuient at the lament- 
able event. 

In the mean time permit me once more the honor of subscribing myself your 
obedient servant, 

JIL COLUNJE. 

The Consul of the United States of America. 



Consul : The virtues of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States 
of America, were so prominent, that the news of his tragic death could not 
have been received otherwise than with feelings of sincere sorrow. 

His constancy and firmness in bringing to a happy end one of the greatest 
of rebellions of the civilized world, made his life precious and inestimable to the 
American nation, which deserves the sympathy of all for this unfortunate event. 

The government and people of Peril will lament this deplorable event, and 
I am sure will be filled with the same lively sympathy which I now have the 
honor to express to you, in replying to those words of kindness with which you 
have honored me in your olScial communication of yesterday. 

Allow me to offer the affectionate considerations with which I have the honor 
to be, your luimble and obedient servant, 

MANUEL GENERO CARILLO, 

Peruvian Consul. 

A. R. McKee, Esq., 

United States Consul. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. G41 

British Consulate, 

Panama, May 3, 1S65. 
My Dear Colleague: It was with the deepest sorrow that I learned the 
death of his Excelleucy Abraham Liiicohi, President of the United Statee, by 
the hand of an assassin, as communicated to me in your note of yesterday, and 
I take the liberty of expressing to you my respectful sympathy with the family 
and friends of the late President, and with the government and peojile of the 
United States in their bereavement, a sympathy which will be universally felt 
all over the world. 

I have the honor to be, my dear colleague, yours, faithfully, 

C. A. HENDERSON. 
Colonel Alexander R. McKee, 

United States Consul, Panama. 



41 A 



642 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC jCORRESPOM)ENCE. 



URUGUAY 



[Translation.] 

Ministry of Foreign Relation.*, 

Montevideo, June 5, 1865. 
Sir ViCE-CoNSUL : The undersigned, minister of foreign relations, has the honor 
to inform you that he has received special instructions from the superior pro- 
visional government to manifest its profound sentiments, and the part they have 
taken in the just mourning produced by the deplorable loss of the unfortunate 
President Lincoln, whose precious existence has been cut short by the dagger of 
the homicide. 

In proof whereof, the undersigned accompanies legalized copy of the decree 
issued by the superior government, that you may transmit the same to the United 
States. 

God guard you many years. 

C. DE CASTEO. 
Charlks Parsons, 

Vice- Consul of the United States. 



[Translation.] 



Department of Foreign Relations, 

Montevideo, June 3, 1865. 

decree. 

Whereas a most horri:! crime has been perpetrated upon the person of the 
v/orthy Chief Magistrate of the United States, a sister republic, to the sorrow of 
its inhabitants and regret of all civilized nations of the world, and the provisional 
government wishing to make a public demonstration of its sentiments, resolves 
and decrees : 

Article 1. At sunrise, on the 5th of this month, the national flag and the 
United States flag shall be hoisted at half-mast on the fortress of San Jose, to 
remain till sunset, and cannons shall be fired every half hour during the day. 

Art. 2. Tlie national flag shall be hoisted at half-mast from sunrise to sunset 
on all the public departments of the capital. 

Art. 3. The ministers of state are charged with the execution of this decree 
in their respective departments. 

Ar'I. 4. Let this be communicated, published, &c. 

FLORES. 

FRANCISCO A. VIDAL. 
JUAX RAMON GOMEZ. 
CARLOS DE CASTRO. 
LORENZO BATTLE. 

A true copy j 

ALBERTO FLANGINI, 

Chief Official of Foreign Relations. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. G43 

At a meeting of the citizens of the United States resident in the city of Mon- 
tevideo, held at the residence of Dr. Peter Bourse, No. 200 Calle 2-5 de :\rayo, 
on the 7th instant, for the purpose of manifesting their profound grief at the 
receipt of the sad noAvs of the death of tlie ilhistrious President of the United 
States of America by the hand of an assassin, and of testifying their gratitude 
to the government of this republic for its demonstrations of sympathy towards 
the American nation, after some discussion regarding the objects of the meeting, 
Dr. Peter Bourse having been called to the chair, and Mr. B. Whitman appointed 
secretary of the meeting, the following resolutions were adopted : 

Whereas we, the American citizens resident in Montevideo, have received the 
melancholy intelligence which places beyond doubt the sad fact of the assassi- 
nation of Abraham Lincoln, President of our country : Therefore — 

Resolved 1. That, as loyal citizens of the United States of America, w^e sin- 
cerely lament and deplore the untimely death of our late President, Abraham 
Lincoln, whose memory we revere as one of the noblest patriots of the age. 

Resolved 2. That we tender to the bereaved family of our beloved President 
the expressions of our profound grief and unlimited sympathy. 

Resolved 3. That we tender our heartfldt thanks to the provisional govern- 
ment of the Oriental republic for its sympathy Avith us in our cause and in our 
bereavement, as expresst^d in the public ofKcial demonstrations of grief, liy causing 
the national and American flags to be hoisted at half-mast on tlie public offices 
<h\ the 5th instant, and half-hour guns to be fired from sunrise to sunset during 
the day. 

Resolved 4. That oiir gratitude is also due to the public press of this city, 
which, without exception, expressed its sorrow and indignation at the fiendish 
deed which deprived us of our Chief Magistrate, and also placed its columns in 
mourning- as a token of respect to the illustrious dead. 

Resolved 5. That Ave thank Almighty God for preserving to us the life of 
William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and at the same time Ave extend to that 
eminent statesman our sympathy and our best wishes for his speedy recovery. 

Resolved, 6. That to our fellow-citizens in the United States Ave renew our 
pledge of continued and unftiltering fidelity to the Union and to the federal gov- 
ernment as constitutionally organized at Washington. 

Resolved 7. That three copies of these resolutions be presented to the consul 
of the United States in this city, Avith a request that one copy be forwarded to 
the bereaved family, one to the Department of State at Washington, and one 
to the provisional government of the Oriental republic. 

Resolved 8. That these resolutions be pul)Iished in the daily papers of this 
city, in the Standard of Buenos Ayres, and be also forwarded to the United 
States for publication. 

PETER BOUPvSE, C//afrman. 
B. WUITMAN, Secretary. 
Montevideo, June 9, 1865. 



644 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 



YEXEZUELA. 



[Translation.] 



I'.MTED STATES OF VENEZUELA — DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS — CEN- 
TRAL BUREAU, NO. 106. 

Caracas, 2d year of the Law and Itk of the Covfedcration, 

June 2, 1865. 

Citizen Minister: I have read to the citizen the first designated in the 
exercit^e of the presidency of the republic a note which the legation of the 
United States of America addressed to this Department on the Slst of May, 
and in which it commnuicates already, and upon official information, the assassi- 
nation of the President of that nation, the wounds inflicted upon the Secretary 
and his Assistant, and the entrance of the Vice-President upon the functions of 
the executive power. 

On replying to you, and according to the orders which I have received, I 
must bear in mind that your legation, understanding perfectly the spirit of its* 
instructions, and intt;rpreting with fidelity the sentiments and principles of the 
government of the republic, anticipated of its own motion at the earliest oppor- 
tunity the taking of a part in the mourning produced by the immense misfor- 
tune; and upon the arrival here of this information, the governmenl commissioned 
me to make a visit, in its name, to Mr. Culver, at which I should make known 
the grief and horror with which it had learned the very afflicting event. 

Kow the citizen President ad interim has ordered the sympathies of the people 
and government of Venezuela to be reiterated to the United States of America 
for the loss it has just experienced. Those crimes, atrocious in all their cir- 
cumstances, and which demonstrate on the part of their authors the extremity 
of wickedness, unavailing to the object which they propose to themselves, if 
any, always condemned by vmiversal opinion, even when they may seem par- 
donable by causes of great magnitude, acquire extraordinary proportions on 
this occasion, in which a virtuous man, tenacious of the fulfilment of his duty, 
and who triumphantly sustained the cause of the Union and the extirpation 
of slavery in the great democracy of the New World, fell by the hands of 
an infamous perfidy. Formed by himself in the practical school of life, and 
amidst the severities of fate, his deserts were the result of his own effort, and 
through them he twice reached the presidency of the American federation. The 
integrity, the moderation, the energy with which he discharged that office in the 
most calamitous times of his country, contending with obstacles of every kind, 
which his sagacity foresaw and his ability overcame, will ever do honor to his 
political qualities and to the country which produces stich men ; and his opinions, 
permanently inimical to slavery, which in the end he succeeded in seeing sup- 
pressed by a constitutional amendment now very nearly consummated, place 
him among the benefactoi'S of his fellow-creatures. All these talents, if, on the 
one hand, they assign to him an eminent position in the estimation of liis con- 
temporaries and of posterity, on the other hand, but redouble the grief for his 
death, and of the attempt which, adding to the injuries of nature those of 
human wickedness, increased the dangers of the wise statesman who, in so high 
a degree, was the sharer of his toils and measures, and which were extended 
even to his Assistant Secretary. 

The government of the United States of Venezuela which, scarcely installed, 
ommistioaed a minister to Washington to represent the sympathies of this fed- 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 645 

eration to that of the North, during the cruel trials througli which it was passing, 
by using his efforts to cultivarc tlie friendship, and multiplying the rtdations of 
both countries, proves itself faitlifiil to it?" antecedents, if it to-day equally par- 
ticipates in the grief of that nation for the loss of its President, snatched from 
life when about to reach the end of his hopes and toils, and condemns an of- 
fence which the unanimous opinion of the present generation will transmit to 
the future ones under the appellation of execrable. 

Furthermore, Venezuela feels assured that the United States, whose robust 
vitality events so grave and unexpected have not been able to curtail in the 
least degree, will thus continue in their career of greatness and glory, under the 
enlightened guidance of him who, through the confidence of his felfow-citizens, 
M^as named to take the place of the President in certain cases. U'he govern- 
ment of Venezuela, while it conveys to him these wishes, will at the same time 
consider it a very agreeable duty to maintain the good understanding which ex- 
isted during the administration of his predecessor. 

You will be pleased to communicate to the honorable Secretary of State the 
present note, which, as you see, approved of the one which your legation ad- 
dressed to him voluntarily on the same subject. 

Gud and the federation! 

RAFAEL SEIJ.AS. 

A true copy • 

F. RIB AS, Secretary. 



f Translation.] 

Xo. ISi.j Caracas, 2cl year of the Late and 1th of Federation, 

July 20, 18G5. 

The undersigned, minister of the department of foreign affairs of the United 
States of Venezuela, replies to the note of the 17th instant, in which the hon- 
orable minister resident is pleased to communicate to the government of Vene- 
zuela the fact that his Excellency William H. Seward, had so far recovered from 
his wounds as to have resumed the discharge of his duties at the head of the 
Department of State. 

This most welcome intelligence has gratified extremely the citizen President 
of the republic, and for the same he congratulates also the people and govern- 
ment of the United States, not less than its representative in Caracas. 

The far-seeing statesman who has contributed so largely to obviate the effects 
of the insurrection which at one time threatened to destroy the United States, 
and completely subdue that rebellion, is doubtless one of the men best fitted for 
carrying to perfection the plan which the late unfortunate PresWent conceived 
with such matchless good sense, and which embraced not only the measures of 
overcoming the partisans of separation, but also the means of assuring thf peace 
and prosperity of the Union, to which the marvellous advance of the country is 
due, and whereby that country, fully recovered from the great evils of the Avar, 
will return to occupy in the world the elevated position to which she is entitled. 

It is gratifying, moreover, to perceive that the hopes of lU'W calamities which 
the assassination was to fasten on the country have all been frustrated, while the 
preservation of the associate of Mr. Lincoln, and his return to the Department 
of State, must now become the sting and punishment of those wha attempted 
his life. 

Such, in brief, are the sentiments of the government, and such those of tlie 
undersigned, and, in communicating them to Mr. Culver he begs to renew to 
him the protests of assurance of distinguished consideration. 

^ RAFAEL S IE J AS. 

Mr. E. D. Cl'LVER, .\r., 4r., c^c. 



646 APPEXDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

Legation of the Umted States of Venezuela, 
New York, 35 West 33fZ street, 2d year of the Constitution 

and 1th of Indej^en deuce, April 16, ISGo. 

Sir : I was lulled by the most flattering hopes for the termination of the 
civil war that threatened to sever this great republic, when the echo of the peo- 
ple's lamentation brought to my ears the sad news of the most horrid crime that 
perverse humanity ever committed upon earth. 

The assassination of the Pi-esident of the United States and of his Prime Sec- 
retary, at a time when the cabinet was applying the balm of generosity and 
clemency to the wounds that perverted reason had inflicted upon the bosom of 
the country, is a crime unheard of and unexampled in the history of the world. 

The grief which that crime has caused my heart is as intense as the affliction 
of the American people for the loss of their second benefactor, the eminent magis- 
trate who has guided the ship of state through the most critical storm of its national 
existence, with so much jjatriotism, iatelligence, and abnegation. 

And the sorrow of the government and people I represent will be equally as 
great when they receive the news of the horrid event that has just cast the 
gloom of mourning over the nation to which I have tlie honor to be accredited. 

Please receive for yourself, and communicate to his Excellency the President, 
Mr. Andrew Johnson, my most sincere condolence for the death of that excel- 
lent man, Abraham Lincoln, whose great virtues have enshrined him in the liearts 
of his countrymen by the side of the father of his country. 

With sentiments of the most high consideration, I have the honor to remain 
you attentive and most obedient servant, 

B. BRUZUAL. 

Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



[Translation.] 



LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF VENEZUELA, 

Neiv York, 35 west Thirty-third street, April 17, 1865, 
Second year of the Constitution and seventh of Federation. 
Sir : I have just received your note of the 15th instant, informing me of the 
great misfortune that has put an end to the important existence of that most ex- 
cellent man, Abraham Lincoln, and brought the Hon. William H. Seward, Sec- 
retary of State, and j\[r. Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, to a bed of 
pain and suftering. A note of condolence, on account of this horrid and lament- 
able event, was sent to you yesterday by me. 

You also inform me that the Hon. Andrew Johnson has entered upon the du- 
ties of the presidency, ond has appointed you Secretary of State pro tempore. 
I am sure that judgment, reason and benignity will form the torch to illuminate 
the administration of the new President and guide him in the terrible crisis 
through which the republic must pass. 

1 embra£e the occasion to repeat to you the sentiments of consideration with 
which I have the honor to be your humble servant. 

B. BRUZUAL. 
Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. fi47 

3Ir. Culver to Mr. Seward. 

No. 113. J Legation of the United States, 

Caracas, May 8, 1865. 

Sir : It was but yesterday that tlie mnnrnful intellio^ence rcaclicfl Venezuela* 
of the death of the President of the United States, and of the critical condition 
of yonrself and son, by reason of violence at the hands of an assassin. The en- 
tire community was shocked at the intelliy-ence, while the grief at the death ot 
the President is profound, and the solicitude for yourself is universal. The 
Acting President here, General Guzman, and his minister of foreign affairs, 
Mr. Seijas, have been pleased to express themselves in terms of tenderest sym- 
pathy for the people of the United States in this their hour of affliction. 

Our news only reaches to the morning of the 15th of April. Of course we 
c in know nothing of the effect produced by, or the agencies that contributed to, 
this terrible calamity. As I have received no official notice of the event, I have 
not thought proper to bring it officially to the notice of this government. I 
shall await with painful and mournful anxiety the receipt of despatches of a date 
subsequent to the sad event. My own feelings are too much saddened and 
overwhelmed to add more. 

I beg the department will accept the assurances of my d-M-pes' sympathy for 
its distinguished head in the afflictions visited upon him and upon the nation. 
I have the honor to be vour obedient servant, 

E. D. CULVER. 

Hon. AViLLiA.M II. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



No. 116.] Mr. Culver to Mr. Hunter. 

[Extract.] 

Legation of the United States, 

Caracas, June 3, 18G5. 

Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches Nos 
104 and 105, together with copies of the proclamations enclosed in the latter. 

I have lost no time in communicating officially to the government of Vene- 
zuela the melancholy intelligence conveyed in your No. 104, and I have no 
doubt I shall, at the proper time, receive the appropriate reply. 

Deep sorrow pervades the hearts of all loyal Americans residmg here, and 
sincere sympathy seems everywhere to be expressed in Venezuela for the people 
of the United States. 

Suitable demonstrations of momming have been made at the diiierent consu- 
lates and at the legation. , . n o • 

Since commencing this despatch I am gratified to say the minister of foreign 
affairs has called upon me to say that he came, by special order of his govern- 
ment, to express to me verbally, what he is preparing to do in writmg, the 
deep sorrow and sympathy felt by the President and people of Venezuela for 
the people of the United States, by reason of the death of their President. 
^% * * * * * * * 

I have the honor to be, with sentiments of highest respect, your obedient 

^®''^'''''*' E. D. CULVER. 

Hon. W. Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



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WUPiTEMBERG. 



Mr. Von Bierwirth to Mr. Seward. 

Co\suLATE General of Wurtemberg, 

New York, June 2, 1865. 
Sir : I have the honor respectfully to submit to you a copy of a letter received 
this day from his excellency Baron de Varnbuler, minister of foreign affairs of 
his Majesty the King of Wlirtemberg, and I avail myself of this opportunity to 
assure you, sir, that nobody can feel greater satisfaction than the undersigned 
at your recovery from the assassin's blow. The feeling of horror excited by 
the assault upon your life was as general and as strong as the consternation at 
the atrocious murder of the good President, and as general and sincere are the 
wishes for your restoration to perfect health. 

I have the honor to be, with the greatest respect, sir, your obedient servant, 

LEOPOLD BIERWIRTH, 
Consul General of Wurtemberg. 
Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State, Sfc, Sfc,, Sfc. Washington, D. C. 



[Translation.] 

Stuttgart, May 9, 1865. 
Sir : I thank you for your despatches of the 15th and 20th ultimo, in rela- 
tion to the assassination of the President of the United States, Mr. Abraham 
Lincoln. This deplorable event has called forth from the people of W^iirtem- 
berg, as it has done elsewhere, the greatest consternation and sincerest sympathy, 
and his Majesty the King, himself most painfully affected by the atrocious deed, 
has, immediately after the receipt of the news thereof, graciously conimissioned 
me to express, for himself and in the name of his government, to the pi-esent 
representative of the United States, Consul Klauprecht, their sincere condolence 
in the great loss which, in this death, the United States and the entire civilized 
world have sustained, a commission which I have lost no time to execute. 

Requesting you to make the proper use of this communication, I avail my- 
self, &c., 

VARNBULER, 
Minister of Foreign Affairs. 
Leopold Bierwirth, 

Consul General of Wurtemherg. 



[Translation. J 

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. 

[Extract from the records of the session of April 29, 1865.] 

Address of the president to the Chamber of Deputies. 

Gentlemen : The report of the assassination of the President of the Xorth 
American republic, Abraham Lincoln, is now confirmed. Trusting that the 
whole Chamber stand united in their judgment on this political murder, and that 
I meet the sentiment of all of you, I request you to rise from your seats in proof 
of your sympathy with this disaster that befell not alone America, but which con- 
cerns the whole civilized world. 

The member rise from their seats. 



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UiMTED STATES OF AMERICA 



In Senate of the United States, 

December 18, 1865. 

Whereas the melancholy event of the violent and tragic death of Abraham 
Lincoln, late President of the United States, having occurred during the recess 
of Congress, and the two houses sharing in the general grief, and desiring to 
manifest their sensibility upon the occasion of the public bereavement : Tnere- 
fore. 

Be it resoh-cd hjj the Senate, (the Ilouse of Representatives concurring.) 
That the two houses of Congress will assemble in the hall of the House of 
Representatives on Monday, the 12th day of February next, that being his an- 
niversary birth-day, at the hour of 12 meridian; and that in the presence of 
the two houses then assembled an address upon the life and character of Abra- 
ham Lincoln, late Piesident of the United States, be pronounced by the hon- 
orable Edwin M. Stanton, and that the President of the Senate pro tempore 
and the Speaker of the House of Representatives be requested to invite the 
President of the United States, the heads of the several departments, the judges 
of the Supreme Court, the representatives of foreign governments near this 
government, and such officers of the army and navy as have received the thanks 
of Congress, who may then be at the seat of government, to be present on the 
occasion. 

And be it further resolved, That the President of the United States be re- 
quested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to Mrs. Lincoln, and to assure 
her of the profound sympathy of the two houses of Congress for her deep per- 
sonal affliction, and of their sincere condolence for the late national bereavement. 

Attest : 

J. W. FORNEY, Secretary. 



In the House of Representatives United States, 

December 18, 1865. 

Resolved, That the House concur in the foregoing resolution that the two 
houses of Congress will assemble in the hall of Representatives on Monday, 
the 12th day of February next, being the anniversary of the birth-day of the 
late President, to hear an address upon his life and character, and participate 
in such other cummemorative exercises as may be proper on that occasion, 
recited in said resolution. 

Attest : EDW'D McPHERSON, Clerk. 



Official arrangements at Washington for the funeral solemnities of the late 
Abraham Lincoln, President of the U?iited States, who died at the seat of 
governtnent on Saturday, the lf)th day of Ajfril, 1865. 

War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 

Washington, April 17, 1865 

The following order of arrangement is directed : 

ORDER OF THE PROCESSION. 

FUNERAL ESCORT — in column of march. 

One Regiment of Cavalry. 
Two Batteries of Artillery. 



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APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



Battalion of IMarines. 

Two regiments of Infantry. 

Commander of Escort and StaflF. 

Dismounted officers of Marine Corps, Navy and Army, in tlie order named. 

Mounted Officers of Marine Coi-ps, Navy and Army, in the order named. 

All military officers to be in uniform, with side-arms. 

CIVIC PROCESSION. 

Marshal. 

Clergy in attendance. 

The Surgeon General of the United States army and physicians to the deceased. 



Pall bearers. 



On the part of the Se?iate. 

Mr. Foster, of Connecticut. 
Mr. Morgan, of New York. 
Mr. Johnson, of Maryland. 
Mr. Yates, of Illinois. 
Mr. Wade, of Ohio. 
Mr. Conness, of California.' 

Lieutenant General U. S. Grant. 
Major General H. W. Halleck. 
Brevet Brigadier General W. A. Nichols. 




Pall-bearers. 



On the part of the House. 

Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts. 
Mr. Coflfroth, of Pennsylvania. 
Mr. Smith, of Kentucky. 
Mr. Colfax, of Indiana. 
Mr. Worthingtou, of Nevada. 
Mr, Washburne, of Illinois. 

Navy. 

Vice- Admiral D. G. Farmgnt. 
Rear-Admiral W. B. Shubrick. 
Colonel Jacob Zeilin, Marine Corps. 



Civilians. 



O. H. Browning. 
George Ashmuu. 



Thomas Corwin. 
Simon Cameron. 



Family. 

Relatives. 
The delegations of the States of Illinois and Kentucky, as mourners. 

The President. 

The Cabinet Ministers. 

The Diplomatic Corps. 

Ex-Pre.=idents. 

The Chief Justice, 

And Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. 

The Senate of the United States, 

Preceded by their officers. 

Members of the House of Representatives of the United States. 

Governors of the several States and Territories. 

Legislatures of the several States and Territories. 

The Federal Judiciary, 

And the Judiciary of the several States and Territories. 

The Assistant Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy, Interior, and the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 651 

Agsistant Postmasters CTcncral, and the 

Assistant Attorney General. 
Officers of the Smithsonian Institntion. 
The members and officers of tlie Sanitary and Christian Commissions. 
Corporate authorities of Wasliinj^ton, Georgetown, and other cities. 
Deh'gations of the several States. 
The Reverend the Clergy of the various denominations. 
The clerks and employes uf the several departments and bureaus, preceded by 
The Heads of such bureaus and their respective chief clerks. 
Such societies as may wish to join the procession. 
Citizens and strangers. 
The troops designated to form the escort will assemble in the avenue, north 
of the President's house, and form line precisely at 1 1 o'clock a. m., on 
Wednesday, the 19th instant, with the left resting on Fifteenth street. The 
procession will move precisely at 2 o'clock p. m., on the conclusion of the religious 
services at the Executive Mansion, (appointed to commence at 12 o'clock meridi- 
an,) when minute guns will be tired by detachments of artillery, stationed near 
St. John's church, the City Hall, and at the Capitol. At the same hour the 
bells of the several churches in Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria will 
be tolled. 

At sunrise on Wednesday, the 19th instant, a federal salute will be tired 
from the military stations in the vicinity of Washington, minute-guns between 
the hours of tAvelve and three o'clock, and a national salute at the setting of 
the sun. 

The usual badge of mourning will be woru on the left arm and on the hilt of 
the sword. 

By order of the Secretary of War : 

W.A.NICHOLS, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 



HEADCiUARTERS AlBAXV ZoUAVE CaDETS, 

A Company, IQth Regiment N. G. S. X. Y., 

AIha7iij, N. Y., April 18, 1865. 

At a special meeting of this organization, held tliis evening, the following 
expression of its sentiments was unanimously adopted: 

A strong column in the nation's defence is fallen ! Liberty mourns a cham- 
pion—humanity a friend. The great head of the republic has passed away ; 
and as citizens and soldiers we desire to publicly record our sorrow aiul give 
expression to the admiration we cherish for the spotless purity of the character 
of the departed, the singular originality of his mind, the firmness of his resolu- 
tion, the courage of his temper, and the success which has crowned his efibrta 
to preserve unimpaired the integrity of our federal Union. We solemnly renew 
our allegiance to the sacred cause lor which he died, and pledge ourselves to 
cherish in grateful remembrance the virtues he illustrated and the principles of 
government he held so dear. 

"Nothiuc^ can cover liis liijjh fame but heaven; 
No pyraniii-l set ofV liis iiiciiiory 
But the eternal substance of his greatness." 

In his life, without a stain or blemish to disfigure his private fame, he was 
crowned with glory in his public career ; through every casualty and round of 
action he stood a model and exemplar to the human race. In the disinterest- 
edness of his acts, the nobleness of his designs, and purity of his motives, he 
stands without a rival or an equal — ornatus Dei. The unrivalled accunicy of his 
judgment is demonstrated in the extraordinary success of his eventful career. 



652 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPOXDENCE. 

Knowing the power of truth, he renewed his strength day by day with the con- 
sciousness of being right. Without a doubt of the issue — placing entire confi- 
dence in the strong arm which had upheld thi- nation through a succession of 
dangers and disasters, aided by the prayers and support of millions scattered all 
over the world — he pushed on unerringly in his great pnrpose, and was enabled 
to see the dawn of universal victory and peace. Alas 1 that the bright dream 
of reconciliation and restored brotherhood should be disturbed and the puge of 
history contain the recital of the " taking oil'" of a character so beneficent, so firm, 
and so mild, so enthusiastic and yet so rational. " Wherever among men a 
heart shall be found that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty, its 
aspiration shall be to claim kindred with thy spirit." 

To his family and friends, upon whom this affliction falls so heavily, we 
would give assurance of our heartfelt sympath}', with the hope that the Divine 
Comforter may pour His healing balm into their hearts. 

The usual badge of mourning is assumed for the period of sixty days. 

L. U. LENNOX, 

Captain. 
D. S. BENTON, 
H. M. WATSON, 

First and Second Lieutenants. 
ALEX. McROBERTS, 

Orderly Sergeant. 
WILLIAM A. HAMILTON, 
WILLIAM H. BURHANS, 
CHARLES C. NICHOLS, 
JOHN H. HASWELL, 

Sergeants. 



To the honor able William H. Seward, Secretary of State, United States 

of America. 

At a meeting of the board of directors of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation of the city of Albany, State of New York, the following expression was 
adopted with reference to the recent national calamity : 

I. God has laid his hand on us, as a nation, sorely, in removing by a sudden 
and terrible death our beloved Chief Magistrate, Abraham Lincoln. We bow 
beneath the stroke with resignation, yet with deep sorrow. W^e supplicate His 
grace to sanctify the mysterious dispensation to our people, that we may be 
enabled to look unto Him in the hour of darkness, and confide the interests of 
this great nation to His paternal care. 

TI. The hand of the assassin has songht also to lay low the President's chief 
adviser, William H. Seward, the honored son of our own State. We see in 
these crimes the legitimate fruit of that treason whose seed was planted in se- 
cession, and whose growth it has cost the nation four years of bitter struggle to 
uproot. We believe that God has a great M'ork for Christians to do, in educat- 
ing the rising generation to right sentiments of loyalty to our government and 
its free institutions. 

III. As members of the Young Men's Christian Association, we renew to 
President Johnson the pledge we made to his lamented predecessor. We will 
pray God to sustain him in the arduous duties of his office, and give him wis- 
dom, so to direct the aff"airs of the government in this time of peculiar per- 
plexity, that our nation's integrity may be secured, and peace in righteousness 
once more smile on our laud. 

JOHN E. PAGE, President. 
JAMES H. THOMAS, Secretary. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. (353 

ALBANY YOUNG MEN'S ASSOCIATION. 

At a ni'^cting of the executive committee of the Young Men's Association 
beld at their rooms, April 17, 18G5, the foUowing preamble and re.-^ohitions 
(vere unaiiimously adopted ; 

Whereas, in the very hour of our restored nationality, after the complete and 
rlorious triumph of our armies, at a time when perplexing difHcultics of policy 
tvere vanishing before a generous and magnanimous statesmanship, and whea 
;he glad heart of the country, full of passionate longing for reconciliation, was 
ibout to find expression in a grand jubilee of enthusiasm, the President of the 
United States and the Secretary of State have been made the victims of most 
;ruel and inhuman assassins, whereby the national joy is turned to sadness, and 
;he white robe of returning peace stained by a crime unparalleled in atrocity 
uid infamy : Therefore, 

Resolved, That while we bow in submission to the mysterious dispensation of 
Providence, which in the death of the President of the United States has 
ifflictcd our country, we desire to express the grief and sorrow that fill our 
learts in this our national bereavement, and our detestation of the crime which, 
u the person of Abraham Lincoln, was perpetrated upon the whole nation. 

Resolved, That we believe Abraham Lincoln, as a ruler, to have been gov- 
!rned by patriotic motives nnd honesty of purpose; and when we remember that 
n the darkest days he never despaired of the republic, but in the last acts of 
lis life showed that he was actuated by a spirit of charity and conciliation 
oward the enemies of his country, the exercise of which gave promise of the 
ipeedy restoration of the Union, we cannot but regard his sad and untimely 
leath as a misfortune to the whole country 

Resolved, That the Avicked murder of the President while he was endeavor- 
ng to force obedience, on the part of the South, to the laws and government of 
lur common country, and to restore peace and union once more to our land, has 
)ut strengthened our love for our country, and given us renewed assurances, by 
he common sympathy of all good citizens, that the Union must be again re- 
tored, and the national authority asserted and maintained over the whole land. 

Resolved, That the rooms of the association be draped in mourning, as a tes- 
imony of respect to the deceased, for thirty days, and this committee, and the 
Lssociation at large, will unite with the city authorities or citizens of this city in 
olemnities suitable to the occasion. 

Resolved, That the President, be and is hereby, authorized to call a meeting of 
he members of the association and make the necessary arrangements for pro- 
lerly attending any funeral obsequies of the late President of the United 
kates, or otherwise taking part in the day set apart as a day of mourning for 
iur national bereavement. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be published in the city pajjers. 

FRANKLIN EDSON, 

President, Y. M. A. 



?rocccdings of (he city council of Boston, April 17, 1865, on occasion of the 
death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. 

City of Bo.st()N, April 17, 1865. 
A special meeting of the city council of Boston, was convened at 12 o'clock 
his day, by order of his honor Frederick W. Lincoln, jr., mnyor, for the pur- 
(ose of expressing their respect to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the late 
'resident of the United States. 



654 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEEESPONDENCE. 

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN. 

There were present at this meeting, the mayor and all the aldermen. 
The board liaving been called to order by the mayor, the following preamble 
and resolutions were unanimously adopted: 

EESOLVES. 

Whereas, in the providence of God, the shadow of a great grief is now resting 
on the people of the United States, in the sudden death, by the hand of violence, 
of their beloved and hoiioi-ed Chief Magistrate, Abraham Lincoln, now officially- 
announced to the city council by his honor the mayor ; Therefore, resolved — 

1. That in this early hour of the nation's bereavement and sorrow, the great- 
ness of our loss cannot be adeqiiately expressed by words, but it is evinced by 
the unspoken and unutterable language of the heart, and the tears of millTons of 
our loyal countrymen, telling how truly and affectionately he who was from the 
people, and loved the people, was loved by them. 

2. That we devoutly thank God for the noble work our loved and honored 
President was permitted to do for the nation, guiding it with consummate sagac- 
ity and skill through the most difficult epoch of its existence; that we recog- 
nize especially his great wisdom and foresight in issuing his proclamation of 
emancipation, which will entitle him to the gratitude of the lovei's of liberty 
throughout the world in all future ages, and give him a place in his country's 
fame by the side of the immortal Washington. 

3. That we accord to the family of our late Chief Magistrate our heartfelt 
and tender sympathy in their irreparable loss, assuring tbem that we cherish as 
one of our country's priceless legacies the memory of hitu whom the nation 
mourns. 

4. That the atrocious attempt to take the life of our Secretary of State, the 
honorable William H. Seward, and the assaults on the members of his house- 
hold have excited the liveliest interest for his preservation, and we trust that his 
life may long be spared, and his valuable counsels continue to benefit his CDUntry. 

5. That we assure President "Johnson of our cordial support in the great task 
devolved upon him by this horrible crime, entreating him to believe that the nation 
instructed by this last bitter experience, will sustain the government more unit- 
edly than ever in vigorous and eifective measures for suppressing a wicked and 
unnatural rebellion, in meting out justice to all its abettors, and securing the 
amplest guarantees for peace in all coming time ; trusting that he will not pause 
until every seed of its possible life is destroyed, and our whole country rests on 
the sure basis of full and impartial liberty. 

6. That, as a proper mark of respect, FaneuiJ Hall and the City Hall be 
draped in mourning for the period of thirty days, and that on the day of the 
funeral ceremonies in Washington his honor the mayor order all public offices, 
schools, and places of amusement to be closed, and request an entire suspension 
of busioess on the part of our citizens. 

7. That a delegation from the city government, consisting of his honor Mayor 
Lincoln, two aldermen, the president and three members of the common council 
attend tlie obsequies of the late President of the United States. 

8. That a eulogy on the character and services of Abraham Lincoln be pro- 
nounced before the city government at an early day, and that a joint committee 
be appointed to make the necessary arrangements. 

9. Tiiat a copy of these resolutions be sent to the President of the LTnited 
States, the heads of the different departments at Washington, and the family of 
the deceased. 

The passage of the foregoing resolutions having been advocated by Alderman 
Kathaniel C. Nash, with some appropriate remarks, they were unanimously 
adopted by the board, each member lisiug in his place. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 655 

The cliair having appointed Alclcrmaii Jolm S. Tyler and (niarl(>rf F. Dana 
as a committee, in belialf of this board, to attend the funeral obsccniics in Wa«h- 
itigton ; and Alderman George AV. Messinger, John S. Tyler, and Thomas 
Gaffield, upon the committee of arrangements for a eulogy on the deceased, as 
contemplated in the eighth resolve, said nsolutions were sent down to the com- 
mon councd tor concurrence, and the board of aldermen then adjourned. 

^"t;^'= S. F. M. CLEARY, Cif// Clerk. 

PROCEEDLVGS OF THE COMMON COUNCIL. 

The members of the common council were called to order by the president, 
William B. Fowle, esq. The mes-=age of the mayor having been read, the reso- 
lutions adopted by the board of aldermen were then submitted to the common 
council. Their passage by this branch of the city council was advocated by 
Messrs. Clement Willis of ward 8, Joseph Story of ward 5, Benjamin Dean of 
ward 12, and Solomon B. Stebbins of ward 10, who spoke most earnestly and 
appropriately on the subject. The resolutions were tlien passed unanimously, 
in concurrence, each member present rising in his place. 

The chair appointed Messrs. Solomon B. Stebbins of ward 10, Benjamin 
Dean of ward 12, and Moses W. Richardson of ward 11, delegates, on behalf of 
the common council, to attend the funeral obsequies at AVashiiigton, and the 
president of the common council, together with Mr. Joseph Story of ward 5, 
John C. Haynes of ward 9, Summer Crosby of ward 12, William D. Park of 
ward 7, and Solomon B. Stebbins of ward 10, Avere j(jined to the committee of 
arrangements for the proposed eulogy on the illustrious deceased. 

The common council then adjourned. 

Attest: ■ W. P. GREGG, Clerk. 



Boston, April 16, 1865 

At a vestry meeting held this day by the Hebrew congregation Ohabei 
Shalom, worshipping in Warren Street synagogue, a committee was appointed 
to draw up resolutions in regard to the late lamentable national calamity, and 
the following preamble and resolutions were drawn up and passed unanimously: 

Whereas it has pleased an all merciful Father to remove from our midst his 
Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of these United States of America, by 
death, at a momrnt when the whole nation rejoiced in the promised peace of our 
distracted country; and 

Whereas this death has been caused by the foul hand of an assassin, who 
came unawares upon his illustrious victim while enjoying relaxation from his 
arduous duties, in the company of the partner of his bosom ; and 

Whereas, feeling that this calamity concerns every individual, not alone ia 
this country but throughout the civilized world, affecting as it does the capa- 
bility of mankind to govern themselves, and dealing a feaiful blow against 
republican institutions: Therefore, 

Kesohcd, That we, the congregation "Ohabei Shalom," of the city of Boston, 
deeply deplore this sad event, and we humbly bow to our Ih-avenly Father, 
praying that this last, this " greatest sacrifice" of all will sulHce "the monster 
moloch," and that the Lord our God will be pleased to sanctify the death of 
our Chief IMagistrate to the end that no more victims shall be required to end 
this unholy war. 

Resolved, That with grief and horror we noticed the aftcm])ted double assassi- 
nation of the Secretary of State of the United States, Mr. Seward, and hia 
family, one ripe in years, wisdom and honor; that this atttnipted assassination 
is scarcely less to be deplored than that of the Chief Magistrate, whose death 



656 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

the iifition now mourns, and that no words can convey the deep sorrow which 
•we feel within us that the first oflficer of the country should thus be cut off from 
among us at the moment when his wisdom and prudence were about to lead us 
out of the chaos of war to the paradise of peace. 

Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with the bereaved family of the late 
most worthy Chief Magistrate, and that no words of ours can convey the deep 
shock, the thrill of horror, the unspeakable agony with Avhich the sad tidings 
were received by our community. But we hope that He who tempers the winds 
to the shorn lamb — He who was from the "beginning" " the protector " of the 
" widow and orphan," will also vouchsafe to be the protector of the family of 
the lamented dead ; (dead in the flesh, but living in the hearts of his country- 
men.) May he temper their grief, and let them remember, and let us hope, that 
the good deeds done by him whilst on earth will intercede for him before the 
throne of Almighty God, and that the crown of martyrdom be sanctified unto 
him. 

Resolved, That the synagogue shall be draped in mourning for thirty days, 
ami that a prayer for the dead shall be chanted every Sabbath day and Mondays 
and Thursda3'S during that time. 

Resolved, That on the day of the funeral of the lamented dead, a funeral ser- 
mon shall be preached in the synagogue, and that we, the members of this con- 
gregation, unanimously resolve to close our places of business on that day, for 
the purpose of keeping it as a day of mourning. 

Resolved, That a copy of the above resolutions be forwarded to the widow of 
the lamented President, as also to the family of the Secretary of State; that they 
be sealed with the seal of the congregation and signed by the president and 
vice-president and secretary. 

Resolved, That the above resolutions be entered on the minutes of the congre- 
gation and published in the Post, Journal and Herald newspapers of this city. 

Done this 19th day of Nisam, 5626; of the year of the Creation, April 16, 1865. 

[seal.] S. MYERS, President. 

S. STEINBURG, Vice-President. 
N. EHRLICH, Secretary. 



Boston, Ajn-il 20, 1865. 

Sir : The undersigned takes the liberty to send you a copy of the resolutions 
passed at a meeting of the German citizens of Boston, held on Wednesday even- 
ing, April 19, for the purpose of giving expression to their feelings in relation 
to the death of President Lincoln : 

Resolved, That we, the German citizens of Boston, have learned the tidings 
of the assassination of President Lincoln and the attempted murder of Secretary 
Seward, with a mixture of the highest surprise, alarm, grief and indignation. 

Resolved, That we mourn in the murdered victim a man who was placed at 
the helm of the state under the most trying and difficult circumstances, who, in 
spite of the enmities from one and importunities from the other side, continued 
his straight course without haste or passion ; who employed the liberal means 
offered by the people wisely for the restoration of the Union, and the validity of 
the laws of this great republic; who by his proclamation of emancipation has 
acted in the spirit of the time, and thereby crushed the main pillar of rebellion, 
but who at all times was ready to grant to the rebels a peaceful return to the 
old Union, provided they would return to their old allegiance, and who has met 
with surprising leniency all those who in the chances of war have fallen into the 
hands of our armies and authorities. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMrATHY. 657 

Resolved, That Ave condemn the perpetrators of this douhle crime as common 
murderers, and that we eagerly and confulently ho])e they will soon be handed 
over to a just and severe punishment. 

Resohefl, 'J'liat this horrible crime, even if only a few should be implicated 
in the direct conspiracy, nevertheless must be traced in its origin and object to 
the rebel cliief Jefferson Davis and his traitorous cinisorts. 

Resolved, That we hereafter regard leniency and indulgence as a wrong to 
the victims of this crime, as a criminal exj)0sure of our highest civil and military 
authorities, and as treason against the welfare iuid honor of the nation. 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Secretary of State, 
at Washington, and another to the Governor of Massachusetts. 

F. GELDOWSKY, President. 
CH. BECK, J. ELSON, 

A. KKE18SMANX, , H. LAUTERBACH, 
(4. FLALLICH, E. HABEC^I, 

E. HEIDENBEECH, Dr. WESSELIKEFT, 
CH. HESS, C. ZENAHN, 

R. LAXGERFELDT, Dr. BIRNSTIEL, 
G. PASSENDRIEK, F. HEUCIIEXRODEX, 
C. KRAMER, A. F. WOXDRJ^R, 

E. C. F. KRAUSS, 

Vice-Presidents. 
L. WETSSBEIN, 
C. KXAPPF, 

Secretaries. 



Your obedient servant, 



The Acting Secretary of State, 

^VusJti!lst()n, 



LOUIS WEISSBEIN, 

Sccretarif 



Jackson Literary Association, 

Metamoha Hall, RooiM No. 1, 

Baltimore, April 20, 1866. 
At a meeting of the " Jackson Literary Association," held this evening, the 
following resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

Whereas, in view of the awful calamity that has befallen the whole nation in 
the violent and sudden death of its honored and illustrious Chief Magistrate, 
Abraham Lincoln, who has been stricken down by the hand of an assassin in 
the midst of his untiring and profoundly patriotic endeavors to sustain the law- 
fully constituted authorities of his country against the assaults of those in arms 
against it, we bow Avith resignation to this sad calamity, and trust in the 
inscrutable wisdom of Providence to bring light out of darkness, and sanctify 
this dee}t affliction to tin; welfare of the nation : Therefore, 

Resolved, 'i'hat the oilicers and members of the " Jackson Literary Associa- 
tion" have heard Avitli horror ami indignation the; foul assassination of President 
Lincoln, and add their voice to the general mourning of tlie natidu over the great 
calamity. 

Resolved, That in token of our grief for the nation's loss, the members of this 
lyceum Avear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days, and that these reso- 
lutions be placed among the regular business of the association, and that a copy 
thereof be sent to the Secretary of State. 

SAML. L MORGAN, President. 
Jas. S. Cocrtney, Cor. Secretary. 
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AGED GUARD OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. 

Fir : I Imve the honor to present you the following declaration adopted by 
the " Aged Guard of 1862, of the city of Baltimore," at a meeting held at the 
old City-Hall, on the morning of the 19th instant. 

An atrocious crime has been committed in our midst. The great, the noble, 
the magnanimous, kind-hearted, and too forgiving President, Abraham Lincoln, 
has been in a most cowardly and dastardly manner murdered by the order and 
with the connivance of traitors. 

While we acknowledge the retributive hand of an Almighty and righteous God 
in thus afflicting us for our national sins, we also recognize our national duty to 
drive from our soil the men who have been mainly instrumental in bringing on 
this great people this heart-crushing calamity. 

We hereby tender to the deeply afflicted widow of our late beloved President, 
and to all the bereaved members of his highly honored family, our heart-felt con- 
dolence, hoping and praying that the Father of mercies and God of all consola- 
tion and grace will sustain and comfort them under their overwhelming sorrow. 

With the honorable Secretary of State and with his sttffering fjimily we would 
sympathize, and would affectionately express our deep sorrow for the portion of 
this great crime inflicted upon them, praying to Him with whom are the issues 
from death, to grant unto them a s|ieedy and perfect restoration. May the highly 
valued life of the honorable William H. Seward be preserved for many years, 
an honor and blessing to his country. 

We must here congratulate the loyal citizens of our whole country on having 
such a worthy successor to the lamented President Lincoln as Andrew Johnson, 
who said in the Senate of the United States in 1861, in the face of traitors, " Let 
it be engraven on every heart that treason is a crime, and traitors should suffer 
the penalty." And further," the halter to the intelligent and influential traitor; 
but to the honest boy, the deluded man, who has been deceived into the rebel 
ranks, 1 would extend leniency." The stability and future permanency of our 
Unit n d<'mand the rigid enforcement of these principles, and no better man is 
needed than Andrew Johnson to carry them out. 

Pledging ourselves in conformity with and obedience to law to do whatever is 
necessary and in our power to crush out this wicked rebellion, and to put down 
all who give aid and comfort to those engaged therein, Ave order that these our sin- 
cere expiessions of condolence and sympathy, and this our firm resolution, be 
most respectfully presented to Mrs. Lincoln and family, to the honorable Wni. 
H. Seward, and to his Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United 
•States. 

Signed by order and on behalf of the Aged Guard of 1862 of the city of Bal- 
timore, on the 20th day of April, anno Domino one thousand eight hundred and 
sixty -five. 

SAML. CHILD, Captain. 

From the record. A true copy : 

JOHN W. W^OODS, Secretary. 

Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



BOONE COUNTY, MISSOURI. 

At a large meeting of the loyal citizens of Boone county, Missouri, holden at 
the court-house in Columbia, on the 22d April, 1S65, on motion of Hon. James S. 
Rollins, Professor J. H. Lathrop, LL.D , was elected president, and Rev. Isaac 
Jones and General Joseph B. Douglass vice-presidents, John F. Baker and 
Robert L. Todd secretaries. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 659 

On motion a commi'tee consisting of Plon. J. S. Rollin, Elder F. M. Allen, 
Dr. M. R. Arnold, Judge Dnvid Gordon, and Colonel .Ianie8 R. Shields was 
appointed to submit resolutions for the action of the nuH'ting 

Major Rollins, on beluilf of the crnnmittee, submitted the following, accompany- 
ing the same with an uarnest, eloiiuent feeling tribute to the memory and worth 
of Mr. Lincoln, after which the preamble and resolutions were unanimously 
adopted : 

Whereas Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States, on the night 
of the 14fli instant, was stricken down by the hand of an assassin, and remov^ed 
by a violent death from iiis exalted positimi of usefulness aiul honor; and, 
whereas the simultaneous attemf)t to take the lives of other eminent public men 
indicates concert of acti(,n with a traitorous as well as a murderous intent; i.nd 
whereas it becomes a great people, whom God has set up as an example to the 
nations of the earth, to purge themselves from all taint of sympathy with this 
crime against civilization, and also to give utterance to their sense of tlie national 
bereavement : Therefore, 

Besolved, That we, in common with our fellow citizens througliout the c amtry, 
liold up to present execration and perpetual infamy, as enemies of the human 
race, the procurers and the perpetrators of the savage and revolting murder of the 
Chief ]\ragistrate of the American republic, and other like crimes simultaneously 
attempted but mercifully averted. 

Rcsoh-ed, That our gratitude is due to Almighty God for the leadership of 
the distinguished dead in the period of our country's peril; for tlie exemplary 
juirity of his private and public life; for his just appreciation of the national 
crisis ; for the admirable temper with which he met its exigencies in defeat as 
well as in victory ; for his heroic faith in the exalted destiny of the American 
people; for his self-devotion to the cause of human liberty, even unto death ; 
and for the consolation which we cherish that now, in the triumphant moment of 
his eminent })ublic service, the hand of the assassin has faded to impair the value 
of his oflicial work, and has been only able to commit to the historic pag(! the 
uame of Abraham Lincoln as the second founder of the great republii-. 

Be.so/red, That, although this attempt has been made by traitorous hands to 
reach the life of the country, through the assassination of its distinguished public 
men, we have unshaken confidence in the speedy restoration of the nati nal au- 
thority over every acre of its soil, and the termination of the shock of arms iu 
the formation of a still closer Union ; in the establishment of a more comprehen- 
sive and authoritative justice; in the assurance of an enduring domestic Iran- 
quility ; in a more effective provision for the common defence ; in a more vigorous 
]H-omotion of the genwal Avelfare; in the innnovable security of the blessings of 
liberty to ourselves and our posterity, and in the extension of the benefit of our 
great example to the nations of the earih. 

Resn/red, That we recognize in vVndrew Johnson the chosen instrument of 
the American people for the promotion of these great national ends, a patriot 
statesman, 

'■ Ainoiif^ tl.e ffiitlilcss fiiithriil fouiul," 

and commend his incoming administration to the generous and persistent sup- 
port of every steadfast heart that tempers the sorrow of our national bereave- 
ment by an undying confidence in tin; integrity, the perpetuity and the ever 
progressive greatness of our Americ in Union. 

liesohed. That in testimony of our respect for the memory of our fallen chief, 
the public buildings of Columbia be draped in mourning for thirty days; and 
to ihis end the resident curators of the State University, and the county court 
of Uoone county are respectfully requested to carry in tf) effect this resolution. 

Resolved, That we tender to the widow and family of the illustrious dead 
our heartfelt sympathies for the great loss which, in common with the nation, 



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tliey have sustained; and request tlie chairman of this meeting to communicate 
a copy to them of the foregoing resolutions. 

Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the officers thereof, 
and that the newspapers of the State be requested to publish the same. 



Resolutions 2>o.ssed at a meeting liehl hy lite St. George's Benevolcjit Societ!/, 

Cincinnati, Ohio. 

At a meeting of the St. George's Benevolent Society, held in their room, No" 
102 Walnut street, Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday, April 20, Mr. Daniels, pres- 
ident of the society in the chair, the following preamble and resolutions were 
unanimously adopted : 

Whereas, while rejoicing over the victories which have crowned the arms 
and secured the triumph of the government of the United States over the rebel- 
lion we were astounded by the news of the assassination of the President : There- 
fore, be it 

Resolved, That with unfeigned sorrov>^ under this national calamity, we bow 
before this mysterious dispensation of Divine Providence, and with unfaltering 
faith in the wisdom and goodness of God, we pray that the people of the United 
States may have the assistance of His grace to bear this heavy trial with forti- 
tude and patience. 

Resolved, That we record our testimony to the exemplary integrity, patriotism, 
sagacity, and goodness of Abraham Lincoln, and deplore his death as a calamity, 
not only to the United States, but to the cause of human progress and freedom 
throughout the world. 

Resolved, That amidst our mourning we are pleased to find that our country- 
men all over the United States and Canada have manifested their sorrow and 
abhorrence of this diabolical act, and with them we sincerely hope that the luture 
of this, our adopted country, will be peace, unity, and prosperity. 

Resolved, That owing to this national calamity we postpone our annual 
celebration until farther notice. 

Signed by the committee. 

J. A. DANIELS. 

REV. RICHARD GREY. 

E. WOODELTON. 



Resolutions j^cissed at a mreting licld hy the city council of the city of Columlms, 

Ohio. 

Su.XDAY, April 16, 1S65. 

At a special meeting of the city council of the city of Columbus, held this day, 
all the members thereof being present, the following preamble and resolutions 
were unanimously adopted : 

For the first time in this country has our Chief Magistrate fallen by the hand 
of an assassin. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States has thus fallen. 
Eor the first time with us has the life of a cabinet minister been assailed. That 
crime that has cursed and blighted other lands has been inaugurated in this. 
That practice that ever has produced, and that, if unchecked, ever must pro- 
duce, first anarchy and then de.-])otism, has begun here. The example has been 
set of removing a magistrate, not by the constitutionally expressed will of the 
people, but by murder. Let this example grow into use and there will be an end 
of free government among us. There can be no true liberty whei-e life is in- 
secure; there can be no stable or beneficent government where the dagger of au 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 6G1 

assassin overtlirows or usurps tlie national will. To these general truths, of vital 
importance to society, the occasion presents other and most painful reflections. 
In the midst of the universal rejoicing-s over the success of our arms and the 
prospects of peace, the Chief Magistrate, during whose administration tlie rebel- 
lion had been crushed, and from whose power, intlucnee, and patriotism tlie most 
sanguine hopes of a speedy pacification were entei taincd, has been violently taken 
from our midst. The banners that yesterday morning proudly and joyously 
floated from the mast-head, now liang in the drapery and gloom of mourning'; 
and where but lately universal gratnlations were exchanged there are now seen 
and heard universal greetings of sorrow. 

In this most painful hour of a nation's distress, it is most meet and proper that 
all official bodies and all citizens should solenmly express their abhorrence of 
the deeds of murder that have caused this distress; that they should deter, by 
their unanimity, a repetition of such deeds, and should manifest clearly to the 
world that the people of these States are not, and do not mean to be, involved 
in the horrors of anarchy, and that they will never give up the blessings of law, 
order, and free government. And it is also most meet and becoming that the 
sympathy of the nati(m for the bereaved family of the late President, and for the 
surviving and suffering victims of the tragedy, should be expressed. 

Be it, therefore, resolved, by the city c amcil of the city of Columhus : 

1. That this council and the people of Columbus view with abhorrence the 
deeds of murder that have deprived the country of its President, and have 
endangered the lives of the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State. 

2. That this council and the people of this city most deeply deplore the death 
of President Lincoln, and regard it as a great public calamity, and hereby 
tender their sincerest sympathy to his bereaved and atflicted ftimily. 

3. That we desire, on this solemn occasion, to place upon record our apprecia- 
tion of the high and commanding qualities of the late President Lincoln, as a man 
of integrity and a patriot statesman, one who lived and labored for what he 
deemed to be the honor and best interests of his country, who united mildness 
and kindness of heart with firmne«?s of purpose, and whose character, on the 
Avhole, fitted him peculiarly for the great work of pacification and reconciliation 
upon which he had entered. 

4. That the warm sympathy of this coimcil and c imnuinity is felt for the 
suftering Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State. 

5. That a committee of nine of tliis council (one from each ward) be appointed 
to act in conjunction with such committees as may be appointed by the State 
authorities and the citizens generally, to make suitable preparations for the re- 
cepiion here of the remains of the late President, should they be conveyed 
through this city. 

6. That copies of these resolutions be transmitted by the president of tho 
council to Mrs. Lincoln and Mr. Seward. 

J. REINIIARD, 

President of the Coioicil. 

Attest : 

JOSEPH DOWDALL, City Clerk. 



I\ Common Council, Chicago, Illinois, April 17, 1S65. 
Whereas Abraham Lincoln, a cit'zen of Illinois, a man eminent for the purity 
of his life and his nnseltish devotion to his country, and for four years Presi- 
dent of the United States, while still performing the duties of tliat office to 
Avh.ich he had been re-elected by a confiding people, has been stricken down by 
the hand of a murderer; 



662 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

And whereas liis honored remains are now lying in state at Wasliington, and 
the funeral ceremonies will take place on Wednesday next : Therefore, 

Be it resolced by the mayor and aldermen of the city of Chicago, That we 
have received the news of this terrible calamity with the deepest emotions of 
horror and of grief 

Resolved, That the deceased will stand among the foremost of the brightest 
names of history, and will be forever remembered with admiration and honor, 
not only by his countrymen, but by the good and true of all countries and of all 
times. 

Resolred, That while we deplore our own and the nation's loss, our warmest 
sympathies and sincere condfdence are extended to the bereaved widow and 
fatherless children of the late President. 

Resolred, That a committee from this city be appointed to visit Washington, 
and in behalf of the citizens of Chicago take part in the funeral ceremonies ; 
also to accompany the remains to Springfield. 

Resolred, That copies of these resolutions be forwarded to the family of the 
deceased, and to each member of his cabinet, and be furnished for publication to 
the press. 

Resolred, That the eminent statesman, William H. Seward, now suffering 
from wounds received from one of the same band of assassins who murdered 
the late President, has our deepest sympathy and respect, and our most earnest 
wishes for his sjjeedy restoration to health. 

Approved : F. C. SHERMAN, Mayor. 

State of Illinois, City of Chicago, ss : 

I, IT. W. Zimmerman, clerk of the city of Chicago aforesaid, do hereby cer- 
tify that the foregoing is a true copy of resolutions adopted this day by the 
common council of said city, 
r n Witness my hand and the corporate seal of said city of Chicago, the 

H. W. ZIMMERMAN, City Clerk. 



IN MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

CiTv OP Concord, N. H. 
Resolutions resjjecting the recent national bereavement. 
Resolved hy the city council of the city of Concord., as follows : 

1. That in the death of Abraham Lincoln we deplore the loss of a great arid 
good man ; an able, faithful, and honest President, a sagacious and pure-minded 
statesman, a guihdess patriot ; in his life the God-appointed champion of Union 
and liberty, and in his death their sacred martyr. 

2. That in the manner of his death we recognize a natural manifestation of 
the fiendish barbarism of slavery, which, having sought in vain the nation's 
life in four years of bloody rebellion, culminated in world-astounding murder, 
striking down the people's chiefest and most beloved servant, and spreading a 
pall over the whole land. 

3. That with humble reliance upon God, in whose hands are the destinies of 
men and nations, we would take to heart the lesson of this deplorable event as 
solemnly enforcing the imperative duty of the utter extirj)ation of human 
slavery from our land, and tiie execution of full justice upon slavery -engendered 
treason as mercy to the nation. 

4. That we rejoice that the life of the honored and faithful Secretary of State 
has been spared from the assassin's knife to the service of his country ; and 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 663 

that the murdorers' ph)t so far faihul as it coiittMiiplatod within its fell scope the 
death of other high executive and military othcfrs of the government. 

5. That we have entire confidence in tlie aliil ty, integrity, and patriotism of 
Andrew Johnson as a worthy successor of Abraham Liiicohi in the piesidency 
of these United States, and we [dedgc; him our earnest and hearty support ia 
the performance of his high and onerous duties, and bid hira, and all those en- 
gaged with him in the administration of our national affairs, God speed in the 
great work of n construction upon the basis of justice, liberty, and equal rights. 

6. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the President of the United 
States and the heads of the several de[)artments at Washington. 

In common council, April 29, 1SG5. Passed nnanimouslv. 

ISAAC N. ABBOTT, President. 

In board of mayor and aldermen, April 29, 1S65. Passed unanimously. 
[seal.] MOSES HUMPllUEY, Major. 



niir 



Resolutions passed at a meeting held hjj the citizens of Erie, Pennsylvania. 

The following preamble and rosolutions were reported to an adjourned meet- 

g of citizens of Erie, held at Earrar Hall on Tuesday evening, April IS, and 
unanimously adopted. 

The committee through which they were reported consisted of Charles W. 
Kelso, Andrew Scott, George W. Starr, Irvin Camp, George W. De Camp, 
Joseph M. Sterret, John P. Vincent, and M. R. Barr. 

Whereas, after four years of terrible and destructive war, waged by traitors 
for the purpose of subverting our government and destroying our Union, tlie 
people of the United States were celebrating with joy and thanksgiving the 
success of our arms, and the speedy return of peace and fraternal concord 
through these successes, due, under God, to the wise administration of the Chief 
Magistrate of the nation, Abraham Lincoln ; 

And wUereas, in the midst of these rejoicings, the sudden and terrible ca- 
lamity of the death of our revered and beloved President by the hand of a 
traitorous assassin has fallen upon us, turning our paians of joy and thanksgiv- 
ing into dirges of sorrow and anguish ; 

And whereas it is proper that the people of the United States everywhere should 
manifest their sense of this their great bereavement, as well as their confidence 
in the patriot and statesman who, through the inscrutable dispensation of Provi- 
dence, is called upon to administer the government of the United States, and 
'their determination to sustain him in his great and important duties as they 
have in the past sustained his lamented prcdecc^ssor : 'J'iierefore, 

Resoh-ed, That we, the people of the city of Erie, while bowing with sub- 
mission to the will of God and His inscrutable decrees, do hereby exju'ess our 
deep and unfeigned grief at the death of Abraham Lincoln, late President of 
the United States, a magistrate so pure, so upright, and so clear in his great (.f- 
fice as to have won the admiration and esteem even of his pohtical enemies, 
and the affection and h)ve of all who fUithfuUy and truly loved their country 
and its integrity — a man so honest in all his intercourse with mm, so knid- 
hearled in all the relations of life, that no man who knew him could be his per- 
sonal enemy unless filled with passions so barbarous as to unfit fiim for inter- 
course with civilized humanity. , ■ . 

Riso/fcd, That, severe as the affliction is, we bow in humb e submission to 
the will of that Being who has in his inscrutable wisdom permitted the deed to 
be done, saying, " Not our will but thine be done." 

Resolved, That thia atHiction comes with peculiar severity at this tune of our 



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country's trial, when the consummate wisdom and undoubted patriotism of our 
good President was about arranp,-ing the disordered condition of our country's 
affairs, and that, wliile life shall last, we will cherish the memory of the great 
and good Abraham Lincoln as one of the mo.st precious of our country's pos- 
sessions. 

Resolrcd, That we have entire confidence in the patriotism, integrity, and 
ability of Andrew Johnson, now President of the United States, fully believ- 
ing and hoping that he will carry out the wise and judicious policy of our late 
lamented President, and spare no effort to crush this infamous rebellion, which 
shows its legitimate character in the employment of base assassins to effect 
that which their want of manly courage could not effect — the destruction of 
our civil rulers, and that we. one and all, •' Pledge our lives, our fortunes, and 
our sacred honors" to maintain and defend the government of our fathers, 
whether assailed by armed traitors in rebellious States, or skulking assassins 
in the national capital. 

Risolocd, That we are gratified at the evidence already given by Andrew 
Johnson of his disposition to carry out the views and policy of our late be- 
loved President by the retention of his counsellors in the cabinet, believing that 
they were the hearty and able co-operators of Mr. Lincoln in his most wise and 
successful administration of the government. 

Resolced, That we sincerely and deeply sympathize with our Secretary of 
State, Hon. William H. Seward, in his multiplied afflictions, and are thankful 
for his escape with his life from the poniard of tlie assassin, and we pray most 
heartily that he may be spared and restored to health and activity, when, by 
his matchless abdity, he may continue to confound, as he has in the past, the 
infamous machinations of foreign governments to involve our country in ruin. 

Resolved, That we sympathize, from the very depths of our hearts, with 
Mrs. Lincoln and the other members of her family in their de[)lorable bereave- 
ment, and that we most heartily commend her and them to the tender meicies 
of that God who does not willingly afflict the children of men, and has prom- 
ised to be the protector of the widow and the fatherless, earnestly praying that 
from behind this dark and heavy cloud they may yet discern the smile of a 
merciful and graci lus God. 

Resolved, That a copy of the above resolutions, signed by the oflSccrs of this 
meeting, be transmitted to Mr.s. Lincoln, his Excellency Andrew .Johnson, 
President of the United States, and the Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary 
of State. 

F. F. FARR All, President. 
J. B. GARllA, Secretary. 



PUBLIC MEETING. 

Pursuant to previous notice, a meeting of the citizens of Huntsville and Mad- 
ison county, Alabama, was held in the court-house at 12 m. on the ISth instant, 
which was very largely attended. 

On motion of Hon. Nicholas Davis, Hon. D. C. Humphreys was called to the 
chair. He explained the object of the meeting to be to give expression to the 
sentiments of the community, and the citizens generally, in regard to the death 
of the I^esident of the United States by the hands of the assassin. His remarks 
evinced deep feeling, and were forcible and judicious. 

On motion of Hnu. 1). P. Lewis, W. B. Figures was requested to act as secre- 
tary of the meeting. 

Judge P. M. Ddx then moved that a committee of fifteen be appointed by the 
chair to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the assemblage, which was 
carried. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. GG5 

The eliair a-ppointod the foHowing p;ontlcraen as said comraitt'^o, viz : P. "^[. 
Dox, chairman, D. P. Lewis, F. A. Saunders, Smith Adams, Nicholas Davis, 
Joseph Ward, Britton Frank, B. U. Lowe, jr.. Thos. Bhb. A. J. Johnson, 0. E. 
Donolass, S. M. Weaver, Thos. U. Green, Jas. M. Venahle, and Thuo. Lacy. 

The committee retired for a short while and then reported the following pre- 
amhle and resolutions, which were read and unanimously adopted, viz: 

Whereas official information has been received in this community that Abra- 
ham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, has been killed by the 
hand of an assassin, and that an attempt, by assassination, lias hern made on 
the life of William H. Seward, Secretary of State; and whereas civilization and 
Christianity alike, the laws of God and the laws of man, regai d such acts with 
uinnixed hoiTor and execration ; the citizens of Hui tsville, in primary meeting 
assembled, and without distinction of parties, do resolve — 

1. That they can view the acts of assassination of President Lincoln, and the 
attempt to assassinate Mr. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, only with 
emotions of unmixed grief and detestation; and that the assassins arc the ene- 
mies of civilization and humanity. 

2. That the acts and the actors can find parallels alone in the calendars of 
the most flagitious crimes and the most fiendish criminals. Tiipy can only be 
classed in infamy with the sarage and the cannibal, the guerilla of Spain, the 
carbonari of Italy, and thugs of Lulia. 

3. That copies of the 'proceedings of this meeting be laid before Biigarlier 
General R. S. Granger, commanding the district of northern Alabama. That 
copies of the same be sent to Andrew Johnson, President of the United States 
of America; to Mrs. Lincoln, relict of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the 
United States ; and to Hon. Williawi IL Seward, Secretary of State of the United 
States of America. 

4. That the ])roceedings of the meeting be signed by the president and secre- 
tary, and that the same be forwarded to the newspapers in the cities of Nash- 
ville and Washington, I). G., with the reriuest that they publish the same. 

On motion of Judge Lewis, a committee of three was appointed by the chair, 
consisting of Messrs. D. P. Lewis, William B. Figurrs, and J. W, Scraggs, to 
carry out the wishes of the meeting expressed in the resolutions. 

In response to loud calls from the multitude, feeling^, appropriate, and elo- 
quent remarks were made by Judge Dox, Hon. Nicholas Davis, -Judge Lewis, 
and the chairman of the meeting, which were received Avith hearty applause. 

On motion, the meeting then adjourned. 

I). C. HU:\rPHKKY, Chairman. 
WM. B. FIGURES, Secretary. 

HuNTSViLLE, Alabama, April L8, 1SG5. 



SYNOD OF MICHIGAN. 

Whereas it has pleased Almighty God, since the last meeting of the synod, 
to remove, by death, the late Chief .Magistrate of our nation, whom we believe 
to have been peculiarly guided by Divine wisdom iu the discharge of the great 
responsibilities devolving upon him- in the terrible crisis of civil war through 
•which we have passed ; and 

Whereas we believe him, in answer to prayer, to have been greatly supported 
and strengthened in his eiforts, as well by the assurance repeatedly given lum 
that he luul the sympathies of Christian people: Therefore, 

Resolved, That we. the Synod of Michigan, hereby respectfully assure the pres- 
ent Chief Magistrate of this nation, Andrew Johnson, that we fully appreciate 
the ditHcukies of his position, and the weight of responsibility resting upon him 
iu the work of completely restoring the Union, and in removing the cln.'f wuises 



G66 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

of future national disturbance; and that lie has our warmest sympathies, and 
shall have our most earnest prayers to the Throne of Heavenly Grace that he may, 
in the performance of all his duties, be sustained and directed by the hand of 
Him in whose support and guidance individuals and nations can alone securely 
trust. 

W. S. TAYLOR, Modera/or. 
Kalamazoo, Michigan, October 2S, 1865. 



Headquarters 1st Brigade, 3d Division, 

Department of West Virginia, 
Martinshurg, Va., April 17, 1805. 

At ameeting held at the headquarters 1st brio;ade, 3d division, department West 
Virginia, on this the 17th day of April, 1865, composed of the regimental and 
detachment commanders of the brigade as aforesaid, in pursuance of an invita- 
tion to that effect from Captain 0. S. Ilsley, acting assistant adjutant general, 
convened for the purpose of expressing more especially their feelings of profound 
sympathy witli Brigadier Gleneral Seward, their esteemed commanding officer, 
in the recent affliction that has befallen him, the following resolutions were 
adopted : 

Whereas it has pleased an all-wise Providence to'visit a terrible calamity 
upon the nation through the death of our Chief Magistrate, 

And whereas, in conjunction with the sad tidings of the assassination of that 
honored and revered President and patriot, his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, we 
have- heard of the dastardly attempt to assassinate the honorable William H. 
Seward, Secretary of State, the father of our commanding general. 

And whereas, it is eminently proper that we, the commanding officers of the 
different organizations comprised in this brigade, and as the legitimate mediums 
of the same, should exhibit more especially some evidence of the piofound 
sympathy which this entire command feel for their beloved commanding general 
in this the hour of his tribulation : Therefore, be it i-esolved — 

1st. That the wicked, unprecedented and inhuman murder of the nation's 
Chief Magistrate and most honored son, is a crime the most horrible that has 
ever disgraced our coitntry's history. 

2d. That as the representatives of the 1st brigade, 3d division, department of 
West Virginia, we take this method to exhibit to our commanding general those 
feelings of respect and admiration in which his person is held by this command, 
and which he has merited by his uniform justice, equity, and kindness toward 
them. 

3d. That we extend to our beloved commanding general and his afflicted 
family the most heartfelt and unfeigned sympathy. 

4th. That it shall be our prayer that the honorable Secretary and his chil- 
dren may be restored to full health and happiness, and to many long years of 
future usefulness. 

5th. That a copy of these resolutions and proceedings be signed by the offi- 
cers of this meeting, and be transmitted without delay t) Brigadier General W. 
H. Seward, and also that they be published. 

Captain Andrews, upon seconding the motion to adopt the resolution, delivered 
a most solemn and impressive address. 

The preamble and resolutions were then unanimously adopted. Upon motion 
of Lieutenant Colonel Vernon, the meeting then adjourned sine die. 

n. E. COOK, 
Colonel 1st P. H. B. Md. Vol. Inf., President. 
C. S. ILSLEY, 
, Cajjtain A. A. A. General, Secretary. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. GG7 

Mattai'oisktt, Mass., A/>ril 19, 1S65. 

Whereas, in the mysterious providence of Almiglity God, Al)riih;)iu Lincoln, 
the revered and beloved Chief jMagistrate of these United States, has been stricken 
down by the hand of an assassin, and the nation has thus been rot)bed of its cho- 
sen and cherislied head ; and whereas the blow thus struck falls with the same 
sudilenness and severity on the whole country, making it incumbent on every 
community to g^ive public expression to their sentiments respecting ihid appall- 
ing event : Therefore, 

Resolved, That we regard the death of President Lincoln, at the moment 
when the results of his first administration, sustained, as it was, thnnigh a period 
of reckless rebellion, and a civil conflict unparallelled for its atrocities, -were rap- 
idly ripening into increased national glory, prosperity, and peace, as altogether 
too great a calamity to be fully estimated at the present time. 

Resulted, That the murder of the I'resident, while it immensely aggravates 
our sorrow for our great loss, tills us with humiliation and shame, as the darkest 
and most iudellible blot ever yet fastened upon the American name. 

Resolred, That we regard the killing of President Lmcoln, in connection with 
the attempted assassination of the head of the Department of State — himself one 
of the most distinguished statesmen of the age — as unquestionably the fruit of 
that spirit of southern devotion to slavcny and hatred to northern freedom which 
had already plunged the South into the guilt of the blackest treason ever known 
to the civil zed world, and the whole republic into the horrors of an iniprovoked 
and terrible Avarfare. 

Resoh-ed, That we regard the lamented Abraham Lincoln as a man of rare 
endowments, for conducting this great nation through an unforeseen and jier- 
plexing crisis in public affairs ; and that we deem ourselves, as a people, deeply- 
indebted, under God, to his united wisdom and strength, foresight and firmness, 
serenity and courage, high statesmanship and incorruptible integriiy, for the 
preservation of the country from fatal dismemberment, and for the prospect of 
approaching Union and peace. 

Resolred, That we bless God for having raised up just such a man as Abra- 
ham Linc(dn was, to become the discreet and successful emancipator of more 
than four millions of bondmen, and for the utter extinction of a system of op- 
pression and wrong wholly incompatible with a republican goveii\ment, with 
naiional prosperity, and the fundamental law of the Christian religion. 

Resolred, That we tender to the surviving companion and family of our de- 
ceased President our heartfelt sympathy in their great sorrow and bereavement, 
fervently commending th: m to the giacious care and protection of their Father 
in heaven. 

Rrso/red, That we likewise offer to William IL Seward, the prostrated but 
highly honored Secretary of Stale, our affectionate congratulations on his well- 
nigh miraculous escape from the same brutal death which was inflicted on his 
noble friend, and which was equally intended for himself; and we join willi 
every loyal man in the country in devout thanksgivings for the prospt ct of Ins 
speedy return to the post ol duty and of honor, which he has so ably filled and 
adorned. 

Resolred, I'hat we present our most respectful and sincere assurance to the 
Hon. Andrew Johnson of the cordiality and confidence with which we greet his 
accession to the chief magistracy of the nation, and of our earnest prayer that 
be may be enabled to cany out, to a triuniphant consummation, the great work 
so auspiciously begun by his lamented predecessor. 

Resolred, That we reverently invoke the continued favor of Heaven tor our 
beloved but distracted country, firndy trusting that, as Jehovah was our fathers' 
God, He will be ours and our children's God, to the latest generation. 



668 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Resoh-ed. That a copy of these repolutious, signed hy the chairman and sec- 
retary, be forwarded to the fagiily of the deceased President, to the Secretary 
of State, and to the new President. 

HENRY BARSTOW, Chairman. 
« W. E. SPARROW, iSecretary. 



City of Ma\chestkr, N. H., 

Mayor's Office, April IS, 18G5. 

Gentleme.v of the City Council : Abraham Lincoln, President of these 
United States, died at Washington on the morning of the 15th instant, between 
the hoars of seven and eight o'clock. 

The death of the great and good must always bring sorrow to the heart ; and 
when the honored Chief Magistrate of a great nation — one who, through all the 
trials and vicissitudes of such a four years' experience as our country has never 
before seen, has labored and waited, watched and endured, patient and serene 
alike under the malignant attacks of enemies and the mistaken zeal of friends ; 
pursuing at all times and under all circumstances the even tenor of his way, look- 
ing to Heaven for his guidance and the promotion of the best welfare of the 
whole country as the end to be sought — when such a man and at such a time is 
suddenly stricken down by the ruthless hand of tht; assassin, well may the 
great heart of the nation throb with an anguish too trrrible for words to express. 
The anchor of our hopes at such a time is trust in Almighty God. 

That President Lincoln was eminently fitted to guide the ship of state througli 
the stormy period of the past four years must be apparent to all. His abiding 
faith in the final triumph of our government over rebellion was wonderful. 
Even in the darkest days of the struggle, when some of the wisest and best of 
our statesmen were almost if not quite ready to abandon the contest, he never 
faltered nor wavered ; but, strong in the might of a holy cause, and firm in his 
reliance on a righteous Cod and the great heart of the people, he pressed steadily 
on till the prize for which he labored, peace and umon, was almost within his 
grasp. But while bis eyes saw it, his hand was not permitted to grasp it ; he 
has been taken from us and gone to his reward. 

In view of this great national bereavement I think it fit and proper that we 
should place upon our city records, in some form, an expression of the feelings 
which I believe animate the hearts of all our citizens. 

D. J. DANIELS, Mayor. 

The communication of his honor the mayor was read and referred to a joint 
special committee, who subsequently reported the foUowiiig jn'eamble and reso- 
lutions : 

RESOLUTIONS. 

Whereas Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States, has suddenly 
been removed from the scene of his earthly labors by the hand of an assassin ; 
and whereas we desire to place upon the records of our city some expression 
of the feelings which animate the hearts of onr citizens : Therefore, 

Resohed, That we deplore his iintimely death as one of the most stupendous 
calamities which has ever beffxllen the nation. 

Rcsolred, That by this sad event the country has lost a sagacious and en- 
lightened statesman, an incorruptible magistrate, a benefactor to the friendless 
and unfortunate, a pure and devoted patriot, and, an ardent defender of the 
rights of man. 

Resolred, That in the assassination of President Lincoln we recognize the 
same malignant spirit which struck down Charles Sumner upon the floor of the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY G69 

United States Senate; that has driven free thouglit and free speech fioiii evny 
rebel State ; that pLmned and inaugurated thiri^unholy rt-bellidn ; that t^pilled 
the first martyr-bh)od in Baltimore ; that starred and tortured our prisoners of 
war, and that has des'royed the lives of the noblest and be.«t of the land. 

Rcso/red, That while we would reverently bow in ineekne:«s before the Su- 
preme Ruler of the universe, who has sutiered this great affliction to overtake 
us, we declare our undying hostility to treason in all its forms, and our solemn 
determination to maintain, at whatever cost, the Union establii^hud by our 
fathers and the Constitution of the United States. 

EcsoJvcd, That we will ever cherish the memory and emulate the exalted 
virtues of our late beloved and illustrious President, and, like him, we will labor 
to effect the removal of the cause of slavery from the land and establish free- 
dom to all, of whatever race or color, that the unity, the peace, and the glory 
of the republic may be secured and perpetuated. 

Resolved, That we have an abiding confidence in the ability, the integrity, 
and the patriotism of Andrew Johnson, who, by the decree of llim who doeth 
all things well, has been called to the presidency of the United States ; and, 
in view of the great responsibilities he assumes and the trials he may encoun- 
ter, we extend to him our warmest symjKithies, and pledge to him our unfalter- 
ing support in consummating the patriotic designs and in the completion of the 
just and beneficent work of his lamented predecessor. 

Resvlrvd, That the intelligence of the murderous assault on the honorable 
William H. Seward, Secretary of State, awakens in oar minds the most pain- 
ful anxieties, and we ardently hope that his life may be spared, and that the 
nation may continue to be blessed by his great experience and profound states- 
manship. 

Resolred, That copies of these resolutions be sent to tlie President of the 
United States, the heads of the several departments at Washington, and the 
family of the deceased. 

In common council, April 18, 1865. Passed unanimously. 

1. H. RUSSELL, President. 

In board of mayor and aldermen, April 18, ISG/). Passed unanimously. 
[>EAL.] 1). J. UAXIEi.S, Minjfjr. 



Resolutions passed at a meeting held hij the St. George's Society of Madison^ 

Wisconsin. 

Madison, Wisconsix, April 21, 1865. 

At a special meeting of the St. George's Society of the city of Madison, 
the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

Whereas Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States, has suddenly 
fiillen by the hand of an assassin, and been called to eternity — 

Resolved, By the St. George's Society of the city of Madison, that we deeply 
and sincerely sympathise with the family of the illustrious deceased and our 
fellow-citizens throughout the Union in their sad bereavement. 

Resolved, That although we regard the death of an able and devoted Presi- 
dent at this time as a great calamity, yet that we have abiding faith in the 
power and determination of the American people to preserve their nation and 
honor, thus erecting the most sidjstantial and appropiiate monument to the worth 
and character of their deceased leader. 

JOSEPH HOBBINS, President. 

Attest : 

EDWARD BARBER, Secretary. 



670 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

"One shaU be taken and the other left " 

E.ESPECTF.D Sir : Amid the throes of our beloved afflicted land, when the 
loyal millions put on sackcloth and were bowed to the earth in sadness ; when 
the heart of the nation beat with one universal and weighty impnlse for the 
memory of the immortal Lincoln, the lightning flashed the dire intelligence that 
the curtains of thy secret chamber had been rent by the assassin, thy couch 
blood-stained by the villanous hireling, thy sons maimed, and, oh horrible, that 
thou, too, had suffered death ; and we mourned for thee as lost to our suflfering 
country, for thy wisdom, thy prudence, thy firmness, and the wealth of thy pa- 
triotism, all doubly needed now. But — joyful, grand truth — the subtle fluid re- 
veals to us thou art not dead, and that thy forethought and thy God hath made 
thee live. 

Then live, live ; guide the nation through the coming crisis, for her orphans, 
her widows, her maimed, her futui'e, and for humanity's sake live. 

In testimony whereof, please receive this as a memento of our love, and allow 
the humble attendants and sick and wounded soldiers of Harvey United States 
Army General Hospital to subscribe their names. 

0. M. ROCKWELL, V. R. C. 
IVER JOHNSON, 23d Wis. Inftintry. 
O. J. BORN, 36th Wis. Infantry. 
C. W. BERRY, 36th Wis. Infantry. 
H. S. ABBO rr, 32d Wi-s. Infantry. 
C. H. TALLARD, Wis. Battery. 
And four hundred and twenty-five others. 
Hon. William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



[Translation.] 



Resolutions on the death of President Lincoln offered hy Professor Vincenzo 
Botia, at the meeting of the Italian residents of New York, held at the 
Cooper Institute, April 23, 1865, arid unanimously approved. 

In pursuance of a call from the duke of Licignano, the consul general of 
Italy, the Italian residents of New York held a meeting on Friday night, the 
23d April, at the Cooper Institute, to express their sympathy for the American 
people in their national bereavement The meeting was well attended, and 
composed of all classes of the Italian immigration. 

The following resolutions, submitted by professor Botta, were unanimously 
approved : 

Resolred, That the meeting share with heartfelt sympathy the deep sorrow 
in which this nation has been plunged by the sudden death of its Chief Magis- 
trate. 

Resolred, That they share with equal intensity of feeling the horror which 
the infamous assassination of the President of the United States has awakened 
in all hearts not entirely dead to all genuine sentiments of human nature. 

Resolved, That in the death of President Lincoln, they deplore the loss of an 
eminent statesman, who, issuing from the peojjle, and educated in the school of 
free labor, has thi-oughout the whole course of his administration shown himself 
the faithful exponent and true representative of the p ople. Simple in his life, 
modest, affable, meek and generous, President Lincoln, living in an age of cor- 
ruption, was a lofty example of sterling integrity, placed at the helm of State 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 671 

in an unparalleled crisis,- in all his political career he provcfl himself governed 
by the purest patriotism. He stood the unflinching champion of Union and 
liberty; preserved free institutions ; restored to the nation the territory which 
had been usurped by traitors, and erased the dark stain of slavery which for a 
century has sullied the glories of the country. His memory as the defender of 
the American nationality and of constitutional liberly, as the emancipator of 
the African race, and the redeemer of the southern people deserves the unbounded 
veneration and the gratitude of all the world. 

ResoJrcd, That wdiile they deprecate assassination, even when committed 
under the pretext of promoting the cause of liberty, they do not lind words to 
express their sense of the iniquity of the murder of the late ]*resident of the 
United States. A flagrant violation of tlie sovereignty of the people, of whom 
he was the legitimate representative, perpetrated in revenge of his glorious 
achievements in upholding the American Union and promoting the emancipation 
of the slaves. The crime has no parallel in history, and deserves the unquali- 
fied abhorence of all civilized people. 

Resolved, That in admiring the unanimous sentiment of loyalty which the 
national bereavement has awakened in the breasts of all the American people, 
they cordially unite with them in pledging themselves to stand by th(; govern- 
ment, faithful to the laws of the country, devoted to the Union, and ready to 
give their unflinching support to those measures which his worthy successor 
may consider expedient in order to accom[)lish his work, to restore order and 
peace, and to extirpate from all the territory of the republic slavery, which has 
brought on this nation the calamity of civil war, and prompted the foul crime 
by which it is now appalled. 

Resolred, That they extend their cordial sympathy to the honorable Secre- 
tary of State, Mr. Seward, and his fiimily, victims also of the cowardly attack ; 
and that they nffer their heartfelt condolence to the widuw and the family of 
the deceased Chief Magistrate. 

Re.solfed, That the Italian immigration will attend the funeral of President 
Lincoln to take place in this city on Tuesday next. 



At a meeting of Portuguese citizen^, held at the consulate general of Portugal, 
on the afternoon of the 26th April, 1865, to give expressions of tlie'r feelings at 
the atrocious act committed on the President of the United States, the follow- 
ing ri'<3T)lutions were passed : 

1. That the assassination of Abrahatn Lincoln has awakened the highest 
indignation among the Portuguese population of the United States. 

2. That we, Portuguese, hereby oftVr to the people of the United States our 
sincerest sympathy on the loss of the Chief Magistrate of the country. 

3. That to the family of the late President we also offer a tribute of our 
deepest grief for the irrejjarable loss they have sustained. 

4. That we priifoundly regret the attempt made on the lives of the Secretary 
of State, Mr. William H. Seward, and that of his son, .Mr. F. W. Seward, 
oflftring our sincerest wishes for the recovery of both. 

5. That we also offer our ardent wishes for peace and prosperity to tlic 
United States under its new administration. 

6. That these resolutions be f )rwarded to the legation of Portugal, to be 
transmitted to the government of the United States, to ihe family of Abraham 
Linculn, to the Secretary of State, Mr. William H. Seward, and to his sun. 



672 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation.] 

Consulate op Spain, New YorJc. 

Record of proceedivgs. 

In the city of New York, on the 22d clay of the month of April, 1865, the 
Spaniards residents of said city assembled at the Lafarge Hotel to bear witness 
publicly to the part they take in the sorrow of this .republic of the United 
States, by reason of the tragical and lamentable events of the 14th instant. 

The meeting having come to order, and Don Rafael Alvarez being appointed 
secretary thereof, the consul of her Mcijesty delivered the following address : 

Gentlemen : This meeting has for its object to give a public demonstration of 
the sorrow and indignation which has been caused to all of us by the horrible out- 
rages committed at Washington, on the night lif the 14th instant, on the person of 
Mr. Linc(dn, the Chief ^Magistrate of the United States, with which our country 
is in the best relations of peace and friendship; to condemn in the most solemn 
manner the Avicked attempt at assassination made against the persons of the 
Secretary of State, Mr. Seward, and his son ; to manifest our sympathies with the 
American people; to associate ourselves in the public sorrow for the loss which 
the country has just suffered, and to offer our most sincere condolence to the 
family of the deceased Mr. Lincoln. 

It is a mournful duty of humanity that we are called on to discharge, without 
being in any manner influenced by the spirit of party, being, as we have been 
and are, strangers to the untoward war which has for more than four years 
afflicted this country. 

The secretary, Don Rafael Alvarez, then read the following resolutions: 

The Spaniards resident in the city of New York have this day assembled 
to bear witness publicly to the indignation and sorrow which has been caused 
to them by the horrible crime committed on the person of President Abraham 
Lncoln, which has filled the people of the United States with grief, and have 
agreed to adopt the resolutions followmg : 

That they energetically condemn the horrible and cowardly assassination of 
President Abraham Lincoln. 

That they sincerely sympathize with the people of the United States, and 
participate with them in the sorrow produced by the great loss they have just 
suffered in the death of their Chief Magistrate. 

That tliey offer the most earnest wishes for the close of the war which now 
afflicts the United States, and that peace and prosperity may be re-estal4ished 
among them. 

That they offer the most sincere condolence to the family of the deceased 
Sir. Lincoln, and share in the profound grief in which they are plunged by the 
great loss they have just suffered. 

That they lament and solemnly condemn the iniquitous attempt at assassina- 
tion made on the person of the Honorable William H. Seward, Secretary of 
State, and on that of his son, Mr. P. W. Seward, and pray the Almighty for 
the prompt restorati(m of the health of both, that they may again take charge 
charge of the Department of State, which they have so ably and with such 
good results conducted during four years. 

That f(jr such cause they earnestly press upon Mr. Seward and his son the 
offer of their sympathies, to which they are so well entitled. 

That these resolutions be transmitted to his -excellency the minister of Spain 
at Washington, that he may please to communicate them officially to the gov- 
ernment of the United States, to the family of Mr. Lincoln, and that of the 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. G73 

Secretary of State, as the true expression of the feelings of the Spaniards resi- 
dent in New Yoik, who do not hesitate to make assurance that they arc also 
those of all the people of Spain. 

JUAN PICO Y VILLANUEVA, 

Consul <<f her Majesty. 

RAFAEL ALVAREZ, Secretary. 



CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE STATE OF NEW YOKK.-INSTITUTED 

A. D. 1768. 

At a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, hold on the 22d day of 
April, I860, the following preamble and resolutions, submitted by Mr. A. A. 
Low, president, were unanimously adopted: 

IN MKMORIAM. 

The death of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States of America, 
on Saturday, the loth day of April instant, by its suddenness and attendant 
circumstances overwhelming the people of the whole land with a feeling of pro- 
found grief, this chamber deems it proper, in assembling at the present time, to 
make record on its bonk of minutes of the loss sustained by the nation at a very 
important juncture in its affairs, a loss the magnitude of which is made manifest 
in the most wide-spread demonstration of sorrow by the suspension of business 
for the space of six days, during which our fellow-citizens have voluntarily 
withdrawn from their customary scnilar avocations, on Wednesday and Tlinrs- 
day, the 18th and 19th instant, in obedience to the proclamation of the civil 
authorities, closing their places of business, and resorting very generally to 
houses of public worship in a spirit of humiliation and ])rayer. The whole city 
draped in mourning testified as no language can to the universal sentiment that 
a great and good man had departed this life. Sharing deeply in the nation's 
grief, and feeling deeply the greatness of the nation's loss, it is hereby — 

Resolred, That this chamber will earnestly co-operate in any measures that 
may b*l suggested by the city authorities to receive and attend with due respect 
the remains of the late President of the United States in their passage through 
this city on jMonday and Tuesday next. 

Resolved, That this chamber will cherish and honor the memory of Abraham 
Lincoln as of one who was wise in council and remarkable for his singleness 
of purpose; in practical good sense, upright aim, and devotedness of life 
resembling the immortal Washington, who, throughout four years of civil war, 
so conducted and guided the administration of public affairs as to lead up the 
minds of our people to a higher and still higher estimate of his character for 
sagacity, combined with utmost simplicity; for firmness tempered by moderation; 
for justice allied with a spirit of conciliation; and that in death ail parties are 
united in his ))raise, and vie with each other in their undivided homage, of whom 
it may be justly said that if not "first in war" in his day and generation, he 
was "first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." 

In testimony whereof this chamber orders that the fn-egoing be entered at 
length on its book of records, and that a copy of the same be sent to the family 
of tlie deceased, with whom it is the nation's privilege to sympathize and mourn 
as for a common and irreparable loss. 

Attest ■ 

JOHN AUSTIN STEVENS, Jr., 
43 ^ Secretary. 



674 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

4 

Resolutions of tlie Young 3Ien's Christian Association of New York. 

Whereas God, in His providence, has removed from this earth Abraham Lin- 
coln, the President of the United States, a man simple and childlike, truthful in 
intei'course, earnest in purpose, meek in spirit, pure in heart, illustrious in deeds, 
and Christian in all his ways ; and whereas God has likewise permitted to be 
stricken down our chief counsellor of state — 

Resolved, That we bow to His high purpose in perfect faith, knowing that 
our Heavenly Father doeth all things well, and that we mourn for the good 
man who has gone before as children mourn for their father, and that we offer 
our fervent prayers for the recovery of our Secretary of State. 

Resolved, That we recognize in these assaults the familiar hand of that system 
of assassination which for eighty years has embittered the councils of our 
country, stricken down senators in Congress, repressed free speech, bought and 
sold and whipped the laboring class, starved to death prisoners of war, and 
deluged a nation in blood ; and that we will never rest till that sum of all vil- 
lauies is extirpated in the land. 

Resolved, That we humble ourselves in contrition for the assent by us given, 
in times past, to this system of sin, and devoutly promise for the future a more 
perfect conformity to that freedom wherewith Christ has made us free. 

Resolved, That in the succession to the presidency of the late Vice-President, 
a man of the people, who has suffered deeply by this rebellion, we see the hand 
of a just God, and we offer our prayers that the Ruler of nations will give 
him grace, wisdom, and firrdness of purpose to fulfil aright the duties of his 
exalted office. 

Resolved, That when we reflect that this act, by which a nation is thrown into 
mourning and a government threatened with confusion, was affected through the 
instrumentality of young men, we profoundly feel the necessity for a more united 
and earnest effort on the part of our associations to care for the morals and habits 
of the young men of America. 

CHARLES E. WHITEHEAD, 

Corresponding Siecretary. 



At a special meeting of the Vestry of Trinity church, called by the rector 
upon the arrival of the news of the assassination of the President of the United 
States, and held at three o'clock p. m., on Saturday, the 15th day of April, in 
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, the following 
preamble and resolutions were adopted : 

Whereas, on the evening of the 14th day of April, 1865, being Good Friday, 
by an assassin as yet unknown, the venerated and beloved President of the 
United States, Abraham Lincoln, was suddenly assaulted and slain ; and whereas 
the announcement of that appallng crime has just been made to this community, 
filling all hearts with a grief, astonishment, and indignation, which cannot be 
described ; and whereas this vestry has been called together by the rector to 
take such action as, in their judgment, may be fit and becoming : Therefore, 

Resolved, That this Vestry, as sharers in the common distress and affliction, 
unite in the public lamentation over the untimely death of the honored Chief 
Magistrate of the Union, and, shocked beyond measure at the intelligence which 
has just been received, remain without words adequate to express their sorrow. 

Resolved, That we recognize in this calamitous event one of those visitations 
permitted by Almighty God, before which a nation can but bow in silence and 
awe, with the prayer that they may be overruled for the good of our country. - 

Resolved, That while we regard the act by which our beloved country has thus 
been, through indescribable malice and fury, plunged into the deepest affliction, 



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a? one of those crimes of wliicli no langunge can adequately paint the atrocity — 
of which the history of Enrope has not for many centnries furnished a j)aralk'l ; 
of wliich our own history has afforded thus far no examjile, and than which no 
history presents a more detestabh; and infamous act to the view; Ave cannot but 
hold it to have been dictated by the spirit which, from the commencement of 
our national troubles has sympathized Avith the enemies of the public peace, And 
aided and abetted the rebellion now, as we trust, subdued ; a spirit whose ten- 
dencies and essential character had previously been manifested in the July riots 
in this city in 1863, in the attempt to destroy this city by incendiarism in No- 
vember last, and in the systematic outrages inflicted on our captured soldiers in 
the prisons of the South. 

Resolved, That this Vestry hereby record their tribute of respect to the mem- 
ory of the late President, with profound sorrow for his loss, nicognizing in him 
a singleness of purpose, an honesty of intention, an ardent patriotism, a fidelity 
to duty, and a growing mastery of the circumstances of his position, which en- 
abled him, under Providence, to fulfil and bring to successful completion a work 
almost unprecedented for difficulty: and that in his removal, at the moment in 
which the labors of his last four years had culminated in the triumph of the na- 
tional authority, and the evident approach of the blessings of peace, we see the 
completion of a career which the nation will ever look back to w-ith thankful- 
ness, and hold in affectionate and tender remembrance. 

Resolved, That the rector be requested to take order, that the churches of 
this parish be draped in mourning, in token of our sympathy with the distress 
and anguish which have been caused throughout the length and breadth of the 
laud by the murder of our venerated and beloved Chief ^lagistrate. 

Attested by order of the corporation of Trinitv church, in the city of Ncav 
York. 

J. MORGAN DIX, Rector. 
G. M. OGDEN, Clerk. 



Resolutions passed at a meeting held hy the trustees of Columhia College, New 

York. 

At a meeting of the trustees of Columbia College, in the city of New York 
on the seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
hundred and sixtv-five, the following resolutions were passed. 

Whereas, in the midst of universal exultation and gladness at the brilliant suc- 
cesses of the national arms, and at the prospect of the speedy extinction of the 
existing great rebellion, and of the restoration of Union and peace to our dis- 
tracted country the nation has been suddenly shocked, and the hearts of the 
people have been wrung with anguish, by the foul assassination of our venerated 
and beloved Chief Magistrate, and by a simultaneous attempt upon the life of 
the honored Secretary of State of the United States : Therefore be it 

Resolved, By the board of trustees of Columbia College, that by the death of 
Abraham Lincoln the American nation has lost a man whose simplicity and native 
energy of character, honesty and tenacity of jturpose, pure and disinterested 
patri'otism, and a rare combination of justice and humanity, made him honored, 
beloved and revered, and whose career as a Magistrate of a free })eoplc, will render 
him illustrious, wherever free institutions and universal emancipation shall 

exist through all ages. , , , . , i 

Resolved, That the act by which Abraham Lincoln has been stricken down 
in the midst of his usefulness, is one Avhich, for fiendish atrocity, is without a 
parallel in the annals of history, and which stamps its author, its instigators, 
and all who approve the crime or shelter the criminal, as deserving the detest- 
ation and abhorrence of all mankind to the latest generations. 



676 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Resolved, That a like abhorrence and execration must pursue the wretch 
■who aimed the assassin's dagger at the heart of William II. Seward, as he lay 
helpless upon a bed of suffering, and who only desisted from his dastardly at- 
tack when he supposed that his diabolical purpose had Been accomplished. 

Rcsoh-cS, That this board recognize in these acts of stupendous and unpre- 
cedented malignity only the legitimate manifestations of that spirit of hostility 
to all law, human or divine, which originally prompted and has since continued 
lO sustain the nefarious attempt upon the life of the nation which, for four years, 
has made our once happy laud a scene of such horrors as the world has never be- 
fore witnessed. 

Resolved, That a cause identified in its inception, by the avowals of its own 
supporters, with the perpetuation of the crudest form of human bondage; which 
has employed in its support practises so shocking to humanity and so abhor- 
rent to every precept of religion as to partake rather of the ferocity of wild 
beasts and savages than of the spirit of an enlightened Christian civilization ; 
practises such as the deliberate starvation of prisoners-of-war, the brutal mas- 
sacre of prostrate garrisons, the sacrilegious desecration of the remains of the 
dead, the persecution, torture and murder of unhappy recusants, and the inhu- 
man hunting down, with bloodhounds, of miserable refugees ; and which finally 
sends into the heart of our populous towns, and into our national capital, the 
midnight incendiary with his torch and the dastardly assassin with his knife, is one 
which cannot much longer continue to receive the countenance or encouragement 
of any people which calls itself Christian, but must compel all good men and 
all good governments everywhere to make common cause against its maintainers 
and abettors as common scourges of mankind and enemies of the human race. 

Resolved, That this board tenders its most respectful sympathy and condo- 
lence to the bereaved family of the lamented Chief Magistrate, assuring them 
that the terrible calamity which has deprived them of their natural protector 
and support has only the more endeared them to the hearts of the American 
people, and has entitled them to receive, and made it sure that they shall re- 
ceive, every tender care and every generous provision in the power of a great 
and maguanimous nation to afford to soften to them the bitterness of their afflic- 
tion. 

Resolved, That this body extend also a sympathy equally sincere to the 
suffering Secretary of State, preserved, as by a miracle, from death at the as- 
sassin's hand, and to his family, outraged by this demoniac violence, and soon 
possibly to be shrouded in mourning for the loss of one of its cherished mem- 
bers fjilleu a victim to his filial devotion, and earnestly trusts and prays that 
God in his mercy may soon restore to renewed strength and usefulness this 
tried and faithful public servant, that he may continue long in the future, as he 
has done in the past, by his sagacity and wisdom, to guide our ship of state 
safely among the perils to which, in the present trying time, the complications 
of diplomacy are continually exposing it. 

iiesoived.. That the fiendish ferocity which has marked the conduct of the 
people of the insurgent States throughout the progress of this nefarioits attempt 
to subvert the foundations of the government and to extinguish popular liberty 
upon the American continent is, in the opinion of this board, but the natural and 
necessary fruit of that half-barbarous social system which boasts as its distin- 
guishing feature and chief corner-stone the liopeless enslavement of a weak and 
helpless race of human beings ; and that, if upon this subject any difference of 
opinion among loyal men has heretofore existed, this crowning act of deliberate, 
premeditated, malignant atrocity must, from this hour henceforth, unite all sen- 
sible men, all good citizens, all honest patriots, and all sincere Christians, in the 
fixed and unalterable determination to wash out and exterminate from the land 
every trace of an institution which, after so long disgracing our civilization and 
brutalizing large communities of our people, has at length generated crimes at 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 677 

whicli the whole world must stand amazed, and whose frightful enormity will 
make them forever fearfully and unai)proacliably pre-eminent in the annals of 
human wiekedness. 

HAMILTON FISH, 

Chairman of the Board of Tnisfeea. 
J. WILLIAM I3ETTS, Ckrk. 



Honored Sir: The following resolution was unanimously adopted b}'- the 

New York Annual Conference of Ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Cliurch, 

at its session in the city of New York, commencing April 19, lSG5,and ordered 

to be engrossed, and a copy forwarded to your excellency. . 

Your obedient servant, 

THOS. W. CHADWICK, Secretary. 
His Excellency William H. Seward, 

Secrttarij of State. 

Resolved, That we render to our highly respected and able Secretary of State, 
Hon. W. H. Seward, and to the members of his family suffering with him under 
the murderous blows of the assassin, our deep sympathy in their sufferings, and 
our earnest prayers that the poiver which so far held the hand of the conqiirator 
that life Avas saved, may be pleased to raise them to health again; and that the 
trained mind which has so wisely guided our foreign relations may be permitted 
still to ofl'er its well-considered counsels to the President of the L'nited States. 



Veterans of the National Guard, 
Headquarters Seventh REcii.MENT Armory, 

New York, April 29, 1865. 

At a special meeting of this association, held this evening, the following ex- 
pressions of its sentiments and fi-elings were unanimously adopted : 

The national joy has been suddenly turned to mourning. Exuberant con- 
gratulations at the brilliant victories of the Union armies have given place to 
lamentations of grief and sadness. The glorious banner of our liberty, proudly 
floating from every housetop, emblem of our strength, now droops with the 
sombre draperies of woe, at half-mast. A great and good miin has fallen. 
Stricken down by the hand of an assassin, in a moment of fancied security and 
relaxation from cares of state, without note of warning. Abraham Lincoln, 
President of the United States, is dead. 

Whereas the parricidal hand has been nerved by this wicked rebellion which, 
for four years, has been striving to overthrow our government, we desire, in 
common with all good and loyal citizens, to place upon record our utter detesta- 
tiou of the horrid crime, and our unqualified cnndemnation of the cause which 
induced or incites to assassination — the most odious means known to civilization 
for the removal of an enemy. 

And whereas at a time when, by the surrender and dispersion of the rebel 
armies before the invincible hosts of the Union, the so-called confederacy was 
fast crumbling away, and the prospect of speedy peace gave us tlie right to ex- 
pect no more bloodshed, the very head of the nation — the highest representative 
of a free people in all the world — is called at such a tiiue to give his life's blood 
in defence of the right : Now, therefore. 

Resolved, That, in humble eubmission to the decree of Almighty God, who, 



678 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

i 1 His own inscrutable providence, permits this great crime to be visited upon 
us, we reverently and devoutly pray that the wisdom which governs the uni- 
verse, and permits not " even a sparrow to fall to the ground without His 
knowledge," may so guide our hearts and direct our minds that we may duly 
realize the lesson intended to be taught us as a nation by this afflicting dispen- 
sation. 

Resolved, That we tender our heartfelt sympathies to the widow and family 
of the illustrious dead. We mourn with them for the loss of a common pro- 
tector and father; one whose heart ever beat with the largest humanity; who 
wept with those who wept over the fallen heroes of this desperate struggle; who 
expended his efforts to relieve the oppressed ; and who succeeded in setting the 
captives free. 

Resolved, That the eulogy of Abraham Lincoln is already written in the 
hearts of the American people. The mighty outpourings of a generous nation 
to cast a look or shed a tear upon the remains of all that was mortal of the noble 
patriot, testify to the reverence and love with which he was regarded by all 
classes — that love which he so magnanimously reciprocated and manifested in 
all his public acts. 

Resolved, That, as Washington is revered and honored as the Father of his 
Country and the founder of our government, so will Abraham Lincoln be en- 
rolled as the great martyr to human liberty, and who gave his life in support 
and defence of that government. Together their names will be blended in one 
immortal wreath — both among the names that were not born to die. 

Resolved, That in the exigencies of a great struggle for the pi-eservation of its 
life, this government puts into the hands of its President greater powers than 
were ever before, in the history of the world, voluntary bestowed upon one man ; 
yet, in the exercise of this power, Abraham Lincoln proved himself qualified for 
its proper uses. He was wise in coimcil, calm in judgment, unmoved by pas- 
sion, actuated by considerations of public good, the love of his country, the 
preservation of the Union, the protection and perpetuity of the government, and 
the welfare of the republic. 

Resolved, That, although the Executive dies, the government lives. Our Con- 
stitution has wisely provided for continuous and permanent existence. By tlys 
provision, the mantle of Elijah has fallen upon Elisha. We believe that in An- 
drew Johnson, the representative head of the government, the people have an 
earnest, able, sincere, and tried statesman and patriot. We tender to his ad- 
ministration of the difficult task imposed upon him by this blow oiar entire confi- 
dence and support. In his exercise of the powers intrusted to him, we have 
perfect faith that he Avill so temper justice with mercy that the great criminals, 
the leaders of this rebellion, the authors and abettors of the murder of hundreds 
of thousands of our loyal people, shall be made to suffer the penalties that vio- 
lated laws impose for their crime. We calmly rely on his own declaration, 
" that mercy to one is cruelty to thousands," and tliat " treason is a crime, and 
must be punished ;" and, although we advocate no measures for revenge, Ave com- 
mend just punishment in vindication of outraged law. 

The mortal remains of the beloved President have been borne from the na- 
tional capital towards his own home. The bitter- grief of the people has been 
manifestt'd in every step of their progress. This association lias borne its hum- 
ble part in the escort through our metropolis. The funeral knell — the muffled 
drum — the sad and solemn procession of the martial hosts — the sombre Iread 
of the citizen mourners, have accompanied them towards their final resting j)lace; 
and still they are moving on. Soon they will be deposited in their last abode, 
there to await the final resurrection. The ashes may remain \n the tomb that 
will soon enshroud them, but the monument that will arise to the memory of the 
great departed will be more enduring than granite column or marble urn, for it 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 679 

will be in the hearts of a grateful people, and hear on its tablet the record of a 
life given for his country. The highest honor of all ascriptions to his memory 
IS, that Abraham Lincoln died a martyr to human liberty. His spirit has as- 
cended to the throne on high, there to receive the reward of " Well done, thou 
good and faithful servant ; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." 

" Shroud the banner ! rear the Cross I 
Consi'c-rato tlie nation's loss; 
Gaze on that majestic sleep ; 
Stand beside his bier and weep ; 
Lay tlie gentle son of toil 
Proudly in iiis native soil ; 
Crowned with lionor, to his rest 
Bear the projihet of the west." 

Officers, 1865. 

Colonel — Washington R. Yermilye. 

Lieutenant Colonel — Jackson S. Schultz. 

Major — Philotus H. Holt. 

Adjutant — Edwin R. Tremain. 

Quartermaster — Andrew Hoogland. 

Paymaster — Thomas M. Adriance. 

Chaplain — Reverend S. D. Denison. 

Commissary — Gilbert L. Arrowsmith. 

Captains— H. C. Shumway, W. A. Pond, C. H. Loutrel, E. A. Brooks, Wil- 
liam D. Briggs, Alvin Denike, Charles Chamberlain, I. B. Dickinson. 

Lieutenants — Thomas Franklin, Albro Howell, John A. Hadden, Charles B. 
Bostwick, Henry A. Kerr, Waldron Young, Asher Taylor, John W. Salter. 



NEW YOEK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

At a special meeting of the New York Historical Society, held in its hall on 
"Tuesday evening, April 25, 1865, the following preamble and resolutions were 
adopted unanimously : 

On the evening of Good Friday, the fourteenth day of April, one thousand 
eight hundred and sixty-five, Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth I'resident of the 
United States of America, was treacherously assassinated in the city of Wash- 
ington. 

It was the anniveisary of the day on which, four years before, traitors in 
open arms had caused the flag of the Union to be struck from a national fortress, 
in the harbor of Charleston, in South Carolina. The same day, under Presi- 
dent Lincoln's own order, that same flag was raised again ou Fort Sumter, 
through the might of the American people. Rebellion was surrendering to the 
nation. In the very hour of its victory over disunion the undivided republic is 
called to mourn the decease of its chief servant : It is, therefore, 

Resolved, That, in common with the whole country, the New York Historical 
Society deplores the calamity which has befallen the nation in the foul murder 
of an honest-minded Cliiet Magistrate, whose large sagacity, true love of liberty 
and right, patriotic devotion to the public service, approved by the affectionate 
voice of the people, had just been crowned by the triumj)h of the national arms 
over treason, and the near prospect of peace thoughout the land. 

Resolved, Tliat the eminent American who has thus gone down to the grave has 
left to his countrymen tlu; legacy of a name forever identified with the era of the 
salvation of the Republic, through the destruction uf slavery, and of a fame which 
universal history will justly record. 



680 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Resolved, That this society, cherishing the memory of President Lincoln, di- 
rects that its hall be draped in mourning. 

Resolved, That attested copies of these resolutions he sent to the family of 
the deceased, and to the Department of State. 

Extract from the minutes. 

ANDREW WARNER, 

Recording Secretary. 
JOHN ROMEYN BRODHEAD, 
Domestic Corresponding Secretary. 



At the triennial meeting of the board of directors of the United States Life In- 
surance Company in the city of New York, held on the 15th day of May, 1865, 
the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

Whereas, since the last meeting of this board, there has been disclosed to the 
horror and indignation of the civilized world a diabolical plot to plunge this nation 
into anarchy, by the cruel and savage murder of the chief exesutive and admin- 
istrative officers of the general government ; and 

Whereas our beloved President Abraham Lincoln, who had become endeared 
to this people by the tenderest ties of an ardent patriotism, has fallen a victim to 
this foul plot, which has also prostrated and brought near to death the distinguished 
Secretary of State and his faithful son — other officers of the government having 
narrowly escaped with their lives ; and 

Whereas the unhallowed passions ai'oused by the leaders of the late rebellion, 
in their frenzied efforts to desti'oy the national life, have culminated in other most 
barbarous cruelties and outrages perpetrated on the high seas as well as on laiid, 
involving the sacrifices of multitudes of lives of defenceless prisoners, and jeop- 
arding the lives of helpless women and children in the attempted burning of 
cities by incendiaries, as well as the sacrifice of the property of non-combatants : 
Therefore, 

Resolved, That in the death of Abraham Lincoln we mourn the loss of a pure 
patriot, an honest man, an upright Chief Magistrate, the memory of whose priva^p 
virtues and public services will ever remain enshrined in the affections of this 
people. * 

Resolved, That we tender to the bereaved ftimily of the illustrious deceased 
our profound sympathy in their affliction, assuring them that in this sad hoar of 
their and the nation's sorrow, we mourn with them as" for the loss of a father. 

Resolved, That we gratefully recognize the merciful Providence that has gra- 
ciously preserved to the country the eminent counsels and services of the Secre- 
tary of State, and we hereby tender to that distinguished statesmen the assurance 
of our profound sympathy with him and his family in their afflictions. 

J. B. COLLINS, President. 
JOHN EADIE, Secretary. 



IN MEMORIAM— ABRAHAM LINCOLN— ATHEN.EUM CLUB. 
Vroceedings of the Athenceum Club in New York city. 

At the written request of several members of the association an infoi*mal meet- 
ing was held at the club- house on the evening of the 18th day of April, 1865. 
The president, Mr. William T. Blodgett, in calling the meeting to order 
addressed the members as follows : 

Gentlemen : The members of the Athenteum Club have assembled this 
evening under circumstances of the most painful and distressing character. A 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 681 

national calamity has befallen us which has no parallel in the history of the 
world, in modern times. Our representative head has been stricken down by 
the hand of an assassin in the hour of our country's regeneration, and has turned 
a nation's joy and jubilee into a nation's grief and woe. AVe have met this 
evening to take such action as may be meet and proper to give expression to 
the feelings of this club at the great calamity which has befallen us all in the 
loss of our wise ruler and that good man Abraham Lincoln, President of the 
United States. Let us as a club mingle our sympathies with those of our com- 
mon country. 

On motion of Mr. T. Bailey Myers, the following resolution was unanimously 
adopted : 

Resoh-cd, That a committee of seven be appointed by the Chair to propose 
and submit to the club resolutions expressive of the profound grief felt by its 
members at the loss the country has sustained, in the assassination of the Presi- 
dent of the United States. 

The following gentlemen were designated to compose such committee : 

T. Bailey Myers, chairman ; Francis A. Stout, Henry T. Tuckerman, W. 
Gary Smith, George P. Putnam, John H. Piatt, Richard Wuint. 

On motion of Mr. John A. C. Gray, it was 

Resolved, That a committee be appointed to communicate with the authori- 
ties and make such arrangements as will enable the club to participate in any 
funeral obsequies that may be instituted in honor of the late President. 

The Chair announced the following committee of arrangements: John A. C. 
Gray, chairman ; Jas. H. Van Alen, William S. Constant, "W. Gracie Ullshoef- 
fer, Horace iL Buggies, Schuyler Skaats, John H. Prout. 

Captain Charles Pyne suggested that we should recommend to the art com- 
mittee to secure from one of the artist members a portrait of the late I'resident, 
to be hung in the club-house. This suggestion was approved. 

On motion, the meeting adjourned to meet on the following evening, to receive 
the reports of the committees. 

GEORGE V. N BALDWIN, Secretary. 



April 19, 1865. 

Pursuant to adjournment the club assembled at 8 o'clock p. m., the president 
in the chair. The proceedings of the previous meeting were read and approved. 

Mr. T. Bailey Myers, chairman of the committee on resolutions, prefaced their 
introduction with tlie following remarks : 

j\[r. Prf.sidext: The duty has been devolved upon me of submitting to the 
club resolutions feebly expressing our sympathy in this great national bereave- 
ment. It would appear eminently proper that we should participate ni the 
public grief over our fallen leader. We have sympathized in his struggles ; 
have appreciated his exertions and his sacrifices ; and now that he has crowned 
them with his life, it is just that we should lay our humble tribute on his bloody 
tomb. We all recollect how doubtfully his first inauguration was received ; 
how many of us distrusted his ability to cope with the southern people, goaded 
into a bitter hatred of the North, under the lash of their unscrupulous leaders. 
We remember, too, how the heart of the nation rose wht^n he proclaimed that the 
unity of the States should be preserved. We had doubted, under the feeble ad- 
ministration of his predecessor, whether we ^\ere a nation or a tcj^nporary con- 
solidation of communities, to be broken at will by any factious member. A\ e 
realized when the cannon thundered before Sumter that we still pi^ssessed the 
love of country and the disposition to save it at any cost which were necessary 
to insure that end. We had rung conciliation, compromise and concession 
throu^'-hall their phases; had hesitated at coercion; but now we recognized 



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subjugation if necessary, as preferable to annihilation held one more Union- 
saving meeting, threw down the olive-branch and drew the sword. Party pref- 
erences forgotten, a whole people rushed to arms and accepted Abraham Lincoln 
as their leader. 

Clubs are little worlds in themselves. Each member brings to a common 
centre his prejudices and his sympathies, his intelligence in discussion, and his 
candor in accepting conviction. The clubs of New York, as organized bodies 
of intelligent men, at once became the centre of patriotic activity, and much good 
was done in those early days, and many a man buckled on his swoi'd, took up 
his pen, or arrayed himself actively and usefully in the great cause inspired by 
the convictions ripened by club discussion. 

The Athenajum, sir, was not behind in this great work, and she can point 
with pride to a long list of members who have done good service in the field, in 
the study, or in the councils of the nation. 

Wb can recall how intently those who found no better opportunity in active 
exertion, watched the struggle and followed the progress of our armies, with 
their Aug markers, on the map, as they slowly progressed on the borders of the 
dark region of secession — grand enough to form the area of an empire — dark 
enough for the ante-chamber of Hades. The news from the army was received 
with intense anxiety; we mourned over their reverses; we rejoiced in their 
triumphs We fought their battles over again; canvassed private information 
and private reports, and sometimes accepted probabilities for results, and rumors 
for facts, often to be disappointed. We had our favorite generals and our pre- 
judices against generals, and discussed the merits of Butler, (first in the field,) 
McClellan, Fremont, McDowell, Pope, Burnside, Rosecrans, Sherman, Thomas, 
Sherid;rn, and Grant, as each in turn assumed a prominent place. Perhaps we 
had a stronger bias fur our own three major generals in the field, and a warmer 
desire that opportunity should be given to them than to others, not only because 
they were Athenseum men, but because they had distinguished themselves in 
many a desperate struggle. Nor were our naval heroes overlooked in the 
councils of the club, or their brilliant achievements forgotten. With them to 
engage was to succeed, and a battle was almost invariably a victory. 

Perhaps these easy-chair criticisms of more earnest patriots who fought and 
suffered while we were discussing their eff'orts in a peaceful seclusion from the 
din of battle, to which we were indebted to their valor, might argue indiff"erence 
to the mighty events which were passing around us; but while it was not 
possible for all to participate, it is but just to believe that many reluctantly 
accepted inaction as a necessity. To discuss and read the newspapers are pui-e 
American characteristics. The deliberations of the Athenseum were but typical 
of those of all circles at home, and of the cabinets and people of every civilized 
nation of the globe. The institutions of a mighty nation were on their trial, 
and the question of self-government to be passed upon. Well might those not 
battling for them watch and pray ! 

Meanwhile four years were dragging slowly on. The hand on tlie dial seemed 
leaden in its course. The hope of peace often apparently near at hand, still 
intangible and remote. 

In all this period there was a patient, hopeful, earnest man, gifted with a clear 
perception, and f(n honest patriotic heart, struggling at the national capital, often 
within sound of the enemy's cannon, at once the ruler and the servant of the 
people. To him years were but as days in preserving the life of the nation; 
he stopped at no labor, he complained of no fatigue, he shunned no responsi- 
bility ; his only recreation seemed to be the indulgence of a quaint humor in 
an occasional epigram or joke, which served to show how light his heart was 
in his good work. We have heard of no jokes made by Jefferson Davis in the 
course of this war. He has lived to realize in the very existence of his paper 
fabric of a confederacy, the saddest burlesque of the century. 



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The exertions of Mr. Lincoln, and tlio immense labors thrown npon him in 
these years, those who have witnessed thern can scarcely realize, and they will 
be but faintly portrayed when the history of the strug<?le is written. Il(! had 
to organize a government, an army, a navy, a treasury ;' to select his co-lahorers; 
to reconcile their jealousies; to harmoiiiz(> discordant factions; to satisfy grasping 
place-seekers ; to decide on such vexed questions of policy at home and abroad, as 
had never been passed upon by any of his predecessors." He had to rewaid the 
deserving; encourage the despondin^- ; temper the zeal of the too contident; 
replenish and protect the treasury ; claim the services and the blood of new 
levies; and carry on, often upon his own responsibility, a war the most gigantic 
in the history of the world. Who could wonder that he made occasional erroi's, 
or that the people sometimes com})lained of his policy ? 

But when his course was passed upon by the people, his re-election proved 
to the North that his general policy was sanctioned, and that they were ready to 
carry on the war if it lasted four years longer, aye, or forty years longer, until the 
great result was gained. 

It proved to the S^uth that there was no escape for them in empty truce or 
hollow compromise ; that Lincoln had promised that he would repossess our 
forts and public places,. and restore every star to our Hag, and that promise was 
about to be fulfilled. Lincoln was re elected ; Sherman was advancing; Grant 
stood firm before Richmond, after refusing to recognize defeat, and the anaconda 
was winding itself slowly around the body of the beast. 

At length came the crowning success — Richmond had fallen ! and Lincoln 
was in person in the rebel capital, intent, with the generous impulse of a noble 
heart, to check the carnage and protect the fallen foe. Scarcely returned from 
that mission of mercy the felon blow was struck which calls forth a nation's 
grief. 

Had he fallen by the hand of an unyielding rebel on his entry into the capital 
there would have been some palliation for the act in the voluntary risk he as- 
sumed, but to strike him unarmed and unprotected, in the bosom of his family, 
in a place of amusement, where he had gone as a simple. American citizen, un- 
pi-otected by the guard his rank could have claimed, and the value of his life 
to the people required, was to take advantage in his confiding nature ; and in 
his act the assassin displayed the utter baseness and depravity of his nature, 
and the horrible teachings of the fallen cause he sought to sustain by murder. 

It will be said, sir, that his act was not justified by the whole southern people ; 
and there will doubtless be those there wlio will denounce it as a crime and de- 
spise the assassin, but there Avill be many to exult in Lincoln's fall, and would 
more if he he had not lived to inaugurate measures of forgiveness which they 
will fear his successor may not carry out. The claim of the South to represent 
the second age of chivalry has departed. A gentle heart was as necessary to 
it as gentle blood. Such a heart beat in the bosom of Abraham Lincoln, and 
it beat long enough, after humbling the haughty and setting their bondsmen 
free, in turn to temper his treatment to the vanquished with mercy, and allow 
his captives to depart in safety, each with the free gift of his charger and his 
sword. Chivalry had no nobler achievement or more gentle courtesy than this. 
Contrast it with Libby ])rison, and the prison pens of the remote South, where our 
brother members have participated in southern hospitality. ' They were not 
arranged after the fashion of chivalric receptions of a fallen foe. There was 
little of chivalry in the massacre at Fort Pillow. We have no record of threats 
to " cut out the hearts ;" no minute descriptions of curious knives to disembowel 
an adversary; no shell hidden in coal-bunkers; no theory of starving a cap- 
tured foeman into a non-combatant in the pages of Froissart or i\Ionstrelet. It 
is to the savage teaching of secession and not of chivalry that we are indebted 
that we have to-day a wide house of mourning in our land, and a martyred suc- 
cessor of Washington in our annals. 



684 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

On behalf of the committee I offer the following resolutions : 
Whereas Providence has permitted in its wisdom that the President of the 
United States should fall by an assassin's blow, aimed at the dignity of the 
nation, the Athenoeum Club, recog-nizing the loss which they have sustained in 
common with their fellow-citizens, do 

Rcsolre, That we recognize in the life of our lamented Chief Magistrate the 
patient and untiring efforts of a noble, magnanimous and patriotic heart to restore 
to its integrity a nation over which it was his fortune to be called to preside, 
when divided and torn by a rebellion more savage and vindictive than any 
known in the history of the world ; and that in his death we have witnessed a 
martyrdom to those efforts which turned against his life the fangs of the serpent 
which he had torn from the heart of his country. 

That in his efforts to achieve this great work he has displayed a patriotic 
perseverance and an ardent desire to restore the Union Avith as little distress as 
was practicable, even to those misguided men who, from motives of personal 
ambition, have striven with a fiendish malignity to destroy Avhat their fathers 
created. 

That at the moment of his death he had fully accomplished what he had so 
long struggled for with varied success, earning a reward only second to that 
bestowed upon the Father of his Country, and leaving it to his successor to deal 
with the leaders of this vile conspiracy, and to reorganize and protect their mis- 
guided followers under the protection of the old flag. 

Resolved, That in the manner of his death we witness the results of the 
teachings of secession, and how they have succeeded "in firing the southern 
heart," as manifested in the bitter hatred which has been displayed by the 
rebels in all their acts ; and that in the assassination of one so genial, so kindly 
and so generous, at the veiy moment when he was standing between the de- 
feated and prostrate traitors and the indignation of an outraged people, will, 
when consciousness returns to these misguided men, teach them that they have 
more to regret in his death than those who have, under the Constitution, recog- 
nized his administration and strengthened his hands. As Moses from the top of 
Pisgah beheld the promised land, he was permitted to view the coming restora- 
tion of the Union of the States and the triumph of the laws, for which he had 
patiently labored through four tempestuous years, before his eyes were closed in 
death. 

Resolved, That we tender the expression of our deep sympathy to the family 
of the late President and to our fellow- citizens. 

Resolved, That the club-house be draped in black, and that the members 
wear the ordinary badge of mourning for thirty days. 

Resolved, That we tender oar profound sympathy to the Secretary of State 
and to the Assistant Secretary in the dastardly assault committed upon them, 
and our contempt for the cowardice manifested in attacking a man Avhile con- 
fined to a bed of sickness ; and we trust that Providence will speedily restore 
them to health and to tlieir patriotic duties. 

Mr. Park Goodwin, in seconding the resolutions, said : 

Mr. President a\d Gentlemen: How grand and how glorious yet how 
terrible the times in which we are permitted to live! How profound and vari- 
ous the emotions that alternately depress and thrill our hearts — like these April 
skies, now all smiles and now all tears. Within a week — the Holy Week as it 
is called in the rubrics of our churches — we have had our triumphal entries 
amid the waving of the palms of peace; we have had our dread Friday of 
crucifixion ; we have had, too, in the recently renewed patriotism of the nation, 
a resuirection of a new and better life! [Sensation.] 

It seems but a day or two since we listened to the music of the glad and 
festive parade ; we saw the banners of our pride waving in beauty in every air, 
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like the beams of tlie rainbow, tellinp^ tbat the tempest was past. We pressed 
hands and hurrahed, and. grew ahnnst delirious with the joy that peace had 
come, that unity was secured, that liberty and justice, like the cherubim of the 
ark, would s*retch their wings over the altars of our country, and stand forever 
as the guardian angels of her sanctity and glory. [A])planse.] 

But now these exultant strains are changed into flic dull and heavy toll of 
bells; these flags are folded aiul draped in the emblems of mourning, and our 
hearts, giving forth no more the cheering shouts of victory, are des|iondcnt and 
full of sadness. The great cajitain of our cause, the commander-in-chief of 
our armies and navies, the Presiflent of our civic councils, the centre and director 
of movements, this true son of the people — once the poor, flat- boatman, the 
village lawyer that was, the raw, uncouth yet unsophisticated child of our 
American society and institutions, whom that society and those institutions had 
lifted out of his low estate to the foremost dignity of the world — Abraham 
Lincoln, smitten by the ba^^est haml ever upraised. against human innocence, is 
gone, gone, gone! He, who had borne the heaviest of the brunt in our four 
long years of war; whose pulse beat livelier; whose eyes danced brighter than 
any others when 

"The storm drew off, 

lu scattered thunders groaning round the hills," 

in the supreme hour of his joy and glory was struck down. That genial, kindly 
heart has ceased to beat; that noble brain has oozed from its mysterious beds; 
that manly form lies stiff in death's icy fetters, and all of him that was mortal 
has sunk " to the portion of weeds and out-worn faces." [Sensation.] 

Our feelings are now too deep to ask or warrant any attempt at an analysis 
of the character of the services of the man whose loss we deplore. Standing 
over his bier, looking down almost into the tomb to which he must shortly be 
consigned, we are conscious only of our grief We know that one who was 
great in himself, as well as by position, has suddenly departed. There is some- 
thing startlinir, srhastlv, awful in the manner of his going off. But the chief 
poignancy of our distress is not for greatness fallen, but for the goodness lost. 
Presidents have died before; during this bloody war we have lost many eminent 
generals — Lyon, Baker, Kearney, Sedgwick, Mitchell, and others ; we have lost 
lately our finest scholar, publicist, orator — 
— "That when he spnke, 
The air, a ehaiteied libertiue, was still, 
To steal his sweet and liouejed sentences.'" 

Our hearts still bleed for the companions, friends, brothers, that sleep the sleep 
"that knows no waking;" but no loss has been comparable to his who was our 
supremest leader, our safest counsellor, our wisest friend, our dear father. 

Would you know what Lincoln was ? Look at this vast metropolis, covered with 
the habiliments of woe. Never in human history has there been so universal, 
so spontaneous, so profound an expression of a nation's bereavement. In all 
our cliurchcs, without distinction of sect ; in all our journals, without distinction 
of party; in all our work.-liops, in all our counting-houses, from the st teliest 
mansion to the lowliest hovel, you hear but the; one utterance — you see but the 
one emblem of sorrow. Why has the death of Abraham Lincoln taken such 
deep hold of every class 1 Partly, no douljt, because of the awful and atrocious 
method of his death ; partly because he was our Chief Magistrate ; hut mainly, 
I think, because through all his public functions there shone the fact that he was 
a wise and good man ; a kindly, honest, nobh; man ; a man in whom the jteople 
recognized Their own better qualities ; whom they, whatever their political con- 
victions, trusted ; whom they respected ; whom they loved ; a man as pure of 
heart, aa patriotic of impulse ; as patient, gentle, sw( et, and lovely of nature, as 
ever history lifted out of the sphere of the donv stic affections to enshrine 
forever in the affections of the world. [Loud and continuous applause.] 



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Yet we sorrow not as those who are without hope. Our chief has gone, but 
our cause remains, clearer to our hearts because he has now become its martyr ; 
consecrated by his sacrifice ; more widely accepted by all parties, and fragrant 
and lovely forevermore in the memories of all the good and the great of all 
lands, and for all time. The rebellion, which began in the blackest treachery, 
to be ended in the foulest assassination — for, as Shakspeare says, 

" Treason and mnrder ever kept together, 

As two yoke devils sworn to cither's purpose" — 

this rebellion, accursed in its motive, Avhich was to rivet the shackles of slavery 
on a whole race for all the future ; accursed in its means, which have been " red 
ruin and the breaking up of law," the overthrow of the mildest and blessedest 
of governments, and the profuse shedding of brother's blood by brother's hands ; 
accursed in its accompaniments of violence, cruelty and barbarism, is now 
doubly accursed in its final act of cold-blooded murder. [Applause.] 

Cold-blooded, but impotent, and defeated in its own purposes. The frenzied 
hand which slew the head of the government, in the mad hope of paralyzing 
its functions, only drew the hearts of the people together more closely to 
strengthen and sustain its power. All the North once more, without party or 
division, clenches hands around the common altar ; all the North swears a more 
earnest fidelity to freedom ; all the North again presents its breasts as the living 
shield and bulwark of the nation's unity and life. Oh, foolish and wicked 
dream ! oh, insanity of fanaticism ! oh, blindne'ss of black hate, to think that 
this majestic temple of human liberty, with its clustered columns of free and 
prosperous States, and whose base is as broad as the continent, could be shaken 
to pieces by striking off the ornaments of its capital ! No ; this nation lives, 
not in one man, nor in an hundred men, however eminent, however able, however 
endeared to us, but in the affections, the virtues, the energies, and the will of 
the whole American people. It has perpetual succession ; not like a dynasty, 
in the line of its rulers, but in the line of its masses. They are always alive ; 
they are always present to empower its acts, and to impart an unceasiug vitality 
to its institutions. No maniac's blade, no traitor's bullet, shall ever penetrate 
that heart, for it is immortal, like the substance of Milton's angels, and can 
only " by annihilating die." [Applause.] 

These sudden visitations of Providence, these mysterious and fearful vicissi- 
tudes in the destinies of nations and individuals, always seem to our short- 
sighted human wisdom as inscrutable ; nor would it be less than presumption 
in any one to attempt to interpret the. meaning of the Divine Mind in this late 
and most appalling affliction. God, as he passes, the Scriptures tell us, can 
only be seen from behind — can only be seen when events have gone by. Until 
then, we grope in darkness ; we guess at best but dimly ; we more often muse 
in mere mute wonder and awe. Yet it is always permitted us to extract such 
good as we may from his seeming frowns and judgments. Thus I discern in 
the removal of Mr. Lincoln, lamentable and horrible as it was in its circum- 
stances, some reasons for a calm and hopeful submission to the Divine will. 
I can see how our nation is cemented by its tears into a more universal and 
aff'ectionate brotherhood ; I can see how the proclamation of freedom must be- 
come the eternal law of our hearts, if not of the land, through the martyrdom 
and canonization of its author ; I can see how the atrocious crime of assassina- 
tion must tear away from the rebellion every friend that it had left in the civil- 
ized world abroad ; and I can see how the successor of Mr. Lincoln, a southern 
man, known to the southern people by the fact of his origin and principles, not 
amenable to the prejudices knotted and gnarled about Mr. Lincoln, shall under- 
mine the supremacy of the southern leaders, and reconcile the deluded masses 
more rapidly than any acts of amnesty or promises of forgiveness. [Cheers.] 

But what impresses me most forcibly in all this business is the new demon- 



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stration that it has given of the inlierent strcnptli and elasticity of democratic 
government. We have condncted the most stupendous war ever undertaken — 
a war that involved the blockade of six thousand miles of seacoast, the de- 
fence of two thousand miles of frontier, the clearing and holding of the second 
largest river of the globe, and the occupation of a territory greater than all 
Europe, (without Russia,) not only energetically, but successfully. We have 
done it without abandoning, or vitiating, or dislocating any of our fundamental 
institutions ; for in the midst of this gigantic convulsion, we carried on a polit- 
ical canvass and a presidential election as quietly as they choose a beadle or a 
churchwarden elsewhere ; and now we have our principal men of office killed 
or disabled and the government goes on Avithout a jar, and society moves in its 
appointed way without a ripple of outbreak or disorder. Oh, yes, Americans, 
our good ship of state, which the tempests assail with their wild fury, which 
the angry surges lift in their arras that they may drop her into the yawning 
gulf, which the treacherous hidden rocks below grind and torture, yet sails on 
securely to her destined port, and when the very prince of the power of the air 
smites her captain at the helm and the first mate in his berth, she still sails on 
securely to her destined port, for her crew is still there ; they know her bear- 
ings, and will steer right on by the compass of eternal justice and under the 
celestial light of liberty. 

Mr. George D, Putnam sustained the resolutions as follows: 

Mr. President : It maybe presumptuous, especially for one who has no 
power as a speaker, to add anything to the forcible remarks of tlie gentleman 
who have already spoken. I would, with deference, merely refer to one or two 
thouglits which have been already expressed. 

Mr. Goodwin has well said, that even in this overwhelming calamity, and 
amidst this deeply aflfectirig spectacle of a great nation in tears for the loss of 
its loved and honored chielfwe do not sorrow as those who have no liope. May 
it not be, sir, that the beneficent Ruler of the universe has permitted this heavy 
blow to be struck for his own wise and merciful purposes of permanent good to 
tliis nation ; that this crowning bereavement, like many lesser disasters through- 
o\xt the great struggle of these troublous and fruitful years, may prove to have 
been needful for our national salvation and national purification t May it not 
prove that there was danger of too much leniency and forbearance to traitors, 
and that God would teach us that justice must not be wholly superseded even 
by benignant mercy ? Is notour new President right in saying tha^in the 
present position of this nation, indulgence to leading traitors may be cruelty to 
the state? 

For one, sir, I must confess a mortal repugnance to bloody revenge, and I 
believe the worst use you can make of a man is to hang him. I would give 
full force to all those considerations which are rightly urged against vindictive 
retaliation, even for the crimes of the aulhom and leaders of this ibul rebellion. 
The spirit of our .Saviour's teachings should govern this people as well as the 
law from Mount Sinai. But, sir, what can any one of us ask or expect of our 
government in disposing of the responsible leaders of the late audacious and 
wicked conspiracy against the life of a nation, the torturers and butchers of our 
prisoners, and the authors at least of the teachings which have promoted the 
attempt at midnight murder of thousands of peaceable women and children in 
our cities, and now the dastardly assassination of the great and good chief of 
the nation? Can we expect that these criminals (wherever the diificnlt line 
may be drawn) shall suffer less than permanent expatriation from the land they 
have steeped in blood and covered with the graves of tcius of thousands of 
martyrs to their unholy, selfish, reckless aml)ition ? 

If we say nothing of the shining marks— the nobbn- victims of the war itself— 
the Elsworths, the Lowells, the Sedgwicks, the Winthrops, the Wadsworths— 



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who have fallen in the field — can we again welcome to honorable citizenship the 
men who either directed or countenanced the doings at Fort Pillow, at Laurence, 
at Salisbury, and Andersonville ? 

Sir, we are glad to believe, whatever may have been previous impressions, 
that in our new President we have a man of nerve, of integrity, and of ability, 
who will not shrink from the duties devolving upon him ; but will administer 
justice in no spirit of mean revenge, but as the executive agent of a great people, 
who have earned by their best blood the right, under God's blessing, of future 
security and permanent peace. 

We are willing to believe that he, too, as well as his martyred predecessor, 
has been fitted by the Almighty, over and above all defects of education, or 
the personal associations of a slave State, for the momentous duties of the hour, 
upon which depends the future of this continent. 

Glance back a few years, nay a few months ; the suggestions of experience, 
the wonderful teachings of Proviilence, which crowd upon us as we look at past 
events, would fill volumes I do not presume to detain you; but just think of 
Abraham Lincoln, legally, rightfully chosen though he was for his high office, 
yet obliged to reach the capital almost as a fugitive, in disguise. Think of the 
then current jeers about "Old Abe, the rail-splitter," "the buffoon," "the 
ape," not so-called only by southern rebels, but openly in the streets of New 
York. Tliink of the amazing task which lay before this xmtried lawyer of a 
western village. Think of liis difficulties and discouragements, not from open 
foes alone, but from professed friends, his own party supporters, almost desert- 
ing him, as unequal to the crisis, and calling for a "dictator." Think of the 
fact that his wisdom and ability were thus doubted, n.>t merely in the first year 
of repulses and disasters, but that, even within the last eight months, s ime of 
the most active republicans were busily planning to supersede him as the 
" weakest candidate " for the succession. Consider the harrassing pressure upon 
him by visional y or selfish friends for widely opposite and variously doubtful 
schemes of public policy ; consider his quiet patience, his quiet energy, his 
modest and kindly bearing to all, his sublime and enduring faith in the God of 
justice and of mercy! And now that his bodily presence with us has ceased 
forever, look around and see this great city, nay almost every habitation in the 
land, literally draped in mourning — not dictated by imperial edict, but the 
spontaneous symbol of a deep and earnest sorrow, shared, let us b, lievc sincerely, 
by thousands who had hitherto reviled, AV'hile they secretly must have respected 
and adjffiired this ''true man of the people." Observe men of all shades of 
opinion and faith lauding his virtues, doing homage to his noble patriotism, 
his immortal services to the people he loved so well. 

Plas any one of us walked our streets since Saturday without having tears 
rise unbidden at these spontaneous tokens of heartfelt affection and respect for 
our late President? Has the world ever seen a spectacle more touching, more 
worthy of a free people? Suppose he had lived a few weeks longer to see the 
full consummation of that glad time when the old tlag, waving in every city and 
village over the bi'oad land, is again acknowledged and respected and loved as 
the symbol of a great nationality, governed by the eternal principles of justice, 
and enjoying the blessings of freedom in peace and prosperity; suppose this 
new era had fully dawned, and Abraham Lincoln, the rail-splitter, had again 
visited our great cities, what would have been his reception ? But he Avas per- 
mitted to reach only the near view of this glorious result of all his patient toil 
and quiet faith now so well assured. 

It has been well said, al.'^o, by Mr. Goodwin that this event leaves a great 
lesson, and a cause for national gratitude amidst our grief, in the proof it has 
given the world of the stability of our institutions. Shrewd and judicious, though 
perhaps over-timid, men feared at first that a blow so startling must be followed 
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Steadily and serenely on, the gold thermoiueter of Wall street was scarcely dis- 
turbed by a fraction, and on the Saturday which proclaimed the national ca- 
lamity, and while the nation was almost paralyzed with horror at the parricide, 
the nation's popular loan received larger subscriptions than ever before. The 
confidence of the people was firm and unshaken. Well may we look at the bow 
of promise, even now visible over the heavy cloud of afflic'tion. Well may we 
believe that the tears now mingled over thJ bier of the last great victim of the 
expiring monsters, slavery and treason, with the blood of the noble army of 
martyrs who have gone before, will together unite the hearts of this great people, 
purified and renovated, and rising, as in the resurrection morning, to a future life 
of happiness and peace. For well it is already written of Abraham Lincoln : 

"His patioiit toil 

Has robed our cause in victory's lijrlit; 
Our country stood redeemed and bright, 
With not a slave upon her soil. 
"A martyi- to the cause of man, 
His blood is Freedom's eucharist, 
And in the world's great hero-list 
His uuuie shall lead the van." 

Mr. W. Gary Smith followed with these remarks: 

Mr. President: I have a natural hesitancy in rising to speak at such a time,, 
while your minds are still under the spell of the eloquent words to which you, 
have just listened. But as it has been thought well that there should be some 
expression on the part of the younger members of the club, 1 beg your indul- 
gence for a moment. 

Sir, the President of the United States has fallen by the hands of an aasassin. 
Such an announcement needs no remarks. For a period of two hundred and 
twenty-five years no such event has occurred. For the first time in all the 
many vehement and heated struggles of our national history, jiolitieal juiimosity 
and partisan hate, defeated at the ballot-box and in the iiehl, has vented its 
baffled rage in the perpetration of a crime at which the civilization of the age 
stands appalled, a crime against humanity and Christianity, against man and 
against God. 

This is no natural out-growth of our American institutions. But it becomes 
us, as citizens of a common country, to consider well whether there be anything 
in the social organization of any portion of it favorable to the engendering of 
s.ucb a moral monster as the doer of this deed; any habits of thought, of action, 
any tone of feeling pervading a community of which this crowning iniquity is a 
legitimate expression. I desire to avoid offence; but, sir, as a southerner by 
bii'th, I maintain, and it cannot be denied, that there is a portion of this land, 
whose leaders, grown rich on the unrequited toil of bondsmen, yet claiming to 
be a chivalric nation of gentlemen, have openly advocated this deed, tlie very 
shadow of whose monstrous iniquity darkens the heavens. 

It cannot be denied that tiiis assassin can look for approval, for ail, for pro- 
tection in no part of Christendom save in the limits of that section of the Union 
so i-ecently in rebellion against the government. 

The responsibility of this crime is justly ciiargeable upon t!ie South. Their 
so-called domestic institutions and their leaders stand to-day arraigned at the 
bar of the civilized world as criminal against the rights of mankind. 

It is our duty to see to it that the last vestige of this barbarism be eradicated. 
We owe it to ourselves, to posterity, to liberty, never to j)ause, to rest, nor to 
falter till the land be purged. 

In view of the humble origin of the late President, of his upright character, 
of his inestimable services, let no man despair of the safety of this r(q)ublic. 
The unbroken civil order maintained during the shock which followed his un- 
timely death, fully vindicates the majesty of popular government. 

The blow which reft his life dissipated in an instant the vapors of prejudice 

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and partisan misrepresentations which endeavored to impede his progress. His 
place in hie^tory is liencefortli secure; the memory of liis just deeds immortal. 

His body minp;les with the sacred ashes of those over whom a nation watches 
with jealous, loving care. His spirit has gone to lead the van of that long tri- 
umphant procession of heroes and martyrs of liberty, who, in all the pomp and 
circumstance of a militant faith, have passed through the portals of time into the 
light of perfect day. 

Mr. Francis A. Stout made the following remarks in regard to a significant 
fact connected with the last hours of Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Stout said : 

An incident has come to my knowledge, which at this sad time is of unusual 
interest. 

About ten days since one of our members, General Van Alen, became eyen 
more than ever profoundly impressed with the inestimable value to the country, 
at this peculiar juncture of public affairs, of the life of Abraham Lincoln, the 
wisest and best of contemporary Americans. 

Under the impulse of an uncontrollable and almost prophetic anxiety, he then 
wrote to the President, uro-ing him to guard his life with greater care, that his 
personal security might suffer no detriment from rebel knife or bullet, and that 
the nation might be assured of its own safety' by contemplating his. 

On Friday last, the day when he was to be added to the noble army of mar- 
tyrs who have died for freedom and for man, the President despatched to Gen- 
eral Van Alen a letter of considerable length, in which, after touching upon 
topics of public and private concern, he stated liis intention to use hereafter 
" due precautionary measures." Mr. President, I can make no comment. 

The resolutions wei"e then unanimously adopted. 

Mr. John H. White then arose and said that while the proceedings of the 
evening would be noted upon the records of the club, he deemed it eminently 
fit and pioper that the outside world should know the horror and detestation 
with which the members of the club looked upon the fiendish crime which had 
filled the land with mourning. The assassination of the President of the United 
States, and the attempted assassination of the Secretary of State, in its heinous- 
ness and enormity, had no historic precedent or parallel. It stands solitary 
and alone, language being inadequate to give it a fitting and a proper name ; 
and it can only be accounted for as an emanation from, and the legitimate fruit 
of, slavery, secession, treason, and the fiend incarnate. He did not intend to 
take up the time of the club by further remarks; but he hoped the mover of 
the resolutions which had been adopted with such unanimity would furnish 
copies of the same to be published with the other proceedings of the club. 

After the adoption of the resolution the meeting adjourned. 

GEORGE V. N. BALDWIN, 

Secretary. 



ODE, 

WRITTEN BY UENRY T. TUCKERMAN, OF THE COMMITTEE OX RESOLUTIONS, FOR THE 
FUNERAL OBSEQUIES, APRIL 25, 18C5. 

I. 

Shroud the banner ! rear the Cross ! 
Consecrate a nation's less ; 
Gaze on that majestic sleep ; 
Stand beside the bier to weep ; 
Lay the gentle son of toil 
Proudly in his native soil : 
Crowned with honor, to his rest 
Bear the prophet of the west. 



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II. 

How cold the brow that yet doth wear 
The impress of a nation's care ; 
How still the heart, whose every beat 
Glowed with compassion's sacred beat ; 
Rigid the lips, whose patient smile 
Duty's stern task would oft beguile ; 
Blood-queuched the pensive eye's soft light; 
Nei"veless the hand so loth to smite ; 
So meek in rule, it leads, though dead. 
The people as in life it led. 

in. 

O let his wise and guileless sway 
Win every recreant to-day. 
And sorrow's vast and holy wave 
Blend all our hearts around his grave ! 
Let the faithful bondsmen's tears. 
Let the traitors' craven fears, 
And the people's grief and pride. 
Plead against the parricide ! 
Let us throng to pledge and pray 
O'er the patriot martjT's clay ; 
Then, with solemn faith in right. 
That made him victor in the fight, 
Cling to the path he fearless trod. 
Still radiant with the smile of God. 

IV. 

Shroud the banner ! rear the Cross ! 

Cousecrate a nation's loss ; 

Gaze on that majestic sleep ; 

Stand beside the bier to weep; 

Lay the gentle son of toil 

Proudly in his native soil ; 

Ci'owned with honor, to his I'est 

Bear the prophet of the west. 
In the funeral obsequies on the 25th of April, the Athengeum Club partici- 
pated, bearing an appropriate banner, the memberB wearing distinctive badges 
of mourning, and headed by their vice-president, Mr. Henry E. Pierrepont ; the 
president, Mr. William T. Blodgett, being then absent as chairman of the citi- 
zens' committee. 



MEXICAN CLUB IN NEW YORK. 

By direction of this club, I have the honor to enclose to you the manifestation 
which it has deemed proper to address to the Secretary of State upon the occa- 
sion of the death of President Abraham Lincoln, and to request you to do us 
the favor to cause it to reach the hands of the government of this country, for 
the club desires tbat through your instrumentality, who are the Avorthy re])re- 
sentative of the lawful government of Mexico, that of the United States may be 
informed of feelings which animate them on this occasion. 

I protest to you my distinguished consideration. 

Independence and liberty ! New York, April 15, 1865. 

^ IGNACIO MEJIA. 

The Minister of Mexico at WasJdngton. 



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Mexican Club at New York, 

New York, April 15, 1865. 

Sir : The Mexican Club of New York, profoundly affected by the tragic and 
premature death of the President of the United States, Abrahaoi Lincoln, ha& 
I'esolved to manifest to your excellency that the citizens which compose it fully 
sympathize with the affliction of the American people ; that they look upon the 
loss of this eminent patriot not only as a great calamity to the United States,~ 
but as a just cause of mourning- for all the peoples who in America enjoy liberty, 
or are contending to restore it ; and they believe that with Lincoln there has 
disappeared from earth one of the great benefactors of humanity, who, on de- 
scending to the tomb, has been crowned with the laurel of immortality and 
martyrdom. 

To the veneration which Lincoln will have in history, as the personification 
of the great American people, in his firmness, in his energy, in his enlightenment, 
and in his magnanimity, to his great title of the emancipator of the slaves, he 
will always add in the hearts of the Mexicans the acknowledgment which the 
love of justice and the respect for law inspires, of which he gave proofs, in not 
sanctioning the outrages committed against Mexico, and in not acknowledging, 
in, that republic any other power than that which is derived from the institutions 
and the free national will. 

The Mexican Club, in taking part in the affliction of the people of the United 
States, upon whom it looks as a nation of brothers, cherishes the hope that as- 
the spirit of Washington has animated this nation in the work of consolidating 
its institutions, so the spirit of Ijncoln may contmue to guide it until peace and 
union are restored, slavery abolished, and until it shall become the bulwark of 
liberty for all America. 

On addressing this manifestation to your excellency, we have the honor to 
offer to you the assiu'ances of our very distinguished consideration. 
In the absence of the president, from indisposition, 

IGNACIO MEJIA, Vice-Presidmt, 

CiPRiANO Robert, Secretary. 

Hon. Secretary of State of the United States. 



Resolutions adopted at a meeting of Frcnclimcn held at Neio York, on Tues- 
day , April 18, 1865. 

The French residing in New York, assembled on occasion of the deplorable 
event which has stricken the people of the United States in the person of Presi- 
dent Abraham Lincoln, adopt the following resolutions : 

Resolved, That the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has aroused the repro- 
bation of the French population of New York. 

Resolved, That we offer to the people of the United States our mournful 
sympathies on the loss which the death of its Chief Magistrate causes the nation 
to experience. 

Resolved, That we offer up our ardent prayers for the re-establishment of the 
peace and prosperity of the people of the United States under the new adminis- 
tration. 

Resolved, That we offer to the family of Abraham Lincoln our sincere con- 
dolences on the occasion of the sad trial to which it is subjected.! 

Resolved, That we equally regi'et the criminal attempt of which Mr. Seward 
is the victim ; that we offer our prayers for his speedy restoration, and that we 
seize this occasion to transmit to him the expression of our lively sympathies. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 693 

It is moreover resolved, That the above resohxtions be transmitted to the 
legation of France at "Washington to be presented to tlie government of the 
United Sfcites, to the family of Mr. Lineohi, and to that of 'My. Seward. 

GAULDREE I^OILLEAU, 

Consul General of France. 
. L. DE GEOFROY, 

Charge d' Affaires of France. 



At a meeting of British residents in the city of New York, held at the Astor 
House, on Tuesday, the 18th day of April, 1865, the following preamble and 
resolutions were adopted : 

Whereas a sudden and awful calamity has fallen on this nation in the death, 
by the hand of an ass{Vssin,of its honored and highly esteemed Chief Magistrate, 
President Lincoln: 

Resolved, That we participate in the universal feeling of grief and anguish 
caused by the atrocious and appalling crime which has deprived the nation of 
its revered Chief Magistrate, at a most important and critical conjuncture yf 
public affairs; and we desire at the same time to record tlie expression of our 
profound respect for the eminent private virtues and public character of the late 
President, as w^ell as for the integrity of piarpose and uprightness of intention 
with which he devoted himself to the promotion of the prosperity and welfare 
of the whole country, in whose service he has fallen an honored and ever-mem- 
orable victim 

Resolved, That we respectfully tender to the bereaved widow and family of 
the late Chief Magistrate the assurance of our heartfelt sympathy and condo- 
lence under this most afflictive dispensation of Divine Providence. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be signed by the chairman and secretary, on 
behalf of the meeting, and be forwarded to her Majesty's minister at Washing- 
ton, with a request that he will communicate them, in such manner as he may 
think proper, to the government of the United States, and to the widow and 
family of the deceased President. 

E. M. ARCHIBALD, 
H. B. M. Consul, Chairman. 
ARTHUR KENDALL, 

ticcTelary. 



New York, April 20, 18(55. 

Whereas a dastardly, foul, and infamous assassination has bereaved our dear 
adopted country of the best and most kind-hearted Chief :\[agistrate, in the hour 
of victory, and in the midst of his good Avork of pardon and conciliation to- 
wards the vanquished, and has thereby plunged in sorrow and grief all true 
friends of human liberty : Be it, therefore. 

Resolved, That we, citizens of this republic, of Polish and Bohemian descent, 
children of sires who were never stained with the blood of their own chiefs, on 
that account feeling more deeply the horrid atrocity of the infamous parricide, 
participate more feelingly in the national sorrow for the loss of a man -who, 
in an hour of the greatest triumph, proved himself to be yet greater by his be- 
nevolence and magnanimity towards the erring and guilty. 

Resolved, That our heartfelt sympathy and compassion are with the family 
of our lamented President in this sad and painful bereavement. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be transmitted to the sorrowing widow and 
children of our late honored President. 



694 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COEEESPONDENCE. 

And fui'tber — 

Whereas, at the very moment of the infamous murder committed on our be- 
loved Chief Magistrate, another equally ignominious attempt was made on the 
life of our excellent Secretary of State, and his worthy assistant, the Hon. Fred. 
W. Seward : Be it, therefore, 

Resolved, That our sympathy and compassion for their moral and physical 
sufferings, as well as our wishes for their speedy recovery and restoratioQ to 
health, and for the continuance of their noble and useful career, are hereby 
warmly and earnestly expressed. And 

Kcsolved, That this expression of our sentiments be communicated to the 
Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and to the Hon. Fred. W. Seward. 
In behalf of Poles and Bohemians : 

HENEY KALUSSOWSKI, 

Chairman on the part of Poles. 
ANSON MERUNKA, 
Chairman on the part of Bohemians. 
R. J. JAIVOROWSKI, 

Secretary on the part of Poles, 
CENEK ROCAREK, 
Secretary on the part of Bohemians. 



New Orleans, April 28, 1865. 

At a public meeting held in the city of New Orleans, on Saturday, April 22, 
1865, for the purpose of honoring the memory of Abraham Lincoln, late Presi- 
dent of the United States, and expressing the universal condemnation felt by 
this community of the deed whereby the late President lost his life, and the life 
of W. H. Seward, Secretary of State for the United States, was attempted, the 
following resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

Whereas it has been permitted by an Allwise God that the life of Abraham 
Lincoln, our President, should be taken by the hand of an assassin, and that a 
murderous attack should be made upon William H. Seward, the Secretary of 
State for the United States, and both under circumstances of strange atrocity; 
and whereas the citizens of New Orleans have now gathered in solemn assembly 
to signify their emotion at these awful dispensations : Be it 

Resolved, That the people of New Orleans utterly condemn and abhor these 
infamous deeds, by which the American name has been disgraced — the American 
heart wrung with sorrow. 

Resolved, That the attack upon the President and Secretary of State must 
inspire all friends of security and law throughout the world with apprehension 
and dismay; that the safety of every government is endangered, and all the 
dearest rights of the citizens given to hazard by such appalling, horrible 
examples. 

Resolved, That in the death of President Lincoln, we mourn the loss of fervid 
patriotism, unwavering honesty, personal purity, a liberality that reached mag- 
nanimity, a love of liberty that was passionate, and practical large ability ; we 
mourn a man who more than any other of his time was a representative of the 
people of America. By the nobility of his nature, not less than by the value of 
his services, he won his way to the hearts of his fellow-comitrymen. They 
loved and greatly respected him while living; their tears flow for him now. 

Resolved, That we learn with great satisfaction that the assault upon Mr. 
Seward was not wholly successful, and that the eminently serviceable labors of 
that distinguished statesman and true patriot may yet be continued for the 
benefit of the nation. 

Resolved, That out of respect to the memory of our late President we will 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. G95 

wear badf^es of mourning for thirty days ; tliat we will unite to-morrow in our 
several i)]Hces of public wor^^liip in imploring Divine a^siytance, that lliis great 
public chastening may be made the means of good to our national life, aiuf that 
the Ruhr of the universe will continue to vouchsafe to us that loving protection 
our fathers received, and which has not been hitherto Avithheld from^us. 

Resolvrr], That the citizens of New Orleans unite with the people of the nation 
which Abraham Lincoln preserved, in the expression of a heaitfelt sympathy 
for the sorrow which has suddenly invaded the family of which he was the 
loved and honored head. 

Resolved, That the chairman of this meeting be requested to transmit a copy 
of these resolutions to the family of the late I'resideut, and to the Secretary of 
State- -^ 

H. KENNEDY, 

Ma ijor. President. 
D. L. GIBBONS, 
SIDNEY G. BROWN, 
EDW'D C. BILLINGS, 
W. T. GILBERT, 

Secretaries. 



British Consulate, 

Neiv Orleans, April 19, 1865. 
Sir: The painful intelligence received here from the North this morning of 
the death of the President of the United States by the hand of an assassin im- 
pels me to ofter you, general, and the military authorities of this department, 
my sincere condolence on this calamity which has befallen the country. 

I am sure that I but express the universal sentiment of the British subjects 
who reside in this military division when I say that the intelligence of this 
dreadful calamity will be received by all with feelings of deep sensibility. 

Occurring at a time when the approaching return of peace was being welcomed, 
not only by the people of this country, but by the whole civilized world, this 
great national calamity is more especially to be deplored. 

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your most obedient, 
bumble servant, 

DENIS DONOHUE, H. M. Consul. 
Major General Canby, U. S. A., 

Cominatuling Military Division of the West Mississijjpi, 4^., Sf.'-, S^-c. 



No. 430— B.] CoiXsuLAT de BsLGiauE A LA Nol'v'e Orleans, 

New Orleans, April 19, 1>>65. 
General : It is with profound n^gret that the jieople of the United States 
have this morning heard of tlu; untimely death, by the hand of an ;issassin, of 
the honored and honorable Chief Magistrate of the United States, Abraham 
Lincoln, and Secretary of State, William 11. Seward. 

Fully appreciating the merits of the deceased, I feel it my duty, as the repre- 
sentative of the kingdom of Belgium, to express to you, as commander of this 
department, my most earnest sympathies. 

I have the honor to be, general, with the highest consideration, yours very 
respectfully, 

JOSH. DEYNOODT, 

The Consul of Belgium. 
Major General E. R. S. Canby. 



696 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Oraxge, Essex County, New Jersey, 

Ajrril 22, 1865. 

At a meeting of Council No. 30, Union League, of the State of New Jersey, 
held at tlieii- room last evening, the 21st April, 1865, the following preamble 
and resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to remove by death Abraham Lincoln, 
late President of these United States of America, and an honored member of 
the League ; 

And whereas the circumstances attending his sudden decease are startling and 
appalling beyond all precedent, it becomes us as loyal citizens to express our 
feelings and sentiments on this momentous occasion : Be it 

Resolved, That we bow in humble submission to that Infinite Wisdom 
which has so suddenly removed the beloved and noble head of this mighty na- 
tion, and while heart-stricken ourselves, tender our respectful sympathies to the 
afflicted family of the deceased. 

R&solrcd, That in this dastardly act of an assassin, as in the attempt upon the 
life of the honored Secretary of State and family, we recognize the same infernal 
malignity which inaugurated the rebellion, and has made Fort Pillow, Belle Isle 
Libby prison, Andersonville, Danville, and Salisbury the synonyms of "hells 
upon earth'''' among the civilized nations of the world. 

Resolved, That to Andrew Johnson, the executive head of this nation, we 
pledge our firm, united, and loyal support in all places, and under all circum- 
stances, to the end that this rebellion be annihilated, and the Union be preserved. 

Resolved, That in the eloquent and almost inspired words of our martyred 
President, "With malice towards none, and with charity for all," we still do 
most fully recognize the practical truth of the hour, that "Mercy to traitors is 
cruelty to the state," and that in the grandest" sense, this nation lives not to itself 
alone in the mighty sacrifice it has laid upon the altar 61 freedom, but its ex- 
ample and success shall be the assurance of hope to every down-trodden, suffer- 
ing nationality of the earth. 

SAMUEL D. BACCHUS, President. 
JAMES D. BYERTY, Vice-President. 
ALFRED F. MUNN, Secretary. 



To the Honorable William H. Seward, Secretary of State: 

Respectfully showeth that on the 19th of April, in the year of grace 1865, at 
the hour appointed for the funeral rites of Abraham Lincoln, deceased, at the 
city of Wu^hington, the inhabitants of the village of Oyster Bay, in Queen's 
comity. State of New York, assembled at their respective places, of worship, 
and after due observance of religious services adapted to the occasion, they again 
assembled in the evening of the same day in general meeting of all denomina- 
tions, wlien a deeply impressive and interesting discourse was delivered by our 
fellow-towntman, Mr. Charles King, at the close of which the following resolu- 
tions were offered and unanimously adopted by the meeting : 

1. That we deplore in conmion with our fellow-citizens everywhere the great 
loss sustained by our beloved country in the death of Abraham Lincoln, twice 
elected by the people to the highest ofiice within their gift, and we cannot but 
regard with horror and detestation "the deep damnation of his taking off'." 

2. That we look upon the manner of his death as calculated, in the way of 
God's moral government of the world, to arouse the nation's consciousness to a 
proper sense of the enormous iniquity of this Avicked rebellion, culminating in 
the assassin's blow aimed at the nation's heart. 

3. Impressed with the foregoing consideration, we believe that the Almighty 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 697 

Disposer of Events, in the mysterious workings of his providence, will turn the 
awful calamity we now deplore into a blessing, by strengthening the power of 
the nation to meet its foes, both at home and abroad, and "lead to a just and 
lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations. 

4. That we have the fullest confidence in Andrew Johnson, who was the 
second choice of the people, and on whom has now devolved all the power and 
duties of the Chief Magistrate. Guided by his own practical good sense and the 
wisdom of the constitutional advisers with which he is surrounded, we doubt not 
but the same wi.se policy of his predecessor will be carried out to a glorious and 
happy termination. 

5. And while we mourn our great bereavement, we return thanks for the hope 
permitted us that the life of our fellow-citizen, Secretary AVilliam H. Seward, 
may still be preserved for the benefit of our common country. 

6. And while we would not intrude upon the sacred griefs of the widow and 
family of the deceased President, we must, nevertheless, express our sincere 
condolence and sympathy for their irreparable loss. May the Father of All be 
"with them. 

Lastly. That a copy of these resolutions, signed by the oflicers of the meeting, 
be transmitted to Pret^ident Johnson and to the Secretary of State, and likewise 
to Mrs. Lincoln, as some humble expression of their regard and esteem. 

W. T. McCOREX, Chairman. 
CHARLES KING. 
R. G. BUTTON, 

Rcrtor of Christ f3hurch. 
S. Y. LUDLAM, 
SOLOMON TOWNSEND, 

Officers of the Meeting. 
THOS. H.BRIGGS, Secretary. 
Oyster Bay, April 21, 1S65. 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 

At a meeting of the executive committee of the Historical Society of Penn- 
sylvania, held on Monday evening, April 24, 1865, the following preamble and 
resolutions were presented and read by Professor Charles 1). Cleveland, and 
unanimously adopted. It was then moved that a special meeting of the society 
be called on Thursday, the 27th, to consider the same. On tliat evening, Ed- 
mund A. Souder, esq., was called to the chair, when the preamble and resolutions 
were again read, and were unanimously adopted by the society : 

Whereas we recognize in the recent calamity that has fallen upon our republic, 
in the viohnit death of our President, an event that not only calls forth a per- 
sonal grief from every loyal heart, but rises above individual sorrow, and forms 
a crisis in our national life — an epoch in our national history : Therefore, 

I. Resolved, That it is peculiarly the duty of the Historical Society of Penn- 
sylvania to iiiqnire into the historic meaning of the sad occurrence that has thus 
suddenly ovt;r\vhelmed us ; to read in it, as well as may be through tears, the 
lessons of the past of which it is the culmination, and the monitions tor the 
future to which it sternly and undoubtedly points. 

II. Resolced, Tiiat in tlie assast^ination of our beloved Chief ^[agistrate our 
sorrow for the bereavement is as intvuise as our horror at the crime. A life has 
been lost which, by a blending of mental and moral qualities in a union of rare 
completeness, had a hold upon the heart of every loyal citizen, and made the tie 
that bound him to his government no less a personal than a civic attachment; 
and gratefully, therefore, do we bear our earnest testimony to the consummate 



698 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

ability, tlie enduring faithfulness, tbe political sagacity, the far-seeing wisdom, 
the lofty patriotism, the enlarged humanity, the proverbial honesty, and the ever- 
flowing goodness which marked the character, through his whole term of office, 
of our late honored and 1 )ved President. 

III. Resolved, That while with deep grief we mourn the loss of him who 
on the 22d of February, 18G1, when he raised the national flag over tbe State 
House in which our Constitution was framed, declared, with what now seems 
prophetic significancy, that "he would rather be assassinated upon the spot 
than fail to maintain the great principles of constitutional liberty;" and Avho, 
in the four years of his able and momentous administration, so nobly and firmly 
acted up to that declaration, showing at all times a heart beating in full sym- 
pathy with the objects of our Constitution, as declared in its preamble, " to form 
a more perfect Union, and to secure the blessings of liberty," and crowding 
into that brief period events and principles of deeper historic interest and of 
wider and farther reaching influence than were ever before, in so short a time, 
recorded in history, it is peculiarly fitting in the Historical Society of Penn- 
sylvania to declare it to be their deepest conviction that, under God, it was the 
wonderfully attempered prudence and energy, justice and mei'cy, caution and 
decision, breadth of view and strength of purpose of Abraham Lincoln that led 
us triumphantly through the perils of this atrocious rebellion. 

IV. Resolved, That, by his wise, persistent, and finally successful efforts in 
crushing the rebellion, and thus breaking down forever the vilest and most ty- 
rannical oligarchy the sun ever shone upon, Abraham Lincoln has made Ameri- 
can citizenship mean — protectio7i to American citizens in every imrtion oj 
the republic ; and that, by his proclamation of the 1st of January, 1863, 
giving immediate liberty to millions long held in bondage, and by his birge- 
hearted humanity, everywhere conspicuous, he has earned for liimself the 
richest of all blessings — "the blessings of those who were ready to perish;" 
and has thus engraved his name upon the page of history, for all time to come, 
as the friend of man. 

V. Resolved, That, when we view the parricide's crime, which has thus 
whelmed our nation in mourning, as the result of a cause — the natural out- 
growth of some principle of action — history and its philosophy utter no doubtful 
teachings ; they say, as disthictly as voices from the past can say, that the 
murderous hand which took the life of the head of our republic is but the sym- 
bol of that stealthy, deadly blow which must always, sooner or later, be dealt 
to any republic, when it either cares not or dares not to cast out from its midst 
elements that give the lie to the simplest and most fundamental conditions of 
political liberty; and that our land, as a whole, must either be a unity of homo- 
geneous principles in its parts, or else be dashed into a shapeless wreck by the 
clashing currents within in. 

VI. Resolved, That, in the long catalogue of crimes committed by the slave- 
power against liberty and humanity for the last fifty years — crimes too laimerous 
to recount, and many of them too foul to particularize — consummated in the 
rebellion, and all the atrocious deeds committed in it, and culminating in the 
murderous assault upon our Secretary of State and the Assistant Secretary, and 

■ in that crowning crime of horror, stealthily taking the life of our Chief Magis- 
trate, this same slave-power has shown itself to the world in its true character 
in acts of malignity and wickedness unparalleled on the page of history ; and 
has shown to us the utter incompatibility of its existence with our own national 

VII. Resolved, That as, by the avowed declarations of the slaveholders them- 
selves, who quoted the words of the Saviour — " the stone which the buildei s 
rejected, the same is become the head of the corner" — and with bold but char- 
acteristic blasphemy applied these sacred, heaven-descended words to the foulest 
of crimes, intending to make it the "corner-stone" of a new government; 



SEXTIMENTS OP CONDOLENCE AND SYJIPATITY. 699 

slavery was the caai.^^e and origin of the rebellion, and to extend it indefinitely 
the purpofie, by their own avowal, of those who aimed to destroy our national 
life, so now it conclusively follows, and should everywhere be held, that there 
can be no true patrintism without hostility to that "sura of all viUauics," and 
a fixed determination that it shall never be the cause of another rebellion, and 
no longer, in any way or shape, cnrse our land. 

VIII. Re.sofrcd, That, while we tender to the wife and children of the ilhis- 
trious deceased our sincerest sympathies in this their irrejiarable loss, and fer- 
vently pray that they may be sustained under it by Him who alike " gives and 
takes away," we at the same time rejoice that he has bequeathed to them so 
rich and precious a legacy of jniblic and private virtues, which they will ever 
fondly cherish, and which will grow brighter aud brighter as time rolls on, 

IX. Resolred, That, to our honored Secretary of State, Hon. William H. 
Seward, who has conducted our foreign relations with such signal ability and 
wisdom in a period of unprecedented ditficulty, and to his able aud courteous 
Assistant Secretary, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, both prostrated by the dagger 
and bludgeon of the assassin, we extend onr deepest sympathies, fervently 
praying that a kind Providence may so restore them to health and strength 
that they may be able again to labor for their country in years to come with 
the same ability as they have in years past. 

X. Resolfcd, That, to our new President, Andrew Johnson, thus suddenly 
called to his high station, we pledge our earnest and cordial support, with fer- 
vent prayers that he may be guided in all his varied and res}>onsible duties by 
Infinite Wisdom; rejoicing that, in the patriotism and firmness of his past life, 
as well as in his recent public declarations that " treason is the highest of all 
crimes," we have the fullest assurance that, while he will show mercy to their 
misguided and deluded followers, he will visit the guilty authors and leaders 
of the rebellion, however numerous they may be, with the punishment they so 
richly deserve; so that thus peace, tranquillity, and unity may be restored to 
every part of our land, and that thus a warning may be left to traitors for all 
coming time. 

On motion of Mr. Pliny Earle Chase, seconded by Mr. John A. McAllister, 
it was resolved that these resolutions, signed by the officers of the society, be 
published in three of our newspapers, and that copies, engrossed or printed, be 
sent to the family of the deceased, to the President of the United States, and 
to the Secretary of State, requesting that they be deposited in the archives of 
the United States, in perpetuation of the sense of the society upon our great 

national bereavement. 

JOSEPH R. INGEFvSOLL, 

President. 
SAMUEL L. SMEDLEY, 

Recording Secretary. 



Resolutions passed at a meeting held hy tlie Baptist ministers of Philadelphia. 

Philadelphia, April 18, 1865. 

At a meeting of the Baptist ministers of Philadelphia and vicinity, held this 
day, in reference to that unparalleled crime, the assassination of Alnaham Lin- 
coln, President of the United States, on the evening of April 14, 1SG5, it was 
unanimously . 

Resolved, That the tremendous blow which has fallen on the nation, fills our 
hearts with grief and dismay. A crime, for which our language has no name, 
and which startles every citizen by its magnitude and atrocity, has been com- 
mitted, tending to loosen the bonds of society and abolish all individual safety. 



700 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COKRESPONDENCE. 

Resolved, That wliile we feel our hearts .stricken with profound sorrow, we rest 
in confident assurance that God doeth all things well, and will still have our 
beloved country in His holy keeping, and so order the issue of this appalling 
calamity, that unborn generations will see His goodness even in the terrible 
event, which He for wise but iuscrutable purposes has suffered to befall our 
nation. 

Resolved, That we recognise in this atrocious deed the ripened fruit of the 
vile spirit of the rebellion, and hereby express our hope that the government 
will see to it, that the iull measure of a righteous retribution be meted out to the 
instigators and accomplices of this deed of blood. 

Resolved, That we tender to the family of our late President our profound 
sympathy in their deep affliction, prayerfully commending them to the God of 
grace and all comfort. 

Resolved, That we tender our sympathies to "William H. Seward, Secretary 
of State, whose life has been so marvellously preserved from the strokes of the 
assassin, and earnestly pray that he maybe fully restored to his country, which 
he has served with such pre-eminent ability. 

Resolved, That we will sustain with our utmost influence and prayers our 
Hew President, Andrew Johnson, so unexpectedly called to discharge the duties 
of his high office in the solemn crisis which is now upon us. 

Rev. S. J. CRESWELL, D. D., Chairman. 
Rev. J. NEWTON BROWN, D.D., 
Rev. HOWARD MALCOLM, D. D., 
Rev. JOSEPH H. KENNARD, D. D., 
Rev. JOHN H. CASTLE, 
Rev. J. E. CHESHIRE, 

Committee on Resolutions. 
Rev. JAMES COOPER, Secretary. 



At a meeting of Council No. 12, National Union League Association, of the 
Seventh ward of the city of Philadelphia, held April 19, 1S65, the following 
preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

Whereas the traitorous assassination of the President of the United States, 
and of the Secretary of State, has overwhelmed the nation with consternation, 
and suddenly transformed its rejoicings over its successes into the deepest mourn- 
ing and lamentation ; and Whereas the assassination of His Excellency Abra- 
ham Lincoln, and of the Secretary of State, was timed for the evening of the 
day upon which the nation's flag was re-raised uj)on Fort Sumter ; and Whereas 
this act of assassination is the crowning inftimy of the rebellion ; therefore, 

Resolved, That while we unite our lamentations Avith the mourning wail of 
the nation, we do at the same time pledge ourselves anew to the service and the 
support of the government whose chief has thus in a moment been stricken down 
by the assassin. 

Resolved, That in view of the murderous event, which has deprived the na- 
tion of its executive, we declare it to be our firm conviction that the hour for 
mercy to the rebels has passed away forever. 

Resolved, That from this day the iron hand of relentless doom should take 
hold of treason, whether armed in the field or unarmed in our midst, and that a 
terrible retribution should be visited thereon, in vindication of the dignity, the 
power and the justice of government. 

Resolved, That further mercy towards the rebels is an injustice to the nation — 
a mockery of the heroes who have laid down their lives in their country's de- 
fence, and an act of gross inhumanity towards the many thousands of our sons 
and brothers who are still starving in rebel prisons, the victims of the relentless 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 701 

cruelty of the authors of the rebellion, who are jiislly chargeable with the assas- 
sination of oiir martyred and nationally mourned Tresidenl. 

Resolved, That we deem the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate 
fruit of the secession, sympathies of disloyal men, in our midst, and we believe 
the "time has come" when all such base ingrates should be held to a strict 
accountability for their sentiments. 

Resoh-ed, That a copy ,if these resolutions be forwarded to liis Excellency 
President Johnson, to the Secretaries of the several executive departments : and, 
ResoJri-d, That we will wear an appropriate badge of mourning for sucli 
length of time as the authorities may direct. 

ARCH. CATANAOII, 

President. 
JOHN BARR, 

Recording b'ecrctary. 
Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



COUNCIL NO. 4, NATIONAL UNION LEAGUE ASSOCIATION, THIRTEENTH WARD, 

PHILAURLPHIA. 

At a meeting held April 20, A. D. 1865, the following preamble and resolu- 
tions were unanimously adopted by a rising vote: 

Whereas, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United 
States, at the capital, and the murderous assault upon the Secretary of State, 
while lying disabled at his home, by emissaries of the slave power of tiie South, 
has overwhelmed the nation with anguish and filled all loyal hearts with indi"-- 
nation and sorrow in that which should have been throughout the Union the 
hour of congratulation and joy; and, whereas, f<jr the space of four years, traitors 
in arms have warred against the government of the United States, and have 
bathed their hands in the best blood of the nation ; and upon the evening of the 
day on which, conquered and humiliated, they were compelled to witness the 
restoration of the old flag to its legitimate place upon the battlements of Fort 
Sumter, the hei'ald of freedom to a land redeemed, their hired a-isassins crowned 
the infamy of the rebellion by stealing upon the secure moments of the revered 
heads of the nation, and, by the perpetration of a crime without a name, effected 
that from the contemplation of which humanity turns with mourning and execra- 
tion ; and 

Whereas, since these things have come to pass, it becomes the duty of every 
man, as he values the perpetuity of free institutions, and the perra:in('ncy of the 
government of the United States as the martyred Lincoln left it, to take his place 
under the banner which proclaims freedom to every American in the land, 
whatever be the color the great Creator of the universe designed him to wear ; 
and as He to whose ordinations in this our hour of sore affliction we submit 
with humble resignation prompted our forefathers to make the declaration, 
"that all men are born free and equal," we, their descendants, must see to it 
that our inheritance be transmitted to posterity unimpaired, and with that declara- 
tion sustained to the letter in all its integrity : Therefore, be it 

Resolved, That we view the assassination of the Chief Magistrate of the nation 
(at any time most barbarous and unnatural, forbidden by all laws, liuman and 
divine) as being at this particular juncture utterly at variance with known 
causes or existing circumstances, and altogether, according to human calculations, 
unjustifiable ; it therefore must have been prompted by that spirit of fiendish 
malice and savage hate which has characterized the wicked leaders of the slave 
faction in the South, in all their rebellioua acts against the States of the North 
and the government of the Union. 



702 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Resolved, That in view of tlie extraorcliuaiy and unprecedented events of the 
past four years, and of the outrages in every form which have been committed 
by the leaders of the rebeUion, and their aiders and abettors in the North, 
we, citizens of the 13th ward, will steadily and firmly exhibit, by voice and ex- 
ample, our determined hostility to any party or candidate for office that will 
fraternize with such blood-stained traitors, or who favor their election or appoint- 
ment to any position under any future administration of the government of the 
United States. 

Rfsolred, That the time has now fully arrived when the nation must look on 
treason, wherever it exists, as a crime, and as such be denounced and punished, 
that justice, strict and inexorable, shall exert its power, and the laws and the 
governmt nt be maintained with the dignity and propriety becoming a united, sov- 
ereign and free people. 

Resolved, That while, as a people, we ask not for vengeance against the van- 
quished, vv'e deserve protection from any similar attempt in the future; and 
hereby cal! upon his Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, 
to administer those laws against traitors which will give to loyal men, and loyal 
women too, their fullest rights, and mete out to traitors, of whatever class or con- 
dition, their justly deserved reward. 

Resolved, That we indorse the principle enunciated by our present respected 
Chief Magistrate, "that mercy towards the rebels is injustice to the nation," an 
insult to the memory of the heroes who have laid down their lives in defence of 
their country, and an act of gross inhumanity towards the thousands of our sons 
and brothers who still are starving in rebel prisons ; and to the support of his 
administration we hereby pledge our full and undivided support. 

Resolved, That a copy of the above preamble and resolutions be forwarded 
to his Excellency the President, and to the heads of the several departments at 
Washington, and to the governor and heads of departments at Harrisburg. 

Resolved, That we will wear an appropriate badge of mourning for such length 
of time as the authorities of the city may direct, in honor of the late Chief Ma- 
gistrate of the nation, Abraham Lincoln. 

ROBERT M. EOUST, President. 

Attest : 

STOCKTON BATES, Secretary. 



At a meeting of Council No. 1, National Union League Association, of the 
1.5th ward of the city of* Philadelphia, held April 15, 1865, the following pre- 
amble and resolutions wei*e offered by J. Emerson Kent, M. D., seconded by 
General William F. Small, and unanimously adopted : 

Whereas the traitorous assassination of the President of the United States, 
and of the Secretary of State, has overwhelmed the nation with consternation, 
and suddenly transformed its rejoicings over its successes into the deepest mourn- 
ing and lamentation. 

And whereas the assassination of his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, and of 
the Secretary of State, was timed for the evening of the day upon which the 
nation's flag was re-raised upon Fort Sumter, and whereas this act of assassina- 
tion is the crowning infamy of the rebellion : Therefore, 

Resolved, That while we unite our lamentations with the mourning wail of 
the nation, we do at the same time pledge ourselves anew to the service and 
support of the government whose chief has thus in a moment been stricken 
down by the assassin. 

Resolved, That in view of the murderous event which has deprived the nation 
of its Executive, we declare it to be our firm conviction that the hour for mercy 
to the rebels has passed away forever. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY 703 

Resoh-cd, That from this clay the iron haiul of relentless doom ^honiil take 
hold of treason, whether armed in the lieM or unirmed in our midst, and that a 
terrible retribution should be visited thereon in vindication of the dignity, the 
power, and the justice of the goverimient. 

Rcsolred, That further mercy towards the rebels is an injustice to the nation, 
a mockery of the heroes who have laid down their lives in their country's 
defence, and an act of gross inlnsmanity towards the many thousands of our 
ROUS and brothers who are still starving in rebel prisons, the victims of the 
relentless cruelty of the authors of the rebellion, Avho are justly chargeable 
with the assassination of our martyred and nationally mourned President. 

Resolved, That we deem the assassination of Abraham Lincoln the legiti- 
mate fruit of the secession sympathies of disloyal men in our midst, and we 
believe " the time has come"' when all such base ingrates should be held to a 
strict accountability for their sentiments. 

Resoh-cd, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to his Excellency 
President Johnson, to the Secretaries of the several executive departments ; and 

Resolved, That we will wear an appropriate badge of mourning for such 
length of time as the authorities may direct. 

HENRY L. SMITH, Preshhnf.. 
ISAAC A. PEARSOX. rice-President. 

Attest : 

J. EMERSON KENT, .A[. D., 
Recording Secretary, 2100 Green street. 

Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



From tlie yearly meeting of Friends of PJiiladelphia for Pennsylvania, New 
Jersey, Delaware, and 2>arts of Maryland, now in session. 

Fifth Month 19/7/, 1S65. 
To the President of the United States and members of the administration : 

We have felt constrained, as a religious body, to convey to you the expression 
of the deep sympathy that we feel in the great sorrow that has fallen upon all 
of us in the bereavement sustained by the violent removal from this life of our 
late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln. 

We feel greatly thankful that his heart was imbued with a regard for consci- 
entious scruples in relation to war, and for the relief that he extended to us 
therein. 

While we mourn the destruction of human life, and the sad consequences 
ever attendant upon a state of war, and while we cannot regard carnal warfere 
as pertaining to the kingdom of Christ, we desire to impart to you our heartfelt 
rejoicing th;it millions of our fellow-beings have, by the power of Him who 
overrules the purposes of men been released from cruel bondage. 

As " righteousness exalteth a nation," we fwvently hope that the great prin- 
ciples of equality and justice may ever be recognized in the future of our be- 
loved country, and we would express our solicitude that in the performance of 
the momentous duties that now devolve upon you, your reliance may be upon 
God for wisdom, and that justice may be so tempered with mercy that your 
counsels may be influenced for the good of all. 

Signed by direction and on behalf of the meeting aforesaid : 

DILLWYN PARRISH, 

Clerk of the Men's Meeting. 
MARY S. LIPPINCOTT, 

Clerk of the Women's Meeting, 



704 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

[Translation. ] 
Extract from the minutes. 

Philadelphia, April 22, 1865. 

At an extraordiiiavy meeting of tlie board of directors of the French Society 
of Beneficence of Philadelphia, held this 22d day of April, at 11 a. m., at the 
house of Mr. j\r. Bouvier, No. 141 South Second street, on the occasion of the 
horrible catastrophe which has befallen the United States in the assassination 
of President Abraham Lincoln, and the no less wicked attempt committed upon 
the person of the Secretary of State, Mr. Seward, and upon his family, the fol- 
lowing resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

Resolved, First, that the French Society of Beneficence of Philadelphia, in 
the name of the French population of this city, desires to express the deep sor- 
row caused by the murder of Abraham Lincoln. 

Resolved, Second, that we tender to the people of the United States the ex- 
pression of our dolorous sympathies for the loss of the Chief Magistrate of the 
nation. 

Resolved, Third, that we also offer ta the family of Abraham Lincoln our sin- 
cere condolence in the terrible trial to which it has been subjected. 

Resolved, Fourth, that we offer up our prayers for the restoration to health 
of Mr. Seward and his family, and that we avail ourselves of this occasion to 
transmit to him expression of oiir lively sympathies. 

Resolved, Fifth, that the present resolutions shall be sent to Washington 
through the consul of France at Philadelphia, to be handed to Mrs. Jjincolnand 
to the government of the United States. 

By the president j 

S. DESTOUET. 

A. LAFORE, Secretary. 



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Consulate of Switzerland, 

PhiladelpJda, April 19, 1S65. 
To the honorable Department of State of the 

United States of America, Washington: 

The friendly and near relations which connect your country, the great sister 
republic, with the one they have the honor to represent for their respective de- 
partments, will justify the undei'signed, apart from the steps undoubtedly taken 
by their representative in your city, to respectfully tender to your honorable 
department, in representation of this sadly bereaved country, his Excellency 
the President, and the mourning family of the noble deceased, in the name of 
their country as well as for themselves, their most deeply and sincerely felt ex- 
pressions of condolence at the lamentable loss sustained by this country by the 
death of Abraham Lincoln, its late great and noble President. 

The undersigned are the more deeply impressed by the feelings of profound sor- 
row at this lamentable loss, as their country as well as themselves have, from the 
beginning, taken the liveliest interest in the great struggle and the heavy trials this 
sister republic has had to undergo, resembling so much a recent epoch in their 
own country's history, and have greeted with joy the splendid morning dawning 
after the night of war and anxiety. 

To him, the illustrious deceased, with the aid of the Almighty, and the great 
statesmen and generals at his side, the glorious achievements of this struggle 
for the preservation of liberty are due, and when he died, a martyr for liberty, 
by the hands of a wretched assassin, the people of this country lost not only 
the preserver of the republic, but a magnanimous father and friend, and well can 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 705 

we appreciate and feel with tliem their deep mourninf^, tlmngh sublime be the 
lot and glorious the memory of him whom we have lost. 

Trusting in God that to his Excellency the new Presideit will bo granted 
to follow up the glorious results attained by his noble predecessor, and that a 
long time of peaceful prosperity may heal up the wounds of a lamentable bloody 
war, we feel assured that the friendly connections between the two sister repub- 
lics will continue the same, uninterrupted for all future, and have the honor to 
remain, Avith feelings of the highest respect, your most obedient servants, 

IIUDOLPIIE KORADI, 

ft; PAT I CoiistfJ of Swifzerland. 

^'^ '^•' P. J. WILDBKRCxKK, 

Vice- Consul of Sivitzerla?id. 



Camp IIGth Rrgimknt Pewsvlvaxia Voi.rxTRERS, 

l.v^ Division, 2d Army Corps, April 17, ISGS. 
At a meeting of the commissioned oflicers of the 116th regiment Peinisyl- 
vania volunteers the following preamble and resolutions were proposed and 
unanimously adopted : 

Whereas our beloved commander-in-chief and President of the United States, 
Abraham Lincoln, came to his death on the 1.5th of April, 1865, from wounds re- 
ceived at the hands of a cowardly assassin : Therefore, 

Resolved, That in the death of ovu- Chief Magistrate our country has lost its 
truest friend, liberty, justice, and virtue their warmest advocate, and the op- 
pressed of all nations an indulgent father. 

Resolved, That the officers of this regiment, in common with their fellow- 
countrymen, deplore, with inexpressible sorrow and anguish, this country's 
greatest calamity ; and that while we bow in submission to the decree of an all- 
wise Providence, we piay that peace and unity may reign throughout the laud. 
Then will the object be obtained for which our illustrituis President has died. 

Resolved, That we will ever hold in grateful remembrance his illustrious char- 
acter as a patriotic statesman and a sincere Christian. 

Resolved, That we sincerely sympathize with the honorable "William II. 
Seward, our worthy Secretary of State, in his sufferings and affliction, brought 
on by the cowardly hand of a would-be assassin. 

ST. CLAIR A. MULHOLLAND, 

Col. llG//i Pa. Vols., colli' dg Brigade. 
JOHN R. DRELTXER, 

Captain covi'dg 116;"/^ Pa. Vols. 
LOUIS J. SACRISTE, 

Captain Co. D, \\(jth Pa. Vols. 
FRANK A. :McGUIGAN, 

Captain Co. G, 116///. Pa. Vols. 
ROBERT J. ALSTIN, 

Cajitain Co. II, 116//i Pa. Vols. 
WILLIAM J. BURK, 

Captain Co. C, 116/7/ Pa. Vols. 
GEORGE IIALPIN, 

1*^ Lieut. Co. A, 116/7/ Pa. Vols. 
SAMUEL G. VANDERIIYDEN, 

l*^ Lieut. Co. G, 116/7/ Pa. Vols. 
THOMAS A. GRAY, 

1*/ Lieut. Co. C, 116/7/ Pa. Vols. 
45 A 



70f5 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

GEORGE LEBER, 

1*;; Limt. Co. F, Il6t7i Pa. Vols. 
1 JACOB FOREST, 

Isf Lieut. Co. H, UQtJt Pa. Vols. 
ROBERT J. TAGGERT, 

1st Lievt. Co. J, imth Pa. Vols. 
ZELOCK Z. SPRINGE K, 

2d Lieut. Co. K, llGik Pa. Vols. 

THOMAS Mcknight, 

2d Lieut. Co.'B, \lQ,th Pa. Vols. 
THOS. S. EWING, 

1st Lieut. arulAdft llGth Pa. Vols. 



Resolutions adoj^tcd in a puhlic meeting at Pella, Marion, county, loica, 
Wednesday 1 April 19, 1865. 

"Whereas tlie wicked spirit of rebellion lias succeeded, by murder and assas- 
sination, in throwing a jubilant natiQ^n in mourning, killing the honored head of 
our national government, and inflicting serious and mortal wounds on our 
Secretary of State, his sons and attendants, the loyal citizens of Pella, deeply 
grieved and mourning, have 

Resolved, That we acknowledge in Abraham Lincoln the genuine embodi- 
ment of true democracy, and a model of aia upright, honest, unselfish, kind- 
hearted, wise, and moderate American statesman, whose memory will live in 
the hearts of all true and honest citizens, not only in our beloved country, but 
also in the whole civilized world. 

Resolved, That we sympathize heartily with the family of the late President, 
and hereby tender to them the expression of our sorrow and grief, and praying 
that our gracious God, whose ways are inscrutable, will pour upon them, in their 
sad bei-eavement, his heavenly balm of consolation. 

Pu'solved, That we humbly implore the Ruler of the destiny of nations, as 
well as of' individuals, to spare the life of Secretary Seward and his son to 
their families and to the nation, and we hereby tender them our symj)athy in 
iheir afflictions. 

Lltsoi.vcd, TliaL-, i. :»-.c;i:.iingly G.^lk v/ays of Providence iu 

the present critical piri^-d of our national existence, Ave humbly bow before 
Him, praying that He \vill sanctify this bereavement to the nation, so as to lead 
u- to t ^it all our confidence in Him for the restoration of peace and harmony 
in all our borders, by converting or destroying the armed and unarmed enemies 
of our beloved country. 

Resolved, That, while mourning over our departed President, we, with all 
loyal men of our country, Avill truly and faithfully support Andrew Johnson 
as our present Chief Magistrate in his arduous duties of finishing the work so 
luibly begun by his predecessor; and we pray for him that the Almighty may 
suslaiu and guide him, so that, under his administration, not only the vestigeo of 
rebellion may be obliterated, but peace and harmony restored iu all the United 
Stales, and tiiat we, as a nation, may give to the whole world the noble exara- 
]tle of liberty without licentiousness, independence without self-glory, aiid - 
Union without destruction of individiiality. 

HENRY P. SCHOLTE, 

B. F. ROBERTS, 

C. S. WILSON, 

Co}n7nittee. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATTIY. 707 

PROVinKMCR, li. I., A2)n! 29, 18G5. 
Sir: At a meeting of the Rhode Tsland Baptist State Convention, hohl iu 
the city of Providence, April 25, 1865, the following resolutions, reported by 
Rev. Dr. Caswell, were uuaniinously adopted, and the Secretary was instructed 
to forward a copy, duly signed, to the President. 

A. J. PADELFORD, Secretary. 

Resolved, That, in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late President of 
the United States, we are compelled to recognize the fruit of that spirit of 
rebellion, which, blinded by its own wickedness, seeks to found a goveinmeut 
on human slavery as its chief corner-stone, and can see no rights in a colored 
man which a white man is bound to respect. "VVe aver that, in our opinion, 
murder and assassination, and. every outrage which can subserve the en<ls of 
unhallowed ambition, may be regarded as the just sequence of trampling under 
foot the most solemn oaths, and setting at defiance the Constitution and laws 
which hold a nation in security. 

Rcsolced, That, in the premature death of Mr. Lincoln, the country has lost 
a great and good man, whose name, iu the annals of our history and of freedom, 
will stand second only to the name of AVashington. His life was long enough 
for fame, but all too short for his country's good. 

Resolced, That wc tender our heartfelt sympatliy to the bereaved family in 
their heavy and most bitter aflfliction. 

Resolved, That we give to l^resident Johnson, in the great and trying re- 
sponsibilities which the death of I\Ir. Lincohi has imposed upon him, our united 
and untiring support. As God has permitted one illustrious leader to be cut off 
by violence, so we believe He has prepared another to conduct the nation to 
peace and universal freedom; and it is our ardent prayer that this may be done 
iu such a manner as to add new grace to the charms of mercy, and new dignity 
to the majesty of justice and of law. 

We may add that the above resolutions express the unanimous feeling of the 
largest denomination of Christians in the State. 

We are, very truly, your most obedient servants, 

JONATHAN BRAYTON, Prtsidefd. 
PtKV. A. J. PADELFORD, Secretary/, 
Hon. William Hunter, 

Acting Secretary nf State, WasJiingtort, D. C. 



Resolutions of tie city council of (he city of Salem, Massacliusctts. 

In City Council, City of Salk.v, Massachusktts, 

April 17, 1865. 

Resolved, That the city council of Salem shares, with unfeigned sensibility, 
the profound grief of the loyal people of the United States in view of the suddeu 
death, by theliand of violence, of Abraham Lincoln, the honored and beloved 
Chief IMagistrate of our country. An event so impressive iu itself, and accom- 
panied by\cts of such awfid criminality, renders us more than ever conscious 
of the great and desperate struggle from which our government is uow just 
emero-ino-, and of the value of the precious sacrifices which have been rerpmed 
of om- iK-ople. We recognize that in this inexpr(ssil)ly sad and fearful evciit 
not onlv was a patriotic, magnanimous, and admiral de magistrate stricken down 
in the highest place of our land, but the assassin's blow was aimed at the country 
itself la view of such perils and such wickedness it becomes all loyal pi^oplc 
to renew their confidence in the Divine Providence, as leading aud directing 



708 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COERESPONDENCE. 

« 

the cause of the nation ; and Avhen the exultation of victory is suddenly changed 
into mourning we may accept it as admonition that there are still further trials 
and duties before us ere the blessings of a free and stable government shall be 
perfectly secured. 

Resolved, That the city council recommends to the citizens that, in accord- 
ance with the suggestion of the Acting Secretary of State, they assemble, on 
the day of the funeral of President Lincoln, in their respective houses of wor- 
ship for religious services ; and that the mayor be requested to cause such further 
notice to be taken of the solemn occasion as he may deem suitable. 

Resolved, That we extend our heartfelt sympathy towards Mrs. Lincoln in 
her appalling sorrow, and to the members of her family. 

Resolved, That the city council regards the murderous and desperate attack 
upon the Secretary of State with abhorrence and indignation, and rejoices in 
the assurance that the assassin's blows failed of their deadly purpose. 

Resolved, That the present occasion suggests the further duty of acknowledg- 
ing the lawful authority of Andrew Johnson, now President of the United 
States, and of recognizing the loyal purpose, the patriotic fidelity, the fu'm 
character, and the eminent services which he has contributed to the public 
cause. We pledge to liim the prompt, cordial, and unhesitating support of the 
loyal people of Salem, and offer him our best wishes for success in the responsi- 
ble and trying but noble duty that he has undertaken. 

Resolved, That the tv,'o chambers of the city council be liung with appropriate 
mourning drapery for the space of thirty days, and that the members of the city 
government wear the usual badge of mourning for the same period. 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to Mrs. Lincoln, to the 
President, and to the Secretary of State. 

The foregoing resolutions were adopted by a unanimous vote in each board 
of the city council of the city of Salem, Massachusetts, April 17, 1865. 

[SEAL.] Attest: STEPHEN P. WEBB, 

Cifi/ Clerk. 



Resolutions passed at a mesting of the Grand Council Union I^eagne Associa- 
tion of the State of California. 

Grand Council Umon League Association, State of California, 

San Francisco, April 20, 1S65. 

Gentlemen : At a meeting of the Grand Council Union League Association, 
held on the 18th instant, the following jireamble and resolutions were unani- 
mously adopted : 

Whereas information has been received of the death of Abraham Lincoln, 
President of the United States, by assassination at the national capital on the 
14th day of April, A. D. 1865, after a protracted and successful contest with 
the treason and rebellion of the slave-power against the life of the nation, which 
act of assassination has caused the deepest emotion of sympathy and the most 
intense sorrow to be felt by all loyal people throughout the laud ; and whereas 
we believe that this act of treason and murder which has deprived the nation 
of its Chief Magistrate is the result of the teachings of the institution of slavery : 
Therefore, 

Resolved, That in the assassination of the President of the United States we 
recognize the legitimate fruit of the "barbarism of slavery " and its antagonism 
to religion and civilization; and we believe it to be a duty to God, humanity, 
and the country to forever abolish it throughout the United States, and that the 
government should listen to no terms of pacification except on the basis of its 
immediate and total extinction, and the punishment of the leaders and instigators 
of the rebellion to the full measure which retributive justice demands. 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 709 

ResoJrcil, Tlmt the mcmhors of tlie grand and Pubordinate councils of the 
Lnion League of the State of California, in view of the virtue, i)atriotism and 
high national character of our late beloved President, and in sorrow for this 
great national calamity, wear the usual emblem of mourning during the continu- 
ance of the rebellion. 

Resolved, That the; pccretary transmit a copy of the foregoing preamble and 
resolutions to the national grand council and to the subordiuate councils iu this 
State. 

By order of the grand council : 

S. II. PARKER, 

Grand Preft/dent. 
ALFRED BARSTOW, 

Grand Secretary. 
The Officers and Members of the Umox League. 



Pursuant to a call of his honor ^Mayor Arnold, a large assemblage of the citi- 
zens of Savannah met at the Exchange to-day, Thursday, AprU 20, to give 
expression to their sentiments in relation to the assassination of I'resident Lin- 
coln and the attempt upon the life of Secretary of State Seward, and upon the 
lives of members of his f^imily. 

The room being incapable of holding the vast assemblage, the meeting was 
adjourned to Johnson Square, where, uj)ou motion of the Hon. W. 13. Hodgson, 
the mayor was chosen to preside, and on motion of II. Brigham, esq., Henry C. 
Freeman was requested to act as secretary. 

Upon taking the chair the mayor addressed the meeting in the following re- 
marks : 

"Fellow-citizens : AYehave assembled to-day under circumstances unparal- 
lellcd, not only in the annals of the history of this country, but iu that of the 
whole civilized world. The unanimous request of every citizen whom I met 
yesterday, according with my own judgment and f(?elings, was that a meeting of 
citizens should be called to give authentic record to their feelings and senti- 
ments in relation to the most atrocious assassination of President Lincoln, and 
the probably fetal attempt at that of Secretary Seward and his family. 

" Twice before has this nation been called upon to mourn the death of the 
occupant of the White House, tlie residence of the ruler of a great republic. Presi- 
dents Harrison and Taylor; but they had been stricken down by the hand of 
Providence; they were the common inheritors of 'all the ills that flesh is heir 
to.' They yielded their lives in accordance with the great law of our Creator. 

" But to-day we are called upon to chronicle an event of a very different kind ; 
a deed has been committed rejiugnant to every feeling of justice and humanity ; 
a scene which has inscribed on it, by every book of law, the stigma of the vilest 
crime, and the penalty justly due such a crime. 1 refrain from further expres- 
pions, because I cannot trust myself without trespassing on your patience. 
Your immense assemblage is a suflicient guarantee that you comprehend the 
awfulness of the crime, socially, morally, and politically, ami that you wish to 
eet upon it the seal of your emphatic condemnation. 

" In the unsuspecting enjoyment of a public entertainment, seated by his own 
wife and near another lady, a base, cowardly assassin enters the ])iivate box 
occupied by the President at the theatre, presents a pistol at the back of his 
head, and discharging it, in a moment inflicts a fatal wound which precipitates 
him into eternity. 

" If this had happened to an ordinary private citizen, the feelings of the coun- 
try would have been justly excited against such an act so base, so cowardly, 
and our sympathies would have been excited for the suddenly bereaved family ; 



710 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC COREESPONDENCE. 

but in a case like the present, private griefs are swallowed up in a calamity wliicli 
affects the interests and feelings of a wide-spread country ; and I would not 
profane the sanctity of domestic grief by mingling it with our present meeting. 
Circumstances had so ordered it that, in my opinion, no life in ihe whole coun- 
try was more important than that of President Lincoln, in settling the unfortu- 
nate condition of affairs which now exists. 

" Next to his in importance was that of Seci-etary Seward. The assassination 
of the one, and, I fear, the too successful attempt on the life of the other, are 
events which, from our surrounding circumstances, I believe, will be ever marked 
with a cursed pre-eminence of evil in the annals of time. It is right that our 
city should place upon record its abhorrence of the awful crime perpetrated and 
its views of the lamentable consequences which may flow from it. It remains 
for the meeting to appoint a committee to report suitable resolutions for its con- 
sideration." 

On motion, a committee of thirteen was appointed to draught suitable resolu- 
tions expressive of the sense of the meeting, who retired, and, after deliberation, 
reported the following preamble and resolutions : 

Whereas authentic information has reached the city of Savannah that Presi- 
dent Lincoln has been murdered by an assassin, and that an attempt has been 
made upon the life of Secretary Seward and on the lives of several members 
of his ffimily : Therefore, 

Rcsrilvcd, by the citizens of Savannah in public meeting assembled, in obe- 
dience to a call from his honor the mayor — 

1st. That we regard with deepest pain and sorrow, as a calamity to the whole 
country, the assassination of the President and the attempt on the life of the 
Secretary of State and on the lives of members of his family. 

2d, That while we should have been pained to hear of these events, even if 
they had occurred in the providence of God, without human agency, we are 
especially and profoundly grieved at the manner of their occurrence. 

3d. That we sincerely trust for the honor of haman nature, that investiga- 
tions may prove these horrid acts to have been perpetrated by a madman, whose 
loss of reason has made him irresponsible for his deeds. 

4tli. That in case it be ascertained that these deeds have been- committed by 
any person or persons of sound mind, or that they are the result of deliberate 
conspiracy, then we regard the criminals with abhorrence and detestation, as 
enemies of the South, enemies of the North, and enemies to mankind, and our 
hope is that they may meet with speedy justice in the extreme penalties of the 
law. 

5th. That this meeting most deeply sympathizes with the families of the late 
President of the United States and .of the Secretary of State, and will unite in 
any further mark of respect that may be proposed. 

6th. That a copy of the proceedings of this meeting be forwarded to the fam- 
ily of the late President and to Mr. Seward. 

7th. That a copy be furnished to Major General Grover, commanding this 
post, and that the same be published in the public prints. 

E. D. ArvNOLD, Chairman. 
H. G. FUEEMAN, Secretary. 

Savannah, Aj)ril 20, 1865. 



Santa Fk, New Mexico, May 8, 1865. 

Sir : At a public meeting of the colored citizens of Santa Fe, N. M., held on 
the 5th instant, we, the undersigned committee, were appointed and instructed to 
forward the following preamble and resolutions to you, and through you to his 
Excellency the President of the United States. The above-mentioned meeting 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 711 

was convened upon the occasion of the doatli of the late President of the United 
States, and the resolutions were adopted unanimously. AVe ])reseiit this as a 
token of respect for tlic memory of Abraliam Lincoln, late President of the 
United States, in consideration of the many noble deeds that he performed and 
has left on record in behalf of our long-degraded race ; and also to manifest our 
devotion to the present administration, and our respect for that time honored old 
flag which we can noAv joyfully hail as the true emblem of the free. 
Most respectfully submitted : 

W. W. TATE, 

CHARLluS A. PRALL, 

WILLIAM J AS. 13. H. STEVKXSOX, 

CommifJee. 
Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State. 



RESOLUTIONS. 

Wherea.s, by the arrival of the last mail from the east we learned with tli 
deepest regret the very ead intelligence of the untimely death of the great 
American i)hilanthropist, statesman, and liberator, his Excellency Abraham Lin- 
coln, late President of the United States ; and 

Whereas, as we feel that in the death of so great and good a man as we are 
proud to acknowledge that our late beloved President was, it highly and indis- 
pensably becomes our duty, as a part and parcel of the American people, and 
more especially as we are identified by race, language, and ojtpression with that 
class of mankind for whom the deceased so nobly and manfully labored, and for 
the advocating of the amelioration of whose condition he came to an untimely 
death, by _the hand of a brutal, heartless, and fiendish midnight assassin, in the 
stolen garb of a man; yet, inasmuch as it has pleased an all-wise God, in His 
kind and inscrutable providence, to so suddenly remove, from a field of useful 
labor here to his reward in heaven, our late much-beloved President, we will 
submissively bow in a Christian spirit to the Avill of liim who rules the desti- 
nies of the universe and causes all things to work in unison with his own celes- 
tial will, for the good of mankind : Therefore, be it 

Resolved, That we, the colored citizens of Santa Fe, N. M., tender our heart- 
felt and sincere sympathy to the mourning widow and relatives of the deceased, 
who by a single blow of the assassin's unhallowed hand, have sustained an 
irreparable loss, and which has caused a vacancy that all future time can never 
fill; and that, to sliow our due homage and respect for the moral worlh and 
Christian virtues which he so truly manifested while living, we will wear the 
usual badge of mourning on our left arms for the space of thirty days. 

Resolved, That in the death of Abraham Lincoln the cause of free govern- 
ment and free institutions has lost a mighty advocate; the United States a wise, 
honest, and patriotic I'resident; the laboring clas.-es throughout the woild a 
true exponent and powerful co-laborer, and the panting slave a devoted friend 
and successful liberator, and who will ever hold the name of Abraham Jjincoln 
in grateful remembrance as the earnest friend of liberty and e(inality, withtmt 
regard to color, and will henceforth .-peak of his name with due reverence only 
as the great American emancij)ator. 

Resolved, That in consideration of the many noble and manly virtues of the 
Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, as a wise counselor of the nation, 
long tried and sincere friend of our oppressed race in the United States, we 
received with the deepest sorrow the intelligence of the attempted assassination 
of that noble officer and friend, and that we hereby express the fond hojje that 
he may soon recover, and again assume the belm of that good ohl ship of state 



712 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

Avhich lie Las so judicioiisly managed for tlie last four years, aud for wliicli we 
will earnestly hope and pray. 

Resolved, That we Lereby renew our devotion to the government of the 
United States, and solemnly pledge our loyalty and support to the new admin- 
istration just inaugurated, under the leadership of his Excellency Andrew John- 
son, in whose ability, sagacity, and integrity we possess the most implicit 
confidence. 

W. W. TATE, 
WM. S. KENLEY, 

Co7n7nittee. 

On motion of W. "W. Tate, seconded by G. W. Carter, it was 

Resolved, That we send copies of the proceedings of this meeting to the pub- 
lishers of the Colored Citizen, Christian Recorder, and Anglo-African, respect- 
fully rcqiiesting that they publish the same in their respective journals, and that 
an authenticated copy be forwarded to the widow of the lamented President, 
and also one to the President of the United States. 

On motion of Jas. B. B. Stevenson it was 

Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to forward these proceed- 
ings to the publishers of the above-named journals, and also a copy each to 
Mrs. Lincoln and to the President of the United States. 

W. W. Tate, Charles A. Prall, and William Jas. B. Stevenson were the 
committee. 

Ou motion adjourned sine die. 

WM. S. KINLEY, President. 
CHARLES A. PRALL, Vice-Presiderd. 
W. W. TATE, Secretary. 



CITIZEN'S MEETING. 

In pursuance of the call of the mayor a large number of citizens assembled in 
the theatre to express the sentiments of the communily in regard to the assassi- 
nation of the President of the United States, and the attempt upon the lives of 
Mr. Seward and his son. 

Mayor Dawson took the chair and announced the object of the meeting in a 
brief .address, which Avas in substance as follows: 

"Fellow-citizens: I have called you together this evening, by request of 
many citizens, for the purpose of expressing our condemnation aud abhorrence 
of the assassination of the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln ; 
also of the attempts to assassinate the Hon. W. H. Seward and his son. I can 
truly say, for tlie citizens of this town, that none condemn the act more than 
we do. It is fur you fellow-citizens, to give expression to the feelings enter- 
tained by us all. The first thing in order will be to choose a secretary, and after 
that to appoint a committee to prepare suitable resolutions." 

On motion of S. D. Wallace, esq., Mr. George 0. Van Amringe, jr , was ap- 
pointed secretary of the meeting. 

On motion of A. M. AVaddell, esq., a committee of seven was appointed to 
draft resolutions. The chairman appointed the following persons : Alfred M. 
Waddell, Stephen D. Wallace, John A. Baker, James Anderson, Alfred Martin, 
P. W. Fanning, M. Mclnnis. 

After retiring for a short time the committee submitted, through their chair- 
man, the following resolutions : 

Whereas, the intelligence lately received in this city of the brutal assassina- 
tion of the President of the United States, and the equally brutal attempt to 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 713 

murder the Secretary of State, calls for a public expression of the fceliug with 
which that intelligeuce has been received by this community, be it 

1. Rcsoh-cd, By the citizens of "Wilmington, that Ave regard with unfeigned 
horror this last most frightful and most disgraceful national calamity. 

2. Resolrcd, That we are penetrated wiih deep and sincere sorrow for the 
loss of a Chief IMagistrate who has presided over the destinies of this nation 
during four years of bloody war, Avith tirmness and sagjicity, and Avho we 
believe Avas about to crown his administration and signalize the advent of peace 
by a course of magnanimity Avhich must have secured him the respect and friend- 
ship of the southern people. 

3. Resolved, That the assassins Avho perpetrated this foul deed not only 
deserve the execration of mankind, but have proved themselves the worst ene- 
mies to our common country, and we trust they may soon meet the punishment 
which is so richly their due. 

4. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the Depart- 
ment of State at Washington city, 

Mr. Waddell being called upon, addressed the meeting in the following perti- 
nent remarks : 

Mr. Chairman : I have been requested to oflfer a feAv remarks u))on the 
propriety of these resolutions. It is not a proper occasion for eulogy, if I was 
qualified for that task, and, therefore, I shall not indulge in it ; Avhat I shall 
Bay will be brief, sincere, and true. 

For the first time in the history of this nation, its Chief Magistrate has died 
by violent hands, and at an hour, too, when such a crime will be more severely 
felt than it Avould have been, perhajis, at any previous period. 

After a long night of sorroAv, and trial, and agony, and just as the blessed 
dawn of peace is lighting the land with gladness, Avhen the nobler sentiments 
of charity and generosity are taking possession of all hearts, an attempt is 
made to plunge us again into darkness and bitterness. lie, the Chief ]\Iagistrate, 
who, iu the language of the resolutions, Avas about to crown his administration 
and signalize the advent of peace by a course of magnanimity which must have 
secured him respect and friendship of those of his fellow-citizens from Avhom 
be Las been estranged for the past four years, is taken from us at the hour Avhen 
be appeared to be the most needed, and in a manner which must mantle every 
cheek Avith the blush of shame and indignation. 

It is, sir, in every point of vicAV, a most lamentable event, and one over Avhich 
every good man in the land must sincerely mourn. I am happy to say, that 
since the sad intelligence reached our town I have not met a single individual 
who has not thus expressed himself. _ , 

And I think it peculiarly aj.propriate, Mr. Chairman, in us, who have since 
his first elevation to power only seen the victim of this foul murder through the 
mists of passion and prejudice, and have therefore betn unable to do full justice 
to bis character, now in the light of existing facts to be among the first to 
come forward and ofier our sympathy and sorrow. This is doing justice to 
ourselves. . . 

For one I am unwilling, as a citizen of the United States, to snilcr this atro- 
cious crime which is a stain upon the nation's character to pass by Avithout rais- 
ing my voice in indignation and abhorrence, to protest against and denounce it. 
And 1 have no doubt but this is the feeling of every one present 

Let us ponder the lessons of the hour, sir, and strive to profit by tlum. Let 
us cultivate our better nature more, and endeavor to develop sentiments ot 
kindness, and charity, and forbearance among ourselves as fcUow-citizens ot a 

common country. ■, . , , . i v 

The foilure to do this in the past has eventuated m the calamity and disgrace 
which now afflicts us, and to mourn over which we are here assembled to-nigbt. 
God grant that it may be the last of our national calamities, and that there may 



714 APPENDIX TO DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

be no more sorrow and lamentation among a people who have drained the cup 
of bitterness to the dregs, and who are now awaiting Vt'ith anxious and yearning 
hearts and eager eyes for happier days for themselves and their coimtry. 
On motion of Dr. Freeman, the meeting adjourned. 

JOHN DAWSON, Chairman. 



WashiiXgton, AirrU 17, 1865. 

At a meeting of the citizens of New York, held in this city on the evening of 
April 17, 1S65, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously passed : 

Whereas his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United 
States, died on the morning of the 15tli of April from wounds received at the 
hands of an assassin : Therefore, 

Resolced, That in the death of our beloved President, our whole country has 
lost its best and dearest friend ; that his life is the brightest page of our nation's 
glory; his death the saddest of our nation's sorrows; that we prayerfully ask 
Him who ruleth all the people of the earth, in His providence, to work out His 
purpose in this appalling calamity, that has gone so near to the hearts of the 
American people, and to decree and hasten that end which our lamented Presi- 
dent so nearly consummated, and to which he died a matyr, namely. Christian 
liberty and the restoration and perpetuation of the American Union. 

Resolved, That we tender to the bereaved Avifeand children of him who has been 
so suddenly stricken down our warmest sympathies and condolence; that we offer 
also to the highly esteemed Secretary of State, and each member of his family, 
our earnest hopes for their recovery to health and usefulness in the high places 
which they have so long and honorably filled. 

Resoh^ed, That Ave give our earnest assurance to his Excellency Andrew 
Johnson, President of the United States, that he Avill bring to his administration 
the same hearty adherence and support as Ave ha\'e always borne to that of his 
predecessor. 

Resolved, That we Avear the usual badge of mourning for the period of sixty 
days, and that we attend the funeral of our deceased President in a body. 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the family of the 
late President, to the Secretary of State, and to his Excellency AudreAv Johnson. 
Respectfully, yours, 

A. G. PRATT, 
Sccrelanj Excelsior Union Club. 

Hon. William H. Seavard, 

Secretary of State. 



At a meeting of the citizens of Connecticut, held at Willard's Hotel, Wash- 
ington, D. C, April 17, 1865, Governor Buckingham was called upon to preside, 
and W. A. Benedict was chosen secretary. 

Governor Buckingham stated that the object of the meeting was to give some 
fitting form of expression to the feelings of the citizens of Connecticut in view 
of the great calamity which has spread its pall of darkness over the nation in the 
death of its honored head, and to make arrangements for participating in the 
approaching funeral ceremonies. 

The folloAving committoes Avere appointed : On resolutions expressive of the 
feelings of the meeting, Hon. La Fayette S. Foster, Hon. James Dixon, and H. 
H. Starkweather. 

On arrangements for participating in the funeral ceremonies, Governor Buck 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMPATHY. 715 

inghara, Hon. James Dixon, W. A. Tho;iipson, Colonel II. II. Os-ood J A 
Whitlock, and Col. J. II. Almy. o ' • • 

Hon. James Dixon presented tlie following resolutions, wliicli \rcrc unani- 
mously adopted : 

Rcsolrcd, That, sharing- witli the people of Connecticut tho unutterable sor- 
row which saddens every household and wrings every patriotic heart with a 
sense of personal bereavement in the death of the late lamented President of the 
United States, we unite with them in expressing oin- profound grief, and mingle 
our lamentations with theirs under the crushing blow which has struck our 
nation, from the summit of universal gratitude and joy, into the utmost depths 
of affliction and mourning. 

Rtsolced, That we mourn the loss of the preserver of the Union, raised up 
by the hand of the Almighty to lead our nation through the perils of the great 
rebellion ; that in him we recognize the guiding intellect, the conscientious pur- 
pose, the unfiling judgment, the resolute will, the unselfish heart, which were 
needed to constitute the leader of the nation in its hour of deepest peril ; and 
that his humanity, his confiding trust in God, his devoted love of his country 
and of the human race, his entire consecration to the spirit of universal liberty, 
have placed him among the foremost of the great benefactors of mankind who 
have blessed the world and shed honor upon the human character. 

Resolved, That while we mourn the unspeakable loss which our nation has 
suffered, we devoutly offer the Great Ruler of the Universe our reverent and 
earnest thanks that he permitted our departed and lamented President to live 
and rule over our imperilled country until, under his wise and firm control, 
aided by the Almighty hand, he was permitted to see the rebel hosts defeated 
and surrendered ; their capital and seaports restored to the authority of the 
nation; their military power overthrown; their wicked leaders driven from their 
seats of power; the great cause of the rebellion, human slavery, aboli,<hed and 
destroyed; and liberty and efj[ual rights for all made the basis of our national 
existence. 

Rcsolccd, That we tender to the President of the United States, the honorable 
Andrew Johnson, the assurance of our earnest and unqualified support in the 
performance of the arduous and responsible duties now devolved upon him, and 
that we invoke for him the same conscientious purpose, the same divine inspira- 
tion and support from the Almighty hand by which his great predecessor was 
sustained. 

Resolved, That we acknowledge with gratitude the providential interposition 
by which our beloved and honored Secretary of State, the confidential friend 
and adviser of Abraham Lificoln, has been protected and preserved from the 
dangers and violence to which he has been exposed; that we offer to him our 
deepest sympathy, and unite in the prayers of the nation for his speedy and 
perfect restoration to health, and for the safety and preservation of his family. 

Resolved, That we will, as representatives of our State, attend the funeral 
services of our lamented President in a body, and wear the usual badge of 
iQOurning for sixty days. i t^ i 

Resolved, That we tender to the family of the deceased President the assur- 
ance of our deep and heartfelt sympathy in the great affliction t<. which God 
has called them; and that we huml)ly and devoutly supplicate for them tho 
blessing and support of their Heavenly Father. , ,. •, r i 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the fiunily of the 
late President; also to the honorable Secretary of State, and to the President 
of the United States, and that they be published in the public press of Cou- 

''^''^'''''^- W. A. BUCKINGHAM. 



Governor of Connecticut, and Chairman of the Meetinsr. 
W. A. BENEDICT, Secretary. 



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Washington Lodge, No. 6, I. 0. 0. F., 

WasJdngton, April 17, 1865. 
At tLe regular meeting of tLe lodge this evening the following preamble and 
resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

Whereas tliis lodge has learned with heartfelt sorrow the assassination of the 
President of the United States, and of the brutal and fiendish attempt on the 
life of the Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, in his helpless condi- 
tion ; and 

Whereas our worthy brother, E. H. Hausell, in the performance of his duty 
to the honorable Secretary, was also wounded by the assassin's knife : There- 
fore, 

Resolved, That the thanks of this lodge be and are hereby tendered to the 
family of the Secretary, particularly to Mrs, Seward, who, in their hour of deep 
aftliction, forgot not our worthy brother, but gave him all the care and tender 
treatment his situation required. 

Resolved, That a copy of the above be transmitted to the f;imily of the hon- 
orable secretary. 

WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, NobJe Grand. 
AUGUSTUS DAVIS, Vice Grand. 
J. P. M'KEAN, Pcrrnanent Secretary. 



IN MEMORIAM. 



Zanesville, Ohio, A2}ril 15, 1865. 

Pursuant to adjournment from the spontaneous meeting held in front of the 
court house at 9 o'clock this morning, an immense assemblage of the citizens 
of Zanesville and vicinity convened in the Market-house Hall, at 2 o'clock p. m. 
Mr. Henry Blandy occuijied the chair, and 0. W. Potwiu continued to act as 
secretary. Rev. D. D. Mather offered an eloquent and impressive prayer. 

The committee appointed at the morning meeting, composed of the Eev. H. 
K. Foster, Rev. J. M. Piatt, Rev. N. A. Reed, A. A. Guthrie, esq., Colonel 
Granger, and Messrs. V. Best and H. Blandy, reported, through their chairman, 
A. A. Guthrie, esq., the following resolutions, which were adopted unanimously : 

Resolved, That this community learns with consternation and profound sor- 
row of the death, by the hands of murderers, of President Lincoln and Secre- 
tary Seward. 

Resolved, That in deliberate and cautious wisdom in judging, in steady spirit 
and unsullied integrity, and sii:cere and disinterested devotion to his country's 
cause, Abraham Lincoln closely resembled him whom a grateful people have 
named the " Father of his Country." 

Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Lincoln at this juncture of our national 
affairs the country suffers a loss the magnitude of which we cannot in our pres- 
ent sorrow adequately estimate, and were it not for our knowledge that God 
reigns over human affairs, our grief would utterly prostrate and overwhelm us. 

Resolved, That, by the death of Mr. Seward, a learned, liberal, and wise 
statesman has been taken from us ; he had ever been a faithful counsellor of 
his chief, and " in death they were not divided." He also died for his country. 

Resolved, That in these diabolical murders we have but the fuller develop- 
ment of the spirit of the rebellion and its acknowledged cause, and the con- 
summation of purposes and plans formed before Mr. Lincoln's first inaugura- 
tion ; and that the teachings and acts of the rebel leaders have all tended to 
this result j and that they are justly held responsible before God and the world 



SENTIMENTS OF CONDOLENCE AND SYMTATIIY. 717 

for tliesG hellish deeds ; and in the name of humanity, as well as th;it of jus- 
tice, we demand their punishment. 

Resolccd, That our confidence still rests in the great truth that God lives 
and governs, and our recourse must be continually unto Ilim, beseeching him to 
preserve and direct the Vice-President, who now succeeds to the chief magis- 
tracy ; to guide the councils of his cabinet and Congress, and sustain the ar- 
mies and navy in their self-sacrificing devotion to the national cause ; to cause 
the plots of murderous men to recoil upon themselves, and to deliver our nation 
from all its present peril. 

Resolved, That in this latest development of the spirit and plans of traitors 
we find an insuperable objection to all schemes of adjustment which ignore the 
cause of the rebellion, or propose an indiscriminate pardon of its leaders. 

Resolved, That we deem this occasion a fitting one to renew our consecration 
to our beloved country ; and now and here we do solemnly pledge ourselves to 
our imperilled government to maintain and sustain it against all its foes; 
trusting in God, "sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish," we will stand 
by our glorious flag. 

Resolved, That in our deep sorrow for our country Ave would not forget the 
deeper sorrow of the families who are utterly overwhelmed by this inscrutable 
Providence; and that we tender to them our deepest heartfelt condolence, and 
the assurance of a nation's fullest sympathy. 

On motion, a committee was appointed consisting of A. A. Guthrie, Charles 
C. Russell, Colonel Gilbert, and General Ball, to make proper arrangements for 
funeral services to be held in this city at the same time that they occur at Wash- 
ington. 

On motion, it was 

Resolved, That the proceeding and resolutions of this meeting be published 
in the city papers, and in the Ohio State Journal, and a copy thereof be for- 
warded to the President of the United Slates and the families bereaved. 

Following the proceedings, eloquent addresses were delivered by Revs. Fos- 
ter, Piatt, Read, Mather, and by lions. T. J. Maginnis and T. A. Reamy. 

H. BLANDY, Chairman. 
C. W. I'OTWIX, Secretary. 

Note. — It is proper to notice here that since the adjournment of this^ meet- 
ing of citizens the joyful intelligence reaches us that Secretary Seward is still 
living, and hopes are entertained of his recovery. 



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CONGRESS OF AMERICA, 

BEFORE THEM, 

IN THE HOUSE OF UEPRESExXTATIVES 

AT WASHINGTON, 

ON THE 12TH OF FEBRUARY, 1866. ^ 



By GEORGE BANCROFT 



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ORATION. 



Senators, 

Representatives of America: 
That God rules in Uie affairs of men is as certain as 
any truth of physical science. On the great moving 
power which is from the beginning hangs the world of 
the senses and the world of thought and action. Eter- 
nal wisdom marshals the great procession of the na- 
tions, working in patient continuity through the ages, 
never halting and never abrupt, encompassing all events 
in its oversight, and ever effecting its will, though 
mortals may slumber in apathy or oppose with mad- 
ness. Kings are lifted up or thrown down, nations 
come and go, republics ilourish and wither, dynasties 
pass away like a tale that is told ; but nothing is by 
chance, though men, in their ignorance of causes, may 
think so. The deeds of time are governed, as well as 
judged, l)y the decrees of eternity. The caprice of 
fleeting existences bends to the immovable omnipotence, 
which plants its foot on nil the centuries and has 
neither change of purpose nor repose. Sometimes, 
like a messenger through the thick darkness of night, 
it steps along mysterious ways; ]>ul when the hour 
strikes for a people, or for mankiiuh to pass into a new- 
form of beinl.^ unseen hands draw the bolts from th.' 



LIFE AND CIIAEACTER OF 

^ates of futurity ; an all-subduing influence prepares 
tlic minds of men for the coming revolution; those who 
plan resistance find themselves in conflict with the will 
of Providence rather than w^ith human devices; and 
all hearts and all understandings, most of all the opin- 
ions and influences of the unwilling, are wonderfully 
attracted and compelled to bear forward the change, 
which becomes more an obedience to the law of uni-. 
versal nature than submission to the arbitrament of 
man. 

In the fulness of time a republic rose up in the wil- 
derness of America. Thousands of years had passed 
away before this child of the ages could be born. 
From whatever there was of good in the systems of 
former centuries she drew her nourishment; the wrecks 
of the past were her warnings. With the deepest sen- 
timent of faith fixed in her inmost nature, she disen- 
thralled religion from bondage to temporal power, that 
her worship might be worship only in spirit and in 
truth. The wisdom which had passed from India 
through Greece, with what Greece had added of her 
own; the jurisprudence of Rome; the mediaeval munici- 
palities ; the Teutonic method of representation ; the 
political experience of England ; the benignant wisdom 
of the expositors of the law of nature and of nations in 



L 



France and Holland, all shed on lier (heir selectest 
influence. She washed the gold of political wisdom 
from the sands wherever it was found ; she cleft it from 
the rocks; she gleaned it among ruins. Out of all the 
discoveries of statesmen and sages, out of all the expe- 
rience of past human life, she compiled a i)ercnnial 
political philosophy, the primordial principles of national 
ethics. The wise men of Europe sought the best gov- 
ernment in a mixture of monarchy, aristocmcy, and 
democracy ; America went behind these names to ex- 
tract from them the vital elements of social forms, and 
blend them harmoniously in the free commonwealth, 
which comes nearest to the illustration of the natural 
equality of all men. She intrusted the guardianship of 
established rights to law, the movements of reform to 
the spirit of the people, and drew her force from the 
happy reconciliation of both. 

Republics had heretofore been limited to small cnn- 
tons, or cities and their dependencies; America, doing 
that of which the like had not before been known upon 
the earth, or jjelieved by kings and statesmen to be i>os- 
sible, extended her republic across a continent. Under 
her auspices the vine of liberty took deep root and 
filled the land; the hills were covered with its shadow. 
its boughs were like the goodly cedars, and reached 



unto both oceans. The fame of this only daughter of 
freedom went out into all the lands of the earth ; from 
her the human race drew hope. 

Neither hereditary monarchy nor hereditary aristoc- 
racy planted itself on our soil; the only hereditary 
condition that fastened itself upon us was servitude. 
Nature works in sincerity, and is ever true to its law. 
The bee hives honey; the \dper distils poison; the vine 
stores its juices, and so do the poppy and the upas. In 
like manner every thought and every action ripens its 
seed, each according to its kind. In the individual man, 
and still more in a nation, a just idea gives life, and pro- 
gress, and glory; a false conception portends disaster, 
shame, and death. A hundred and twenty years ago a 
West Jersey Quaker wrote: "This trade of importing 
slaves is dark gloominess hanging over the land; the 
consequences will be grievous to posterity." At the 
north the growth of slavery was arrested by natural 
causes; in the region nearest the tropics it throve rankly, 
and worked itself into the organism of the rising States. 
Virginia stood between the two, with soil, and climate, 
and resources demanding free labor, yet capable of the 
profitable employment of the slave. She was the land 
of great statesmen, and they saw the danger of her 
being whelmed under the rising flood in time to struggle 



against the delusions of avarice and pride. Xinety-lour 
years ago the legislature of Virginia addressed the 
British king, saying that the trade in slaves was "of 
great inhumanity," was opposed to the "security and 
happiness" of their constituents, "would in time have 
the most destructive influence," and "endanger tlieir 
very existence." And tlie king answered them that, 
"upon pain of his highest displeasure, the importa- 
tion of slaves should not be in any respect oljstructed." 
"Pharisaical Britain," wrote Frankhn in behalf of Vir- 
ginia, "to pride thyself in setting free a single slave that 
happened to land on thy coasts, while thy laws continue 
a traffic whereby so many hundreds of thousands are 
dragged into a slavery that is entailed on their posterity." 
"A serious view of this subject," said Patrick Henry in 
1773, "gives a gloomy prospect to future times." In 
the same year George Mason wrote to the legislature 
of Virginia: "The laws of impartial Providence may 
avenge our injustice upon our posterity." Conforming 
his conduct to his convictions, JeflTerson, in Viririnia. 
and in the Continental Congress, with the api)r()val of 
Edmund Pendleton, branded the slave-trade as i)iracy: 
and he fixed in the Declaration of Independence, as the 
corner-stone of America: "All men are created equal 
with an unalienable right to Uberty." On tlie first 



organization of temporary governments for the conti- 
nental domain, Jefferson, but for the default of New 
Jersey, would, in 1784, have consecrated every part of 
that territory to freedom. In the formation of the 
national Constitution, Virginia, opposed by a part of 
New England, vainly struggled to abolish the slave- 
trade at once and forever; and when the ordinance of 
1787 was introduced by Nathan Dane without the 
clause prohibiting slavery, it was through the favorable 
disposition of Virginia and the South that the clause of 
Jeiferson was restored, and the whole northwestern 
territory — all the territory that then belonged to the 
nation — was reserved for the labor of freemen. 

The hope prevailed in Virginia that the abolition of 
the slave-trade would bring with it the gradual aboli- 
tion of slavery; but the expectation was doomed to 
disappointment. In supporting incipient measures for 
emancipation, Jefferson encountered difficulties greater 
than he could overcome, and, after vain wrestlings, the 
words that broke from him, "I tremble for my country 
when I reflect that God is just, that His justice can- 
not sleep forever," were words of despair. It was the 
desire of Washington's heart that Virginia should re- 
move slavery by a public act; and as the prospects of 
a general emancipation grew more and more dim, he, in 



utter hopelessness of the action of the State, di.l all 
that he could by bequeathing freedom to his own slaves. 
Good and true men had, from the days of 1776, sug- 
gested the colonizing of the negro in the home of his 
ancestors; but the idea of colonization was thought to 
increase the difficulty of emancipation, and, in spite of 
strong support, while it accomplished much good for 
Africa, it proved impracticable as a remedy at home. 
Madison, who in early life disliked slavery so mucii that 
he wished "to depend as little as possible on the labor 
of slaves;" Madison, who held that where slavery ex- 
ists "the republican theory becomes fallacious;" Madison, 
who in the last years of his life would not consent to 
the annexation of Texas, lest his countrymen should fill 
it with slaves; Madison, who said, "slavery is the 
greatest evil under which the nation labors — a poiicii- 
tous evil — an evil, moral, political, and economical — a 
sad blot on our free country" — went mournfully into 
old age with the cheerless words: "No satisfactory 
plan has yet been devised for taking out the stain." 

The men of the Revolution passed away; a new 
generation sprang up, impatient that an institution to 
which they clung should be condemned as iulniiiiau, 
unwise, and unjust. In the throes of discontent at the 
self-reproach of their lathers, and l)lin(l('d by the hotic 



of wealth to be acquired by the culture of a new 
staple, they devised the theory that slavery, v^hich they 
would not abolish, was not evil, but good. They turned 
on the friends of colonization, and confidently de- 
manded: "Why take black men from a civilized and 
Christian country, where their labor is a source of im- 
mense gain, and a power to control the markets of the 
world, and send them to a land of ignorance, idolatry, 
and indolence, which was the home of their forefathers, 
but not theirs 1 Slavery is a blessing. Were they not 
in their ancestral land naked, scarcely lifted above 
brutes, ignorant of the course of the sun, controlled by 
nature? And in their new abode have they not been 
taught to know the difference of the seasons, to plough, 
and plant, and reap, to drive oxen, to tame the horse, 
to exchange their scanty dialect for the richest of all 
the languages among men, and the stupid adoration of 
follies for the purest religion'? And since slavery is 
good for the blacks, it is good for their masters, bringing 
opulence and the opportunity of educating a race. The 
slavery of the black is good in itself; he shall serve the 
white man forever." And nature, which better under- 
stood the quality of fleeting interest and passion, laughed 
as it caught the echo, "man" and "forever!" 

A regular development of pretensions followed the 



new declaration with logical consistency. Under tlie 
old declaration every one oi' Ihe States had retained, 
each for itself, the right of nianumittuig all slaves hy 
an ordinary act of legislatioli; now the i)ower of the 
people over servitude through their legislatures was 
curtailed, and the privileged class was swift in imposing 
legal and constitutional obstructions on the people 
themselves. The power of emancipation was narrowed 
or taken away. The slave might not be dis(piieted hy 
education. There remained an unconfessed conscious- 
ness that the system of bondage was wrong, and a icst- 
less memory that it was at variance with the true 
American tradition ; its safety was therefore to Ijc se- 
cured l)y political organization. The generation that 
made the Constitution took care for the predominance 
of freedom in Congress by the ordinance of Jeiferson; 
the new school aspired to secure for slavery an e(iuaHty 
of votes in the Senate, and, while it hinted at an or- 
ganic act that should concede to the collective Soulli a 
veto power on national legislation, it assumed that 
each State separately had the right to revise and nulhly 
laws of the United States, according to the discretion 
of its judgment. 

The new theory hung as a bias on the foreign r.'la- 
tions of the country: there could be no recgnifH..! of 



Hajti, nor even of the American colony of Liljeria • 
and the world was given to understand that the estab- 
lishment of free labor in Cuba would be a reason for 
wresting that island from Spain. Territories were an- 
nexed — Louisiana, Florida, Texas, half of Mexico ; 
slavery must have its share in them all, and it accepted 
for a time a dividing line between the unquestioned 
domain of free labor and that in which involuntary 
labor was to be tolerated. A few years passed away, 
and the new school, strong and arrogant, demanded 
and received an apology for applying the Jefferson 
proviso to Oregon. 

The application of that proviso was interrupted for 
three administrations, but justice moved steadily on- 
ward. In the news that the men of California had 
chosen freedom, Calhoun heard the knell of parting 
slavery, and on his death-bed he counselled secession. 
Washington, and Jefferson, and Madison had died 
despairing of the abolition of slavery ; Calhoun died in 
despair at the growth of freedom. His system rushed 
irresistibly to its natural development The death- 
struggle for California was followed by a short truce ; 
but the new school of politicians, who said that slavery 
was not evil, but good, soon sought to recover the 
ground they had lost, and, confident of securing Kansas, 



ABRAHAM LINCOLN. lo 



tliey demanded that the established Hue in the Tciiito- 
ries between freedom and slavery should be blotted out. 
The comitry, believmg m the strength and enterprise 
and expansive energy of freedom, made answer, though 
reluctantly: "Be it so; let there be no strife between 
brethren; let freedom and slavery compete for the Ter- 
ritories on equal terms, in a fair field, under an impar- 
tial administration;" and on this theory, if on any, the 
contest might have been left to the decision of tinie. 

The South started liack in appalment from its victoiy, 
for it knew that a fair competition foreboded its defeat. 
But where could it now find an ally to save it from its 
own mistake ? What I have next to say is spoken ^\•ith 
no emotion but regret. Our meeting to-day is, as it 
were, at the grave, in the presence of eternity, and the 
truth must be uttered in soberness and sincerity. In a 
great republic, as was observed more than two thousand 
years ago, any attempt to overturn the state owes its 
strength to aid from some l)ranch of the gov(M-nnicnt. 
The Chief Justice of the United States, witliout any 
necessity or occasion, volunteered to come to the rescue 
of the theory of slavery; and from his conrt tli.-re lay 
no appeal l)ut to the bar of humanity an<l l.istoiy. 
Against the Constitution, against the memory of ihr 
narion, against a previous decision, against a series of 



14 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF 

enactments, he decided that the slave is property ; that 
slave property is entitled to no less protection than any 
other property ; that the Constitution upholds it in every 
Territory against any act of a local legislature, and even 
against Congress itself; or, as the President for that 
term tersely promulgated the saying, "Kansas is as 
much a slave State as South Carolina or Georgia; 
slavery, by virtue of the Constitution, exists in every 
Territory." The municipal character of slavery being 
thus taken away, and slave property decreed to be 
" sacred," the authority of the courts was invoked to 
introduce it by the comity of law into States where 
slavery had been abolished, and in one of the courts of 
the United States a judge pronounced the African 
slave-trade legitimate, and numerous and powerful 
advocates demanded its restoration. 

Moreover, the Chief Justice, in his elaborate opinion, 
announced what had never been heard from any magis- 
trate of Greece or Rome; what was unknown to civil 
law, and canon law, and feudal law, and common law, 
and constitutional law; unknown to Jay, to Rutledge, 
Ellsworth, and Marshall — that there are "slave races." 
The spirit of evil is intensely logical. Having the 
authority of this decision, five States swiftly followed 
the earlier example of a sixth, and opened the way for 



reducing the free negro to bondage; the migrating free 
negro became a slave if he but entered within tho juris- 
diction of a seventh; and an eighth, from its extent, and 
soil, and mineral resources, destined to incalculable 
greatness, closed its eyes on its coming prosperity, au<l 
enacted, as by Taney's dictum it had the right to do, 
that every free black man who would live within its 
limits must accept the condition of slavery for himself 
and his posterity. 

Only one step more remained to be taken. Jefferson 
and the leading statesmen of his day held fast to the 
idea that the enslavement of the African was socially, 
morally, and politically wrong. The new school \\as 
founded exactly upon the opposite idea; and they re- 
solved, first, to distract the democratic party, for which 
the Supreme Court had now furnished the means, and 
then to establish a new government, with negro slavery 
for its corner-stone, as socially, morally, and politically 
right. 

As the Presidential election drew on, one of the great 
traditional parties did not make its appearance: the 
other reeled as it sought to preserve its old position, 
and the candidate who most nearly represented its best 
opinion, driven by patriotic zeal, roamed the country 
from end to end to speak for union, eager, at least, to 



confront its enemies, yet not having hope that it would 
find its deliverance through him. The storm rose to a 
whirlwind ; who should allay its wrath ? The most 
experienced statesmen of the country had failed; there 
was no hope from those who were great after the flesh: 
could relief come from one whose wisdom was like the 
wisdom of little children ? 

The choice of America fell on a man born west of 
the Alleghanies, in the calkin of poor people of Hardin 
county, Kentucky — Abraham Lincoln. 

His mother could read, but not write; his father 
could do neither; but his parents sent him, with an old 
spelling-book, to school, and he learned in his childhood 
to do both. 

When eight years old he floated down the Ohio with 
his father on a raft, which bore the family and all their 
possessions to the shore of Indiana; and, child as he 
was, he gave help as they toiled through dense forests 
to the interior of Spencer county. There, in the land 
of free labor, he grew up in a log-cabin, with the 
solemn solitude for his teacher in his meditative hours. 
Of Asiatic literature he knew only the Bible; of Greek, 
Latin, and medieval, no more than the translation of 
^sop's Fables; of Enghsh, John Bunyan's Pilgrim's 
Progress. The traditions of George Fox and William 



Peiiii passed to liim dimly along the lines of two cen- 
turies llirough his ancestors, who were Quakers. 

Otherwise his education was altogether American. 
The Declaration of Independence was his compendium 
of political wisdom, the Life of Washington his (.-on- 
stant study, and something of Jefferson and Madison 
reached him through Henry Clay, whom he honored 
from boyhood. For the rest, from day to day, he lived 
the life of the xVmerican people, walked in its light, 
reasoned with its reason, thought with its power of 
thought, felt the beatings of its mighty heart, and so 
was in every way a chihl of nature, a child of the West, 
a child of America. 

At nineteen, fceUng impulses of ambition to get on 
in the world, he engaged himself to go down the Mis- 
sissippi in a flatboat, receiving ten dollars a month for 
his washes, and afterwards he made the trip once more. 
At twenty-one he drove his father's cattle, as the fimiily 
migrated to Illinois, and split rails to fence in the new 
homestead in the wild. At twenty-three he was a 
captain of volunteers in the Black Hawk war. He 
kept a store. He learned something of surveying, but, 
of English literature he added to Bunyan nothini: but 
Shakspeare's plays. At twenty-five he was elected to 
the Icirislature of Illinois, where he served eight ycarj>. 



At twenty-seven he was admitted to the bar. In 1837 
he chose his home at Springfield, the beautiful centre 
of the richest land in the State. In 1847 he was a 
member of the national Congress, where he voted 
about forty times in favor of the principle of the Jef- 
ferson proviso. In 1849 he sought, eagerly but unsuc- 
cessfully, the place of Commissioner of the Land Office, 
and he refused an appointment that would have trans- 
ferred his residence to Oregon. In 18o4 he gave his 
influence to elect from Illinois, to the American Senate, 
a Democrat, who would certainly do justice to Kansas. 
In 1858, as the rival of Douglas, he went before the 
people of the mighty Prairie State, saying, "This Union 
cannot permanently endure half slave and half free; the 
Union will not be dissolved, but the house will cease to 
be divided;" and now, in 1861, with no experience 
whatever as an executive officer, while States were 
madly flying from their orbit, and wise men knew not 
where to find counsel, this descendant of Quakers, this 
pupil of Bunyan, this offspring of the great West, w^as 
elected President of America. 

He measured the difficulty of the duty that devolved 
upon him, and was resolved to fulfil it. As on the 
eleventh of February, 1861, he left Springfield, which 
for a quarter of a century had been his happy home, to 




the crowd of his friends and neighbors, whom lie \\;is 
never more to meet, he spoke a solenm farewell : - i 
know not how goon I shall see you again. A duly has 
devolved upon me, greater than that which has devolved 
upon any other man since Washington. He ucvei- 
would have succeeded, except for the aid of Diviiic 
Providence, upon which he at all times relied. On the 
same Almighty Being 1 place my reliance. Pray lliat 
I may receive that Divine assistance, without which 1 
cannot succeed, but with which success is certaii]."* 
To the men of Indiana he said: "I am Ijut an acci- 
dental, temporary instrument; it is your Inisiness to 
rise np and preserve the Union and liberty."' At the 
capital of Ohio he said: "Without a nauie, without a 
reason why I shfjuld have a name, there has fallen upon 
me a task such as did not rest even u])on the Father of 
his countr}-."' At various places in New York, espe- 
cially at Albany, bel()re the legislature, which tendered 
him the united support of the great Eui[)ire Stale, he 
said: "While I hold myself the humblest of all the 
individuals who have ever been elevated to tlu; Presi- 
dency, I have a more dillicuh task to pertbrm Ihan any 
)f them. I bring a true heart to the work. 1 miist 
rely upon the x>cople of the whole country for supp(ul, 
and with their sustaining aid even I, lunnble as I am, 



o 



cannot fail to cany the ship of state safely through the 
storm." To the assemljly of New Jersey, at Trenton, 
he explained : "I shall take the ground I deem most 
just to the North, the East, the West, the South, and the 
whole country, in good temper, certainly with no 
malice to any section. I am devoted to peace, but it 
may be necessary to put the foot down firmly." In the 
old Independence Hall, of Philadelphia, lie said : " I 
have never had a feeling politically that did not spring 
from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of 
Independence, whicli gave liberty, not alone to the 
people of this country, but to the world in all future 
time. If the country cannot be saved without giving 
up that principle, I would rather be assassinated on the 
spot than surrender it. I have said nothing but what 
I am willing to live and die by." 

Travelling in the dead of night to escape assas- 
sination, Lincoln arrived at Washington nine days 
before his inauguration. The outgoing President, at 
the opening of the session of Congress, had still kept as 
the majority ot" his advisers men engaged in treason; 
had declared that in case of even an "imaginary" appre- 
hension of danger from notions of freedom among the 
slaves, "disunion would become inevitable." Lincoln 
and others had questioned the opinion of Taney; such 






impugning he ascribed to the "factious temper of llie 
times." The favorite doctrine of tlie majority of t!i(> 
Democratic party on the power of a territorial leirisla- 
ture over slavery he condemned as an attack on "IIk; 
sacred rights of property." The State legislatures, he 
insisted, must repeal what he called "their unconstitu- 
tional and obnoxious enactments." and which, if such, 
were "null and void," or "it would be inipossiI)le for 
any human power to save the Union." Nay! if these 
unimportant acts were not repealed, "the iujured States 
would be justified in revolutionary resistance to the 
government of the Union." lie maintained that no 
State might secede at its sovereign will and pleasure; 
that the Union was meant for perpetuity, and that Con- 
gress might attempt to preserve it, but only by concilia- 
tion ; that "the^word was not placed in their hands to 
preserve it by force;" that "the last desperate remedy 
of a despairing people" would l)e "an explanatory 
amendment recognising the decision of the Siiprmie 
Court (jf the United States." The American Union 
he called "a confederacy" of States, and he thought it 
a duty to make the appeal for the amendment "before 
any of these States should separate themselves from 
the Union." The views of the Lieutenant General, 
containing some patriotic advice, "conceded the riirlit 



of secession," pronounced a quadruple rupture of the 
Union "a smaller evil than the reuniting of the frag- 
ments by the sword," and "eschewed the idea of in- 
vading a seceded State." After changes in the Cabinet^ 
the President informed Congress that "matters were 
still worse;" that "the South suffered serious grievances," 
which should be redressed "in peace." The day after 
this message the flag of the Union was fired upon from 
Fort Morris, and the insult was not revenged or noticed. 
Senators in Congress telegraphed to their constituents 
to seize the national forts, and they were not arrested. 
The finances of the country were grievously embar- 
rassed. Its Httle army was not within reach; the part 
of it in Texas, with all its stores, was made over by its 
connnandcr to rebels. One State after another voted 
in convention to secede. A peace congress, so called, 
met at the request of Virginia, to concert the terms of 
a capitulation which should secure permission for the 
continuance of the Union. Congress, in both branches, 
sought to devise conciliatory expedients; the Territories 
of the country were organized in a manner not to con- 
flict with any pretensions of the South, or any decision 
of the Supreme Court; and, nevertheless, the repre- 
sentatives of the rebelhon ibrmed at Montgomery a 
provisional government, and pursued their relentless 



purpose with such success that tlic Lieutenant General 
feared the city of Wasliington might fiiul itself "in- 
cluded in a foreign country," and proposed, anionir ihr 
options for the consideration of Lincoln, to l)id liic 
wayward States "depart in peace." The great rcpuhlic 
appeared to have its enddeni in the vast unfinished 
Capitol, at that moment surrounded by masses of stone 
and prostrate columns never yet 'Idled into their places, 
seemingly the monument of high hut delusive asj)iia- 
tions, the confused wreck of inchoate magnificence, 
sadder than any ruin of Egyptian Thebes or Alliens. 
The fourth of March came. With instinctive wis- 
dom the new President, s])eaking to the people oii 
taking the oath of office, put aside every question lh;i( 
divided the country, and gained a right to universal 
support by ])lanting himself on the single idea of 
Union. The Union he declarod to be uid)roken an.l 
perpetual, and he announced his deternfniation (o fullil 
"the simple duty of taking care that the laws be faith- 
fully executed in all the States." Seven days later, ihe 
convention of Confederate States unanimously adojil-'d 
a constitution of their own, and the new government 
was authoritatively announced to be lounded on the 
idea that the negro race is a slave race: that slav.-ry is 
its natural and normal condition. The i.ssue was made 



24 LIFE AND CHAEACTER OF 



up, whether tlie great repubhc was to maintain its 
providential place in the history of mankind, or a rebel- 
lion founded on negro slavery gain a recognition of its 
principle throughout the civihzed world. To the dis- 
aflected Lincoln had said, " You can have no conthct 
without being yourselves the aggressors." To fire the 
passions of the southern portion of the people, the con- 
federate government chose to become aggressors, and, 
on the morning of the twelfth of April, l^egan the bom- 
bardment of Fort Sumter, and compelled its evacuation. 
It is the glory of the late President that he had per- 
fect faith in the perpetuity of the Union. Supported 
in advance by Douglas, who spoke as with the voice of 
a million, he instantly called a meeting of Congress, 
and summoned the people to come up and repossess the 
forts, places, and property which had been seized from 
the Union. The men of the north were trained in 
schools; industrious and frugal; many of them delicately 
bred, their minds teeming with ideas and fertile in 
plans of enterprise ; given to the culture of the arts ; 
eager in the pursuit of wealth, yet employing wealth 
less for ostentation than for developing the resources of 
their country; seeking happiness in the calm of domestic 
life; and such lovers of peace, that for generations they 
had been reputed unwarlike. Xow, at the cry of their 



country in its distress, they rose up witli nnnpi)easal)le 
patriotism; not hirelings— the purest and of the l)est 
blood ill the land. Sons of ti pious ancestry, with a 
clear perception of duty, unclouded faith and lixed 
resolve to succeed, they thronged around the President, 
to support the wronged, the beautiliil iVdu; of the nation. 
The halls of theological seminaries sent tbrth their 
young men, whose lips were touched with eloquence, 
whose hearts kindled with devotion, to serve in the 
ranks, and make their way to cominand only as they 
learned the art of war. Striplings in the colleges, as 
well the most gentle and the most studious, those of 
sweetest temper and loveliest character and brightf^st 
genius, passed from their classes to the camp. The 
lumbermen from the Ibrests. the mechanics from their 
benches, where they had been trained, by the exercise 
of political rights, to shan; the lite and hope of the 
repubhc, to feel their responsibility to their tbn'liitheis. 
their posterity and mankind, went to the front, resolve.! 
that their dignity, as a constitu(Mit part of this republic, 
should not be impaired. Farmers and sons of fn-niers 
left the land but half ploughed, the grain l)nl hdf 
planted, and, taking up the musket, learned to fnee 
without fear the presence of peril and the comin-,r ,,f 
death in the shocks of war, while their hearts we,-.. 



still attracted to their herds and fields, and all the 
tender affections of home. Whatever there was of 
truth and faith and pubhc love in the common heart, 
broke out with one expression. The mighty winds 
blew from every quarter, to fan the llame of the sacred 
and unquenchable fire. 

For a time the war was thouirht to be confined to 
aur own domestic affairs, but it was soon seen that it 
involved the destinies of mankind; its principles and 
causes shook the politics of Europe to the centre, and 
from Lisbon to Pekin divided the governments of the 
world. 

There was a kingdom whose people had in an emi- 
nent degree attained to freedom of industry and the 
security of person and property. Its middle class rose 
to greatness. Out of that class sprung the noblest 
poets and philosophers, whose words built up the 
intellect of its people; skilful navigators, to find out for 
its merchants the many paths of the oceans; discoverers 
in natural science, whose inventions guided its industry 
to wealth, till it equalled any nation of the world in 
letters, and excelled all in trade and commerce. But its 
goveiinnent was become a government of land, and not 
of men; every blade of grass was represented, but only 
a small minority of the people. In the transition from 



the feudal forms the heads of the social orjranization 
ireed themselves from Iho military services which 
were the conditions of their tenure, and, throwiip^r ih,' 
l)urden on the industrial classes, kept all the soil to 
themselves. Vast estates that had been manair.jd h\ 
monasteries as endowments for religion and charity 
were impropriated to swell the wealth of courtiers and 
favorites; and the commons, where the \)oov man once 
had his right of pasture, were taken away, and, under 
forms of huv, enclosed distributively within the domains 
of the adjacent landholders. Although no law l()rhad<' 
any inhabitant from purchasing land, the costliness of 
the transfer constituted a prohibition; so that it was the 
rule of the country that the plough should not be in tlu' 
hands cf its owaier. The church w^as rested on a con- 
tradiction; claiming to be an embodiment of absolute 
truth, it was a creature of the statute-book. 

The progress of time increased the terrible contrast 
between wealth and ])overty. In their years of strengi h 
the laborhig people, cut oif from all share in govcnfmir 
the state, derived a scant sup])ort from the severest toil. 
and had no hope ihv old age but in public charily or 
death. A grasping ambition had dotted the world with 
mihtary posts, kept watch over our borders on the nt)rth- 
east. at the Bermudas, in the West Indies, appropriated 



the gates of the Pacific, of the Southern and of the 
Indian ocean, hovered on our northwest at Vancouver, 
held the .whole of the newest continent, and the en- 
trances to the old Mediterranean and Red Sea, and 
garrisoned forts all the way from Madras to China. 
That aristocracy had gazed with terror on the growth 
of a commonwealth where freeholders existed by the 
million, and religion was not in bondage to the state, 
and now they could not repress their joy at its perils, 
They had not one word of sympathy for the kind- 
hearted poor man's son whom America had chosen for 
her chief; they jeered at his large hands, and long 
feet, and ungainly stature; and the British secretary of 
state for foreign affairs made haste to send word through 
the palaces of Europe that the great republic was in 
its agony; that the republic was no more; that a head- 
stone was all that remained due by the law of nations 
to "the late Union." But it is written, "Let the dead 
l)ury their dead;" they may not bury the living. Let 
the dead bur}' their dead; let a bill of reform remove 
the worn-out government of a class, and infuse new life 
into the British constitution l)y confiding rightful power 
to the people. 

But while the vitality of America is indestructible, 
the British government hurried to do what never before 



had been done by Christian ])owers; what was in direct 
contlict with its own exposition of public law in the 
time of our struggle lor independence. Thouirli the 
insurgent States liad not a ship in an opt-n harbor, it 
invested tlicm with all the rights of a belligerent, even 
on the ocean; and this, too, when the rel)ellion was 
not only directed against the gentlest and most bene- 
ficent government on eartli, witliout a shadow of justi- 
fiable cause, but when the rebellion was dircMted 
against human nature itself t"or the ]ier[)etual enslave- 
ment of a race. And the effect of this recognition was. 
that acts in themsejves piratical found shelter in Ijritish 
courts of law. The resources of Ijritish capitalists, 
their workshops, their armories, their private arsenals, 
their ship-yards, were in league witli the insurgents, and 
every British har])or in the wide world Ijccamc a sail' 
port for British ships, manned l)y ]>ritish sailors, and 
armed with British gnus, to prey on our peaceful com- 
merce; even on our ships confmg from British i)orts. 
frei'dited with British products, or that had carried 
gifts of grain to the Enghsh poor. The [)nnie minis- 
ter, in the lL)Use of Conunons, sustained l»y chccis, 
scoffed at the thought that their laws could be amended 
at our request, so as to pre^erve real neutrality; and to 
remonstrances, now owned to have been just, their sec- 



rctaiy of state answered that they could not change 
their laws ad infinitum. 

The people of America then wished, as they always 
have wished, as they still wish, friendly relations with 
England, and no man in England or America can desire 
it more strongly than I. This country has always 
yearned for good relations with England. Thrice only 
in all its history has that yearning been fairly met : in 
the days of Hampden and Cromwell, again in the first 
ministry of the elder Pitt, and once again in the min- 
istry of Shclburne. Not that there have not at all 
times been just men among the peers of Britain — like 
Halifax in the days of James the Second, or a Gran- 
ville, ail Argyll, or a Houghton in ours; and we cannot 
be indifferent to a country that produces statesmen hke 
Cobden and Bright; but the best bower anchor of 
peace was the working class of England, who suffered 
most from our civil war, but who, \^diile they broke 
their diminished bread in sorrow, always encouraged us 
to persevere. 

The act of recognising the rebel belligerents was con- 
certed with France — France, so beloved in America, on 
which she had conferred the greatest benefits that one 
people ever conferred on another; France, which stands 
foremost on the continent of Europe for the solidity of 



ALRAIIAM LINCOLN. 31 

her culture, as well as for tlic l)ravcrv and gciiprous 
impulses of her sons; France, which for centuries had 
been moving- steadily in her own way towards intellec- 
tual and political freedom. The policy re«rardiiii.r fur- 
ther colonization of America by European powers, 
known commonly as the doctrine of Monroe, had ils 
origin in France, and if it takes any man's name, 
should bear the name of Turgot. It was adopted by 
Louis the Sixteenth, in the cabinet of wliicli A'ergeiines 
was the most important mendjcr. It is emphatically 
the policy of France, to which, with transient devia- 
tions, the Bourbons, the First Napoleon, the House of 
Orleans have adhered. 

The late President was perpetually harassed by ru- 
mors that the Emperor Napoleon the Third (h sired 
formally to recognise the States in rebellion as an inde- 
pendent power, and that England held him baclx by 
her reluctance, or France by her traditions of freedom, 
or he himself by his own better judgment and clear 
perception of events. Jhit the republic of .Mexico, on 
our borders, was, like ourselves, distracted by a rebel- 
lion, and from a similar cause. The monarcliy of 
England had fastened upon us slavery which did not 
disappear with independence; in like manner, the 
ecclesiastical policy established hy the Spanish council 



of the Indies, in the days of Charles the Fifth and 
Phihp the Second, retained its vigor in the Mexican 
repubhc. The fifty years of civil war under which she 
had languished w^as due to the bigoted system which 
was the legacy of monarchy, just as here the inherit- 
ance of slavery kept alive political strife, and culminated 
in civil war. As with us there could be no quiet but 
through the end of slavery, so in Mexico there could be 
no prosperity until the crushing tyranny of intolerance 
should cease. The party of slavery in the United 
States sent their emissaries to Europe to solicit aid ; 
and so did the party of the church in Mexico, as 
organized by the old Spanish council of the Indies, but 
with a different result. Just as the Republican party 
had made an end of the rebellion, and was establishing 
the best government ever knovv'n in that region, and 
giving promise to the nation of order, peace, and pros- 
perity, word was brought us, in the moment of our 
deepest affliction, that the French Emperor, moved by 
a desire to erect in Kortli America a buttress for im- 
perialism, would transform the republic of Mexico into 
a secundo-geniture for the house of Hapsburg. America 
might complain; she could not then interpose, and de- 
lay seemed justifiable. It was seen that Mexico could 
not, with all its wealth of land, compete in cereal pro- 



ducts with our iiurthwcst, nor in tropical products witli 
Cuba, nor could it, under a disputed dynasty, attract 
capital, or create puldic works, or develop niiucs, or 
borrow money; so that the imperial system of Mexico, 
which was forced at once to recognise the wisdom of 
the policy of the repuldic by adopting it, could prove 
only an unremunerating drain on the French treasury 
for the support of an Austrian adventurer. 

Meantime a new series of momentous questions 
grows up, and forces itself on the consideration of 
the thoughtful. Repubhcanism has learned how to in- 
troduce into its constitution every clement of onh'r, as 
well as every element of freedom; but thus liir the 
continuity of its government has seemed to depend on 
the continuity of elections. It is now to be considered 
how perpetuity is to be secured against foreign occupa- 
tion. The successor of Charles the First of Phigland 
dated his reign from the death of his father; the Bour- 
bons, coming back after a long series of revolutions, 
claimed that the Louis who Ijccame king was the cii:li- 
teenth of that name. The })rescnt Fnii^'ror of the 
French, disdaining a title from election alone, calls him- 
self Napoleon the Third. Shall a republic liave less 
power of continuance when invatUng armies i)revent a 
peaceful resort to the ballot-1)()x ? What force shall it 



attach to intervening legislation 1 What validity to 
debts contracted for its overthrow ? These momentous 
questions are, by the invasion of Mexico, thrown up for 
solution. A free state once truly constituted should be 
as undying as its people: the republic of Mexico must 
rise again. 

It was the condition of affairs in Mexico that in- 
volved the Pope of Rome in our difficulties so far that 
he alone among sovereigns recognised the chief of the 
Confederate States as a president, and his supporters 
as a people; and in letters to two great prelates of the 
Catholic church in the United States gave counsels for 
peace at a time when peace meant the victory of se- 
cession. Yet events move as they are ordered. The 
blessing of the Pope at Rome on the head of Duke 
Maximihan could not revive in the nineteenth century 
the ecclesiastical policy of the sixteenth, and the result 
is only a new proof that there can be no prosperity in 
the state without rehgious freedom. 

When it came home to the consciousness of the 
Americans that the war which they were waging was 
a war for the liberty of all the nations of the world, 
for freedom itself, they thanked God for giving them 
strength to endure the severity of the trial to which 
He put their sincerity, and nerved themselves for their 



duty with an inexorable will The President was led 
along l)y the greatness of their self-sacrificing example; 
and as a child, in a dark night, on a rugiTed way, catches 
hold of the hand of its father lor guidance and sup- 
port, he clung flist to the hand of the people, ami 
moved calndy through the gloom. While the states- 
manship of Europe was mocking at the hopeless 
vanity of their efforts, they put forlh such ndracles of 
energy as the history of the world had never knowu. 
The contributions to the popular loans aniouulcd in 
four years to twenty-seven and a half hundred millions 
of dollars; the revenue of the country from taxation 
was increased seveu-fold. The navy of the United 
States, drawing into the public service the williuij mih- 
tiaof the seas, doul)led its tonnage in eight months, and 
established an actual blockade from Cape Hatteras to 
the Rio Grande; in the course of the war il was in- 
creased five-fold ill men and in toimage, while tiie 
inventive genius of the country devised more elfec.'tive 
kinds of ordnance, and new l()rms of naval architecture 
in wood and iron. There went into the field, ti)r various 
terms of enhstment, about two nnllion men, and in 
March last the men in the army exceeded a niillioii : 
that is to say, nine of every twenty aide-bodied men in 
the free Territories and States took some part in the 



war ; and at one time every fifth of their able-bodied 
men was in service. In one single month one hundred 
and sixty -five thousand men were recruited into service. 
Once, within four weeks, Ohio organized and placed in 
the field forty-two regiments of infantry — nearly thirty- 
six thousand men ; and Ohio was like other States in 
the east and in the west. The well-mounted cavalry 
numbered eighty-four thousand; of horses and mules 
there were l^ought, from first to last, two-thirds of a 
million. In the movements of troops science came in 
aid of patriotism, so that, to choose a single instance 
out of many, an army twenty -three thousand strong, 
with its artillery, trains, baggage, and animals, were 
moved by rail from the Potomac to the Tennessee, 
twelve hundred miles, in seven days. On the long 
marches, wonders of military construction bridged the 
rivers, and wherever an army halted, ample supplies 
awaited them at their ever-changing base. The vile 
thought that life is the greatest of blessings did not 
rise up. In six hundred and twenly-five battles and 
severe skinnishes blood flowed like water. It streamed 
over the grassy plains ; it stained the rocks ; the under- 
growth of the forests was red with it ; and the armies 
marched on with majestic courage from one conflict to 
another, knowing that they were fighting for God and 



liberty. Tlie organization of tlic medical depart in en t 
met its infiuitelv multiplied duties with exactness and 
despatch. At the news of a battle, the best surgeons 
of our cities hastened to the field, to offer the untirinir 
aid of the greatest experience and skill. The gentlest 
and most refined of women left homes oi' luxury and 
ease to build hospital tents near the armies, and serve 
as nurses to the sick and dying. Beside the large 
supply of religious teachers by the puljlic, th(3 congrega- 
tions spTired to their brothers in the field the al)lest 
ministers. The Christian Commission, which expended 
more than six and a quarter millions, sent nearly [\\l' 
thousand clergymen, chosen out of the best, to keep 
unsoiled the religious character of the men, and made 
gifts of clothes and food and medicine. The organiza- 
tion of private charity assumed unheard-of dimensions. 
The Sanitary Commission, A\'liich had seven thousand 
societies, distributed, under the direction of an unpaid 
board, spontaneous contributions to the amount ol lif- 
teen millions in supphes or money — a million and a 
half in money from California alone — and dotted the 
scene of war, from Paducah to Port lioyal, from Pxlht 
Plain, Virmnia, to Brownsville, Texas, with homes ;tiid 

lodges. 

The country had f )r its allies the river :\rississipj)i. 



whicli would not be divided, and the range of moun- 
tains wliicli carried the stronghold of the free through 
Western Virginia and Kentucky and Tennessee to the 
highlands of Alabama. But it invoked the still hia^her 
power of immortal justice. In ancient Greece, where 
servitude was the universal custom, it was held that if 
a child were to strike its parent, the slave should defend 
the parent, and by that act recover his freedom. After 
vain resistance, Lincoln, who had tried to solve the 
question by gradual emancipation, by colonization, and 
by compensation, at last saw that slavery must be abol- 
ished, or the repubhc must die ; and on the first day of 
January, 1863, he wrote liberty on the banners of the 
armies. When this proclamation, which struck the 
fetters from three millions of slaves, reached Europe, 
Lord Russell, a countryman of Milton and Wilberforce, 
eagerly put himself forward to speak of it in the name 
of mankind, saying : " It is of a very strange nature ;" 
" a measure of war of a very questionable kind ;" an 
act "of vengeance on the slave owner," that does no 
more than "profess to emancipate slaves where the 
United States authorities cannot make emancipation a 
reahty." Now there was no part of the country em- 
braced in the proclamation where the United States 
could not and did not make emancipation a reality. 



Those who saw Lincoln most frequently had never 
before heard him speak with bitterness of any human 
being, but he did not conceal how keenly Ikj Idt 
that he had been wronged by Lord Kussell. And 
he wrote, in re})ly to other cavils : " The emanci])a- 
tion policy and the use of colored troo})s were tiic 
greatest blows yet dealt to the rebellion: llie jol) was a 
great national one, and let none be slighted who bore 
an honorable part in it. I hope peace will come soon, 
and come to stay; then will there be some black men 
who can remember that they have helped mankind to 
this great consummation." 

The proclamation accomplished its end, for, during 
the war, our armies came into military possession of 
every State in rebellion. Then, too, was called fortli 
the new power that comes from the simultaneous dilfii- 
sion of thought and feehng among the nations of 
mankind. The mysterious sympathy of the millions 
throughout the world was given spontaneously. The 
best writers of Europe waked the conscience of lli<- 
thoughtful, till the intelligent moral sentiment ol" the 
Old World was drawn to Ihe side of the nnlcllciv.l 
statesman of the West. IJussia, whose emix.ror had 
just accomplished one of the grandest acts in i\w, course 
of time, by raising twenty millions ol" bondmen nito 



40 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF 

freeholders, and thus assuring the growth and culture 
of a Russian people, remained our unwavering friend. 
From the oldest abode of civilization, which gave the 
first example of an imperial government with equality 
among the people, Prince Kung, the secretary of state 
for foreign affairs, remembered the saying of Confucius, 
that we should not do to others what we would not 
that others should do to us, and, in the name of his 
emperor, read a lesson to European diplomatists by 
closing the ports of China against the war-ships and 
privateers of " the seditious." 

The war continued, with all the peoples of the world 
for anxious spectators. Its cares weighed heavily on 
Lincoln, and his face was ploughed with the furrows 
of thought and sadness. With malice towards none, 
free from the spirit of revenge, victory made him 
importunate for peace, and his enemies never doubted 
his word, or despaired of his al)ounding clemency. He 
longed to utter pardon as the word for all, Ijut not 
unless the freedom of the negro should be assured. 
The grand battles of Fort Donelson, Chattanooga, 
Malvern Hill, Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness of 
Virginia, Winchester, Nashville, the capture of New 
Orleans, Yicksburg, Mobile, Fort Fisher, the march 
from Atlanta, and the capture of Savannah and Charles- 




ton, all foretold the issue. Still more, the self-regen- 
eration of Missouri, the heart of the continent: of 
Maryland, whose sons never heard the midnight hells 
chime so sweetly as when they rang out to earth and 
heaven that, by the voice of her own people, she took 
her place among the free ; of Tennessee, which passed 
through fire and blood, throngh sorrows and the 
shadow of death, to work out her own dehverance, and 
by the faithfulness of her own sons to renew her youth 
like the eagle — proved that victory was deserved, and 
would be worth all that it cost. If words of mercy, 
uttered as they were by Lincoln on the waters of 
Virginia, were defiantly repelled, the armies of the 
country, moving with one will, went as the arrow to its 
mark, and, without a feeling of revenge, struck a death- 
blow at rebellion. 

Where, in the history of nations, had a Chief Magis- 
trate possessed more sources of consolation and joy 
than Lincoln ? His countrymen had shown their love 
l)y choosing him to a second term of service. Thr 
raging war that had divided the country had lulled, and 
private grief was hushed by the grandeur of lli(i result. 
The nation had its new birth of freedom, soon to be 
secured forever by an amendment of the Constitution. 
His persistent gentleness had concpiered for him a kind- 



lier feeling on the part of the South. His scoffers 
among the grandees of Europe began to do him honor. 
The laboring classes everywhere saw in his advance- 
ment their own. All peoples sent him their benedic- 
tions. And at this moment of the height of his fame, 
to which his humility and modesty added charms, he 
fell by the hand of the assassin, and the only triumph 
awarded him was the march to the grave. 

This is no time to say that human glory is but dust 
and ashes; that we mortals are no more than shadows 
in pursuit of shadows. How mean a thing were man 
if there were not that within him which is higher than 
himself; if he could not master the illusions of sense, 
and discern the connexions of events by a superior 
light which comes from God! He so shares the divine 
impulses that he has power to subject interested passions 
to love of country, and personal ambition to the ennoble- 
ment of his kind. Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for 
he has helped to make this republic an example of 
justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity. The 
heroes who led our armies and ships into battle and fell 
in the service — Lyon, McPherson, Reynolds, Sedgwick, 
Wadsworth, Foote, Ward, with their compeers — did 
not die in vain; they and the myriads of nameless 
martyrs, and he, the chief martyr, gave up their lives 



willingly "that govcrmnent of the pco]ilc. by the jicoijIc, 
and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." 

The assassination of Lincoln, who was so free from 
malice, has, by some mysterious iniluence, struck the 
country with solemn awe, and hushed, instead of excit- 
ing, the passion for revenge. It seems as if the just 
had died for the unjust. When I think of the friends 
I have lost in this war — and every one who hears me 
has, like myself, lost some of those whom he most 
loved — there is no consolation to he derived Irom 
victims on the scaffold, or from anything hut the estab- 
lished union of the regenerated nation. 

In his character Lincoln was through and through 
an American. He is the first native of the region ^\■('st 
of the AUeghanies to attain to the highest station; and 
how happy it is that the man who was brought forward 
as the natural outgrowth and first fruits of that reirion 
should have been of unblemished purity in private life. 
a good son, a kind husl)and, a most affectionate lalhcr. 
and, as a man, so gentle to all. As to integrity, Douglas, 
his rival, said of him: "Lhicoln is the honest est man I 
ever knew." 

The habits of his mind were those of meditation and 
inward thought, rather than of action. He dcli-rhtcd 
to express his opinions l)y an apothegm, illustrate them 



by a parable, or drive them home by a story. He was 
skilful in analysis, discerned with precision the central 
idea on which a question turned, and knew how to 
disengage it and present it by itself in a few homely, 
strong old English words that would be intelligible to 
all. He excelled in logical statement more than in 
executive ability. He reasoned clearly, his reflective 
judgment was good, and his purposes were fixed; but, 
like the Hamlet of his only poet, his will was tardy in 
action, and, for this reason, and not from humility or 
tenderness of feeling, he sometimes deplored that the 
duty which devolved on him had not fallen to the lot of 
another. 

Lincoln gained a name by discussing questions which, 
of all others, most easily lead to fanaticism ; but he 
was never carried away by enthusiastic zeal, never 
indulged in extravagant language, never hurried to 
support extreme measures, never allowed himself to be 
controlled by sudden impulses. During the progress 
of the election at which he was chosen President he 
expressed no opinion that went l)eyond the Jefferson 
proviso of 1784. Like Jefferson and Lafayette, he had 
faith in the intuitions of the people, and read those 
intuitions with rare sagacity. He knew how to bide 
time, and was less apt to run ahead of public thought 



than to lag behind. He never sought to electrify the 
community by taking an advanced position with a ban- 
ner of opinion, but rather studied to move forwaid 
compactly, exposing no detachment in front or rear; 
so that the course of his administration might have 
been explained as the calculating policy of a shrewd 
and watchful politician, had there not been seen behind 
it a fixedness of principle \\hich from the first deter- 
mined his purpose, and grew more intense with every 
year, consuming his life by its energy. Yet his sensi- 
bilities were not acute ; he had no vividness of 
imagination to picture to his mind the horrors of tlu^ 
battle-field or the sufferings in hospitals; his conscience 
was more tender than his feelings. 

Lincoln was one of the most unassunnng of men. 
In time of success, he gave credit for it to those whom 
he employed, to the people, and to the Providence of 
God. He did not know what ostentation is; wlien lie 
became President he was rather saddened than elated, 
and his conduct and manners showed more than ever 
his belief that all men are born ecpial. He was no 
respecter of persons, and neither rank, nor reputation, 
nor services overawed him. In judging of character 
he failed in discrimination, and his appointments were 
sometimes bad; but he readily delbrred to public 



opinion, and in appointing the head of the armies he 
followed the manifest preference of Congress, 

A good President will secure unity to his administra- 
tion by his own supervision of the various departments. 
Lincoln, who accepted advice readily, was never gov- 
erned by any member of his cabinet, and could not be 
moved from a purpose deliberately formed; but his 
supervision of affairs was unsteady and incomplete, and 
sometimes, by a sudden interference transcending the 
usual forms, he rather confused than advanced the public 
business. If he ever failed in the scrupulous regard 
due to the relative rights of Congress, it was so evidently 
without design that no conflict could ensue, or evil 
precedent be established. Truth he would receive from 
any one, but when impressed by others, he did not use 
their opinions till, by reflection, he had made them 
thoroughly his own. 

It was the nature of Lincoln to forgive. When 
hostilities ceased, he, who had always sent forth the flag 
with every one of its stars in the field, was eager to 
receive back his returning countrymen, and meditated 
"some new announcement to the South." The amend- 
ment of the Constitution abolishing slavery had his 
most earnest and unwearied support. During the rage 
of war we get a glimpse into his soul from his privately 



suggesting to Louisiana, that "in defining the franchise 
some of the colored people might be let in," sayiii^^: 
"They would probably help, in some tryhig time to 
come, to keep the jewel of hberty in the family of free- 
dom." In 1857 he avowed himself '"not in favor of " 
what he improperly called "negro citizenship," for tlie 
Constitution discriminates between citizens and electors. 
Three days before his death he declared his ])referencc 
that "the elective franchise were now conferred on the 
very intelligent of the colored men, and on those of 
them who served onr cause as soldiers:" but he wished 
it done by the States themselves, and he never harbored 
the thought of exacting it from a new government, as a 
condition of its recognition. 

The last day of his life beamed with sunshine, as he 
sent, by the Speaker of this House, his friendly greet- 
ino-s to the men of the Rockv mountains and the Pacific 
slope; as he contemplated the return of hundreds of 
thousands of soldiers to fruitful industry; as he wel- 
comed in advance hundreds of thousands of emigrants 
from Europe; as his eye kindled with entlmsiasu) at 
the coming wealth of the nation. And so. with these 
thoughts for his country, he was removed from ihr. toils 
and temptations of this life, and was at peace. 

Hardly had the late President been consigned to the 



grave when the prime minister of England died, full 
of years and honors. Palmerston traced his lineage to 
the time of the conqueror; Lincoln went back only to 
his grandfather. Palmerston received his education 
from the best scholars of Harrow, Edinburg, and Cam- 
bridge; Lincoln's early teachers were the silent forest, 
the prairie, the river, and the stars. Palmerston was in 
public hfe for sixty years; Lincoln for but a tenth of 
that time. Palmerston was a skilful guide of an estab- 
lished aristocracy; Lincoln a leader, or rather a com- 
panion, of the people. Palmerston was exclusively an 
Englishman, and made his boast in the House of Com- 
mons that the interest of England was his Shibboleth; 
Lincoln thought always of mankind, as well as his own 
country, and served human nature itself. Palmerston, 
from his narrowness as an Englishman, did not endear 
his country to any one court or to any one nation, but 
rather caused general uneasiness and* dislike; Lincoln 
left America more beloved than ever by all the peoples 
of Europe. Palmerston was self-possessed and adroit 
in reconciling the conflicting factions of the aristocracy ; 
Lincoln, frank and ingenuous, knew how to poise 
himself on the ever-moving opinions of the masses. 
Palmerston was capable of insolence towards the weak, 
quick to the sense of honor, not heedful of right; 



Lincoln rejected counsel given only as a matter of 
policy, and was not capable of being wilfully unjust. 
Palmerston, essentially supei-ficial, delighted in banti-r, 
and knew how to divert grave opposition by plavlid 
levity; Lincoln was a man of infinite jest on his lips, 
with saddest earnestness at his heart. Palmerston was 
a fair representative of the aristocratic liberality of the 
day, choosing for his tribunal, not the conscience of 
humanity, but the House of Commons; Lincoln to(d< 
to heart the eternal truths of liberty, obeyed them as 
the commands of Providence, and accepted the human 
race as the judge of his fidelit3^ Palmerston did 
nothing that will endure; Lincoln finished a \M)rk 
which all time cannot overthrown Palmerston is a 
shining example of the ablest of a cultivated aristocracy"; 
Lincoln is the genuine fruit of institutions where the 
laboring man shares and assists to form the great ideas 
and designs of his country. Palmerston was l)uricd in 
Westminister Abbey by the order of his Queen, and 
was attended by the British aristocracy to his mavc. 
which, after a few years, will hardly be noticed hy the 
side of the graves of Fox and Chatham; Lincoln 
was followed by th(! sorrow of his country acio.vs 
the continent to his resting-place in the licart of tlic 
Mississippi valley, to l)e remembered thron-li all 



time by his coiuitrymeii, and by all the peoples of 
the world. 

As the sum of all, the hand of Lincoln raised the 
flag ; the American people was the hero of the war ; 
and, therefore, the result is a new era of republicanism. 
The disturbances in the country grew not out of any- 
thing republican, but out of slavery, which is a part of 
the system of hereditary wrong ; and the expulsion of 
this domestic anomaly opens to the renovated nation a 
career of unthought-of dignity and glory. Henceforth 
our country has a moral unity as the land of free labor. 
The party for slavery and the party against slavery are 
no more, and are merged in the party of Union and 
freedom. The States which would have left us are not 
brought back as subjugated States, for then we should 
hold them only so long as that conquest could be main- 
tained; they come to their rightful place under the Con- 
stitution as original, necessary, and inseparable members 
of the Union. 

We build monuments to the dead, but no monuments 
of victory. We respect the example of the Komans, 
who never, even in conquered lands, raised emblems of 
triumph. And our generals are not to be classed in 
the herd of vulgar warriors, but are of tire school of 
Timolcou, and William of Nassau, and Washington. 



They have used the sworJ only to give peace to their 
country and restore her to her place in the great 
assembly ol" the nations. 

Senators and Representatives of America : as 1 
1;>id you farewell, my' last \\()rds shall be words of hope 
and confidence; for now slavery is no more, tlio Union 
is restored, a peo})le l)egins to live according to the 
laws of reason, and republicanism is intrenched in a 
continent. 



APPENDIX. 



APPENDIX. 



Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at 10.30 p. m. on the 14tli nf 
April, 1S65, and died at 7.20 a. m. the next day. Congress was imt 
in session, but a large number of members hastened to the Capitol on 
the receipt of the startling intelligence, and on the 17th a card was 
published by Senator Foot, inviting those Senators and Representa- 
tives who might be in the city the next day to meet at the Capitnl, 
to consider what action they would take in relation to the funeral 
ceremonies. 



The members of the 39th Congress then in Washington met in tin- 
Senate reception room, at the Capitol, on the 17lh of April, I860, at 
noon. Hon. Lafayette S. Foster of Connecticut, President 2)ro 
tern, of the Senate, was called to the chair, and the Uon. Sciiuvlku 
Colfax of Indiana, Speaker of the House in the 38th Congress, 
was chosen secretary. 

Senator Foot, of Vermont, who was visibly affected, stated thai 
the object of the meeting was to make arrangements relative to the 
funeral of the deceased President of the United States. 

On motion of Senator Sumner, of Massachusetts, a committee of 
four members from each house was ordered to report at 4 p.m., what 
action would be fitting for the meeting to take. The Chairman ap- 
pointed Senators Sumner of Massachusetts, Harris of X.-w York. 
.Johnson of Maryland, Ramsey of Minnesota, and Conness of Cali- 
fornia, and Representatives Washburne of Illinois, Smith of Km- 
tuckv, Schenck of Ohio, Pike of Maine, and Coffroth of Penn.-ylvama ; 
and on motion of Mr. Schenck, the Chairman and Secretary of th.- 
meeting were added to the Committee, and then th- meeting a.l- 
jourued until 4 p. m. 



Tlie meeting re-assembled at 4 p. m., pursuant to adjournment. 

Mr. Sumner, from the Committee heretofore appointed, reported 
that they had selected as pall-bearers on the part of the Sen- 
ate : Mr. Foster of Connecticut ; Mr. Morgan of New York ; Mr. 
Johnson of Maryland; Mr. Yates of Illinois; Mr. Wade of Ohio, 
and Mr, Conness of California. On the part of the House : Mr. 
Dawes of Massachusetts ; Mr. Coffroth of Pennsylvania; Mr. Smith 
of Kentucky ; Mr. Colfax of Indiana ; Mr. Worthington of Nevada, 
and Mr. Washburne of Illinois. They also recommended the ap- 
pointment of one member of Congress from each State and Territory 
to act as a Congressional Committee to accompany the remains of the 
late President to Illinois, and presented the following names as such 
Committee, the Chairman of the meeting to have the authority of 
appointing hereafter for the States and Territories not represented 
to-day from which members may be present at the Capitol by the 
day of the funeral : 

Maine, Mr. Pike; New Hampshire, Mr. E. H. Rollins; Vermont, 
Mr. Foot; Massachusetts, Mr. Sumner; Rhode Island, Mr. Anthony; 
Connecticut, Mr. Dixon ; New York, Mr. Harris ; Pennsylvania, 
Mr. Cowan ; Ohio, ]\Ir. Schenck ; Kentucky, Mr. Smith ; Indiana, 
Mr. Julian: Illinois, the delegation; Michigan, Mr. Chandler; Iowa, 
Mr. Harlan ; California, Mr. Shannon ; Minnesota, Mr. Ramsey ; 
Oregon, Mr. Williams; Kansas, Mr. S. Clarke; West Virginia, Mr. 
Whaley ; Nevada, Mr. Nye ; Nebraska, Mr. Hitchcock ; Colorado, 
m-. Bradford ; Dakota, Mr. Todd ; Idaho, Mr. Wallace. 

The Committee also recommended the adoption of the following 
resolution : 

Resolved, That the Sergeants-at-Arms of the Senate and House 
with their necessary assistants be requested to attend the Committee 



APPENDIX. 57 



accompanying the remains of the late Prei?iclcnt, and to make all the 
necessary arrangements. 

All of Avliicli was concurred in unaniniouf^lv. 

Mr. Su.MNEK from the same Committee nUo reported the followiii"', 
which was unanimously agreed to : 

The members of the Senate and House of Representatives nnw 
assembled in Washington, humbly confessing their dependence up.m 
Almighty God who rules all that is done for human good, m.iki- 
haste, at this informal meeting, to express the emotions with which 
they have been tilled by the appalling tragedy which has deprived 
the Nation of its head and covered the land with mourning; and in 
further declaration of their sentiments unanimously resolve : 

1. That in testimony of their veneration and aft( ction for the 
illustrious dead, who has been permitted under I'rovidence to do so 
mucli for his country and for liberty, they will unite in the funeral 
services, and by an approjtriate Committee will accompany hi.-^ ri'- 
mains to their place of burial in the State from which he was taken 
for the national service. 

2. That in the life of Abraham Lincoln, who, by the benignant 
favor of Republican institutions, rose from humble beginnings to the 
heights of power and fame, they recognize an example of purity, 
simjjlicity and virtue, which should be a lesson to mankind ; while 
in his death they recognize a martyr, whose nu niory will liecome 
more precious as men learn to prize those principles of constitutional 
order and those rights, civil, political, and human, for which he was 
made a sacrifice. 

3. That they invite the President of the United States, by sol- 
emn proclamation, to recommend to the people of the United Slates 
to assemble on a day to be appointed by him, publicly to testify 
their "-rief, and to dwell on the good which has bt/en done on earth 
by him whom we now mourn. 

4. That a copy of these resolutions be communicated to the 1 'resi- 
dent of the United States ; and also, that a copy be connnunicat-d 
to the afflicted widow of the late; President, as an expression of 
sympathy in her great bereavement. 

The meeting then adjourned. 



The funeral ceremonies took place; in tin; East room of the Kxe.u- 
tive Mansion, at noon, on the I'Mh of April, aii.l th.- n mains we,,, 
then escorted to the Capitol, where they lay h. state in the mtundo. 



On the moruing of April 21, the remains were taken from the 
Capitol and placed in a funeral car, in which they were taken to 
Springfield, Illinois, accompanied by the Congressional Committee. 
Halting at the principal cities along the route, tliat appropriate 
honors might be paid to the deceased, the funeral cort6ge arrived on 
the 3d of May at Springfield, Illinois, and the next day the remains 
were deposited in Oak Ridge cemetery near that city. 

President Johnson, in his annual message to Congress at the 
commencement of the session of lS65-'66, thus announced the death 
of his predecessor : 

" To express gratitude to God, in the name of the people, for the 
preservation of the United States, is my first duty in addressing you. 
Our thoughts next revert to the death of the late President by an 
act of parricidal treason. The grief of the nation is still fresh ; it 
finds some solace in the consideration that he lived to enjoy the high- 
est proof of its confidence by entering on the renewed term of the 
Chief Magistracy to which be had been elected; that he brought 
the civil war substantially to a close ; that his loss was deplored in 
all parts of the Union; and that foreign nations have rendered jus- 
tice to his memory." 

Hon. E. B. Washburne, of Illinois, immediately after the Presi- 
dent's message had been read in the House of Representatives, 
off"ered the following joint resolution, which was unanimously adopted : 

Resolved, That a committee of one member from each State repre- 
sented in this House be appointed on the part of this House, to join 
such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to 
consider and report by what token of respect and affection it may be 
proper for the Congress of the United States to express the deep 
sensibility of the nation to the event of the decease of their* late 
President, Abraham Lincoln, and that so much of the message of the 
President as refers to that melancholy event be referred to said com- 
mittee. • 



On motion of Hon. Solomon Foot, the Senate uuanimouBly con- 
curred in the passage of the resolution, and the following joint com- 
mittee was appointed — thirteen on the part of the Senate and one 
for every State represented (twenty-four) on the part of the House 
of Representatives : 



Senate. 

Hon. Solomon Foot Vt. 

Hon. Richard Yates 111. 

Hon. Benj. F. Wade Ohio. 

Hon. Wm. Pitt Fe^.scnden . .Me. 

Hon. Henry Wilson ^lass. 

Hon. James R. Doolittk;. . .Wis. 

Hon. Jas. H. Lane Xa. 

Hon. Ira Harris N. Y. 

Hon. Jas. W. Nesmith. .Oregon. 

Hon. Henry S. Lane Ind. 

Hon. Waitman T. Willey .AV.Va. 
Hon. Chas. R. Buckalew. . . .Pa. 
Hon. John B. Henderson — Mo. 



House of Representatives. 

Hon. Ellihu B. Washhurnclll 

Hon. James G. Blaine Me. 

lion. James W. I'atterson.N. II. 

lion. Justin S. Morrill Vt. 

Hon. Nathaniel P. Banks .I\[ass. 
Hon. Thomas A. Jcnckcs. .R. I. 

Hon. Henry C. Doming Ct. 

Hon. John A. GrisMold N. Y. 

Hon. Edwin R. V. Wright. N. J. 

Hon. Thaddeus Stevens Pa. 

Hon. John A. Nicholson .... 1 )tl. 

lion. Francis Thomas Aid. 

Hon. Robert C. Schenck. .Oliio. 
Hon. George S. Shanklin. . -Ky. 

Hon. Godlove S. Orth Ind. 

Hon. Joseph W. McClurg . . Mo. 
Hon. Fernando C. Beaman . Mich. 
Hon. John A. Kassnn .... Iowa. 

Hon. Ithamar C. Sloan Wi.-i. 

Hon. William Higby Cal. 

Hon. William Windom. ..Minn. 
Hon. J. II. U. IL-nderson, Oregon. 

Hon. Sidney Clarke Kansas. 

Hon. Kellian V. Wlialcy .W. Va. 

That committee, by Hon. Mr. Foot, made the following report, 
which was concurred in by both Houses ncm. con. 

Whereas the melancholy event of the violent and tragic death nf 
Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States, having f.c- 
curred during the recess of Congress, and the two Houses .-haring in 
the general grief and desiring to manifest their sensibdity npon tli.- 
occasion of the public bereavement : Therefore, 



Be it resolved hy the Senate, (the House of Representatives con- 
curring,) That the two Houses of Congress will assemble in the 
Hall of the House of Representatives, on Monday, the 12th day of 
February next, that being his anniversary birthday, at the hour of 
twelve meridian, and that, in the presence of the tAvo Houses there 
assembled, an address upon the life and character of Abraham Lin- 
coln, late President of the United States, be pronounced by Hon. 
Edwin M. Stanton; and that the President of the Senate j^^o tem- 
])ore and the Speaker of the House of Representatives be requested 
to invite the President of the United States, the heads of the several 
Departments, the judges of the Supreme Court, the representatives 
of the foreign governments near this Goverument, and such officers 
of the army and navy as have received the thanks of Congress wiio 
may then be at the seat of Government, to be present on the occa- 
sion. 

And he it further resolved. That the President of the United 
States be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to Mrs. 
Lincolii, and to assure her of the profound sympathy of the two 
Houses of Congi'ess for her deep personal affliction, and of their sin^ 
cere condolence for the late national bereavement. 

The Hon. George Bancroft of New York, in response to an 

invitation from the joint committee, consented to deliver the address, 

(Mr. Stanton having previously declined.) 



On the morning of the 12th of February, 1865, the Capitol was 
closed to all except the members of Congress. At ten o'clock the doors 
leading to the rotundo were opened to those to whom tickets of ad- 
mission had been extended, and the spacious galleries of the House 
of Representatives were soon crowded. The Speaker's desk was 
draped in mourning, and chairs were placed upon the floor for the 
invited guests. 

At 12.30 p. m., the members of the Senate, following their Presi- 
dent pro temjjorc and their Secretary, and preceded by their Sergeant- 
at-Arms, entered the Hall of the House of Representatives and 



occupied the scats reserved for thorn on the riglit and left ..f tin- luaiii 
aish'. 

The rresidciit p?-o tcmjmre occupied the Speaker's chair, the 
Speaker of th(? House sitting at liis h-ft. The Chaphiins of the 
Senate and of the House were seated on the right and h'ft of the 
Presiding Officers of their respective Houses. 

Shortly afterward the President of the United States, witli iIk' 
members of his Cabinet, entered the Hall and occupied seats, the 
President in front of the Speaker's table, and his Cabinet immediately 
on his right. 

Immediately after the entrance of the President, the Chief Justice 
and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United 
States entered the Hall and occupied seats next to the President, on 
the right of the Speaker's table. 

The others present were seated as follows: 

The Heads of Departments, with the Diplomatic Corps, next to 
the President, on the left of the Speaker's table ; 

Officers of the Army and Navy, who, by name, have received the 
thanks of Congress, next to the Supreme Court, on the right of the 
Speaker's table ; 

Assistant Heads of Departments, Governors of States and Terri- 
tories, and the Mayors of Washington and Georgetown, directly in 
the rear of the Heads of Departments ; 

The Chief Justice and Judges of the Court of Claims, and tlir 
Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court oi' the 
District of Columbia, directly in the rear of the Supreme Court ; 

The Heads of Bureaus in the Departments, directly in the rear of 
the officers of the Army and Navy ; 

Representatives on either side of the Hall, in the rciir of tho-c 



62 APPENDIX. 



invited, four rows of seats on eitlier side of tlie main aisles being re- 
served for Senators ; 

The Orator of the day, Hon. George Bancroft, at the table of the 
Clerk of the House ; 

The Chairmen of the Joint Committee of Arrangements, at the 
right and left of the orator, and nest to them the Secretary of the 
Senate and the Clerk of the House ; 

The other officers of the Senate and of the House, on the floor at 
the right and the left of the Speaker's platform. 

When order was restored, at twelve o'clock and twenty minutes 
p. m., the Marine band, stationed in the vestibule, played appropriate 
dirges. 

Hon. Lafayete S. Foster, President pro tempore of the Senate, 
called the two Houses of Congress to order at 12.30. 

Ecv. Dr. Boynton, Chaplain of the House, offered the following 
prayer : 

Almighty God, who dost inhabit eternity, while we appear but 
for a little moment and then vanish away, we adore The Eternal 
Name. Infinite in power and majesty, and greatly to be feared art 
Thou. All earthly distinctions disappear in Thy presence, and we 
come before Thy throne simply as men, fallen men, condemned 
alike by Thy law, and justly cut off through sin from communion 
with Thee. But through Thy infinite mercy, a new way of access 
has been opened through Thy Son, and consecrated by His blood. 
We come, in that all-worthy Name, and plead the promise of par- 
don and acceptance through Him. By the imposing solemnities of 
this scene we are carried back to the hour when the nation heard, 
and shuddered at the hearing, that Abraham Lincoln was dead — was 
murdered. We would bow ourselves submissively to Him by whom 



APPENDIX. 



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that awful hour was appoiuted. Wc- bow to the struki- tlnit All ..u 
the country in tlic very hour of its triumpli, and hushed all its shouts 
of victory to one voiceless sorrow. "The Lord gave and the Lord 
hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." The sliad.iw 
of that death has not yet passed from the heart of the nation, as this 
national testimonial bears Avituess to-day. The gloom thrown from 
these surrounding emblems of death is fringed, we knoAv, with the 
glory of a great triumph, and the light of a great and good man's 
memory. Still, O Lord, may this hour bring to us the proper warn- 
ing! "Be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not, thr 
Son of Man cometh." Any one of us may be called as suddeuly as 
he whom we mourn. 

We worship Thee as the God of our fathers. Thou didst trace 
for them a path over the trackless sea, and bring them to these shores, 
bearing with them the seed of a great dominion. We thank Thee 
that the life-power of the young nation they planted, received 
from Thee such energy, guidance, and protection, that it spread 
rapidly over the breadth of the continent, carrying with it Christian 
liberty, churches, schools, and all the blessings of a Christian civili- 
zation. We thank Thee that the progress of the true American life 
has been irresistible, because sustained by Thy eternal counsels and 
Thy almighty power, and because the might of God was in this 
national life. We have seen it sweeping all opposition away, grind- 
ing great systems and parties to powder, and breaking in pieces the 
devices of men ; and Thou hast raised up for it heroic defenders in 
every hour of peril. We thank Thee, Strong Defender! Aim! 
when treason was hatching its plot and massing its armies, then, < ) 
God of Israel, who didst brir>g David from the sheei>fold, 'J'hou 
gavest one reared in the humble cabin to become the hope and stay 



of this great people iu tlieir most perilous hour, to shield them iu 
disaster and lead them to final victory. 

We thank Thee that Thou gavest us an honest man, simple- 
hearted and loving as a child, but with a rugged strength that needed 
only culture and discipline. Thanks be to God that this discipline 
was granted him through stern public trial, domestic sorrow, and 
Thy solemn providences, till the mere politician was overshadowed 
by the nobler growth of his moral and spiritual nature, till he came, 
as we believe, into sympathy with Christ, and saw that we could 
succeed only by doing justice. Then, inspired by Thee, he uttered 
those words of power which changed three millions of slaves into 
men — the great act which has rendered his name forever illustrious 
and secured the triumph of our cause. We think of him almost as 
the prophet of his era. Thou didst make that honest, great-hearted 
man the central figure of his age, setting upon goodness, upon moral 
grandeur, the seal of Thine approval and the crown of victory. We 
bless Thee that he did not die until assured of victory, until he knew 
that his great work was done, and he had received all the honor that 
earth could bestow, and then we believe Thou didst give him a 
martyr's crown. We thank Thee that we have this hope for the 
illustrious dead. 

Great reason have we also to thank Thee that such was the enduring 
strength of our institutions that they received no perceptible shock 
from the death of even such a man and in such an hour, and that 
Thou didst provide for that perilous moment one whose strength 
was sufficient to receive and bear the weight of government, and 
who, we trust, will work out the great problem of Christian freedom 
to its final solution, and by equal law and equal rights bind this 
great people into one inseparable whole. 

We thank Thee that the representatives of the nation have come 



to sit to-day iu the shadow of Abialiarn Lincoln's tomb, to express 
once more their now chastened sorrow. ]\Iay they all reconsecrate 
themselves to those principles which made liiin worthy to be remem- 
bered thus, and then a redeemed and transiigured land will be a iil- 
ting monument for him and for them. 

Endow the President with wisdom equal to his great responsibili- 
ties, that the blessings of a whole nation may also be given to him. 
May his advisers, our judges, and our legislators, be constantly 
instructed by Thee. 

May Thy blessing rest on the officers of the army and navy, by 
whose skill and courage our triumph was won ; upon our soldiers and 
sailors ; upon our people, and on those who are struggling on toward 
a perfect manhood. 

Bless these eminent men the honored representatives of Foreign 
Powers. Remember the sovereigns and people they represent. 
AVe thank Thee that peace reigns with them as with us. May ir 
continue until the nations shall learn war no more. 

Remember Abraham Lincoln's widow and family. Comfort them 
iu their sore bereavement. May they be consoled to know how 
much the father and husband is loved and honored still. 

Give Diviu.' support to the distinguished orator of the day. ^lay 
he so speak as to impress the whole nation's mind. Prepare u^ t.. 
live as men in this age should, that we may be received into 'I'liy 
Heavenly Kingdom, and to Thy name shall be the praise and llir 
glory forevermore. Amen. 

Hon. Lafayette S. Foster, Fr(ts\Aent pro tempore of the Senate, 

in introducing the orator of the day, said : 

No ordinary occasion could have convened this august assemblage. 

For four weary years the storm of war, of civil war, raged fiercely 
over our country. The bloo.l of the best and bravst nf h.-r so.^s 



was freely shed to preserve lier name and place among the na.ious 
of the earth. In April last, the dark clouds which had so long hung 
heavily and gloomily over our heads, Avere all dispersed, and the 
light of peace, more Avelcome even than the vernal sunshine, glad- 
dened the eyes and the hearts of our people. Shouts of joy and 
songs of triumph echoed through the land. The hearts of the devout 
poured themselves in orisons and thanksgivings to the God of battles 
and of nations that the most wicked and most formidable rebellion 
ever known in human history had been effectually crushed, and our 
country saved. 

In the midst of all this abounding joy, suddenly and swiftly as 
the lightning's flash came the fearful tidings that the Chief Magis- 
trate of the Republic — our President — loved and honored as few men 
ever were — so honest, so faithful, so true to his duty and his country, 
had been foully murdered — had fallen by the bullet of an assassin. 
All hearts were stricken with horror. The transition from extreme 
joy to profound sorrow was never more sudden and universal. Had 
it been possible for a stranger, ignorant of the truth, to look over 
our laud, he would have supposed that there had come upon us 
some visitation of the Almighty not less dreadful than that which 
once fell ,on ancient Egypt on that fearful night when there was 
not a liouse where there was not one dead. 

The nation wept for him. 

After being gazed upon by myriads of loving eyes, under the dome 
of this magnificent Capitol, the remains of our President were borne 
in solemn procession through our cities, towns, and villages, all 
draped in the habilaments of sorrow, the symbols and tokens of pro- 
found and heartfelt grief, to their final resting-place in the capital 
of his own State. There he sleeps, peacefully, embalmed in his 
country's tears. 



The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
have deemed it proper to eommemoratc this tragic event hy apjiro- 
priatc services. This day, the birthday of hiui ^\ linm we muurn. 
has properly been selected. An eminent citizen, di^^iin-uislird by 
his labors and services in high and responsible pnljlic positions at 
home and abroad — whose pen has instructed the present age in the 
history of his country, and done much to transmit the fame and re- 
nown of that country to future ages — lion. Geoige I5ancroft — will 
now deliver a discourse. 

Hon. George Banchoft (who on coming forward to the Clerk's 
desk was greeted with warm demonstrations of applause) then pro- 
ceeded to deliver tlu; >.'( ninrial Address. 

The exercises of the day were closed by the following prayer and 
benediction by the Rev. Dr. Gray, Chaplain of the Senate : 

God of a bereaved nation, from Thy high and holy Habitation 
look down upon us and suitably impress us to-day, with a tense that 
God only is great. Kings and Presidents die; but Thou, the Uni- 
versal Ruler, livest to roll on thine undisturbed afl'airs forever, from 
Thy Throne. A wail has gone up from the heart of the nation to 
heaven — 0, hear, and pity, and assuage, and save. We i»ray that 
Thou wilt command thy blessing now, which is life forevermnri', 
upon the family of the President dead; upon the President living 
upon the Ministers of stale; upon the united Houses of Congress; 
upon the Judges of our Courts; upon the officers of the Army and 
the Navy ; upon the broken families and desolated homes all over the 
land; and especially upon the nation. And grant that grace and 
peace and mercy from the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love nf (Jod 
the Father, and the fellowship of God the Spirit, may rest u|).in :iim1 
abide with us all, forever and ever. Amen. 

The Senators then returned to the Senate Chamber, and the Presi- 



dent of the United States, the orator of tlie day, and the invited 
guests withdrew, the Marine Band, stationed in the amphitheater, 
performing national airs. 

Hon. E. B. Washburnk, of Illinois, after the House had resumed 
the transaction of business, by unanimous consent, introduced the 
following concurrent resolutions ; which were read, considered, and 
agreed to : 

Resolved, (the Senate concru-riug,) That the thanks of Congress 
be presented to Hon. George Bancroft for the appropriate memorial 
address delivered by him on the life and services of Abraham Lin- 
coln, late President of the United States, in the Representatives 
Hall befoi'e both Houses of Congress and their invited guests, on the 
12th day of February, 1866, and that he be requested to furnish a 
copy for publication. 

Resolved, That the chairmen of the joint committee appointed to 
make the necessary arrangements to carry into effect the resolution 
of this Congress in relation to the memorial exercises in honor of 
Abraham Lincoln be requested to communicate to Mr. Bancroft the 
aforegoing resolution, receive his answer thereto, and present the 
same to both Houses of Congress. 

These resolutions were transmitted to the Senate, where, on mo- 
tion of the Hon. Solomon Foot, of Vermont, they were considered 
by unanimous consent, and concurred in. 



In the Senate, on the 16th of February, Hon. Mr. Foot stated 
that in pursuance of the concurrent resolutions of the two Houses of 
Congress adopted on the 12tli instant, the chairmen of the joint com- 
mittee of arrangements on the memorial exercises of the late President 
of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, had placed a certified copy 
of said concurrent resolutions in the hands of Hon. George Bancroft, 
and had requested of him a copy of his address on the occasion re- 
ferred to for publication, as would appear from the following corre- 
spondence, which he moved be read, laid upon the table, and printed. 






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As no objection was made, the Secretary read as follows : 

The Capitol, Washington, 

February 13, 18GG. 
Sir : We have the honor to present to ymi an official copy of the 
two concurrent resolutions adopted by the Senate and llousc of 
Representatives on the 12th instant, expressing the thanks of C(mi- 
gress for the appropriate memorial address delivered by you on the 
life and services of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United 
States, and instructing us to request from you a copy of the address 
for publication. 

Having shared the high gratification of hearing the address, we 
take pleasui'e, in accordance with the second of the concurrent reso- 
lutions, in requesting you to furnish a copy of the address for publi- 
cation. 

W^e have the honor to be, with very great respect, your obedient 
servants, 

SOLOMON FOOT, 
CJiahman on iliv part of the Senate 

E. B. WASIIBURXE, 
Chulnnan on the part of the House. 
Hon. George Bancroft. 



Washinoton. D. C, February 14, 1866. 
Gentlemein : I have received your letter of yesterday and a copy 
of the two concurrent resolutions of Congress to which you refer. 
The thanks of the Senate and House of Representatives, for the per- 
formance of the duty assigned me, I value as a very distinguished 
honor, and 1 shall cheerfully furnish a copy of the address lor pub- 
lication. 

I remain, gentlemen, very sincerely yours, 

GEORGE BANCROFT. 

Hon. SoLo.MON Foot, 

Chairman on the part of the Senate. 
Hon. E. B. Washburn E, 

Chairman on the part of the House. 

In the House of Representatives, Hon. E. B. WAMiiiiitxE. of 
Illinois, made the same statement, and, after the con-espondence 
submitted had been read, the House ordered an edition of twenty 
thousand extra copies. 




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